Talib, AOC? Cori Bush?

5 percent is awfully generous. Maybe it’s that high for people that try to run, but the vast majority of people that win are sucking someone’s teet.

My god can we get a younger social Democrat please? Fuckin A I’m tired of people born before WW2 ended making all the policy decisions. I was going to say before the moon landing but they were all adults when that happened. They’re not even Boomers. They’re fucking older than boomers.

They had better turn out in that electron than the US did in 2020, by 20%, and the Nazi party won a decisive victory. This meme doesn’t check out.

Pick a country that doesn’t depend on NATO or Western influence to survive. One that won’t soon be swallowed by the sea, isn’t under China’s boot, and doesn’t cost a fortune to live in.

New Zealand tops the list. Though maybe don’t buy beach front property.

THANK YOU

I’m normally critical of Biden but this is one of the few times I’ll say it. Biden staying in the race is the best thing he can do.

It doesn’t matter when he drops out at this point, the time to do that was 8 months ago. If he drops out now and there’s an open convention, democrats lose in November. If he drops out after the convention, and the DNC chooses a different candidate to replace him, Democrats lose in November.

The last time anything similar happened, there were riots outside the DNC in Chicago and Hubert Humphrey safely handed the office to Richard Nixon.

Fun fact, Hilary Clinton attended the protests.

I prefer unabridged usually. Though the unabridged Princess Bride is a rare example of the book being better when it’s pared down a bit.

Fucking 40 pages of PACKING.

Well now they can stop pretending they’re not employees and actually treat them like employees.

That’s more than one a year. That can’t be right.

Looking at the Wikipedia for it, that number comes from a Washington Post country guide with absolutely no context or source to back it up. So I’m not confident that’s correct. The Wikipedia article itself details less than 30 coups. They have one every few years sure, but it’s not like every 9 months for 160 years someone was trying to overgrow the government.

If it were actually AI I might have some faith.

This isn’t a neural net processor, not a learning computer. It’s a fucking mechanical Turk. A bad one.

What he’s talking about isn’t capable of deriving new ideas. It’s just going to spit out shit it’s seen already.

The library of Babel is just as likely to give us the answers he’s talking about. More likely maybe because it’s at least already written down.

The American experiment has failed.

I keep hearing that but I rarely actually see it. Maybe one in fifty of the accounts accused of being a Russian troll actually looks like one if you check comment history. That’s said so much here it feels like a meme.

I think it’s fair to say a lot of people are disillusioned with Biden, and disillusioned with the process. Screaming about Trump is going to do absolutely nothing to bring them back.

They know. Everyone knows. What they don’t know, because no one fucking talks about it, is where Biden has been successful. Instead of an opportunity to shine a desperately needed light on his successes, you turn it in to another shit flinging contest.

Bacon and ice cream go great together and I refuse to pretend they don’t.

I still miss midnight snack ice cream. Potato chips covered in chocolate. Delicious

In my experience, any criticism of Biden is immediately met with “but Trump is worse!!!” Rather than any current argument as to why Biden isn’t actually that bad.

If the responses WERE generally any Biden I’d still dislike Biden but I wouldn’t bitch so much about him. Every once in a while you find someone making an effort to defend Biden in good faith and, great. We can disagree on the dude, that’s fine. But if I can’t criticize Biden without immediately being redirected to talking about Trump, I’m going to keep talking about Biden. If the best case scenario is we’re stick with this guy for another 4 years I would appreciate some pressure to do better.

What happens at the Y stays at the Y

I’ll give you 20 to 1

I love how this image is a pun

You mean every opinion I don’t like isn’t automatically a tankie Russian bot???

Probably more so cheaper to mold the plastic case with weak threads than any other function.