My contention is that most people don’t buy the exact same items every trip to the store, and adjust spending based on income, and substitute, and don’t remember down to the cent what they were paying years ago, and thus struggle to precisely detect price change over long periods
@ChiefTeef8
Also like
No state has the "right" to exist. That's simply not a thing. A state exists if it can enforce its sovereign boundaries and laws, through diplomacy or violence. "Right" has nothing to do with it.
@Keefer1958
@DanteAtkins
You're right, he should've just been like Trump and stopped meeting the caskets of fallen soldiers because one of their fathers yelled at him
@LinkofSunshine
It's like how the right wing gets to call Democratic areas crime-infested shitholes where you get murdered on every street corner but if you dare suggest rural areas are anything but True American with god and apple pie and honest salt of the earth you get raked over the coals
@krazgreinetz
The entire 2016 election was haunted by Hillary's email server - despite the Trump crowd going on to have far worse breaches of security.
How on earth can you call her the "media darling"?
@MarkPedoron
@Keefer1958
@DanteAtkins
1) I was referring to both of their conduct while in office
2) Trump wants to get back to office, therefore it is reasonable to compare his conduct
@opinonhaver
I've been watching a streamer play Another Crab's Treasure (aka Crab Souls). The whole conceit is that underwater denizens have built this whole society/economy based on trash that falls down from the surface. It's weirdly Cosmic Horror in its treatment of humans, which rules.
@PhilipBLee
@KatiePavlich
Tim Walz filed to run for office in February 2005, around the time his retirement papers were finalized (would have had to be turned in ~3 months before)
His unit did not get orders to deply until July 2005
So no, the timeline doesn't add up
@peterawolf
Sorry to be pedantic peter, but it's actually an *early* winter holiday break. Winter doesn't technically start until December 21!
Which is really weird!
@revhowardarson
I mean like is there a single member of any president's family of the last 40 years who would be more fun to party with?
maaaaaybe GWB's daughters
@Michael_Youhana
I have no idea what the Israeli settler war criminal parties have asked of Biden and not received, but the fact that Trump is the candidate of Ben Gvir, Smotrich etc is enough for me to oppose his reelection, because clearly *they* think there's a material distinction
@ChiefTeef8
A lot of lefty thought regards the rightful owner of the land as the penultimate conquerer and it's kind of weird
I've been so negatively polarized against the entire concept of "indigeneity"
@Is_Not_Brian
Wait, you think Trump's statement, which is telling Bibi to finish the war in gaza quickly - aka exterminating palestinians - is *better*?
You do know what "finish the job" means, right?
@chasrmartin
@lastpositivist
The single most moving passage in the book is Huck - who has grown up immersed in a society that tells him that slavery is morally correct and blessed by God - deciding that he's going to choose damnation and be evil if that's the price of helping rescue Jim
@thesonofbran
@libsoftiktok
The dude was literally angry that trans people were being accepted as per the screenshot Chaya tweeted that you are replying to
he was one of you
@AmePeryton
@Jackson61689330
It's literally religious/messianic. The Revolution is the Second Coming; everything magically gets better, the Evil People get what they deserve, and you don't have to lift a finger to make it happen.
@PenisGroan
@__Guntar__
@deepinthefryer
In the comic in question, this appears to be the person's own personal office, where they can display whatever they want about their own leanings - it is not a public place and they are not forcing a religion on anyone else
@Hamiltwan
I'm not sure if Will's more obnoxious haters are the leftists who feel the need to pretend that America is an impoverished hellhole ripe for revolution (instead of a rather prosperous nation) or the far rightists who desperately need the inflation angle to justify hating Biden
@JessLivMo
The fact that people conflate this with the Biden administration temporarily detaining unaccompanied minors to find them a sponsor or family member to stay with rather than letting them fend for themselves boils my blood.
@anarchobitch
No, this is just the lie you tell yourself to try to justify your complicity via inaction all in the name of keeping your lily-white hands clean
@Justalurke
@McKay4Senate
Please fucking find me the Democrat who's pardoning child rapists because their family donated to my campaign
The Dems aren't angels but the GOP is just cartoonishly evil at this point
@Zigmanfreud
@Heminator
Bush's FEMA didn't show up to New Orleans for like a fucking week, and it was being run by an unqualified crony. Biden's FEMA was in place the day before everything hit.
This is absurd
@ZombiePanther2
@LowIncomeWitch
@LittleMammith
@DanielW8080
"Fascism" is an ideology with a coherent definition and principles. It is not a synonym for "bad."
