Most people cannot afford to move. They have jobs, elders to care for, housing, etc.

I ran a huge report on this in '23, which the nonprofit client killed before publication.

Me too! White coastal liberals need to grasp that most former confederate state legislatures are illegitimate super-majorities who legislate against the will of their people, but can't be voted out. National Dem Party lets them run unopposed, and abandons voters who've been purged/suppressed.

Get rid of the complaint line and the problem solves itself!

Every vulnerability we carry, whether generational or from last week, is precisely targeted by the current circumstances to cause unprecedented levels of damage. And if you're anything like me, it's the inaction by supposedly protective institutions that sparks the most pain. Evil is a constant.

I really wish folks would understand that most former confederate state legislatures are illegitimate super-majorities who legislate against the will of their people, but can't be voted out. The Dems let them run unopposed, and abandon voters who've been purged/suppressed.

Guess you're not a Big Poaster.

Thank you for being among the very few voices in Congress who truly speak for the people. You are stanned, yes, but also cherished.

The fact that they put trackers on iPhones and not vape pens really speaks to the tangled priorities of our nation.

I'm just enjoying the precision of the three assigned teams. And the fact that I, knowing 1% of what you know about baseball, can tell it's precise.

@chipbayers.bsky.social you & Eileen will chortle at this brilliance.

...against the backdrop of user experience approaching the 9th ring of hell. The monopolies have essentially eliminated QA testing, since we're pretty well trapped on their interfaces, and when a 5 second transition suddenly takes 15 minutes, many users blame themselves. It's insulting to be online.

You mean "looting the cultural heritage we looted from the African continent," right?

I feel ashamed that despite being full grown leftist adult when NAFTA happened, I failed to understand it was nothing but a gift to American capital, whose labor costs vaporized overnight. Doing hospice work in CT, I meet 90 year-old women who weep over their jobs as machinists in New Haven.

Talk to a working class elder who pre-NAFTA earned a good wage, owned a home, and sent their kids to college. Centrist bullshit literally ruined their lives. Admit NAFTA betrayed them, and offer an agenda that will reinstate for their grandkids real jobs, housing & education.

I'd say it was mass culture (remember that?) and the educational system as well as the political world.

Also, who the fuck listens to Joe Manchin?

I wouldn't say "we" when the Right spent $1B on voter suppression in 2024 alone, and has carefully architected a federal judiciary that, as the disclosed SCOTUS memos show, consistently defies the law to serve the interests of capital. "We" have an enemy, who wants us to blame ourselves.

Double congratulations!

On the other hand, every disturbance helps.

I'm not straight, so I never quite understood this - they touch their dicks every time they pee, and then they touch... everything? Without rigorously washing their hands?

She's lucky to have such a wise auntie. A friend (Afro-Latina) toured St Andrew's in Scotland with her high school senior daughter, and said all the tours were packed with Americans of very diverse backgrounds. The new American dream is getting the hell out before it crumbles.

So happy when the young people make connections overseas! Who knows how low this country will go, and how punishing life will be, especially for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized communities.

They bash the left even when it causes them to lose political power. Because with a few exceptions - whom they also bash - the Dems seek to preserve an economic & racial status quo that protects their privilege and their wealth.

I'm sure it will be very equitably applied, rich and poor, white and Black.

Camus? Really?

You might have a case if we lived above-ground in Omelas. Most of us are the child in the basement.

Sorry for your deficits. Treatment may be available.

Build safeguards, too. Opportunities for abuse are myriad. Women are frequent targets of sexual abuse by therapists or shamans who incapacitate them with drug cocktails. Also highly problematic racial & LGBTQ dynamics: When your guard is deliberately brought down, a careless slur can gut you.

Who's "we," paleface? as the old joke goes. Miss me with these str8 white men who see the rest of us as recipients of their (highly conditional) generosity, not as equals they must share power with lest the planet burn & die.