maybe I live in the wrong neighborhood, but I've tried that and it only works about half of the time. I end up having to put everything into my van and take it to goodwill or somewhere else any way.
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maybe I live in the wrong neighborhood, but I've tried that and it only works about half of the time. I end up having to put everything into my van and take it to goodwill or somewhere else any way.
His reckoning will be a steroid induced coronary. It will not be painful enough, or prolonged enough, to account for the lives his policies will take over the next decade+
They certainly don't LISTEN to their base anymore, otherwise Mamdani would have the full throated support of the Dem. establishment, as would have AOC before him. Their operatives lament the lack of a strong candidate for federal elections, even as they work to sideline the most promising candidates
Ds used to be about substantially more than donations, but on the whole, those days are gone. They do next to nothing in most districts to actually organize bottom up OTHER than asking for money. Young folks like Mamdani or Abughazaleh are impressive precisely BECAUSE they take a different approach.
They don't need to win elections to continue as a money making machine. They prob rake in the most in donations when it is close and they look like they may lose. Then their "help us protect democracy" texts get the most donations out of fear of R victory. Easy wins = less $ than tight losing races.
They were going to raise prices anyway. They have already cut staffing to the bone, so the only way to increase profit further is to charge customers more for their crap.
The irony of my post essentially describing the Dems as being deliberately feckless being reposted by a pro dem account...
Liberals don’t need charismatic leaders. They just need to be less scary than the alternatives. Being boring actually helps them. They only need enough power to garner donations, and they can get that through enertia and pointing out how scary Trump is.
Acknowledging that jerk behavior pushes people away is not an excuse, it is an explanation. That someone was a jerk doesn’t justify voting badly, but they don’t need to justify their votes to us. Moving left takes time, and every jerk is a speed bump to that transition at least, or a 🛑 at worst.
Lots of people have very little appetite for politics. And that becomes zero when people talk down to them and verbally abuse them. There is a reason Mamdani is so cheery and nice to people, and it’s not just because he’s a nice guy. being nice wins people over. And being a dick chases them away.
I think Mamdani is hitting far above his weight class, and I'm here fore it. But that is because he is charismatic, and his ops are so fucking bad. We don't have enough highly charismatic leftists with a mic right now. Most leftists do not have Mamdani's skill, even if they match his politics.
I never said I had a solution. Wish I did. I just explained some FD specific vocab. Then, someone put on a pretty clear display of Online Left behavior by acting the fool, calling me names, confusing me with someone else, etc. Until I blocked them. Then you professed confusion about my meaning.
The more rando's suck up the attention, the less people are willing to listen to non-scary leftists, and the more they turn to comfortable, establish, and feckless Democrats. We need to account for that, to grow support for leftist policies. By not letting the randos control the conversation
Read it or don't. I was trying to answer your questions w/o further misunderstanding. If randos make Leftists look too scary, then Dems become the only "reasonable" vote by virtue of being in the middle. Oc, estab. dems are really just fascism lite, so a vote lost to a dem is ½ a vote for fascism.
They are the political equivalent of the "Black Republicans" that FD talked about in his last video. Way more of a thing in political discussion than they are IRL, precisely becuase they are a useful straw man that Rs and Ds can use to make leftist ideas look bad to voters who don't know better.
The online left is about dunking on folks, and generally acting a fool. They don't organize or community build, they alienate for clicks. They also garner the most attention becuase Rs and Ds like to use them as poster children for the flaws of leftist policy. These are the folks who talk too much.
Leftists online, are folks who happen to be online, and to be leftists. They tend to live their politics outside of the internet to the extent they can. They are about community building, social aide, etc. These are the folks that should be handed the microphone more.
For most Americans, "Leftist" = "Communist" = "Socialist" = "Anarchist". WE know those are different things, but most Americans don't. So when someone acts a fool and either claims to be one of these things, or is labeled as one by others, the ideas these words represent are lost in the noise.
