Yeah. We've voted for the lesser evil enough times to reach the point where the guy with the nazi tattoo is our best option.

That's just where we are now.

HOW WILL WE KNOW IF WE DON'T TRY?

Americans don't understand the idea of Democratic Socialism, where the citizens get to vote on how to use tax money, because they're so used to Republican Socialism where the government takes money from the citizens and gives it to their supporters.

Amplification is a sign of weakness.

The Boston accent eliminates all the consonant sounds that close the back of the throat and emphasizes plosives- It was basically MADE for screaming.

We also have a lot of "well meaning racism" that isn't hostile, but still problematic: Like, we love black people and support them, and really hope to meet one someday.

New England has racism, but it's the opposite of Southern racism.

Up here, you can be as free, as rich, as successful as you want, but you'll never be their friend.

Down South, they'll sit at your table and be your friend as long as you never assume you're not inferior to them.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that child molestation is a deal breaker for you, but my issue is that you somehow find that inconsistent with LITERALLY EVERY OTHER GODDAMNED MOMENT OF TRUMP'S LIFE BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY NONE OF US ARE SHOCKED ABOUT THIS. It's who he fucking IS. Who he always HAS BEEN.

all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

To be fair, we are already in the early stages of a civil war, and have been for a few years now.

If you want to understand a problem in the US, don't ask who suffers from it, ask who profits from it.

Civilized humans make up laws about how we should interact with each other because that is the alternative we've come up with to just beating the shit out of each other until someone gives in.

What we have now is the first option in the hands of people who prefer the second. Try to understand that.

"There are two sexes" is basic biology. Yes, yes it is.

"There are also outliers and exceptions" is intermediate biology.

"Sex is a combination of dozens of diverse and variable factors" is advanced biology.

Which illustrates a quick way to tell if someone has read a book since grade school.

If Democrats regain control over anything, the first thing they should do is rename the Palantir data mining contract as THE DONALD J TRUMP NATIONAL GUN OWNERS REGISTRY AND CONFISCATION LIST.

While Democrats stand there yelling BUT I HAVE THE CONCH right up until the rock hits them.

Sec. 9.05. (A) As used in the Revised Code: (1) "Boy" means a juvenile human male. Am. Sub. H. B. No. 96 136th G.A. 15 (2) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (3) "Gender identity" means an individual's internal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex. (4) "Girl" means a juvenile human female. (5) "Male" means an individual belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. (6) "Man" means an adult human male. (7) "Sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. (8) "Woman" means an adult human female. (B) It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.

A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it.

First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I'm 46% loving the Trump-Musk bitchfight, and 54% remembering that he's a fame and image obsessed reality TV figure who did guest appearances on pro wrestling.

I give it a 71% chance of being real.

I sure as hell don't mean this as a defense of Nazi Karen Barbie, but MOST congresspeople don't read the bills they vote on.

Go look up AOC back in 2020 on being handed a 5500 page bill only a few hours before they were supposed to vote on it.

When AOC and Ted Cruz agree that something is bad...

I sure as hell don't mean this as a defense of Nazi Karen Barbie, but MOST congresspeople don't read the bills they vote on.

Go look up AOC back in 2020 on being handed a 5500 page bill only a few hours before they were supposed to vote on it.

When AOC and Ted Cruz agree that something is bad...

I love Porter. We need more like her.

Then stop telling people they’re wasting their vote or throwing it away or aiding the opposition.

People who vote third party ALSO vote for Democratic congressmen, governors, ballot initiatives and local offices.

…And are constantly told that isn’t worth showing up if they only give 90%.

I'm used to Jesus being disappointed in me.

You know how a *functional* government is *supposed* to work in a time of relative *peace and stability*. So does everyone who remembers Schoolhouse Rock.

We have a party dead set on restoring the Confederacy, who have zero regard for democracy or the rule of law.

This is no longer just politics

Self defense against a legitimate, unprovoked threat to life is the one and only time it IS morally acceptable to fight as dirty as possible with no regard for the attacker's well being.

The Confederacy has risen and the Trumpublican party has declared war on the Union. I'm OK with fighting dirty

DAMN RIGHT. When the *Democratic* spoiler candidate gave us our own mini-trump, MY state responded by instituting ranked choice voting. Our third parties GET SHIT DONE, and our Democrats actually go to bat for us.

Neoliberal economics enabled this mess. Clinton GAVE US Trump. Your team fucked us.

And look at abortion and Obamacare.

If the Democrats had stood up and said WE'RE GOING TO TAX BILLIONAIRES TO PAY FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL like 2/3 of the country WANT, and introduced bill after bill, week after week, a thousand times over, big show every time, relentlessly- we would have it by now.

Because Democrats are basically that cop at Ulvade standing around with his thumb up his ass while the Republicans are inside shooting up the school.

"But they don't have the votes!" Well, the GOP didn't have the votes either, and guess what happened?

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.