You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.

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Cake day: May 10th, 2024

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  • The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in US history. Our problem isn’t laziness or lack of voters, our problem is the people who voted fucking hate democrats. They largely weren’t all MAGA turds, in fact if you actually read the exit polling many of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 were Obama voters or Bernie supporters.

    They didn’t vote for Trump because they’re racist monsters, most of them voted for Trump because they’re dumb and they don’t watch the news and when they do they see Democrats acting like pathetic losers while corporations drive our prices up. Millions of people voted for Trump because bird flu had driven egg prices up, and they associated that with Biden and Harris.

    Dems don’t want “more voter turnout” they want more of their own idiots and boomers to vote for the status-quo.

    If we want to fix this situation with our only actual funded “opposition” party and have a chance of taking the country back for citizens we have to flush ALL incumbent representatives out of the legislative branch. We start this in the States. Each state is a nation, those states have great power. DNC is a container, we pour out the contents, replace it with something new and use that to reform the federal government.

    They can’t sabotage every election, they can’t put fucking ICE agents around your local school board voting in new management, they can’t be in every town electing a mayor. This is why Mamdani and other progressives won powerful state positions recently. Don’t be apathetic, don’t burn out because the dems are weak and awful and fake, make new politics. Get involved in your community, go to progressive victory and volunteer to help actual progressive candidates and ignore the paid DNC shills.


  • It’s fine, no looking back, lets just cross our fingers, toes and everything else for a special election in his district.

    We will never repair even a fraction of the damage done to our country by him and his ilk, but I will still be happy to see him go and have a chance for someone, anyone new having a chance of seizing representation.

    We can’t just wallow in misery, we have to celebrate good things and even just potential good things or there’s no point to life at all.






  • It makes more sense to get people to like your idea than pushing them away, unless you think you’re going to do it with force.

    I’ve seen incels do this online for decades now. They’re not really looking for better outcomes, they want to feel that “normies” hate them so much that it validates all the hate and cynicism they feel. You can’t feel bad about not doing the actual hard things in life to organize and be liked by others if everyone else hates you and thinks you’re a monster, right?

    It’s creating an environment of alienation so they can justify not wanting to change or help anyone.


  • Take your tribalism and shove it.

    For every person who wants to help that you sneer at online (because I know you couldn’t face them in reality) I will be working in the real world to help bring real people over to start working for better outcomes, secure in the knowledge that even if I can’t change the whole world and make everything better, I can reduce harm here and now and continue to push the needle towards a better world. I’ve been at it for years, and seeing cynical little shits on the internet whine and cry about seeing other people nurturing unity only makes me more committed.

    You can just stay in that basement and whinge while real people do real things.



  • I’m admitting something about this country and myself that I don’t want to admit.

    Don’t feel bad, a lot of us have been down this road. I’ve done it several times.

    We never stop learning difficult truths about the world around us.

    I think the day you stop having these shifts in your attitude is the day you’ve finally stopped caring enough to actually self-examine, so it means you’re still alive and conscious if nothing else.

    I hope if nothing else, you and your grandfather make memories together. We don’t always get to choose how and what kind of bonding memories we make with family, but take what you can when you can. It will be over soon enough.


  • Trump already defused the whole idea of allegations against him with his base, he’s dodged so many accusations and consequences for so long that his loyal base assumes everything is fake.

    Major conservative spaces didn’t even cover this, and what they did report on was neutered or downplayed. The vast majority of Trump supporters believe the “epstein files” are as boring as they sound from the title, like a dossier of intelligence names and places and abstract sorts of legal accusations being spun to make Trump “look bad” but they’re not making any mental effort to look at it realistically or even glance at the actual files with anything but skepticism and doubt.

    They, willfully in many cases, don’t let themselves examine the reports and consider that it deals in human lives and a lifestyle of cruelty and abuse that would be at home in the most brutal prehistorical settings.

    The 2020’s broadly is the decade where a lot of people learned you can succeed in life by sticking your fingers in your ears and going LALALALA as you barge headfirst into entitled demands that the world bend for your wants.

    And since we atomized as a society, abandoned community and the social pressures that come with it, these people largely succeed with this tactic because nobody stands up to them long before they gain power and money.


  • A federal judge, one of our last barriers against actual, literal fascism and authoritarian takeover and our last hope for turning this around, signs an order for an objectively good thing in a predominantly christian region, with two verses referenced, an obviously defiant stand against literal evil forces trying to capture the country.

    Lemmy user:

    > Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred

    Fucking hell, someone tell me these jackals are AI bots or something sent by Mossad to destabilize our country. If I knew I lived next to someone who had this kind of attitude I would drop everything I’m doing to devote the rest of my days to sabotaging and annoying them in the most vexing ways possible.

    This isn’t just a US issue you clowns, if you’re not in the US it’s coming for you next. We need to celebrate wins against bad things or you’re part of the bad things.




  • Calm the fuck down when people are doing the right thing.

    Jeez I swear we will lose every battle ever because leftists are always seeking places to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Edit: reminder people, there are very real agents against better outcomes who are paid to make these kinds of takes to make people like us, the ones opposing fascism, to argue and fight about stupid shit like this. It’s objectively stupid to argue that a judge who did a good thing and is fighting for liberty be disbarred for slipping two bible references in his signature, it’s nonsense.

    So more likely than not, this user is one of the many, many trolls from troll farms across the world dedicated to making people fight each other, not the powers that want to shove ALL of you in a camp. Clap them back but then block and move on. There are too many impressionable people here who will read a whole thread of back and forth and despair that they don’t know who’s right.



  • Been saying it for a long time now, we gotta primary every last DNC member holding a seat. They’re all either complicit or neutered to the point of uselessness.

    I love Bernie but this obviously isn’t his fight. He’s been about economics for like, 400 years, and just economics and it’s fine, but he’s not going to lead us out of fascism. He needs to go rest and enjoy retirement.

    The DNC is a container full of rotten old money and establishment-preserving collaborators with the GOP. We pour the container out, freshen it up with some new contents.


  • I bet the fights, screaming matches, broken lamps, slammed doors and broken phones in the white house over the last week has been fucking glorious. I would pay thousands to be a fly on a wall there just to watch these unhinged freaks become unhinged freaks at each other when everything starts going off course.

    They thought it would be different by now. They expected more legal victories (it’s not covered but they’ve lost a LOT of ground in courts) and they thought they would have a stronger public mandate, they thought liberal, middle-class America would be looking at them like saviors and heroes by now, they thought their WWE fireworks and spectacle would win over more than the same, steady 28% - 30% of the country.

    But here we are, Trump is becoming unmanageable and may literally just DIE at any moment, they’ve made reverse progress getting JD Vance ready to take the reigns, and everyone is just staring at Miller, this egg-headed wormtongue that keeps feeding Trump schizoid lines because he’s basically just Elliot Rogers reincarnated. And now there are waves of rolling strikes going around, and the conservatives broadly are absolutely enraged about threats to their guns. Even the liberal nightly news is on network TV is outright saying Trump and his admin are making shit up. The tide is turning sharply.

    There is some satisfaction in all this.