Why are Democrats forcing this agony on people? People are just dying for the Democrats to give them a reason to support them.

Mustard Tiger

Here’s my surprised face 😐

Old people crew checking in to shout out Tux Racer!

Lina Khan is the most useful bureaucrat in at least a generation.

Yeah it’s a funny sign but ultimately useless. People who have lived through the last nearly decade dominated by Trump who still aren’t voting are either so disengaged that they just don’t see fighting Trump as an existential crisis or (and this is a much smaller group) see the system as so inherently fucked that they’re just not partaking in it.

But maybe nobody cares for analysis ruining a perfectly funny lawn sign.

(Disclaimer: these are just my thoughts on non voters, not my own position. I will be voting, and not for a racist, rapist, fascist)

“killed in surprise encounter” Makes it sound like he walked around a corner, saw them, and had a heart attack.

It’s been debunked multiple times over the last quarter century. Every time people kinda forget because it feels like recycling should be a good thing, and everyone just goes back to pretending it is. ☹️

How is this real life?

Well, at least now the cops are fully equipped to go into those schools and body slam 14-year-olds for using the F word.

No doubt. All I can hope for is more tech companies get the kind of backlash Unity saw when they decided to screw everyone over.

Same reason lots of us moved here from Reddit.

Because Enshittification

The 2022 Qatar World Cup was built largely by slaves, hundreds of whom died in the process. Nobody held them to account, so why wouldn’t they go to MBS’s Saudi Arabia?

Sigh, yet another enshittified service to cancel.

Any thing that would undermine the 2-party system will be blocked by the 2 parties. No surprise there.

One more year of dual-booting should be plenty of time to ween off the Windows teat.

Still own mine… It failed because Sega was terrible at marketing their consoles.

Sega Master System, Sega CD, Game Gear, and Dreamcast were all better than their competitors when they came out, but they were all pretty big flops comparatively.

When Mozilla reviewed cars for privacy, they all failed… But only Nissan had TOS that said they’d monitor and sell your sex data.

In the word of Catherine Zeta Jones, “they had it comin”

The future is stupid, we were promised jetpacks, not planned obsolescence mobility devices.

You’re right that Stein would have very little support in Congress if she won, but that’s not in the realm of possibility, but to say that lower office runs would do better as independents misses some of the peculiarities of the American electoral system:

• Elections in the United States are longer, more burdened with minutiae and uniquely expensive compared to other democracies. Without the organizational support of a 3rd party (mostly libertarian and green parties in the US as others lack numbers and resources), candidates struggle to even get ballot access for lack of money and volunteers getting signatures and clearing regulatory steps
• Speaking of regulatory hurdles, running a presidential candidate every four years in enough states maintains ballot access for down-ticket races

So you’re right that independent runs wouldn’t have the baggage that comes with third party association, but you’re missing that there are very real benefits to that association.

Of course, if we had public campaign financing and rank choice voting, working class voters could unite and not be divided against one another… Almost like it’s that way by design 🤷‍♂️