I grew up KNOWING that Communism is Bad. Full stop. I never knew what it was, only that my culture said it was bad. After all, half the movies I saw were about the US defeating Communism. OC, the communism of leftist writings, & the communism of USSR are not the same , but most don't know that
No, that is not what I am saying. Communists should advocate for communism. The unhinged thing doesn't make you want to be a Nazi, specifically, but it makes the left look just as unhinged as Nazis to those ignorant of what leftism actually means, because of a century of anti-left disinformation.
The net effect is to help scare less aware folks away from more extreme change that is needed. Which leads them to the establishment Dems, who's whole shtick is "we are not extreme, we are the adults in the room". Which is BS, but it works.
Rs don't follow, but they do bring up the more ridiculous examples of what the "online left" say and go "see, this is what THEY are advocating for! How can you be so dumb" when talking with less leftist folks who are flirting with leftist ideas. Rs don't care about looking dumb, but most ppl do.
See also youtu.be/GtWA3jQN1Pg?...
I was a R in the 90s, and you are not wrong. As I’ve move left, both parties have moved even faster to the right. Now both of them are to the right of me, and the gap is widening.
There you go, building that consensus you need to achieve your goals.
So you’re just a troll. Looking to make problem angry because you are angry. Got it.
You do realize that all of BSKY is not just one person arguing with you, right? You are responding to shit I never said or did, and then calling people names. Why are so acting like a dick for no reason? Do you have someone you could talk to about your anger with strangers online?
Show me rooting for someone. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
I did not talk about your hot takes at all. I pointed out that FD makes a rhetorical separation between “online left” and “leftists online”. I don’t know who it is you feel you need to be fighting with, it it’s not me. Now go touch grass, please.
And bad/dangerously stupid people get to vote. To be clear, I’m almost as pissed with establishment Dems as I am maga republicans. But at the same time, people I know have basically used shod said by the online left to justify their votes for folks who will do nothing to stop the fascist slide.
The online left does have an impact. By being so dumb in their hot takes and dog piling, they make leftism look crazy, and validate the “find a middle ground (with fascists)” approach of establishment Dems. They are a boogie man that Rs and Ds use to reinforce “do nothing” policies
FD makes a distinction between “leftists online” and “the online left”. I believe the op is describing the later (whom FD has no patience for) whereas op themself is the former.
Once again, a soft peddling headline. This move does not have “little” to do with national security, it has “Nothing” to do with national security. It is about giving a boon to a political supporter. Nothing more, nothing less.
Can we stop using soft language like “trampling legal norms” when we are describing “blatantly breaking the fucking law”, please. Soft pedaling the headline only empowers him.
The other day CNN's Scott Jennings tried to admonish MN. Mayor Jacob Frey,and did so on National TV and social media. We all know who exactly Jennings is and the cruelty he stands for. Feel free to pass this message from the good Father on to him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQj...
A man just proposed rounding up all trans folks and putting them in cages because 1 shooter was trans, and you want me to love that guy? Fuck him, fuck you, fuck your worthless platitudes. Hate mongers are going to reap what they sow. and your soft-headed "can't we all get along" stick is asinine
Certainly feels that way from where I'm sitting. Conservatives used to bitch that the government was inefficient. Now so-called conservatives are converting it from inefficient, but beneficial to efficiently harmful. Not the improvement anyone elected them for.
As a constituent of @corybooker.com, this sums up my feelings PRECISELY. Cory talks a good game, but then votes to support Israel, crypto-corruption, and other shit his constituents opposed on the sly. Someone ACTUALLY progressive needs to run against him in the primary.
Flags do not have feelings, but children do. And yet Trump is more interested in protecting the flag than he is in protecting children praying at their catholic school. Remind me again why Christians are so supportive of this asshole? www.youtube.com/watch?v=btKe...
Let the man cook. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Senator Booker, is that you?
I voted for McCain, but WTF does this have to do with the price of eggs? This “why can’t we all just get along” BS is fucking asinine. They are dismantling democracy, not calling you names. You can’t fight fascism with politeness. Get off you sinecured ass and FIGHT BACK you fucking half wit.
