knightly the Sneptaur

This meme is entirely accurate.

Minor point, these staffers resigned from the USDS after it was renamed to DOGE. The institution has already been replaced.

“Accelerationism” is the only viable “ism” when the government is designed to be responsive to the needs of the money rather than those of the people and the media is nothing but propaganda for the obscenely wealthy.

There’s no way to fix the system from the inside. The only way out is through.

Counterpoint:

Lets see, 80 visible cars and only one of them is blue.

Given that blue cars make up about 8% of those on the road, the odds of a random assortment of 80 having only 1 blue car is about 5/32, or just a bit under 16%.

So, unlikely, but not notably so. Given that there are about 140 million cars in use in the US, if we grouped them all into random sets of 80 cars we’d expect to get 265,500 sets with 1 blue car.

If you’re on Android, grab PipePipe from the F-droid store. That’ll handle the mobile use case and block ads and skip sponsored segments at the same time.

When it comes to music videos on youtube, it’s best to save a copy in case the video gets taken down in the future.

That exists as a product you can buy. They call them “Blast Diverters” or “Blast Projectors”:

This is an actual product:

They’re called “Blast Diverters” or “Blast Projectors”, and they’re technically a safety device that directs the sound waves from gunfire downrange, reducing the impact on the user’s ears without falling afoul of the restrictions on suppressors.

The Democrats haven’t run a primary since 2008.

He’s not wrong, though. Democrats would have won the election if they focused on doing good things instead of blaming their failures on the voters and feigning powerlessness.

It’s not a distraction, it’s the one thing these assholes actually believe in; Power.

What’s the size of a government that supplies precisely zero of my needs yet is still powerfull enough to take everything?

Poor Gene especially.

He’s got great tits and should be proud of that.

I still vote, but I gave up on the idea that we will be allowed to vote our way out of the descent into Fascism roughly 25 years ago.

If the election system requires tactical voting then it isn’t a democracy.

Imagine being a Democracy and deliberately running an unpopular campaign so the financiers keep the money spigot on.

I’m trans, and my perspective is that pronouns are a useful social signal. I prefer to let people call me whatever they want because the word they choose reveals how they see me, but I still have my pronouns in my email signature because some people are kind enough to put other people’s feelings before their own assumptions and would have to ask for it if the info weren’t available.

It’s not a matter of power, it’s a matter of social friction and the concessions we all make so that we can work together smoothly.

Whether or not we see elections again isn’t really important. The important part is the organization we’ll need to get as many people as possible through the years ahead.

Move forward? Do you not understand how fucked we are?

I’ve known how fucked we are since Bush v. Gore proved that American Democracy has always been a sham. Trump is nothing new, just an escalation of a trend that started in the 70’s.

It’s gonna take nothing less than a major miracle to not succumb to an inevitable string of back-to-back-to-back disasaters of all types.

Precisely. That’s why it’s so important that we stop playing the blame game and start getting organized.

No. We’re not moving forward with the people who got us here. With luck, we’ll survive.

That’s the hope, that we might all be able to build networks of mutual aid to get each other through the troubled times ahead.