Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

You can't maintain unity if nobody ever pays for fuckups. Forgiveness without contrition or recompense is license.

I can divide my friend group's beliefs on the shutdown into four groups at this point: 1) Friends who I agree with 2) Friends who I disagree with 3) Friends who don't follow politics 4) Friends who I disagree with and who repeatedly told me to kill myself if I don't believe in the Democratic Party

Have contempt for voters all you want, but every day shows us more and more why voters were right not to buy Democratic messaging about how they were the only ones who could stop fascism. The average person can often sniff out insincerity, and it disgusts them.

We're well past "one death is a tragedy" and into "a million deaths is a statistic." We've been there since January. If you're not willing to make hard choices by spreadsheet, you're not up to the moment.

Our only hope is that the Republicans are more dumb than the Democrats are corrupt.

Morale is actually important. No parliamentary trickery, no amount of court cases, no party platform, will save a leadership cadre that is despised and mistrusted by those they rely to do the lifting.

No see, this way all that suffering was clearly forced on them to drive turnout, not to save the country. The elections are over, they won. Time to get the Trump economy limping forward again and make it so private jets can take off from airports. Fuck you, poor people.

Primaries? Yeah, that'll do it.

Come now. Were you expecting the Democrats to hold the line for long? It's been a week, which is honestly longer than I expected. They aren't going to lead us out of this. We need new leaders, and we sure as hell won't find them in that party.

We're about three weeks from seeing the first guys strung up, so of course now is when the surrender caucus decides to surrender.

Logging on to the site where the discourse is dominated by people born rich, trying not to get mad at the people who were born rich and can't conceive of another way to live.

A long game of remember some guys at a birthday party? Hell yeah, sign me up.

Leadership is a lifestyle and a practice. Leadership is service. Leadership is “Come with me!” and “I got you!” far more often than it is “Follow me!” or, especially, “Look at me!” We the People know this, but some chose to f*** around. Now we’re finding out.

It is deeply depressing to think that, with the new Blood Bowl rules coming out, I've kinda just lost the desire to keep playing. A bunch of okay teams and bad teams got gutted, and the best teams either were lightly dinged, untouched, or outright boosted. It sucks to see GW ruin something I like.

Hard disagree.

Keep in mind that the numbers are likely more in favor of violence than it shows here, because a lot of people are smart enough to say no when asked a question about that, regardless of their thoughts.

A trillionaire. We have a trillionaire. Yeah, liberalism is working out great. The market is truly the greatest arbiter.

Grok was not entirely correct, Grim was also not correct, and the most pathetic thing is that Grim actually cares what Grok says about history. It's being built as a propaganda bot, man. If Grok agreed with me on a question regarding political history, I'd be nervous.

All things made by man, no matter how ubiquitous, no matter how cheap to produce by the piece, no matter how insignificant, is the product of human labor and ingenuity. Everything has a cost, and that cost must be borne by someone, or a group of people. It's an iron law that no creation is free.

Having a discussion with friends about politics, and I think DSA would love me as a mayor. Riiiiight up until they didn't.

If you think about it, their only crime was building substandard, slipped products that result in innocent people dying horribly in order to save money and increase their share prices. Is that so wrong?

An economy built on AI and crypto is going to collapse horribly one way or another. Best to excise the parasites relatively early, and work on saving the people whose only crime was living in a country where trillions were set alight for such stupid boondoggles.

Yes. Correct. This is what has to happen for things to have any chance of getting better.

The gig: get the loot in the old abandoned vehicle in the center. The crew: a collection of fly mercenaries led by a veteran of the last war, augmented by a group of thuggish mushroom gangers, led by a mystically gifted mutant mushroom, they picked up during their travels.

A commercial played where the old dad character was listening to "Shine", and I was like "what a weird song for him to listen to, it's not that old." It's 31 years old. Dear god.

One of the reasons why Hue turned into such a nightmare battle is that a lot of those communist workers were suddenly no longer out living in the jungle, but in an environment they grew up in. Urban born American troops had the same thing. Suddenly, they were somewhere they understood better.

Looking to start building up a Napoleonic force, so I'll need some French. As much as I'd like to do Spanish as opposition, I just don't think I'm cruel enough to do it. And I'm not doing British, because fuck popular history and its non-stop glazing of Wellington.

Seemingly is doing one heck of a lift here. It's unaccountable billionaires against unaccountable People's Billionaires™️.

Bilbo: after all, why jot? Why shouldn't I keep it? The ring: thats so true, you deserve the power! You've kept it safe for so long and the others would just bring it closer to mordor? Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Man, I wish. But a win is a win.

Well. Tonight is a good night.

Might be that Harris' campaign was bad, and people were also not appropriately mad at Trump.

i could send you peer reviewed journal studies on the impact of free meals on academic performance and the diminution of chronic absenteeism but for right now i’m just going to say fuck yeah colorado, good job gang.

I don't believe in an afterlife, but if I'm wrong, Dick Cheney will once again see all the people from this administration.

I would ask what things he thinks the right is correct about, but we all know what things.

Everyone taking this quiz getting all kinds of different options, and here I am, just holding the winning hand.

A big part of actually building up a country that has been oppressed from the outside is not just getting a government in charge that wants to develop the country, but ejecting those who are still on the side of the oppressor from government, the country, and even existence, depending on the person.

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I dunno. Maybe a lot of people did, but I remember a small group of us that were pretty worried after the results of 1/6. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I feel like I've been in a constant state of concern for a decade at this point.

I legitimately don't see the advantage to associating your campaign with Jeremy Corbyn.

This is an exceptional article, and I highly recommend you take the time to read it.

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Biden was still the best candidate Democrats could run. You can't run away from your record as the incumbent party, so you have to run on accomplishments. The fact that there were so few accomplishments was unfortunate, but that's too bad. You have to try it. The last second removal? Not enough.

The actual lower classes are a lot less bigoted and uneducated than the comfortable and wealthy people who are coded as being lower-class. Mostly because American class politics in media are completely divorced from money and power, and are instead based on gender and education.

He is physically brave, and he knows how to boost morale in the moment, but it's becoming more and more clear that either Zelensky is not the man for the job, or that Ukrainians need to purge the upper classes of their country. Because at the current trajectory, they lose.

This is the end result of maneuver as the god button of war. Everyone at the top level is obsessed with every little detail, robbing their lower-level commanders of any initiative at all, rather than with logistics and strategy, because those aren't *maneuver*. They're boring paperwork.