We all have our hard lines, and I don’t fault yours.
However for the scrollers passing by, they have a lifetime membership of about ~$45 USD. I found it worth it. It was super easy to get used to, and I honestly can’t stand any other launcher now.
I like it a lot and would hate to see it die out, so it was easy to justify for me.
I think you’re confusing cause and effect. Pensions have been done for a while before people really embrace jumping ship constantly because it’s the only way to grow your wage.
If I was offered a pension, I’d be way less likely to jump ship every 3-4 years because management assholes only ever give a COLA 1-2% over inflation.
While that’s correct, I think you’re ignoring how much sway a figurehead can hold.
Also it’s important to keep in mind, that the childfucker-in-chief may just classify the committee as political appointees and fire them (See Project 2025 and Schedule F). Legality doesn’t matter.
He wrote an executive order clearly in violation of the Constitution to remove birthright citizenship, and the Supreme Court said “the real unconstitutionality is nationwide blocks.”
But…that’s the point. That’s why it’s brought up. It’s to show the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of their position.
Yes. People need to get out and fucking vote. Anything less than 80% participation in a presidential election is shameful.
But you need to do some background I think. California 22 might be “only” 3k, but it was 53%-47% in 2024. It’s also voted Republican since 2002 (1) The real headfuck about CA-22 is how it’s 73% Hispanic and reliably red.
Same shit with CA-3. “Only 24,000 votes” - they won that district by ten bloody points 55%-45%. There were 400,000 votes in the district. Thought it’s a little more purple. (2)
Also, your numbers are off compared to wiki. Not sure where the discrepancy is but CA-22 and CA-3 were lost by 11,000 and 46,000 respectively.
I think you’re underestimating how much he has ruined this company and his reputation. I dreamt of owning a Tesla long ago. Now, there is nothing he can do that will make me reconsider purchasing a Tesla.
Even if he leaves the company, I will not buy one. Even if he fully divests from Tesla, I will not buy one.
Wasn’t gonna reply again, but I want to clarify. By they I meant OP because I wanted to be gender neutral. I have no way of knowing OPs mind.
They (Republicans and others), as I assume you’re referring to, want to erase trans people - 100%. I don’t extend that assumption to specific people.
I’m loath to commit the ecological fallacy by using population data to infer something about an individual.
Maybe I am being too generous, but from everything I see now people are not generous enough. It’s a random person on the internet for crying out loud. Who knows if they’re even real. Maybe they are. Maybe they do want to erase trans people. I’ll never know. And honestly. Who cares? Their opinion only really matters if they’re in your advocacy group.
I guess my point ultimately is Americans (as a whole) don’t fucking care about marginalized people. Democracy’s security wasn’t even in the top 5! So if they can’t be arsed to care about the dissolution of a representative government what makes you think you’ll get the support you need on a national level?
That’s why I love capitalizing on state’s rights. We did it in 2004 with same sex marriage in California. It forced every state to recognize the unions. Things were set back with prop 8. Yes. But change comes from the states.
So to me it’s a sound strategy - when going for national level attention focus on things that have broad national appeal. God. I crave a DNC leader with some actual fucking vision for a change. Someone that will take the billions in national fundraising money and shove it down to the local level and build activist groups.
But you’re also very, very right. Research into understanding how to even help them and how effective it is being mothballed. Scrutinized. Censored. I can’t fathom their terror as they’re being scapegoated and erased. I guess that’s our beliefs diverge. Sectioning fights between local and national stages isn’t leaving people behind to me - it’s how to support them, but that’s why I talk. To think. So, thank you.💖
I don’t think that having an effective strategy with a small set of demands focused on American’s top concerns right now, immigration, cost of living, & inflation, doesn’t mean we leave anyone behind. we still bring them with us.
We champion nationally on broadly popular pain points. We mobilize locally on protecting our friends. Use the protests and activism to identify, young, future political leaders. Bring them up through the city council. Bring them up to the Mayorship. Governorship.
I can’t fathom a world where Republican politicians will ever say “yeah okay were wrong trans people have rights - our bad”. Ever. We have to force them, but we don’t have that power. We don’t have the power for a segregation-like showdown. What supreme Court is going to uphold trans rights? Who’s going to call in the national guard? What do you propose we do in places that red senators live and breathe that makes them reconsider?
We have to get the red states involved - broadly. We need to need a general strike. We need unionization. We need to take back our power with collective action. We need to be an unstoppable phalanx of pain that will burn all the wealth and value they steal from us to the ground until we get what we want.
We need to have momentum and energy and excitement and a slate of candidates in 2026 that will stand up and FUCKING FIGHT. We need to replace the impotent, geriatric representatives we have with someone whose spine isn’t already bent.
The most impactful thing we can do to protect and help our brethren is to get power and give them their rightful seat. That starts locally. So fight with them. Fight for them. But have it be separate from the opposition to what is going on in D.C.
But what do I know. I’m not an organizer or an activist or a strategist. I’m as good as a 5 yr old. It just seems to me that true salvation will only come from running head first into states rights. Long term building of future leaders. National holiday election day, mandatory voting, and strong pushes to remove the cap on the house of representatives so that the voice of the people is just a little less distorted by money and land. That’s my victory.
I’ll give this one go just on the off chance you’re being genuine - since you seem to have some sense of rationality to your position.
You’re wrongly underweighting the damage that will get done while the courts correct things. Yes, eventually the courts would restore broadcasting licenses. But there’s appeal after appeal after appeal. That could kill the stations even if ultimately they’d win. And don’t say that the licenses couldn’t be revoked in the first place. They did it to fucking science funding. Funding mandated by Congress just stopped, and Congress did nothing. Sure it’s coming back now. Kind of.
We know how this plays out already. And we can’t even count on the courts. The supreme Court has shown a total disregard for their duty with some of their rulings.
Like the executive order on birthright citizenship. Before the supreme Court the government didn’t even argue the legality. They said nationwide blocking orders were the real problem. The Court agreed.
Or the use of race or language as a cause for ice detention. Blatantly against the forum amendment and the Supreme Court said it’s fine. They’re snatching US citizens for fucks sake.
This is all easily searchable. If you really care about being rational and reasoned, you’ll put in the effort. This isn’t people desperately trying to be wrong. These are people that have seen what is likely to happen. They’ve updated their priors more accurately than you.