Reading that just broke my hip.

Wanting the lesser of two evils on one issue to win is not the same as co-signing an entire party’s agenda.

I genuinely don’t understand how participation in democracy became conditional on 100% agreement on every issue. If you want a party to agree with you 100%, start a local party and run for local office in a non-presidential election.

Voting is supposed to be a civic duty, not a popularity vote and certainly not a purity test. Pull the lever and let the train hit one person instead of fucking everyone and everything. It’s not an intellectual exercise right now.

What is President Trump II / President Vance going to do about climate change? Women’s health? Concentration camps for immigrants? Future elections? Just please be reasonable and realistic.

Words cannot express how much “running against Trump being crazy” doesn’t work. That was Hillary’s strategy. They’re always loyal to him. They don’t care what he says or does.

Give people something to vote for. Give them a reason to show up.

Very true. If magic was real, it would be heavily-regulated and all the high-level secrets would be reserved for the extraction class. Hell, if magic was real, they would probably keep it secret amongst themselves and use it to control us all and take everything from u...

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Wait a minute... is magic real?

I don't understand how "Magic is real and even thinking about it summons powerful forces" is an argument AGAINST learning about magic. "Could you cast spells to solve all the problems around you? Of course, but you shouldn't because reasons."

When/if Trump loses and the threat of another attempted coup or civil war has passed would be ideal. Demotivating voters who would keep Trump out of office is bad for everyone, as is emboldening the people who would commit treason to take the office by force.

This situation is specific to the US, but because of the election, right now is the exact wrong time to be raising alarm bells and turning blame toward the Biden Administration. It's not that they haven't made mistakes; it's that the alternative is so, so much worse. What's happening is a tragedy, but it will only widen in scope and be replicated elsewhere if Trump takes office again.

It’s a goddamn shame how evil the world is. And it’s incredibly sad that people become desensitized to it, but they do. Incremental improvement does very little for the present, but it’s the only feasible solution right now.

The alternative is to turn right wing and make everything exponentially worse. It’s incredibly sad that the people everywhere are powerless, but it’s a fact of life in the world right now.

A link to the dead site and nothing else?

I did not realize that Netanyahu was gaining in popularity, but it’s true

This was always going to happen after the pagers exploded. Netanyahu is finalizing his legacy before he loses the next election. He’s taking out all of Israel’s enemies’ ability to wage war.

Netanyahu is ensuring October 10 doesn’t happen again in the foreseeable future and also expanding land grabs at a rapid pace. He doesn’t give a single fuck about civilian death tolls to achieve his goals.

You nailed it in the first paragraph. It’s domestic politics. Cuban immigrants have a large voting bloc in a swing state.

American national politics work off of a system designed 250 years ago to maintain a balance of power between rebelling colonies trying to form a nation-state. Any amendment to the Constitution requires the agreement of either a supermajority of Congress or a supermajority of the states themselves. Neither of which are even a slight possibility in the foreseeable future.

It’s deeply ironic that the US is such a young nation, but is crippling itself based on relatively new traditions that were always designed to be changed as needed. Changing with the times was foreseen by the Founding Fathers, who are revered as gods but whose actual views are rarely analyzed in depth.

Instead, the pull toward white Christian nationalism has destroyed all the Enlightenment ideals the country was founded upon, and the freedom for each generation to choose its own path at a fundamental level, which was explicitly the Founding Fathers’ original design, has fallen victim to partisan politics.

When you think about it, Cuba is still being punished for being an ally of an empire that hasn’t existed for over three decades.

How dare that train drive on its tracks at a regular speed and route? Thousands and thousands of individual drivers of varying degrees of intelligence and impulse control can’t handle this level of chaos!

Pro-forced impregnation and pro-political assassination in a single week. Elon is channeling that Apartheid South Africa emerald mine energy.

Next, he’s going to start cutting off the arms of Twitter engineers who aren’t ensuring the promotion of Nazi content fast enough.

If the extraction class was looking for a canary in the coal mine, this is it. You’ve officially squeezed too hard and are in danger of being eaten.

While pricing recommendations by RealPage were not binding, any rejection of a recommendation was escalated to an employee within RealPage. Afterwards, a “pricing advisor” would reach out to property managers and landlords to push them to take the recommendation.

Maurice Stucke, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of multifamily-building units are priced using RealPage in more than 40 housing markets across the country.

So, that's what's been going on with rent. Now someone do groceries.

"Rearranging the bones took all weekend, but it was worth it to see the looks on all your faces. By the way, I quit."

Sheer balls of steel letting that massive beast charge right at you while holding a spear and bracing for impact.

Also known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.