MAGA:

• Vandalise Tesla. ✋ Terrorist
• Vandalise the U.S. Capitol. 👌 Patriot

Yes, but he’s really good at weaving. He said so himself. And man those words hit extra hard when punctuated by tiny accordion hands!

Rep. Mark Alford: “God has a plan!”

The plan: No such file or directory

Wow I never knew about this utility! I downloaded one for my smartphone and it’s extremely straightforward. You can even set up reminders so that it’ll notify you when you should spend 5 minutes calling your reps.

I’ll have to verify the scripts that I see, but it looks like it’s as simple as giving you the name of the rep, a script to read, a phone number to click so you can call them, and a logging utility so that you can just click the Next button and move on to the next rep. Makes it stupid easy to let your reps hear your voice and stance. Definitely going to try this out as I’ve been feeling so powerless and overwhelmed by the onslaught of these racists in power.

Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea it was this easy to track everything and make it simpler for me to try to fight back.

Edit: on mobile so fixed some typos

Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.

DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.

“We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”

Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.

So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.

Well that’s nice to see!

I just switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago, so hopefully I’m not banned! I’ll check later tonight and edit here if I am banned. Never played Rivals on Steam Deck so hoping they didn’t exclude other Linux users.

Edit: I checked and I’m not banned thankfully.

I’m not entering, but thank you so much for doing this for random people online - you certainly will make their day! Hope you have a great holiday ahead!

I have sleep apnea. It’s very common. Get a sleep study so you’re properly evaluated and referred to the correct CPAP solution you’ll need. Then sleep with it.

I had an early model where it had a lot of background noise that wasn’t so bad for my spouse. However at certain points my mouth would open up and I’d emit a loud pressurized Darth Vader-like sound from my mouth. I’m checking with my provider to see if I can another sleep study and a different CPAP that will not bother my spouse as much.

Fun fact, sleep apnea is very dangerous and life threatening if left untreated. Get tested if you’re constantly exhausted and never feel like you get quality sleep. If you have a partner you share a bed with, they can help you identify you’re snoring and if you sound like you’re choking while you’re asleep - this happened to me and my partner woke me terrified that I might be dying.

Edit: some word replacement corrections due to typing on mobile

Organise local communities via education. Explain the current problems we’re facing, and advocate on behalf of the community for what we need.

Collectively bring those concerns to local politicians and push for those changes. Get the candidates representing those changes elected locally.

Get this to snowball and we can get state representatives that advocate for these changes.

Further snowballs and it can get to the national level. Eventually, the federal level.

These changes will take decades. What we do now won’t help us. But we will help our future children’s children. We may be able to save democracy and the collapse of the U.S.

If we can’t organise, the U.S. is doomed. Don’t despair. Grieve for your country, then get radicalised and angry. Use that anger to fight the system. But we need representatives, perhaps even politicians, to instruct the general population how to fight back by organising rather than leaving hopeless and disenfranchised people to give into rage and respond with violence.

Tl;dr - Get involved with local political communities to advocate for progressive policies. Community brings concerns to local politicians. Local politicians platform for these changes and we fight to get them elected. Continue this process of snowballing to get district elections, state elections, and eventually federal elections. The only way we can get there is with progressive policies that focus on the problems of the working class, and working hard to unite the working class because the owner class will exert all their resources to divide and disenfranchise us. They need us more than we need them.