Things went to shit while Trump was still in office. There was a whole year Harris could have spent a lot more time reminding people about where prices made their biggest jumps and a million people died. And he told us to drink bleach.

99% sure Lemmy has a higher average age than any social media other than maybe facebook

I’m trying to imagine being one of those backstage people. How do you not feel sudden and intense fear when this guy says that to a huge crowd of morons? Do I already have to be one of those morons in order to agree to do setup for this guy’s rally?

And what about whoever’s doing setup for the next show? I would probably stop showing up for work…

The millions of years preceding modern medicine didn’t fix it, so I’m not sure how much time you eugenicists think evolution takes

That’s just it though; every drop counts. It’s no more “just a drop” than our actual votes are.

It’s also like how people refuse to leave Twitter. “Everyone else is there! How could my leaving make any difference?”

The worst part is–it’s really not. These guys could all stay millionaires and we could still solve our system’s worst distribution issues. Their biggest hardship could be dealing with not being The Guy With The Biggest Number when they go to their rich guy parties.

Personally I’m in favor of making them destitute and/or imprisoning them, but going that far really isn’t strictly necessary.

I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it’d be mixed with some random techno music

I know I’m ducking under the joke here but I’m pretty sure that case is famous enough that lots of younger people would still get it

The boy who cried fascist, except he never lied about it a single time, there’s just a lot of people who didn’t care if a few sheep get taken, and refuse to care now that we’re running out of sheep.

Sounds objectively better than the current system where the weirdos get funded by billionaires and legitimized far more than the litany of normal candidates

They will make those accusation no matter what and they will stick just the same regardless. In fact, giving conservative politicians an easier go just makes it more likely for regular people to get caught up in the bullshit. Media that uses kid gloves for extreme right politicians actually does it because they are also on the right.

They’re using “other” as a verb. “Othering” people, as in racism

Because you (we) have brainrot

Someday we’ll find out it’s been happening for years but the government doesn’t care enough to prosecute it.

I’m only half kidding. I mean, when was the last time a seriously rich person was convicted for murder?

Made him president and then graduated from support to worship while he actively worked to make everyone’s lives worse. Blaming Biden for handling the pandemic poorly the same way they blamed Obama for the 2008 crash. Sucks to suck, I guess.

Unfortunately it’s two different crowds. The top price is what your average person sees, the bottom prices are what billionaires looking to launder money into the Trump campaign see

“Pet” theory! Because a cat is a pet!

Ha!

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I seriously doubt going to the center wins any votes in the general. The type of people who think conservative policy is good for society are gonna vote Republican no matter how stupid and fascist it is. “Shifting right wins over never Trumpers” is a line that works on people during the primary when everyone is on the left anyway, but in the end it’s an excuse to more deeply entrench the oligarchy and it turns off people who need something to be excited about in order to bother coming out for the general. Like, I can’t imagine young voters were happy to hear Harris at the debate talking about how she’s going to expand oil drilling.

Biden won because leftists were energized about getting Trump out of office, not because centrism won over conservatives. In fact, I think the centrism is why he was projected to lose this year! His presidency went fine considering the senate, but fact is he didn’t do a whole lot to get people interested. Gaffes and age notwithstanding, even a perfect public speaker wouldn’t have had much to work with. That’s why the switch to Harris got the poll numbers moving: it was a big move that got people engaged. But I firmly believe every move she makes to the center is doing more to turn off leftist voters than it is wresting people from the right.

So what if the clock says 4:30 am? It’s the same time in that you’re working the same daylight. All removing it would do for you is change the number on your clock, but for the people who work on set schedules it would change our needing to fuck with our sleep schedules twice a year