Yeah I cancelled after that nonsense. I wanted to leave discord entirely for stoat/fluxer but none of my groups would budge unfortunately.

Yeah, so I’m trans, and we too are under serious threat, not just from MAGA. It’s not privileged to recognize that mainstream Democratic party opinion is that trans people should be thrown under the bus to appease some mythical centrist voter.

Welcome to the transactional real world. If you make it a point to not show up, politicians will not waste political capital on you. Also, allies are imperfect. It is only the left that has trouble seeing this and intentionally conflate those who don’t ace purity tests with the opposition. Meanwhile, those before us who got us rights we take for granted had to whip up support with much less desirable people who held much more regressive views.

Consider the inverse, that it is a priviledged position to be able to hem and haw over every election in a rapidly decaying pseudo democracy, as opposed to doing the very difficult work of workplace, tenant, or mutual aid organizing to secure immediate material necessities.

Oh stop. Voting is a very simple process you’re distorting into some sort of crisis. Also voting and being active in one’s community is not an either/or.

Not every election is the most important election ever, and whether someone chooses to vote for someone like Kamala, or Platner, is up to them.

This is privilege. Meanwhile POC here, we’re being dragged back to the 1950s under Trump I and II. Similar for women, LGBT, etc. He’s speedrunning imperialism. Stopping the MAGA agenda should be paramount. I’m not thrilled about Platner but I am willing to take a chance with him over the perpetually concerned Collins who aligns MAGA when it counts. Unionizing, attending city council meetings, advocating for prison reform, etc. should accompany voting, not replace it.

The West handicapped Ukraine’s ability to strike Russia until they developed their own domestic weapons program.

Yeah, the chaos in the Sahel, the war in Ukraine, the US-Iran War, tension in the Caribbean are all linked directly or indirectly.

Most companies can’t eat a half billion dollar loss so who ends up paying this?

Taxpaying proles will foot the bill somehow.

Yeah regular ketchup is too sweet and ditto on not being fond of raw tomatoes either but the more savory kinds of ketchup or other tomato products are fine imo.

You have to spend a multiple of a smart TV and buy a commercial TV (as in the type of TVs businesses use for display) to ensure a dumb tv if you can’t lobotomize it yourself.

Thiel in addition to being pro-surveillance state is also transhumanism. He was interested in Clavicular of the looksmaxxing community for similar reasons.

something that would lead to huge swelling of the hands and feet might be good for increasing how much water they can push against.

HGH does that.

I just tested it. It stores a cookie when you disable duck.ai and Search Assist but no cookie corresponds to them being enabled. Perhaps you might have cleared cookies?

It’s really a white nationalist minority ruining it for everyone. Here in MAGAland there are more interracial relationships and more Central Americans than I remember a decade ago.

It is so frustrating how terrible their search is. It cannot be that hard to add boolean operators.

I’ve seen it in bios with Palestinian flags but never had it explained that the two were linked.

Nenjamin Betanyahu might just be interested in 69,420 t-shirt orders from Kash.

I don’t think Americans quite appreciate how few guns one encounters when you are practically anywhere else in the world.

How often you see guns varies wildly in the US too.

Those hamberders and old age will catch up to Trump any second now. He’s already had a mini-stroke on national TV. Putin is 7 years younger and is health conscious to the point it was memed on, But unlike Trump, Putin seems to know he’s in over his head and is looking to contain fallout from this invasion. Dr. William Spaniel thinks ‘Putin is done’ talk is overblown though acknowledges things don’t look great at all for Putin in Ukraine or domestically.

I get kind of an ick about going after the black guy, when I doubt he was off on his own taking bribes and think it’s more of a structural issue.

As a member of the black delegation, fuck that guy. We don’t claim him.

Popular modern peaceful movements led by people such as Martin Luther King in the US and Ghandi in colonial India were parallel backed by violent groups such as the Black Panthers in the US and a bunch of small and very active violent groups in India.

Keep in mind with King (I’m not so studied up on Gandhi), optics played a big role. You had squeaky clean pillars of the community and schoolchildren being attacked by police dogs, hoses, and baton wielding police for daring to ask for equality. The US actually had decent journalism back then so they looked horrible on the world stage as the US was positioning itself as the leader of a free world. America’s arm was twisted into giving black people nominal rights with token representation while surreptitiously undermining both.

I’m not so sure the threat of armed black people made the government acquiesce. The state loves nothing more than a pretext for violence.