they utterly DISGRACED America

FUCK THEM!!!!!

I do have one request of deserting Magat rats though. Please stop doing things that make me feel like I can make the world a better place by exterminating you and your kind. My patience has been running thin lately.

“moral bankruptcy”

and throw in lots of disdain for empathy. Toxic masculinity demands that voting for moral, intelligent, centered-on-people-serving is not manly.

Thus-a culture of “demonstrated moral bankruptcy” fueled by men’s fear of being perceived as weak.

The innate, brute force of cavedom is ever with the 21stC creed of winner take all.

Wish you were on Bluesky Lori.

follow politics that closely. They remembered prices being lower in Trump's first term, then getting higher during Biden's tenure, and they thought that if Trump came back, prices would go back to where they were during his first term.

No matter how stupid and simplistic that seems, a lot of Trump '24 voters actually believed that. Is it their fault they're stupid?

but they need to stop screaming and listen for once. I invite them to join us. Join us in not spending on May 1st. Join us in the next No Kings protest - peacefully gather in our communities. You don't even need a sign. Just show up for half an hour and mingle. The show of strength, that we've got the numbers, is more important than clever signs.

We can get this country back to democracy. The Hungarian people just showed us how it's done. Join us and let's get it done.

time for a crucifying . that is all.

My mom always said that if you tell me that you are a republican, then I know all I need to know about you. Trump is just an extreme example of what they all are. I may have to be civil to them, because I want to try to be a better person than they are, but in the center of their being, to one degree or another, they are all mini trumps.
Never seen this to be wrong

It's always how does some policy affect them. And if some action is good for others, but a problem for them, they go to extremes to find some rationalization why said action is "bad for everyone." , "bad for the country", "God doesn't like it..." etc. You know the drill. Rarely will you find one who is just honest and says outright that they're ONLY looking out for themselves. Deep down they may suspect that is wrong, or don't want other people to disdain them, so they put the God polish on.

Otherwise, every last one of them can still go fuck themselves.

They're fuckheads, all of them. All during his first administration, they parroted the talking point that "I may not agree with everything he says, but I like how he's leading the country."

Well, now they don't even have that lie going for them. So instead of admitting that he's a pedo, a rapist, a felon, and a murderer, they pivot and claim that he's not the person they voted for.

Fuck them. Fuck each and every last one of them, individually and as a group.

They could all get raptured up tomorrow, and the world would be objectively better off for their absence.

They aren't any more savvy now, than they have ever been or will be

We have cookies.

Well Done, Mahalo, Swede.

...as I wiould like to agree, I must disagree...

...we all have a stake in removing Jesus H Trump before he blows up Chinese and Russian shipping and starts WW3...

...we all will fry...plenty of time to fight amongst ourselves after this authoritarian leader and his regime is gone...

...we all have some heavy lifting and work to do cleaning up this mess...I feel sorry for my kids, grand-kids and great grand-kids who will take the brunt of this debacle...

...this is far from over...the threat to our safety and well-being is real...we must join forces to survive...

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Often it is not very clear what the specific principles are - Science? Environmental issues? Women’s rights? Democracy? Regulatory oversight? Separation of church and state? Roe v Wade? Civil Rights? Checks on defense contracting and its role in war?

Or dare I say it? Immigration reform (boosting Vinod Khosla, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai or Priscilla Chan as model immigrants makes any visitor confused as to what there is to root for except a nonwhite asshole versus a white asshole. I am sorry if I see Elon Musk, Vinod Khosla, Marc Andreessen, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai etc as on the same “team” and they will switch just as much and be “our billionaires” with some people in any democracy - our media here in India gushes about Ambani’s vulgar weddings. Same with small creepy guys like Vincent Palathingal- a Jan 6 Trumper who once opportunistically voted for Obama).

I never again want to even consider “purchasing” rights via the marketplace with a musical tacked on. And no more votebank politics. It is not that it is “divisive”. All other people’s worldviews always. Mob populism. Divisive is fine by me. Herding is not.

Other than a general animosity to the other team which without the context of EarlG and DU would just be some people yelling about some other people, which makes the average lefty just give up.

By now it is pretty clear how context free yelling is working out. I am back on the kind of democratic left that I specifically belong in solo. With alliances of the old kind and no more constant belaboring of the obvious.
I am grouchily heading back to civilization not barbaric hells. My dead-eyed moron mask thankfully died and I stand exposed as a grounchy and cross curmudgeon. Oh well..
Bah.. all humbug. I even tried..something.
It didn’t take..hardest thing I ever did. And beyond pointless. “How would I think if I were a moron!!!” Turns out “I really don’t know!!!”

I will be nice the way I used to be.

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

A.R. Moxon