This is the kind of gang violence I can get behind

Are you planning on removing the molten batteries from the truck? Something tells me burying* the whole truck is the easier and safer course of action.

Because suffering and fear is the point

Apparently Floridians didn’t have the right to not be hit by a car for exercising their first amendment rights

Same, though the nice thing about being in a (largish) polycule is that someone gets tested every few months

That’s only because they don’t have the religious law in place yet.

Lol, you don’t have to be celibate to be willfully childless. I have plenty of friends that got the snip/knot before having a kid because they don’t want one. And they are some of the sluttiest motherfuckers I know (and they’d take that as the compliment it was).

Anybody have a TLDR for people who have been blissfully unaware of the Space Karen vs Twitler slap fight?

I would say I’m baffled at how her supporters could think she was a decent politician when she doesn’t even proofread the bills she votes on and votes against her own opinions regularly.

But then I remember that I could just stop the previous paragraph at ‘think’ and have my answer as to why.

Thanks, I might take you up on that. I managed to get lovey to load, but smods refuses to even show in the main menu. Got the mods in the designated folder, but nothing.

I’ve installed Bazzite, and I’ll be making that my daily driver once I finish my documentation (and figure out how to get balatro mods to actually load -.-)

Man, I’ve stopped following politics in Iowa since I left that shit hole after trump won the first time, and I hate going back. I feel bad for my wife’s family who are stuck there and can’t afford to move, but no way in fuck would I stay there for anything longer than a long weekend.

Turdstache really fucked over the state, and it amazed me just how quickly the people dropped the mask and turned into the stereotypical hateful redneck goon people think of when thinking of backwoods Midwest.

Oh wow, who could have foreseen the Gestapo would undermine public safety? Anyone with 3 functioning braincells?

Now they don’t even have the personnel to do anything about it, assuming they find it this time at all.

Womp womp.

The only sympathy I have is for the overworked employees.

he exposed that under a determined enough man with enough popular support behind him

Well good news, he’s not actually that popular. I’m baffled that he’s still got an aggregate 47% approval rating, but even faux news’ poll has him down to 44% and he was only above 50% in poling for less than a 2 weeks after he came into office.

And that’s all before the most recent news about the medicare/medicaid slashing. And ahead of the coming wave of layoffs due to the economy slowing down. The policies he’s trying to enact are going to (slowly) erode what support he still has as his base realizes just how fucked they are.

How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?

I don’t know, short of trying to show people the errors of their ways in tacitly supporting a fascist. But what other options do we have? Lie to them and say “it’s totally not your fault that trump was elected, even though you chose not to put forth the bare minimum effort to stop him”? I get that electoral politics isn’t enough (and we all need to be out in the streets doing what we can to resist), but I’m tired of pretending that the third of the country that’s checked out of politics isn’t also responsible for the people that get elected while they chose to abdicate their responsibility as a member of the voting public.

If this was your neighbors dog is shitting in your yard and not cleaning it up, would you blame the neighbor for their choice (leaving shit in your yard you have to deal with because they couldn’t be bothered to pick it up) and try to help them see the error of their ways, or would you ignore the shit entirely and hope they do better next time?

I don’t care whether you think it’s right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.

Turning your question around, how does ignoring the culpability of nonvoters in election outcomes improve the system? Do you think we’ll see an improvement in turnout if we ignore that republicans only win through voter suppression and don’t point out that encouraging not voting is one of their preferred strategies?

Increased participation is one of the best ways we can get out of this hole, and I’m really tired of people supposedly in my side constantly getting own goals with this kind of rhetoric.

That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system.

Or, you know, I’m being realistic about how things work in the real world. Or do you think that letting the fascists win is going to change the system for the better?

Whether or not you think its ‘oligarchy apologetics bullshit’, 2/3 of voting the population either explicitly or tacitly supported this shit. So yeah, I’m going to blame the majority for the outcome of a majority vote. Ignoring that fact is just going to make getting any meaningful change that much harder, and its hilarious to watch people justify their inaction in the face of the result of their choice.

Republicans have long lied about people not showing up to immigration hearings, and now they’re doing their best to give people a fantastic reason to not show up.

That’s because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.