Exactly. If you’re going down anyway, Make your shot count.

I’ve observed that we (USA) have a taboo around discussing what happens in the bathroom.

Is that not normal? I don’t think most people are interested in how massive a shit I had last night unless it’s my doctor. We also have a term of “toilet humor” to suggest that jokes around it are some of the crudest, lowest brow humor possible.

re: the post: It’s rare but it’s happened a few times for some particularly bad bouts. I don’t think it was anything serious, probably just some slightly spoiled food or maybe slightly undercooked chicken.

at least you don’t become deadweight in the economy

In theory, yes.

Reality: we already have shit welfare programs and I doubt UBI will fix it. I also doubt we’ll even get to a point of UBI in my remaining career time. At least not without a lot of blood.

The present as is is pretty bad, I’d hope we can fix that before theorycrafting the future. economists 100 years prior theorycrafted 15 hour work weeks, and look how far we’ve come.

There are lots of different ways to look at profit.

They claim “exposure” and “new marketing opportunities”.

I think they are just (literally) kissing the ring and getting in on the corruption train before it crashes.

There is definitely stuff (relatively) silently going through the courts about it. But we really won’t be able to do much about it until a new administration gets in.

It’ll be good reflection one day, but it doesn’t change much in the present.

Citizens United was a mistake. At this rate, 2026 might have more money put into it than general elections 1-2 decades prior.

what else are you trying to point out with this isolated statistic?

People are slowly, but finally waking up.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Now if they aren’t even AIPAC funded… well that’s just sad. Even a reddit mod gets a delusion of power when on a trip.

you are framing this as republicans looking to split the dems using propoganda.

Yes, and it’s working. Splitting the vote with couch isn’t as effective as winning over a vote, but still effective for an unpopular party. And when we’re in a low trust society, doing nothing feels more appealing than picking a poison.

The issue is two fold here: 1) you’re mad at 2 poisons to pick at election day but 2) do not want to put the work in primaries or before primaries to make a better pick. Someone like Mamdami doesn’t just appear from the ether. And it feels defeatist an outright lazy that your preferre candidate didn’t make it if you did nothing to support it.

Your lowest effort civic duty is to vote on November, and if you can’t even do that I don’t know why you’re in this country. We tore it apart centuries ago over lack of representation and we want to throw that away? For what? Faux doomerism disguised as perfomative protest? What’s really your goal here?

It’s a fact that traditional Dem voters are far past focussing solely on republicans as the root of all of our problems.

Yes. We can realize that we are in quicksand and focus on getting outselves out while also realizing we later need to stop dinner from burning. But one is clearly more immediate than the other. Dinner will be the least of our worries if we sink here in 2026.

“Flood the zone” they say. With a mix of “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”

I could wake up in the middle of the desert with no electronics on me the day he dies and I’m sure I’d be able to hear the wind tell me _{“Trump is dead"}It.'ll be that obvious.

More likely, I’ll probably hear fireworks outside on a random day and be woken up by partying in the streets before checking my phone.

This was the Democrat’s war.

If you use this lens of thinking for pre-70’s america, you won’t ever really understand that culture.

Thing is, Americans weren’t anywhere near as polarized as today. So republicans and democrats probably agreed on a lot of things even on the campaign trail. A vice president would be a president from the *opposite * party as a sign of cooperation.

People wouldn’t be pointing fingers at any party over this because odds are both parties wanted the war to happen for various reasons. It was simply “America’s war”.

In the big picture 1950-2026, Nixon was not as bad a President as people want to believe.

1. That just shows how far standards fell in America

2. That doesn’t ubdo the evils done beforehand

It’s more of a vent than a joke. “In private” with trusted friends. If this was something said out loud or even on a public tweet I’d get it. But this seems to fall closer to something like confiding in therapy than that.

Ofc, a trained therapist would understan this is a rant. The AI does not, and the FBI couldn’t care less about context.

22YO, so yeah. That was probably peak Snapchat age for them.

This sure did sound homely. And a life in a bygone era.

Definitely not something I’ve heard of. This is either very old school America (50-80s) or something done in very small towns where everyone knows one another.

That said, this is definiely something I know friends would do for each other. Truck or not. You have some boys over to help move some stuff around, you cook or grab food for them an pay the bill. But you gotta be pretty good friends for me to call you up like that (or vice versa).

He wasn’t impeached over tariffs in 2018.

well, my info was horribly wrong. I thought I might have confused one of the failed attempts at impeachment from the first term, but it wasn’t that either.

70s from within your own party, especially Republicans, is pretty freaking bad.

Bad for these hyerpartisans times, yes. But this wasn’t the norm, even as far back as 15 years ago.

But it’s part of why GOP congress is still spineless. A lot of their constituents still think Trump is doing a “good job”. Or at least that’s what they say out loud.

This isn’t nationals. There’s too many races here (every House seat and 33 Senate seats) for them to fight every progressive candidate. That’s why you occasionally see them give up and endorse a few progressives here and there.

Also, most of their work is done in the primaries. They tend to just accept the D candidate once that is done and over with. That’s what happened with Mamdmi. Mostly because that’s honestly more important than the real election, and also because they kind of have to to keep the ruse up.

We’ve seen quite a few time that Musk has ended up spoiling votes. Because he did quite a good job tanking his own rep with the DOGE BS last yeast.

Money can’t trump voters when voters are paying attention.

We still seem to have a lot of “both sides are the same” mentality here, as if there aren’t shades of evil out there.

People who still think that after the past 19 months are either complicit with the destruction, severely uninformed (or lacking real perspective), or are letting perfect be the enemy of good. We can critisize (and we should) the DNC while also realizinig their vote is the quicket way to stop the further slide into fascism. If we can find a progressive or DSA or whatnot, even better. But not all races will have those.