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  • I mean, what you said is funny, but more so because it does actually proved an excellent analogy for what Biden could have done to actually stop Trump.

    Becaue Trump literally showed up to Congress with a double barreled shotgun engraved with “executive order,” and “legal immunity” on each barrel. Then used it to bypass Congress entirely when it came to canceling appropriated funds, passing blanket Tariffs, and expanding the executive branch to include independant agencies like the FTC and SEC.

    So Biden unquestionably could have done the same to the Judiciary branch, and forced an expansion of the Supreme Court without congressional approval to avoid the absolute disaster we’ve been experiencing from our highest Court since the Roe V Wade decision.

    He very much could have showed up at the Supreme Court with the exact shotgun Trump is now using to rule by force. Instead he chose to follow norms, as every Democrat has before him. So now Trump chose the gun to destroy those norms, as he likewise always has before. Just now with the full support of the Supreme Court, and complete legal immunity behind him.

    And no surprise, he’s done quite a lot of damage with all that legal immunity Biden left unused.

    Seriously, this analogy is an excellent one for all the reasons you likely didn’t intend. (Sorry about that). However, imo, it does make your comment funnier on another level to be honest.




  • I spent a lot of time reading the time cube guys rants, and I’m like 90% sure they just never understood that if you rotate a cube enough on both axis it resembles a globe.

    He just didn’t understand that the earth has multiple times zones because it’s a big old globe, instead of 4 timecube-zones, because he couldn’t understand how surface area stretches over a globe, just a cube.

    Anyway, my two cents. Sometimes ranblings are just a misunderstanding of basic math or scientific concepts.

    Sorry 2D /3D OP, but you’re a great example too.

    You want to claim 2D or 3D aren’t “real” when what you’re simply trying to say is that we, as humans, with limited and dull senses, are incapable of perceiving dimensions / universes that exist outside our own.

    No shit.

    That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For that, it requires tools that exist outside our perception, but are universally sound. Aka Math.

    So yeah, we can prove other dimensions exist with math, but can’t perceive them because we’re meat.

    That doesn’t mean math is bullshit, it means you need to read philosophy enough to understand our existence isn’t centered on human perception.

    We’re monkeys that have harnessed self awareness to the point we can prove there’s a reality that exists outside our limited perception. But simply because that’s only doable through math, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

    It means your feeble human body is literally only capable of understanding extradimensionality because of the meat in your head, and it’s ability to comprehend math.

    You are meat. But math is universal. You are limited in perceiving the universe to what your meat has given you. So doubt your meat, not the math.

    It’s what the time cube guy should have done imo.


  • Real question:

    If the goal is to change out the Dem leadership through more and more primaries -

    Then why not do the same with the GOP?

    If that is the work that needs to be done, why should it be aimed at the Democrats instead of the GOP who are the real problem?

    Why should we spend so much effort slowly reforming the good guys to do better instead of the same effort to just reform the bad guys?

    The GOP is such a mess of Swiss Cheese that the second Trump isn’t holding it together, anyone progressive could likely succeed there by just giving them what Trump lied about: better wages, inflation control, rent control, universal Healthcare. You know, actual progressive policies.

    The entire conservative media system would eat itself without a political party to support, and it would be far better to split the GOP than the DNC with these candidates. (As the DNC already know how to do that themselves, clearly)

    Honestly, if Dems are only effective once their leadership is changed, then maybe that effort would be better spent on changing it for the GOP as they are the real problem. Better Democrats means the same problems with the GOP. Better GOP means no more problems.


  • Cool. So to clarify:

    • Newsom’s strategy is to copy Trumps.
    • Democratic Voter strategy is to vote for Newsom and pray all he copies from Trump is campaign strategies.

    Remember Bernie and his horde of young male Bernie Bros supporters?

    Remember Mamdani and his horde of Republican supporters?

    Yeah. Dems just need policies that made these candidates popular if they want young male and Republican voters.

    Instead, they fight these candidates harder than any Republican.

    Maybe if Democrats want votes they should do more of what makes them popular, not what brings popularity to Trump.

    Until then, it’s no surprise they’re struggling with respect because they’ve done nothing but ignore what works for their constituents in favor of what works for Trump. Eventually there will be no difference in behavior at all, which is basically where we are now.

