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- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 hours ago:
Grey’s Law.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 7 hours ago:
Can always count on centrists to gloat that no one had the option to vote against the genocide that gives their lives meaning.
- Comment on Yeeeesh, tough choice. 2 days ago:
They selectively protect incumbents. They didn’t do a thing to protect Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman, but they protected Henry Cuellar.
- Comment on Yeeeesh, tough choice. 2 days ago:
Democrats know they have a stranglehold on the primary process, and they know that the results of their interference with the will of the people will be interpreted as apathy on the part of the left.
In order to justify moving to the right.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 3 days ago:
Printers suck in part because they’re mechanical devices that move paper. They are subject to fatigue and weather and are built to a cost so they’re as cheaply made as possible.
But they also suck because manufacturers aren’t content to just sell machines that either put ink on paper or fuse toner to same. They also have to screw people as hard as possible on ink/toner. Which means artificial limitations rather than physical ones. And that’s where they really start to suck.
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 3 days ago:
Depends on who you ask. The sorts of people who call her that are bigoted rightwingers, most famously Jerry Falwell. This animosity dates back to the 90s when she had a sitcom. She came out and the right wing lost its shit about it, and there’s still hate for her today. No surprise it got upvotes on reddit.
Independently of that, she’s evidently just plain mean to anyone she can get away with mistreating.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 3 days ago:
Haven’t heard that, but would be interested in learning more.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 4 days ago:
I mean, color printers are with their yellow tracking dots.
- Comment on Times sure have changed 5 days ago:
He has the wrong idea about Sadako?
- Comment on Welp we had a good run fam RIP 6 days ago:
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Did you know that Northrup Grumman developed the standard USPS mail truck?
This was before the merger. It was just Grumman. They also built the Lunar Module for the Apollo program.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
The hair change makes him look like Dr. Tenma from Astro Boy.
- Comment on You will not be missed 1 week ago:
Animal. Or Sweetums.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 weeks ago:
Don’t do it! That way lies Maryland!
- Comment on How possibly? 3 weeks ago:
Expressing what happens when libs go mad, as mad libs.
- Comment on How possibly? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
The ingredients for 42 ftw!
In both cases.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
So no, then.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month ago:
Niagara Falls.