skulblaka

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

“Voters have not been voting for progressives."

What this actually means is "we have not allowed the voters any progressives to cast votes for". The people who really most care about voting for progressives are doing so, and are voting third party. This is by design. If the DNC fielded any actual progressives they'd likely receive such a flood of record voter turnout that the Dems would then have their hands forced into actually accomplishing something to the detriment of their campaign donors. This can't be allowed to happen because then the money faucet turns off. They've been controlled opposition, running on a platform of "at least I'm not that guy", for as long as I've been alive and I can only assume several decades prior. The momentum of the two-party system blocking out viable third party candidates is what safely allows this for them.

Implement ranked choice voting now and we can rip this entire ugly weed up by the roots. Making the two-party megalith vulnerable will light a whole lot of fires underneath a whole lot of asses in the existing structure, as well as actually enable more than two political parties to exist in America.

Unfortunately this change must come from the bottom up, because the DNC from the top down benefits from the status quo and won't shoot themselves in the foot with this. This can't happen until a suitable number of leftist/independent/third-party representatives are already elected for local and state office to successfully make the push for this in congress, which puts us in a fine catch-22 where we probably need RCV in order to elect independents but we probably need to elect independents to implement RCV.

I hate it here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I have never, ever in my entire life aspired to any sort of political office. I figured I wasn't well suited to that, I don't have a law degree, it's just not for me.

These days that opinion is now "well I couldn't possibly do a worse job than the ones actually getting elected for this", so....

Fuck around, and y'all might catch me running for local office soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Is this a normal thing that normal people do when their fascist government is looking to have them bagged off the street and dropped at an offshore blacksite?

We no longer live in a normal world. Nothing can be assumed anymore. The Wikimedia foundation is in real danger.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The "evidence" here is pretty sketchy, but I believe it, for two reasons.

  1. It's extremely on brand for a Trump to do this. Decrying [X] publicly while getting it for yourself is basically all he has ever done. Look to the covid vaccines for a convenient example. In addition, Trump thinks being tall = being important (just look at the six inch lifts he wears in his shoes) and I have no problem at all believing that he doped up his son with a bunch of drugs to try and turn him into some kind of superhuman.

  2. They've been making up stories about everyone else for their entire lives. So even if this one is completely made up, what does it matter? What goes around comes around. They're lucky it's something as relatively legal and safe as HGH. If we were really going tit for tat on Trump misinformation, we should have mainstream media telling everyone that Barron Trump was raised on an IV drip feed of stem cells, crack cocaine and blended up white babies. That would be closer to actually tasting some of their own medicine.

Alas(?) lefties don't really want to play that game. They generally find misinformation to be distasteful. Which I don't blame anyone for. I'm just tired of one "team" being bound by rules and one "team" just doing whatever the fuck they want constantly with zero oversight. If we aren't going to implement oversight then we'll both end up in the mud together.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Not since his mom died.

You can see a very tangible drop in cognition around the production and release of The Life of Pablo. Pretty sure he's been unmedicated since then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Also at [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Luckily, as a firearm owner the choice then becomes "go quietly with the men who claim to be from the government", or to cancel the home invaders' life subscription. Especially in a castle doctrine state. If they can't or won't show identification then you have carte blanche to start blasting. Not only that but doing so is a morally good act.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Studies? No, we don't do studies here anymore. Now we just declare things. If you just declare something enough then it becomes true.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If they're practicing proper Read Only Fridays then we won't hear about it from them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right. So it told you objectively wrong information while the correct answer is freely available from technical documents that it ought to know how to read.

So imagine if that was something actually life threatening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
 
 
 
 
 
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