Yeah, I agree. This article paints a bit of a different picture than the initial ones. Idgaf what dispute two of my neighbors are having with each other, if one of them is drumming and loudly singing late at night I’m calling in a noise complaint, god damn.

I’ll tell you what I’m not doing though:

1. Arson
2. Psychological torment leaving a pet skull in a burned home
3. Murder

Whoever killed Joss is fucked up, even if 1 and 2 aren’t actually true (barbecue inside…???). Regardless of how much of an ass Joss might have been as a neighbor.

It’s always been one of many reasons progressives stand apart from centrists, but are you really so tone-deaf that you can’t see why it might have become particularly relevant during Biden’s presidency?

And how, exactly, are the progressives supposed to do something when the Democratic Party puts more resources into beating down progressives than it does Republicans?

This comment betrays the absolute inhumanity of the Democratic Party. “Why do you give a shit about other humans, and why don’t you do something about it with the zero power we’ve allowed you to have?” What a horrific position to take.

I don’t know about you, but I wanted him to stop working when he was 74 and enjoy the rest of his life with his family like people should be allowed to do much younger than that, not start working again at 78.

I have absolutely no guilt over what happened at the tail end of his presidency, I tried to keep him from being in that position at all.

That’s not whataboutism. Whataboutism is using issue B to distract from issue A. I’m using another flavor of issue A that you might understand to illustrate issue A.

You said “leftists” (meaning me, derogatorily) strangely compare themselves to the Nazi party.

Let me say this again for the little on the back: you don’t define the left, the Democrats don’t define the left, you and the Democrats aren’t even left. I don’t care about the origin of the term in 1800s France, that’s completely irrelevant today. France is 5 governments away from that time.

I’m not a fan of Stalin or communism. So get the fuck out with your red scare bullshit. You’re the one who went on the attack here, so get your own self and house in order before you start telling others how they need to behave.

What are you even saying here? When did I use whataboutism? When did I compare myself to the Nazi party?

I am left of the Democratic Party on every issue. So if you’re saying I’m not left but the Democrats are, how does that square?

As a side note, it’s lovely when you start using your little subtle variations on names as a derogatory term. You know how petty and stupid it is when the Republicans say “Democrat Party” as some weird dig to emphasize the “rat” ending? Same energy with you and “leftist” which is a term I never used for myself and which is often used by Democrats derogatorily. I describe myself as left speaking of the left-right spectrum. If you want a political label for me call me a progressive, though even that isn’t the whole truth.

I did too after this comment.

I definitely was hoping Lemmy would be better than reddit for this but it’s the same neoliberals bullshitting that was rampant there. It’s exhausting.

The Republicans don’t call themselves Nazis, and yet they are the party of Nazis. Turns out you can’t trust a group’s self-applied label to accurately describe what they stand for in perpetuity.

Uh, no? The Democratic Party doesn’t define the left. The Democratic Party left the left. Here’s a bit right from Wikipedia.

The left seeks social justice through redistributive social and economic policies, while the right defends private property and capitalism. The nature of the conflict depends on existing social and political cleavages and on the level of economic development.

I haven’t seen the Democratic Party pay anything but lip service to the definition of the left in a long time. Neoliberalism, which is the party line right now, is a right wing ideology.

I don’t need you to share it, I need you to stop spouting bullshit blaming people who want something better.

So let me get this straight. Someone says

Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck

Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro

clearly blaming the past inaction of the Democratic Party for the state of affairs today, and you chime in with:

I hope you have the day you voted for

And go on to double down that you are blaming this person for fascism. And all of this is you not sewing discord or blaming the left? You know who I hate worse than sycophants? Sycophants who constantly lie to rile people up. I don’t care or believe who you voted for. You behaving like this only serves fascism.

Then stop blaming the left. You’re sewing discord and serving fascism. Hold the Democratic Party accountable for always doing the bare minimum they think they have to and nothing more. That’s what’s gotten us to where we are, not voters that are fed up with the bullshit.

Give the people something to vote for, don’t blame them when all of the options are evil. No more “lesser of two evils,” it’s clearly not working.

I hope you don’t, because yours is today. Maybe actually read my comment to see what day I voted for, jackass.

The line has always been used to silence and bully into coerced obedience the people who most wanted progressive change. The people who have been calling for the party of Fascism Lite to step up their game.

Let me speak plainly: unconditional support for the Democratic Party from people like you is the mechanism by which we’ve landed where we are today. You refused to hold your party accountable so they put Trump into a position to win 2016. And I mean that quite literally, they did everything they could to make sure he won the primary because they knew they were putting a loser candidate up.

So get off your fucking high horse. I blame you for where we are. And before you come at me: I voted for Bernie in the 2016 & 2020 primaries. I voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala in the generals. I’ve voted in the way that would maximize opposition to fascism at every step. My conscience is clean. You continue to spew insults to people to your left to blame them for your Party’s failures. I blame only people to my right who want to keep running in that direction.

If Ukraine wants a breather they can agree to it knowing they need to stay alert for the Russians to break it.

If Ukraine doesn’t want to play that game, they can just say “we’ll agree to a ceasefire when you leave Ukraine permanently” and carry on.

I think Jerboa was being pitched as the best RiF alternative super early on in the exodus. I also found myself on it but it never clicked for me.

I was on Connect for a while but there were some things that were a bit harder than they needed to be with different account/instance/filter management. Moved to Voyager and I’m quite happy with it, very smooth experience.

Yes, but it’s under inflation every year so real wages are still going down. Yet somehow the C-suite can afford to give themselves raises above inflation, even while grumbling about funding and cutting positions left and right. Weird how that works.

Oh good, I’m sure this will be covered in my annual “merit increase” that’s not called a Cost of Living Adjustment because it doesn’t actually adjust for cost of living.

So tired of this.

“Hey we’re the Washington Territory want to be a state. Can we be called Columbia like the Columbia River?”

“No, we’re the District of Columbia and that would be too confusing.”

“Uh, okay. How about just Washington then?”

“Sure. Also we’re gonna be calling ourselves Washington, DC now and we’re just gonna kinda drop the DC part.”

“Uh…”

100%. Reading the Bible cover to cover + learning about the history of how Judaism was born out of the polytheistic Yahwism and the resulting merge between Yahweh and the chief Canaanite god El was the way I just kept pulling the thread until it all came apart. The inconsistencies between an omnibenevolent god (El) and violent massacring war god (Yahweh) make a lot more sense once you know they used to be two separate gods.