Sounds to me like she was trying to play both sides and got burned. Refused to say if she would comply with RFK, in order to get the Republican support needed to be confirmed, but then objected to his shit after she got the job. Either way, she’ll be replaced by someone worse. It’s always worse
Best news I’ve received all day. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Trump is a pedophile. This is a known fact, from past lawsuits involving his good friend Epstein. Everyone supporting trump is supporting someone who forced sexual servitude of a 13 year old.
fucking hell! why does it matter to these douches whether or not their are dicks attached to the bodies of a shooters victims? The solution is not "more male aggression in schools", but in effective gun control and mental health for all.
I have never, and will never, give a shit about a corporate logo. particularly when the only reason any one else gives a shit is because a corporate raider is trying to depress the stock price of a company he has been trying (and failing) to buy for a while so that he can fuck over its employees.
Depends on what you mean by “We” If you mean democrats, maybe not. If you mean the average American, then you are just lying to yourself (and us), and engaging in good old American Exceptionalism. We (collectively) elected Trump knowing full well what he was going to do. This IS who we are
Perfect dismantling of "crime" as a pretext for ICE's behavior. www.youtube.com/shorts/jdNU0...
No, you took what a lying liar said, at face value, then attempted to correct those of us who knew better, using his lies as the proof text. Liberal/Conservative/fascist does not even come into what happened. Then, when you recd push back, you jumped straight to generalizations and attacks.
Yes, it IS an insane thing to claim, and it is being claimed by a habitual liar, which begs the question… why are you believing him? It is in exchange for an injection of cash, by freeing up already allocated grants that trump was refusing to dispurse. His claims are worthless as evidence.
defector.com/james-dobson... One hell of an obituary for one hell of a horrible human being.
And you believe THIS guy is a reliable source for anything? These shares were extorted in exchange for the Trump admin unfreezing funds that the government has already granted to them under another program.
Sell, in exchange for injections of tax payer cash that USED to be spent on things us poors needed, and now is available thanks to DOGE.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Does this mean the bubble will finally pop?
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Better yet, stop using Google at all. That you have to opt out of AI at all is the problem.
@fdsignifier.bsky.social - made me think of your videos on black capitalists, and Kap himself.
Trump needs a crisis to justify his march towards dictatorship. If one is not provided to him, he will create one. California burning serves 2 goals of this administration. Punishing liberals, and creating a crisis.
I feel you. I’ve been gardening like my life depends on being able to grow cayenne peppers, and to make pickles. The problem is, they don’t go away when we are not paying attention, and making us feel overwhelmed when we do tune back in is an explicit strategy of theirs (shock and awe).
What energy is not expensive to set up?
Looks like Google is copying @kagi.com now
Maybe, just maybe, voters who see their will over turned should stop voting for the politicians who overturn their will. Crazy idea, I know, but I think it might work.
If you listen to audiobooks from Audible. You should be aware of how they are screwing over the authors you love, and using your choices to justify it. chng.it/XYDTYkkCF4
I don’t know what the word “feel” is doing in that sentence, beyond indicating that they have been so throughly gaslit, that they doubt their own lived experience. They ARE being cheated. Feelings have nothing to do with it.
Rather sell out to big money, than actually talk to their constituents to find out what we want from them. Neither party is actually interested in democracy anymore.
It is straight up class warfare. Billionaires looking out for each other, at the expense of everyone else. Which is the best argument FOR socialism possible.
I literally laughed our loud to this one.
I watched it. The first half of season 2 was solid. Second half, not so much. Is a shame that gaimans fall had to pull this down with him. A lot of good people clearly worked very hard on this. One of the more faithful comic adaptations i have seen, which shows the team cared about doing it well
I was under the impression that we had a USDA/APHIS program for decades fighting this, and that Trump killed it.
It’s nice that the “needs to be primarried caucus” took the time to take a group photo so that we can all know who, in fact, needs to be primaried.
