I have no allegiance to the Democrats. They suck balls. However I take a practical view and recognize that I am currently stuck in a sham democracy still using FPTP voting. As an individual voter, my power lies in messaging and lobbying, while damage control is the best I can do at the ballot box for any race that’s outside of my local city/county. Following my “true conscience” at the ballot box and splitting the vote only leads to situations that we are now stuck in.

Thank you for putting words in my mouth though, as every hardcore third party “progressive” loves to do on Lemmy.

249 years. Almost right on the fucking dot for the 250 year lifespan of every empire!

Officially using the military against civilians. Yup we’re cooked

I’m glad you’re conscience is clear, as you most likely won’t be allowed to vote in the next election at all. Congrats you won!

They don’t care what the courts say now.

Welcoming **if you are white, rich and donate to Nazi causes

ICE just claimed he was an illegal immigrant.

A bit too convenient for me, I have a feeling this is going to be the “no more rights” catalyst. It lines up too well. Muslim brown dude, illegal immigrant, anti-Israel. Everything that Nazis absolutely salivate over. And every news blsst had a huge explicit expose on every one of these things like 2 hours after the event, that never happens.

Critical mistake. Never get between a university’s administration and a pile of cash. That’s how you learn that students have zero rights real quick.

Reminder that all insurance companies are in the business of collecting premiums, NOT paying out insurance claims.

“When you’re a star they let you do it, they let you do anything”

The problem is you can’t get rid of nickles without getting rid of either quarters or dimes too. Without nickles you would have a denomination (25c) that has no way to be made by lower coins (10c dimes can’t equal 25c). So you either need to get rid of every coin, every coin except the quarter, or nuke the quarter and nickle concurrently and only use dimes, forcing prices to be multiples of 10.

Ah yes the “think of the children to stop porn” act that’s actually just a way to legally silence huge swaths of the internet with automated tools. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws

you either die quickly from a gunshot, and take some nazi’s out with you; or you get shipped to el salvador and die a slow death of disease and malnutrition, forgotten forever.

This immediately makes me think this is a plot to make “anti-natalism” considered terrorism. Not a single person I know of who is against having kids is radical about it, but oh man are the pro birth weird Christians sure radical about it.

Idk man my liberal woman is super beautiful, skill issue ig?

That depends entirely on how profitable it is and how much they can get authors onboard.

A. Anything can be profitable when the cost to generation will be counted in singles of dollars instead of multiple thousands for a good narrator. They don’t even have to sell many to turn a profit too.

B. You think authors are going to have a choice? Lmfao. It’s the publishers that hold any real power and they will jump all over everyone’s IP with AI slop to make an extra three cents.

At this point my retirement plan is “eaten by starving cannibals in a Falloutverse story”, or “9mm”

Trades or service workers live outside the area and commute or cram in 8 to a house. My uncle was driving 3 to 5 hours one way doing heavy equipment at one point before he bailed out of the area. Everyone who works in San Fran/San Jose drives in from Pleasanton, Livermore, shit as far out as Tracy and Stockton, and turn the entire 580 into a 24 hour a day clusterfuck.

How the bay area hasn’t collapsed in on itself is insane to me.

Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.

Well, you shouldn’t. The FCC wants its fine powers back so it can put any anti-Trump media completely out of business, or at least force them to toe the party line.