Ensign_Crab
@Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
- Comment on funny number 1 day ago:
The ingredients for 42 ftw!
In both cases.
- Comment on IBM 1979 variation 1 day 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 days ago:
So no, then.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 6 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Niagara Falls.
- Comment on Relieving oneself over the edge of the ship 2 weeks ago:
Hence the bit about always wearing a life vest.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 2 weeks ago:
She’s wearing it inside out.
- Comment on Saved you a click: a 1911 2 weeks ago:
That’s the gun of a carpenter.
- Comment on Roses are red, cabinets have shelves... 2 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. 2 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. 3 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] 3 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] 3 weeks ago:
You’re calling for unquestioning devotion to the genocide wing of the party.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 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] 3 weeks ago:
You preferred trump to telling netanyahu no.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 weeks ago:
He’s punchin’ better than people who ain’t punchin’.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 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? 3 weeks ago:
I learned long ago that looking forward to things is a recipe for disappointment.
I keep doing it though. So midterm elections.
- Comment on Hrmmm 4 weeks ago:
We know that trump was lying about Renee Good and Alex Pretti because people had their phones with them.
- Comment on Is it weird that whenever there's an internet disruption, the first thing that I assume is happening is war, civil unrest, or government censorship, or some sort of conspiracy happening? 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month ago:
Most of the time it’s just people working backward from whatever conclusion suits their politics.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 month ago:
Most of us aren’t. Hell, most of us didn’t listen to the Secretary of Health and Human Services before.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
His goal will never be to specifically kill Americans
I hope you’re right.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
When talking to anyone left-of-center, encourage them to vote in elections, especially primaries
I think the greatest encouragement to vote in primaries would be if the party were to provide some assurance that they’re willing to run primaries without tilting the scales in favor of the people that the establishment likes and no one else does.
Or indeed, run primaries at all. People to the left are shut out of the party at every turn, and then told “You’ll be voting for a pro-genocide ghoul because we decided for you. If you don’t like the candidate we ordered you to like, it’s your fault for not voting in the primaries we didn’t have.”
That message may be satisfying to centrists, but it alienates the left. It’s a losing message and the party can no longer afford to keep sending it.