You can think this is bad. It is not "fascist."
Biden has repeatedly stood up for the rights of student protesters to protest, he just said antisemitic rhetoric was bad.
@Michael_Youhana
No, they're extremist ideologues.
This feels like you're just trying to dismiss the point which is that if there truly were no distinction between Biden and Trump (or Harris and Trump) on I/P, the settler parties wouldn't be so gung ho in their support for trump
@whstancil
It is bitterly funny that a guy named "austerity is theft" has no idea what the consequence of leftists going full in on the "inflation, therefore bad economy" train is
they're guaranteeing austerity in response to *any* economic hardship
@Michael_Youhana
I don't. I assume he understands Israeli politics better than we do, and believes there are things that Biden isn't willing to give them but Trump will.
It's not just BG. It's all of them. Not all of them are idiots. They all support Trump. Reason enough to oppose him.
@fairylilymyth
The report she's quoting says that the IDF killed at least 14 Israelis
Which like... yeah, that seems a reasonable number for a chaotic firefight? Not the "zomg the IDF murdered all 800" nonsense the worst Hamas propagandists post
@StatisticUrban
Five
Five Dollar
Five Dollar Footlong
never understimate the power of a catchy TV jingle/slogan
Shit I *still* remember some crappy 90s plastic toys because they had memorable commercials/songs
@isaiah_bb
..."Liberals prefer electoral solutions to illegal, extrajudicial ones. Why aren't they advocating for an illegal, extrajudicial solution?"
Seriously
@mplsmrcle
If you need to deliberately misrepresent his point in order to make your argument, it makes you look like you don't have one.
Neither of those are what he was saying. Why lie?
@revhowardarson
honestly like I definitely do not think that Joe dropping out was like 3D chess
but waiting until after the RNC to do it was definitely the right move. they've got nothing
@revhowardarson
...what's wrong with this response? It seems like he's agreeing with you re: reproductive health care in Idaho, and is feeling sorry for Spokane since it's going to be overwhelmed by refugees from Idaho.
I think you might be misreading it?
Also Will, I like ya, but you should know what happens when an account with 90k followers RTs an account with 400
Gonna mute this now so I don't spend all afternoon arguing with people
who am I, Will Stancil?
@ProgDirectorate
No, it is still the only moral choice in November. Anyone in a remotely competitive state who does not vote for Biden is prioritizing their egos over everything else.
How many preventable deaths is it worth to you to feel nice, warm and fuzzy about your vote?
@Aphasialista
@SwannMarcus89
Katrina, where Bush didn't have FEMA on site for a fucking week and it was being led by an unqualified crony of his, is very different from today, where FEMA was ready to go the day before the hurricane hit and it's being led by competent professionals
@rev_avocado
"It is not inherently antisemitic to be antizionist" has gotten looped into "Antizionism can never be antisemitic" and one of those statements is true but the other is not
@SpaghettiKozak
@skscartoon
Also, if Trump had shit himself live on stage, it would be the only thing people remembered, but would that have made him win?
@opinonhaver
They don't understand that their society is built on junk. The discovery that it's all trash literally drives people to madness. Meanwhile, humans continue polluting the ocean without a second thought.
It's really effective and I'd read/watch/play more works like this.
@Purity_Troll
@LittleMammith
@benigma2017
Correct. Pulling the lever on the trolley makes you complicit in running a person over.
But inaction is complicity, and failing to pull the lever makes you complicit in the greater harm you could have prevented but chose not to.
@AntifaVictim
@themandleman
Breyer resigned under Biden which is how we now have Jackson. The situation you are describing has happened exactly once, with RBG.
Sorry, did you think you were making a good point or something?
@trouble_man90
Well, you see, ah, hmmm
It will lead the people to start a revolution that will usher in a socialist golden age
No, don't wonder why that didn't happen last time, or what the odds are that the ideology that rises from the ash might not be utopian luxury space communism
@LowIncomeWitch
@ZombiePanther2
@LittleMammith
@DanielW8080
In what ways is Joe Biden a fascist, which is a reactionary ideology characterized by traditionalist gender roles, hostility to foreigners, authoritarian strongmanship, militaristic saber-rattling, repression of dissent, and an appeal to return to an imagined bygone "Golden Age"
@Michael_Youhana
Biden and Blinken and all of them are shit on I/P, but we have no idea what has gone down in private negotiations and what has been requested and denied, or what further support Trump has promised Bibi, and you can't just handwave/dismiss this with "they're idiots"
@AntifaVictim
@themandleman
This is an unimaginably stupid and inaccurate thing to say
Thomas and Alito are men in their mid-70s. They will almost certainly retire under a Trump presidency and might die under a Biden one. Do you want them replaced with liberals/progressives or 45 year old groypers
@michikoconuts
@romlib_
I have no idea what you're trying to say
the point is that the "lots of red, little blue" is irrelevant because most of the red is empty land and land doesn't vote, people do
@lm0y
@LittleMammith
1) That the system sucks does not absolve you of responsibility for your choices under said system. it is not a way to avoid accountability.
