If I could see any practice from my time working food service make it into the general population, it would be “Behind” and “Heard”.

Oh, she must hear the train coming

I’ve heard that it means pints and quarts, referring to beers. I feel like I’ve also heard it was a typesetter thing.

Yes but we’re not talking about someone genuine like her, we’re talking about her, specifically. I would love to see her win, but she’s been heavily demonized by right wing media.

“We can’t pander to the worst of us.” is a righteous idea, but it’s not tactically wise. Elections are a popularity contest, if you don’t approach them as such you will likely lose. It very obviously doesn’t matter how qualified a candidate is, it all boils down to pandering to enough demographics to win.

I believe most religions started as good faith (no pun intended) attempts at roughly the same thing: contextualization of the metaphysical order of the universe.

Like the parable of the unseen elephant, God is a concept beyond true human perception, and every religion is like a man groping in darkness at one aspect of the bigger picture. When we approach the subject with a perspective informed by each of these outlooks, we develop a more diverse and comprehensive conceptualization of Order. Even better when we compare these outlooks to find overlap where most tend to agree.

Yeah it’s reduction not elimination. Swearing all the time robs those words of their intensity.

why are wealthy creeps allowed to get away with shit like this

Because they are wealthy. Wealth buys lawyers, accountants, politicians, private security, private planes, private islands. Law enforcement resources are finite, a sufficiently motivated and very wealthy person can exploit any system.

I eat kiwis with the skin, still wouldn’t eat the strawberry leaf

You must be a crewman on the Sargossa

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I always suspected

Traditionally, new presidents value the input of the previous ones. They’ve been dealing with the recent geopolitical situation for years. Ideally we should strive for mentorship between administrations, president is a complex job and humans tend to do best when we pass along our wisdom. Things have gotten particularly kooky recently.

he also talked about how there were “good” billionaires and “bad” billionaires which is bs.

True, but there are bad billionaires and worse billionaires. Until we can get rid of billionaires, which is by no means a simple task, I prefer billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Cuban who are at least using a portion of their wealth to do good things.

Is it enough? No. Is it largely performative to launder their reputation? Absolutely. Did they get that money through ethical behavior? Definitely not. But peoples’ lives are materially improved by some of their actions, which is better than you can say for most billionaires.

I think it’s the only productive position. Suit your message to your goal, and your audience. You said the non-voters already know they fucked up, which is diametrically opposed to all the evidence I see. They’re putting all the blame on Dems, ignoring the fact of the greater evil, and comforting themselves that they themselves are virtuous and blameless because they refused to vote for genocide.

I’m not seeing an active call to actually direct that criticism at the Dems themselves, it’s just a virtue-signal circle jerk.

Again, I’m all for directing criticism directly toward the people at fault. Both the non-voters and Democratic leadership are at fault here. I will direct my criticism of Democrats to the Democrats, and my criticism of non-voters to non-voters. I won’t let either of them shirk their share of the responsibility by criticizing the one to the other, that way encourages complacency.

By defending them, you are giving the voters carte blanche to do whatever.

The non-voters know they fucked up and don’t need to be told about it, but the dems seems to think it’s everyone’s fault but theirs.

What? I’ve only seen the opposite. The non-voters are doubling down and refusing any shred of blame. They’re blaming everyone else.

Yes there is blame on both sides, but we’re not in a message board with Democratic leadership, we’re here with the voters. Laying the blame on Democrats doesn’t actually present them with that criticism, it just absolves the non-voters (who very much are not acknowledging their share of the blame).

Letters to your representatives, or protests at their events, are productive venues for levying your criticism at them. I would never recommend blaming the voters at those venues, because that might make the representatives feel absolved of blame.

Likewise, forums and message boards of voters are not a productive venue to lay blame on the DNC, since that absolves the voters of their share of blame. Now if you want to acknowledge the fault of non-voters, while encouraging them, actively, to contact their representatives with their criticisms, that’s fine. But just shouting the flaws of the DNC, on a platform the DNC leadership is not using, is counterproductive.

It’s ironic, the more I see this one-sided attack the more I think it’s a Zionist/Fascist dog whistle.

They didn’t pretend to care, they actively enabled the genocide.

Biden tried to block funding to Israel at least once, Congress pushed it through anyway. That is a fact.

In any case, it’s not up to the voters to ignore every terrible thing done by the dems.

No one is asking them to. It is up to the voters to look at the options in front of them and vote accordingly:

-Vote Dem: Genocide continues, women and minorities retain their human rights

-Vote MAGA: Genocide accelerates, Ukraine is doomed also, women and minorities lose their rights, suffering increases

-Vote 3rd party/Don’t vote: Exactly the same as vote MAGA

The Republicans are never going to get better. The dems will always be the lesser evil and being just a slight bit less evil just doesn’t cut it.

And turning up your nose at the lesser evil is how the greater evil wins. “They need to be better” is true, but irrelevant. Shouting about how Dems aren’t good enough, and whispering the part about how they’re still better than MAGA, is suspiciously well aligned with the people who want MAGA to win. And lo and behold, it worked.

You really think the way forward is for us to just ignore the genocide and not for the party itself to stop pushing it?

I don’t decide DNC policy, and I’d wager no one else here does either. You think the way forward is just handing the reigns to the greater evil over and over, because the leader evil isn’t good enough? Very suspicious, and very convenient that helping the v fascists can be construed as the “moral” choice

As the greater evil sieg heils into the White House. Sure showed those Dems. I’m sure that the victims of genocide will be comforted that replacing the people who only pretended to care about them with people who enthusiastically support their suffering was intended to teach the pretenders a lesson. At least their future is cleansed of all pretense, and they’ll have company now.

Same. The redneck stuff would be more concerning if I didn’t know how to fix redneck stuff.

Better yet, spread horrid disinformation about your elected officials on social media.

Yeah, but Lucy has been letting us kick a pretty good portion of them. Dems are abysmal at marketing, but this administration has actually accomplished a decent amount of actual good policy. There are obvious exceptions and shortfalls, but it’s not like every single football has been pulled away.