Lots of billionaire money being funneled into those low level positions too, sorry to inform. They spend a lot getting their stooges to fill school boards, disrupt meetings, etc. it's a full on quiet war being waged right in front of us, which becomes even more apparent if you try to dip your feet in local politics. It's turtles allllll the way down i tell ya.
Kristoff best pack his bags, cuz that's the only possible effect from his tepid rebuttal of biden, now. It's not like anyone seriously believes the DNC will move on from Biden, right? Why even bring it up now unless you are tired of your PR job?
"can i still tend the genocide, george?"
"Yes, of course Joe. Look out across the water"
The wife's told me they spent 5 minutes talking about golf and the rest was gibberish. Who won the debate? Depends ...
It could be more that they want to win but the tools they could use to win are "out of bounds". They do want to win, but they have to win somehow while giving us nothing since the donors that brought them there will remove their power to do anything the moment they go against their will.
It's not that there's a conspiracy or anything, it's a simple reason that you already know: the democratic process is thoroughly and completely bought by corporate private interests to the point that it can only work for them.
Dem voters only know what they are told to know by the boob tube and right now they know 'china=bad' trump=no more 
History is meaningless to them, everything happening is divorced from previous events.
They know also, because they have been told that by agreeing with the tv they are smart, that disagreeing is only for people who don't have all the info, or are dumb/racist. They don't want to be dumb/racist so they agree and defend the TVs lies as their own, as they have been convinced by this trick that their very intelligence is on the line.
It's pretty sad, cuz i don't know how to move one from this headspace. I think maybe those types need to come to some kind of revelation on their own before they can be radicalized. I wish i could do it, because (i think) if those types ever did realize they had been played for fools their absolute fury at this would help communism grow.
Living paycheck-to-paycheck doesn’t necessarily mean hardship, and LendingClub makes the distinction between those can pay their bills easily and those who can’t. Only a fraction of high earners -- roughly one in ten -- reported issues covering all their household expenses in April, according to the survey.
I guess the distinction is whether it means hardship for LendingClub. Fuck me, imagine reading shit like this credulously.
"i have to go deal with the afghanistan"
This is my new 'gotta poop' conversation breaker with libs
It is hilarious that they just invented advance copyright theft and called it ai. C'mon man tell me another one
Ill probably tic her box too but she's allowed on the ballot (and i know you know this) cuz the green party poses no threat to the caps. No positive sustained MSM coverage on a candidate erases that candidate from the public consciousness. It's quite amazing how well it works, the 2 party mindset. Theres no harm in voting for her, increased 3rd party turnout might pave the way for even stronger future showings, yeah. To say you believe in voting when it is so thoroughly corrupted in the us, and when there's no chance she'll win raises the question: what is it that you believe still works?
Tonal check, i am honestly curious not fighting with you.
Did you hear? He also pinky swore he would never pardon his son (likely because he knows he'll never need to)! Don't you just love him for this empty promise of moral superiority?
I think you're absolutely right on that. There are plenty of those who call themselves allies who are actively hurting the community with bigotry and simple ignorance. I have a friend who loves and wanted to adopt a currently cracking transmasc kiddo (part of extended family) but his... ridiculous TERFish beliefs might end up killing this poor boy. I think i got through to him but I'm not sure. If anyone has stuff on fluidity or like 'dysmorphia for dummies' i could use some help explaining just how important it is to be in the right body and shit before he hurts them or their relationship irrevocably.
That brings me to my next ramble. I wanted to share after reading your post headline that i got to feel like "part of the community" by way of bigotry for the first time since i "joined" y'all. I came out as ace to my therapist and also that friend i mentioned who both told me (in so many words) i didn't know what i was talking about... which was super whiplash for a cishet presenting white man in his 40s. Like damn dogg, being believed was a noticeable privilege to lose.
I can't help but wonder how much of what i thought was privilege was my simply holding an opinion of the privileged. It was never mine, i never got anything from it but the illusion of comradery. i was fooled by the proximity to privilege, because the opinions i used to hold just didn't challenge the privileged. i was allowed in the room but i was played.
I dunno if I'm saying this right but you feel me?
Ramble aside i can't wait to see what other fun lessons i shall learn tasting this rainbow.
Anyway now i have a more visceral understanding of that flavor. Bitter baby, bad. Extremely annoying and bad. If i were a younger man these people questioning me would make me question myself kinda bad.
Maybe its cheesy but the upside of that experience made me feel solid dairy with the community for the first time.
Anyway i was all over the place but if nothing else sticks i am again asking for your support in that i would love good material focusing on the importance of acceptance by peers/parents when a trans kid comes out. Thru won't get it from their family, if they get it from anyone it's gonna be him. Believe it or not, my dumb-ass friend is both thoughtful and receptive to me, but he's coming from the dumbest place imaginable and i would really love some help from the trans perspective as i can only guess what it is like.
There's a "lemmy,ml/tankies bad" thread I'm fishing right now in sh.itjust.works as we speak so this is extra apropos
Does this provide a special sound? Have to do with their style? Just fun? I dunno most about drums
Dunno if this is what you're looking for but i thought of Leiningen Versus the Ants. It's a short story filled with colonialism porn complete with superiority of the white man. Over the natives, nature, God himself.
Ok so i learned about a person coming out as non binary recently and this reminded me of my confusion about (i think they're called rolling pronouns) she/they and he/they specifically.
I have looked around at some sites speaking to it but none of them have made it clear to me whether use of "her" or "him" instead of "theirs" in the case of someone who wishes for (s)he/they is misgendering.
I had (mis)understood before that (s)he/they meant they were fine with either their gendered pronoun AND the gender free option, but am i way off base? Is the "they" not an option?
Apologies if this is breaking rules or has been answered, i didn't see anything on the sidebar so here goes nothin...
the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any] @hexbear.net Sooner or later they’d get me for one thing if not for another...
[But if] a fellow ain’t got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then…Then it don’t matter. I’ll be all around in the dark – I’ll be everywhere.