How the fuck are $1000 tickets afforable? Am I missing something?

But I’m supossed to expect his reaction to being shot was to take a photo op. This pussy. Sure.

They are humans like anyone else and they should never be placed on a pedestal or treated like they’re above criticism for being on your team.

Then stop doing that. You have to hold them on a pedestal to even consider them on your team, since their actions speak much louder than words

The both sides are the same argument denies the reality that voting in your best interest and gaining incremental progress for society is a better alternative than sitting by while the world burns around you.

You fundamentally misunderstand. What you are arguing for is sitting around while the world burns, while feeling like you did your part for merely voting. What I’m saying is that voting is not enough, especially when the people you have to vote for don’t actually want to make things better, and even under their control shit gets incrementally worse, not better. So sitting around and just handing your vote to the people who aren’t helping, especially when they know they’ll get your vote just for being slightly better than the other guy, is actually doing less than nothing. Politicians have to earn your vote, thats the foubdation of democracy. When politicians don’t have to earn your vote because you’ll vote for them by default, they’re not actually concerned with doing anything for the voters. That’s not Democracy.

Saving your support for an infallible leader who checks all your boxes, gains power and rescues society while somehow appeasing the majority and yet never compromising or screwing up something important, is a fantasy at best.

Thats a huge straw man. Just because all options are currently fucked and not worth standing with doesn’t mean you need an infalliable one to be acceptable. Just that the current ones are far below acceptable. “I don’t want to eat either entrees you brought me, because they’re both piles of dog shit, even if one is filled with razor blades.” “Nothing’s good enough for you man unless its a perfect 5 star 5 course meal and you’re gonna starve unless you eat the dog shit”. You see how absurd that thought process is? It comes from fear.

Not to mention that ELECTIONS AND POLITICIANS WILL NOT SAVE US. It’s not about voting in just the right way, we have to go out and demand, its the only way rights have EVER been won. Voting is just scratching the surface of political activisim, but its treated like the be all end all and people use it as an excuse to not do the real work.

government is composed of people. People are flawed. If you’re looking to flawed people to create your ideal society rather than strategizing how to do the best you can with what you have in front of you/working towards an improved future, you’re going to be spinning your wheels for all eternity waiting to be rescued.

This one is what you’re advocating for though, just voting for not only flawed people, but people working activley against you, all while sitting back like you did your part for checking a box on a ballot.

Out of curiosity though, what is your ideal government/who is your ideal leader, worthy of your support? Who can you point to as an example of “that person/government that got it all right, and if we could just have a government or politicians more like them, everything would work itself out.”

Edit: Surely somebody must come to mind? Bc if not this whole post kinda seems like a lot of bullshit

Yes your post does kinda seems like a lot of bullshit, but I’m still happy to take time to explain. There isn’t an example yet, we need to demand better, that’s my whole point. Merely voting in politicians and trusting them to fix everything isn’t going to work, there’s no winning that way. I dunno what goalpost shift you are attempting, but just beacuse I’m accuratley pointing out that our current system and represntation is far from actually working for the people doesn’t mean I have to have a fully flushed out and perfect example of an alternate for my critisms to be valid. That’s ironically what you were trying to accuse me of about “saving support for an infalliable leader”, but is actually your projection.

History has shown Dems to be playing the role of wolf in sheeps clothings for over a century lmao, what are you talking about? Even the “New Deal” of FDR was actually used to placate the actual demands of the labor movement, after he promised to help if they campaigned for him, and then turned around and outlawed their strikes and busted them when he got in office. From Obama promising to close GitMo but actually accelerating it and the use of drone strikes, Biden letting Roe V Wade be overturned despite Dems for decades running on codifying it, hell even Bill Clinton is resposible for the implementation of private prisons to basically make slavery legal again.

Dems are not your friends. Sure MAGA is the BBEG, but Dems are all the henchmen with different colored shirts you need to fight on the way. They enable and support the BBEG. Sure one is worse, but the other one is still trying to fuck you over too, they’re not your ally. And to realize that none of the parties are here for you is a scary thought, and many people want to desperatley push it away for the safe and comfortable thought that you have a champion to fight for you and you’re not alone. Well you’re not alone, but its not the Dems by your side, it’s the other workers. And unfortunatley that means you’ll have to get your hands dirty directly, but turning away from the truth won’t make it easier.

Nah they just rolled out the carpet and set up the barricades to allow it

He should be facing way worse than a fine. Firing a whistleblower should at the bare minimum have you kicked out of office.

WHY CAN’T WE JUST HAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT, FUCK! TRAINS EXIST!

Lmao “seeking to avoid political division”. No you’re avoiding dissonance. The GOP MO is to stoke political division, it’s literally what gives them power.

Also “anti-trump” comments instead of just calling them concerns or critiques.

Language like this is how consent is manufacturered. Language is powerful at subtly shift how one percieves a situation, and leading people to a predetermined conclusion.

Lol is it really just like

// I did something, trust me

And he pushes it out lmao?

Fair, open office still hates .docx lol

Not to mention those entities activley corrupt new members, whittling away at their progressive tendencies until they fall into place, and then perpetuate that whole cycle into a new generation. That is the carrying over of the corruption I was referring to. You gotta start fresh without that virus or it will perpetuate through the interior like mold spreading.

Any amount of effort and movement required to “take over” the democratic party and fix the flaws inherent at every level is less than the effort it would take to create a true workers party that wouldn’t just be subject to the same eventual outcomes, and thus be better to just put effort into that.

The obsticles and saboteurs in the democratic party are what have curbed the movement for decades and will continue to hold it back or even prevent it, it’s the method they’ve perfected. Its not a “hardware” they’ve built, but “software” designed to sell sections of computing power to mining bitcoin, and that’s all the system has been doing despite the fact we need it for actual work, and not somebody else’s profit.

Not to mention the fact that as soon as the tides would theoretically shift, all the Shumers and Sinemas would pretend they were really progressive the whole time, and some would get through, and then they would slowly turn the water back up again.

Oh gross. I haven’t noticed that yet but will watch out for it

Been using openoffice for 15+ years, what made you switch to libreoffice?

Well we don’t know if he was killed, but its much more than a non-zero chance at this point. They’re tortuing him at the very least, just by the assault and kidnapping. Likely worse is happening, if not already.

Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting

So windows 11 sucks for a number of reasons, but one thing it doesn’t suck for is updating the notepad program to have autosave and being able to reopen last notes even if not saved to a file directly. Makes it actually usefull as a notepad

You don’t reform the democratic party, it reforms you. It’s like a corrupted windows install, you don’t use the reinstall windows option from within the corrupted windows, cause the corruption is carried over almost invisibility untill issues happen again. You make a fresh boot drive, and use that outside of the current instance to start fresh. The amount of people it would take to reform the democratic party would be more than enough to start our own parry, one without a history of corruption or full of old guard to sabotage it.

That will never be the democratic party. We need a new party, not a new democrat to save us.

People who go to trails are not gaurnteed, but are more likely to care about the environment they traveled to go to. Mostly.