Ensign_Crab
@Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 21 hours ago:
Don’t do it! That way lies Maryland!
- Comment on How possibly? 1 day ago:
Expressing what happens when libs go mad, as mad libs.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 days ago:
Kinda ironic that the way for minorities to get it better is to make sure poor white men have it better first.
Who said anything about first? If you make things better for minorities by addressing problems that disproportionately harm them, some white men will also see their problems solved.
You’d rather solve nothing in case help goes to people you want to punish.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 days ago:
In a society where white men are favored they still have that. Which isn’t a small thing! They will probably always win if put up against women or people of color when looking for jobs.
The problems I listed all disproportionately impact minorities, and addressing them will disproportionately benefit minorities. Failing to address them out of spite for white men disproportionately harms minorities. But hey, you sure showed those white men that you’re willing to harm minorities to get to them.
If you want white men to stop following con artists, you need to credibly solve problems that they’re facing, or they’ll believe the first con artist that comes along that wants them to blame minorities for their problems, which adds fuel to existing oppression.
I bet a lot of the minorities would prefer to be a white man to have it easier in life.
Yeah, probably. They have it worse off and I never said otherwise. Thing is, what democrats usually do in this situation isn’t to solve the actual problems. It’s to look at the bigoted false solutions offered by republican con artists and put forth watered down versions of those, breaking solidarity with minorities in the process. What this doesn’t do is peel off the votes of white men who have been suckered by con artists. You can’t beat false solutions with a lesser version of the same false solution.
Kind of ironic saying they have nothing and then automatically being accepted in the powerful fine boys club which fight for their kinds right to stay in a superior place in society.
I’m saying that democrats are leaving votes on the table that they could get if they wanted them, without throwing minorities under the bus like they’ve been doing.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 days ago:
White guys make up a large chunk of the population. There are white guys that have some of the same problems that are harming minorities as well. Poverty, addiction, mental and physical health, inflation, an unfavorable jobs market, and so on.
They see a democratic party that is at best useless at addressing these problems, when they admit that they exist at all. At worst, they see a party that is dismissive and hostile to these concerns, and to them personally. In contrast, they see a republican party that is full of welcoming con artists who will happily tell them that all their problems spring from minorities.
Neither side is offering actual solutions, but republicans are acknowledging that the problems exist, even if they’re offering false solutions.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 days ago:
On a similar note, Flock is known to do OCR on bumper stickers. I’ve recently found myself wondering if there’s any sanitization being done to the OCR output before it gets stored in whatever database they’re using.
Because Bobby Tables.
- Comment on funny number 1 week ago:
The ingredients for 42 ftw!
In both cases.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My robot vacuum would disagree. Every time it finds one of my dog’s toys, it rolls itself on top of it and starts humping. One of these days I’ll record this and set it to the turtle sound you can’t not imagine.
Or this sound:
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
So no, then.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
So, uh… is it any good at it?
- Comment on It was always my favorite spot to play golf and then I see this new sign that they put up 2 weeks ago:
Play it as it lies.
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of examples of Democrats going low. Against progressives.
Clinton bringing up the birther bullshit against Obama that Trump would build his campaign on.
PUMA PAC.
The entire 2016 primaries.
The coordinated dropouts in the 2020 primaries.
Forcing Harris on us in 2024.
The party’s selective protection of incumbents. (Henry Cuellar got protection while Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman did not, as an example.)
The ouster of David Hogg.
The Islamophobic attacks against Mamdani.
I’m sure there are plenty more, but this is just off the top of my head.
Going low against republicans? Doesn’t happen. They only go low against their enemies.
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
That would be a lie. If you’ll recall, there was a whole movement to vote “uncommitted” in the remaining primaries as a protest.
Centrists hated it because they hate anything to the left of netanyahu.
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
Once the big wigs realized Joe was a liability, the Primaries were over.
The bigwigs knew his mind was gone the entire time.
I don’t think that was taking the low road as much as it was “Oh Fuck, NOW WHAT DO WE DO?!?”
Oh no! We set things up so we got the candidate we wanted! Whatever shall we do!?!
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
So “going low” involves killing your own campaign promises in order to preserve the filibuster.
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
Henry Cuellar
This guy had a progressive challenger in 2022. The party put its weight behind Cuellar, who won the primary by something like 500 votes. Centrists at the time, having forced through the anti-choice anti-labor nra-backed candidate they wanted, pretended that the party’s protection was because he was an incumbent and not just because they were trying to shut out progressives.
Then the party did nothing in 2024 to protect incumbents Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman.
- Comment on Get em 3 weeks ago:
Niagara Falls.
- Comment on Relieving oneself over the edge of the ship 3 weeks ago:
Hence the bit about always wearing a life vest.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 3 weeks ago:
She’s wearing it inside out.
- Comment on Saved you a click: a 1911 3 weeks ago:
That’s the gun of a carpenter.
- Comment on Roses are red, cabinets have shelves... 3 weeks ago:
Roses are red,
The humor is mild,
Idk why but “roses are red” jokes always make me giggle like a child
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 3 weeks ago:
Because Biden wanted to run against him again, so he appointed Garland as AG.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
I not sure what to call it, but there is definitely an issue in our country of picking the “popular kid”, or “cool kid”
Charisma matters more than it should.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“You don’t support genocide; therefore you support genocide!” We told you that you’d lose if you went ahead with it and you didn’t listen. I voted for harris. I also knew that there are people who weren’t willing to vote for genocide. It wasn’t the only issue that lost her the election, either. And progressives tried to warn you about those as well, most notably pretending that the economy was great to people who can tell the difference between being able to pay their bills versus not being able to pay their bills.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You’re calling for unquestioning devotion to the genocide wing of the party.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
And centrists like you knew that some people who would otherwise vote for democrats would not do so if they didn’t tell netanyahu no.
You preferred to lose their votes, the election, and democracy itself over conditioning sales of weapons for genocide.
If democrats had fought for their platform half as hard as they fought to murder Palestinian children, they might have some credibility today.
You and all centrists wouldn’t change a thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You preferred trump to telling netanyahu no.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 4 weeks ago:
He’s punchin’ better than people who ain’t punchin’.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 4 weeks ago:
I guarantee within that school the Nazi is getting a lot more ridicule and bullying for being punked like a bitch than the kid that punked him.
especially after the "uuummmm! you said a bad word! I’m telling! shit.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 4 weeks ago:
I learned long ago that looking forward to things is a recipe for disappointment.
I keep doing it though. So midterm elections.