    Imo, the better strategy would simply be for every Dem to abandon the party, and instead register as Republican. Trump reformed the entire GOP in 10 years because they have no rules for who they’ll let into the party. Seeing as there’s far more registered Democrats in the country than republicans, and the GOP is a lot weaker towards reformation because of Trump, taking them over with progressives and progressive policies would just be putting condidates in place who don’t lie to their GOP constituents.

    Honestly, if you want progress, Democrats should start a movement to abandon their party and reform the GOP into the organization it used to be. INCLUDING Democrat candidates. You want to take advantage of gerrymandering? Do it as the GOP instead of fighting them.

    This is basically what Russia did to the GOP and in its shape, it would not at all be hard to take it back. And once the GOP isn’t all foreign agents promoting an media echo chamber working for a dictator, there’s no more evil party the Dems have to fight.

    Taking on Trump from the outside has literally never worked. And in the last 20 years, the GOP has undone almost 100 years of American and Democratic policy.

    So take them over with non insane Americans, and the GOP bullshit ends.

    If you fight them as Democrats, they just get stronger, because Democrats just fight with words.

    Not that this will ever happen. But it’s by far the best option America has for moving forward.





  • Yes, that is indeed what a good journalist looks like.

    Especially one who won a Pulitzer for covering Palestinians. You know, the people in all those pictures. Almost like he needs to be around them to journal what’s happening. You know, for good journalism.

    How fucking cooked is your brain on propaganda to think this indicates anything to the contrary?

    You think someone taking a picture in front of a Ronald McDonald statue means they work at McDonald’s?

    Propaganda is easy to spot when it is this incredibly stupid. What’s your excuse to not spot it?




  • I’m sure once things all turn to shit you’ll forget how much better they were under your current admin.

    Because that’s what every idiot does once they realize they’ve been conned.

    Name a single country that has actually improved with someone like Trump running it.

    Oh wow. It’s none.

    Anyway here’s the next 20 years of your life:

    • Your right wing leader blames everything bad on illegals and gays. (Which fixes nothing).
    • Everything gets worse for you. You get much poorer.
    • Your leader and his friends get richer.
    • There’s nothing you can do to improve anything. The system of government that could address said grievances you decided to replace with a strong man you think cares about you. He doesn’t. And when you need him to. He won’t.
    • So when you’re suffering and it’s his fault, you won’t even know, you’ll likely blame illegals, because you’re cleaely an idiot that easily falls for this bullshit.

  • the reason they’re hoarding so extreme levels of wealth is because they believe in “greatness”

    They only believe in the “greatness” of themselves. Which is expressed monitarily.

    Their entire self worth is based on the size of their bank accounts, on what they “could do” with their money.

    Instead of, you know, what they’re actually doing with their money: nothing.

    They hoard it to feel special. They could literally give away billions to the right places to fix shit immediately and still be billionaires. But they don’t.

    Despite that very literally leading to them being worshipped. Which would be more greatness for them then they have now. And more greatness for the world. And it ain’t happening.

    Because. They’re all convinced they’re the smartest people ever, and not big idiots that never learned the basic social benefits of sharing.

    “Greatness” isn’t found on top of a pile of money. It’s found at the bottom once it’s been spent. That’s how people and the economy actually benefit from it. By the velocity in which it changes hands. Which so far, is near 0% for these billionaires seeking “greatness.”

    It’s embarissing, if anything, to see them so incapable of achieving their goals of greatness simply because they’re too insecure about having anyone else that isn’t them spend their money. Especially when it comes to actually using it to benefiting the world instead of their egos.





  • Takes one to know one. Bad is still bad. Even if we’ve been the ones to do it. Now we’re too busy rounding up anyone that isn’t white because our government is a kakistocracy in full reverse. Thankfully we’re too stupid to destabilize much but ourselves now.

    But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still be trying to help those most affected by it. Just because America designed the hose of misinformation that Russia is now using to destabilize world Democracy doesn’t mean we should passively accept it being blasted everywhere.

    I mean, if you feel we’re responsible, shouldn’t we be the ones to fix it if Russia clearly isn’t?