Diva (she/her)

Imagine if the Democrats hadn’t supported the genocide every step of the way, they might have lost all 3 branches of government.

Duvet plays

Rules for life (abbreviated):

• Never go to a second location

• Always get the interior ministry post

• Never get in a helicopter

• If someone with a gun enters your car, they’re gonna kill you

• If someone tells you they’re not going to kill you, they’re calming you down to kill you later

• Never give up your nukes

America is not full of progressives.

No it is not and I’ll toss another example on there -

Gay marriage was only legalized nation wide by a bunch of unelected judges, and the second most-recent Democratic president “evolved” on the issue less than a decade ago.

US postures as the world’s defender of LGBT rights when it’s “bringing democracy” places, but it’s not great at doing that internally.

People who rent got hit twice as hard by inflation, I know I’m paying a significantly higher portion of my paycheck in rent vs 4 years ago.

The raw material cost increases which provide the cover/excuse for price gouging are the result of two different things the Harris/Biden admin participated in and had no real path towards solving.

One is the fact that the vast majority of ocean shipping is going around Africa rather than the red sea, due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza that the Biden admin has been bypassing Congress to continue arming.

Two is the cutting off of Russian oil, which resulted in ballooning costs in Europe.

Like it or not, Harris did not provide any answers on these two fronts that looked anything like a change in policy.

non-electoral organizing, at about that fraction of my week

I would recommend IRL organizing with people in your immediate surroundings beyond just federal electoral things every few years. On the order of 8-10 hours a week.

vibes, got it

She lost the popular vote, and swing states by more than all third party votes combined, I think I’m in the clear 💅

I just cast a vote for PSL, I had no idea I was so diabolical 😏

popular vote goes to Harris but Trump gets inaugurated because the supreme court ruled otherwise?

yes we need to derail the metaphorical train

from Wikipedia

Reversing the points under a moving train will almost always derail the train.

There’s no “derailing the train”.

from Wikipedia

Reversing the points under a moving train will almost always derail the train.

that argument doesn’t fit with one of the primary aspects of The Trolley Problem - it involves a runaway trolley. The obviously-preferred solution to “stop the trolley” isn’t an option, because stopping the trolley isn’t possible.

hold my blunt while I butcher this metaphor:

from Wikipedia

Reversing the points under a moving train will almost always derail the train.

I’ve seen you post good takes

that actually made me blush, you’re too kind!

I am super good at missing out the context before I reply to things in my inbox, didn’t mean to be curt with you

until next time 🫡

I’m glad we agree

I’ll make sure to file this away the next time I feel like bringing up the US’s active participation in genocide any time the US is the subject of conversation.

isn’t this whataboutism

I’ve been doing so since Iraq, even when Trump was in office they did the same shit