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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Ban on pregnant women: Twisted, disgusting, and sadly probably doable for a fascist hellstate like MAGA is trying for.

    Forced sterilization of all foreign visitors: So ludicrously stupid as to be laughable. This person (derogatory) has a truly unhinged seven-point plan which is not only completely impossible, it’s in a bonkers order:

    1. Nullification (red states stop issuing birth certificates to Undesirables)

    2. Pack the court (hilariously showing that the right has no new ideas)

    3. Ban on pregnant women entering the US

    4. Ban on women entering the US

    5. Forced sterilization of tourists (the women you’re not allowing in? You want to sterilize no one?)

    6. The union is dissolved (why would you sterilize random people before you just went full Confederacy? Surely you could be even more cruel if you divested yourself of the pesky Constitution and its annoying Bill of Rights first!)

    7. This is where it gets really unhinged: then he wants to amend the constitution. For a country that no longer exists, to stop women who are incapable of reproduction from illegally entering the US in case they’re illegally pregnant because the packed court you hand-picked can’t be trusted not to validate the birth certificates that states aren’t issuing.

    Even if you take this as a list of options instead of an ordered plan, the fact that a constitutional amendment is considered the last option just boggles the mind. These are an unserious people; toddlers making pouty-faced pronouncements and whining about people touching them.


  • He’s six months in and like ⅔ of the way through his campaign promises. And that’s with standing against ICE and dealing with both an extreme winter and and extreme summer. He defeated multiple establishment-backed candidates. And he’s managed to do this all without any major scandal.

    Plus, if this is a psyop by the right, it’s absolutely backfiring. Mamdani is showing the electorate how a government can work for its people. That’s good for people, but terrible for the establishment.

    I realize where the cynicism comes from, but “they just don’t change” is always true right up until it isn’t.


  • I still remember people telling me the country needed Trump because it needed to be run like one of his businesses. “You mean used as a half-assed vehicle for his own vanity that gets stripped for parts and then driven into bankruptcy the moment he loses interest?”

    Seriously, the man failed to sell alcohol, meat, and gambling. Those have been three of the four easiest things to turn a profit on for most of human history (and he doesn’t have the body for the fourth). If you gave me a distillery, a beef farm, and a casino, I would be a millionaire inside a couple of years—and I’m the worst salesman I know. And somehow he also became a millionaire after starting all three of those businesses, which is decidedly less of a flex for someone who started out as a billionaire.





  • I haven’t been on Reddit in at least two years, maybe longer. I can’t remember and honestly don’t care enough to check. But that sort of statement sounds exactly what I would tell my staff to have the bots write when accused of being bots, if I worked at an agency aiming to stir up dissent on social media.

    So how about this: if you want to prove that you’re not a bot, try being kind and thoughtful about what you say, be introspective about your edgelord views, and actually write something that has respect for the dignity of human life.







  • nobody in America seems to care enough to meaningfully change it

    People keep saying this as if we’ve all got a lever we could pull to get him out of office and just…aren’t doing it. No, there’s no direct way to make it happen. There’s no meaningful opposition party, and no way to remove a president from office without one. The indirect ways to do it–namely, protest and primary challenges–well, a lot of us are doing that. And those who are and aren’t protesting are held back by needing to work in an economic system that ties our healthcare to our employment.

    The problem can’t be solved in just a few months. This is a coordinated assault against liberty that began decades ago; it’d take a few years to sort out even if the entire middle and lower class was in agreement, and a sizable undereducated, propagandized population in the lower class is going to take some time to get on board.

    “Wake up” and do what? Take up arms? That’s a pipe dream sold by the NRA to keep conservatives buying guns. So what are we supposed to do that we’re not already doing?






  • I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I’m also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, doesn’t raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn’t do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It’s useless content, on the level of replying “first!” to a YouTube video circa 2013.

    I’m sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can’t help wondering, “so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?” No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn’t, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don’t have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.