2) most of the alternatives you guys have proposed are not really better than "this monstrous system" unfortunately
@keatingssixth
And you want to give Trump the Oval Office again????
Sounds to me like you should work to get Ds elected since you feel much safer protesting them
@trying_my_best_
@LittleMammith
@n_hold
The left is small but non-negligible, the problem is a lot of what you want is extremely unpopular and so will cost votes elsewhere with larger groups of people
So you can either do the right thing or not get your blowjob
@ThePricklPrince
@DontBeDummm
@Oreocide
@soulkhan
I would accept being complicit in 50k deaths to save a future 100k
You would wash your hands of the matter and mourn the 150k
Nah, son. You can stop real people from dying by defeating Trump. Prioritizing your own clean hands is not moral, it's incredibly selfish.
@ShamebyJames
@LittleMammith
"Look at this poll that shows how unpopular Biden is, proving our criticism right!
Ignore that the same poll shows a fundamentally reactionary electorate mad about inflation and immigration, and if it's mad about I/P it's because Biden isn't supporting Israel enough"
@LinkofSunshine
actually just statistical error. Felon Doland, who lives in a cave and commits 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
@prchovanec
If you died tomorrow and were given the choice to be reincarnated:
a) you get to choose where and when in human history
b) you DON'T get to choose your race, sex, sexuality, etc
you'd be an idiot to choose anything too far from "the US, modern day"
@Captain_Fubar
There was some insane lady I was talking to here the other day who was pro-Assad while mourning the dead in gaza
it's like bitch, do dead palestinians only matter when it's jews who did the killing?
@JoaquinMar67151
@enby__ash
@ACTBrigitte
Who cares if it was racist or not? It was a bad flag. "Seal on a blue bedsheet" is the worst type of state flag, and the more states that go away from them for actual interesting designs the better
@ShamebyJames
You even specifically said "political problem," as though part of the problem for Biden isn't that a good part of the swing electorate he needs to win over would be just as happy with Gaza turned into a parking lot, and doing good things like blocking weapons shipments *hurt* him
@stacycay
The GOP is just profoundly evil. Like they're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Dems are better, it's not close, and I'm sick of pretending otherwise.
@heaven4life69
@ervin_pa
@BamFromDatSouf
I see videos of Biden spending 10-15 minutes of his day talking with kids with stutters like him and encouraging them
Trump would never have 1/100th of the empathy and kindness biden shows
a perfect man? perfect potus? No. But the gulf between them is night and day
@trying_my_best_
@LittleMammith
@n_hold
and btw the answer to the inevitable followup "so how do we get what we want" is "you need to persuade others and make your positions less unpopular, which means working with liberals and others you find ideologically impure since you are a very small minority"
@Hamiltwan
Like obviously the far-right assholes are worse people but idk for some reason the leftist approach here annoys me more
I guess it's because nobody expects honesty or intellectual integrity from the far right but the left occasionally tries to be evidence-based? idk
@LauraMiers
@TheMcKenziest
Okay.
What does this have to do with Israel or Ukraine? Do you think the FEMA budget comes from our defense contracts? Shouldn't your anger be directed at the House of Represenatives, who control the budget?
This is all so goddamn *dumb* and not how anything works
@robnoerr
This case was not actually corrupt and it's good that a criminal who went through life committing crimes is finally getting consequences
it's true that this was the least important of his trials but the others are being held up by his crooked crony judges so, oh well
@treef1ngers7
@LittleMammith
Incorrect. Biden was the most progressive president of our lifetimes, mainly because the left demonstrated that going left is political poison with no benefit
@SwannMarcus89
His addict son *WHO WAS THE ONLY SURVIVING CHILD FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE* no less
like, the Bidens have had *immense* personal tragedy. Hunter's life is like a fucking shakesperean drama