I enjoyed this comic so much!! I was part of the kickstarter for the TTRPG book. even though I’ve yet to find people to play it with me, I’ll to ably pick up the QuickStart as well.
Had a good chuckle reading these names out loud with my son.
Yea, taxes on those who have to spend every penny they make surviving, which means they hit poor people more than rich people. Tariffs are a REgressive income tax. You pay more, the less you make.
Just like you put loyalty to crypto bros before your constituents when you voted to legalize crypto-based bribery.
pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/t... There is far more consensus than we realize.
Remember when he told share holders to get out of his stock if they did not like apples position on a social issue? That man and this one can hardly be the same man. Fucking he’ll. Someone send him a copy of “On Tyranny”.
That is the thing. It is NOT his unstated goal. It is his EXPLICITLY stated goal, that was temporarily denied during his confirmation hearings. But this goal was never an actual secret.
Was thinking something similar. AI does not understand anything beyond word order probability. The appearance of understanding is due entirely to how easy it is to fool us, the reader, into conflating a “logically sounding string of sentences” with “understanding”.
Do it! Been using Kagi for over a year now. No complaints. I occasionally find myself using Google when on a public terminal to someone else’s machine, and it is jarring how much crap they make you wade through before getting to the bits that you want. Of course I’m an irascible old man, ymmv
What is the income that would put you into the 14th percentile? That is now the cut off for being middle class.
He is already the single largest shareholder in the company. If he is not focused on Tesla already, more shares will not change that. His personal brand is destroying teslas brand. How is keeping him CEO not malfeasance by the board? If teslas shareholders were smart they would vote out the board
What about being bought by crypto? You seem ok with that. Why? Is the problem who’s ding the buying, or that anyone is being bought. I think you and I (and most of your other constituents) have different answers to that question.
These two articles came up in my rss feed sequentially. The stark reminder that we as a society prefer to put millions in the hands of a few individual over spending that benefits everyone, because… bigotry.
This is the crossover my feed needed.
Just illustrates in dinner detail that it’s about race. If she were black or Latino, she’d have been cuffed herself on trumped up charges, just to prove that they are in control. They let her do that because she’s white, and their kidnapping victim is not.
We need meaningful opposition, not republican-lite. They stoped being the former in order to put Clinton in the white house, and have helped facilitate the Overton shift rightward. They either become the later, or the accept their fate as puppets for the fascist right. There is no third option.
He’s lucky, honestly. There was a time in this country when we shot fascist on sight. Losing his job is getting off easy. Hopefully other edgelord fascist learn from his experience.
it is illegal in the way that certain towns have laws against smiling while walking down the street. there are words on paper to that effect, but lack of enforcement has rendered those words and that paper meaningless.
Now do Trump.
Is it though? He is president again, he is pulling in billions of dollars in bribes, destroying democracy, and getting his actions rubber stamped by congress and the courts. He never needs to run again, so wtf does he care what his base thinks of him?
science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/... I have done regulatory work. It is slow, frustrating, and expensive. But that is because the priority is to get it right. Having an AI accelerate the process, and the expense of getting it WRONG, is not an acceptable trade off. This WILL kill people eventually.
Admitting the truth means you can’t pretend to be surprised later. That disingenuous surprise is key to the con that the “liberal media” is, in-fact, liberal. As opposed to being as much of a a tool for the wealthy as the political apparatus of this country.
They *want* to believe it, so they will.
“Idiot” is unfair. Being an idiot is there some extent beyond one’s control. Often Because of innate deficiencies. I have compassion for well meaning idiots Carr is capable of understanding why his positions are a problem, he’s just too heartless to care. That makes him an asshole, not an idiot.
Almost right. There should also be a line extending that immunity to Trump's attorney as well. Alan Dershowitz is a fellow frequent flier on the lolita express.
From the highlight reel, it’s clear many of them came to the table with one debating tactic, and did not know how to react if their gimmick did not work. Too used to debating randos, and never having gone up against someone who could bring receipts.
This is the guy whose supporters expected him to release the Epstein list? How fucking stupid can you be?