and then also have spent the last eight months being told that even wanting biden to stop funding a genocide is "going to get trump elected" so like, idk, this still doesnt feel like a failure *by the voters* who know what they want and simply havent gotten it since fdr died
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but when it came time for the dems to do the same with the left, bernie and warren got pushed out of the primary by four or five dem(!) billionaire donors personally running against them
the ppl the dems keep "don't boo, vote!"-ing at already think of biden as the compromise
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now the gop was headed for an permanent minority party status at least since the 70s and thats *despite* all their cheating and disenfranchisement, and they found a bulwark by courting the racist vote and slowly achieving racist policy gains, thus trump as the george wallace racist messiah
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clearly just asking people to vote isnt working, bc thats true on both sides, so the loyal votes of conservatives also has that 51% gap of people who just didnt vote at all that is a shifting bloc over time
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he's still the president NOW, what do you think i'm talking about here
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except that reduced turnout never even touches the 51% of voters who havent voted since before i was born, like that's not just a single bloc of voters who just didnt vote since the reagan era, there's a persistent chunk of every single generation that gets burned out on this and just stays home
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and then the elections where dems get good turnout is bc they inspire people with the belief in a better world being possible, then two years into a 4-8 year term start talking about rules and restrictions preventing a lot of that, and then its some big mystery why dem voters sit the next one out
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every presidential election in my lifetime has been one candidate or the other getting 47-49% of the votes from a turnout of 47-49% of the electorate, and the gop fights tooth and claw to shave a percent off our side wherever they can, while the dems just lecture about (consistently) low turnout
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i feel like you are significantly undercounting the gop using gerrymandering in low population red states to gain an outsized representation in the senate and electoral college and instead placing the majority of the blame for things being the way they are on disillusioned leftists not voting enough
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it's a genuine frustration that the dems keep selling a status quo where the gop has cheated their way to colossal electoral advantages and flouted rules + convention at every turn, but the best the dems will ever be willing to do is w/e is allowed, however weak + ineffective a bulwark that may be
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but it is somehow more annoying that we are still lecturing each other about the invisible threads of bureaucracy that bind and limit what every democrat ever has or ever will be able to do, while at the same time talking openly about how trump will be unbounded by any of that and rule as a god king
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take your conspiracy bullshit somewhere else
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when they spend months taking a victory lap claiming credit for that exact thing, and then it expires while they are still in charge, then yeah go for it?
like either joe has 60 years of experience working within this arcane bureacracy, or he's just some schmoe, but either way he's the president rn
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no worries, i had already muted whoever that was so i only saw your side
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ideologically short
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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right? bizarre take that dem leadership's failure of leadership is something else actually
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y'all are really coming in here one after the other to lecture me about how there was nothing more the leader of the party cld have done to whip 1 vote, and this is a problem going back to truman, & THIS is your sales pitch for incrementalism? why dont i get to be frustrated that nothing has changed
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oh cool so its actually MY fault, rad
eat shit
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love all you smug assholes swanning in here to ignore the "its bad that this policy was allowed to lapse, whatEVER the reason" forest for the "ah allow me to lecture you about political minutiae" trees
I DONT ACTUALLY CARE WHO OR HOW OR WHY
IT IS A BAD OUTCOME REGARDLESS
FOCUS ON THAT MAYBE JFC
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cool motive, still murder
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Sheridan: Their honor? Well we've had plenty of that ourselves. Conspiracies of silence because the larger ideals have to be protected. But you can't have larger ideals if the smaller ones get compromised. It's like building a house without a foundation, Delenn, it can't stand!
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Time for the fun reminder that most of this is stems from an austerity policy that was justified by a spreadsheet error.
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The thing about that arc is that there were a whole bunch of people who called the descent into fascism early and started taking steps to foment a resistance by using both proper channels and more covert means.
However, when shit came to a head, they put boot to ass. We could learn from that.
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Sheridan: I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone in the night.
Delenn: There is. Being all alone in a crowd. To feel cut off from your people.
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rewatching b5 recently the "earthgov descends into fascism" arc was worryingly prescient
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It’s the very infrastructure that is being ignored & in a lot of ways built by the Dems that will be bring it all to fruition is the wild part. Not only the police but the very policies that are pushing people into the street, keeping people hungry, constricting opportunities aimed at poor Black ppl
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All the big rights the white people are panicking about losing in America, they have zero attention of the huge attacks on Black people. America is in the process of reversing to Jim Crow, the state's very police are getting more & more funded & armed & killing us more. @chadstanton.bsky.social
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this is also how i'm finding out he's dennis quaid's son, hell yeah
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So… don’t
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THAT WAS BOIMLER?!?!?!?
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Domino (2005)
Jupiter Ascending
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Mulholland Dr
8 Diagram Pole Fighter
El Topo
Return of the Living Dead
The Warriors
Attack the Block
Transformers: The Last Knight
Blacula
Prince of Darkness
Constantine
Crank 2
Southland Tales
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(ahem) the candidate that goes hard for you
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small if true
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r&b was so big in the 90s, and then i feel like it got gentrified by white boy bands and adele, and then all the black artists got pushed off to the sidelines again like when we killed disco
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mr rogers rn
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Who can contribute and support children for food and drink, link in bio, donate, thank you🇵🇸🍉
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they took the victory lap on this, go and argue the fine print with them
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listen no offense to either of you but i am not looking to well actually debate the mechanics of this beyond that i didnt invent this line, the wh did
if joe + kamala dont want to own responsibility for those credits lapsing then they shouldnt have done a media blitz taking credit for creating them
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Losing the various tax credits was a major hit, and I'd like to personally yell fuck you to anyone who thinks those types of credits don't do anything or are a waste :)
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yes bc the president has famously never been able to influence policy
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I hate this piece of shit.
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remember when the biden admin cut child poverty in half and then just like, let those tax credits expire and watched child poverty go back up to higher than where it started
anyways vote i guess
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We're currently witnessing the US and other western countries, unapologetically back a white settler colonial ethno state committing genocide and ethnic cleansing. And as people stand up against the genocide, they're brutalised, bullied, and locked up by those in power, using riot police.
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peasant mother - an apple a day keeps the doctor away
child - but mother, father ate all the apples
father - hush child, there is no such thing as doctors
THAT NIGHT
(raking claws and the shadow of a plague doctor mask scratching at the door) - wheere IIISSS IITTTTTTTT
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I have not had an apple in weeks. Now, if I stand still and wait, doctors will approach me. While there may be a better use of this phenomena I have been using it to attack doctors with kicks and an old combination lock in a sock I swing around while yelling in fear of what I've become.
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I survive off mutual aid because I'm disabled and don't make enough at my job. Pls donate whatever you can :)
I'm currently 3 months behind on rent
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The only 2 sports I watched growing up other than football were gymnastics and figure skating, and both of those have been pushed SO fucking far in my lifetime it’s wild. A quad axel would’ve been UNTHINKABLE when I was growing up. Everything Biles does is revolutionary. It’s been a joy to see
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heritage foundation president to americans - "we will kill as many of you as we have to"
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