So my dermatologist said that all chapsticks do is make your lips drier in the long run. She said simple petroleum jelly is better for you.

They are physically unable to jettison those people because they’re responsible for the majority of the funding.

That’s been the Democrats plan too

Lol these are the kinda conservatives we need.

The problem is the Democrats aren’t a real leftist party. I’m done waiting for the Democrats to finally disobey their oligarch masters and cater to their voters.

Denethor has a palantir which is part of the reason why he’s so paranoid and afraid, so technically he was on the “group chat”.

Just because it’s worse now doesn’t mean he did a good job

What exactly did he do? Did he not fund a genocide? Did he not force rail workers to not strike? Did he not keep saying the economy is good while homelessness and medical debt continued to get out of control?

Edit: all your down votes demonstrate why the Democrats lost the election. You can’t just ignore the voters and expect them to still vote for you.

The Democrats cut off their own arms when they rigged their own primary 3 elections in a row. They cut off their own arms when Chuck Schumer gave into everything the Republicans wanted without even negotiating. They cut off their own arm when they refused to do anything the progressives wanted.

They are owned by billionaires and the billionaires have decided they will keep the Democrats around so the voters see the imaginary choice.

2016 was an opportunity to change the direction of the country and they decided that business as usual was good enough and the electorate has been paying for it ever since.

Give yourself permission to be unproductive. Life is about more than busting your ass.

There’s a difference between being an engineer and being a physicist. One deepens our understanding of the universe and the other uses our understanding of physics to build products. One is clearly valued more by capitalism.

I’m trying. They are so close. Their whole brains are full of conspiracies of elites trying to destroy Western Civilization and they are so so close to class consciousness.

Lol I’m a leftist. If you want to be productive, you can’t push everyone out. You have to find common ground. Our society is breaking. Communism has plenty to offer most MAGA people. They just need to see it.

Society doesn’t prioritize knowledge for it’s own sake. It prioritizes making money. If society was different, more people could pursue hard sciences.

Ok but that’s a reductive view of human beings. Average MAGA folks are uneducated and propagandized, but they aren’t evil and viewing them as such feeds into the culture war.

You need to construct a vision of society that allows both to succeed. Everyone is struggling these days and you need to construct a society that values all people.

I’ve been reading Dune so I don’t have to read the news

I just throw my hands up and think “if I need to remember it, something will remind me, hopefully before it’s not too late”

Is the direction “into the gutter”?