you make it sound as if politicians do things in a logical well thought out manner. It doesn’t matter anyways, politicians will never vote for something that adds restrictions to themselves. Politics is entirely self-interested, and those who are publicly interested get pushed out.

https://lemmy.world/post/35331657/19178271

on the surface that sounds reasonable, linking the age to run with the age to retire. If you’re going by todays “retirement” age and social security age…

But what will happen in practice is then the politicians will vote to raise the age of retirement, thereby giving them more time in office. Meanwhile, we’re gonna have a lot more Walmart Greeters than we have positions. (assuming your local Wallyworld still has greeters… and that the greeter isn’t AI)

nobody likes Newsome, but in contrast to the rest of the Dems… he’s actually effective at getting under the GOPs skin. That’s the whole thing.

GOP doesn’t give a shit about Jefferies yapping on the floor for hours. They don’t care about another “strongly worded letter” from Schumer. And everyone, EVERYONE, hates Pelosi…

Yes, we all want more people like Mamdani. His policies are everything that I want, that most of us want. But you’d also have to be politically ignorant to not realize that his platform is on shakey ground nationwide. You can do something like Mamdani in a blue stronghold like NY. But across the nation? At this moment in time? No chance, you might as well just hand GOP the keys to power ad infinitium.

I don’t like Newsome, but I’m not trying to throw the whole country in the toilet waiting for the world to come around to Mamdani. Playing this “all or nothing” game is getting real people killed and lives ruined.

So, let me get this straight. I call out a person playing defense for fascists by scoring into own goal, call them useless, I get a warning… But they are literally all caps screaming, cursing, throwing unsubstantiated insults and calling me transphobic because I’m not being zealous enough… still posting.

Make it make sense.

EDIT: LOL, their bio literally admits that they’re only on Lemmy because they got banned multiple times from Reddit for being violent… and here they are, on Lemmy, screaming, cursing, losing their shit… learning nothing… not banned.

Cool, all the trans people can thank you for your spine as we’re all being rounded up by ICE.

Forest and trees and all that shit. You’re hopeless. You’re no one’s ally but to yourself, your ego and pride.

Oh cool, trans people are soooo much more protected now. I’m sure all the Trans people who got ejected from military, losing all their benefits feel so much more protected now. All the girls having to submit to “genital inspections” for sports probably all thank you for “having standards”.

Hey, but at least you got to give it to people like Kamala and Newsome for not being pure enough for you.

Wokescold bullshit. In your effort to gatekeep the left, you let fascists take over. Good job.

this is wokescold purity testing, and it’s exactly why we have Trump now. Because wokescolds prioritized some future microaggressions instead of the very real, immediate Fascist reality and decided to dumb things like “protest vote” for Warren, or just not show up.

saving this for later in case I ever finally decided to do the thing I’ve been thinking about doing now for 10+ years… maybe this time I will… maybe

so… the solution to the plastic problem is to convert it and then burn it?

And burning plastic will fix the environment… ?

this is fucking disgusting.

Just because she was a veteran doesn’t mean she deserves to be honorably buried. She was engaged in open sedition. Rushing to assault our elected officials in attempt to subvert the democratic process. That’s about the furthest thing from “honorable” as you can get.

I’m a veteran, I didn’t commit treason against my oath and country.

Fuck her, and fuck every “veteran” like her.

Extremely relevant Bojack Horseman clip

Now read it in a Boomhauer voice.

Actually, the keys part is fake. But Superman offering the liquor bottle is real.

For added context, he’s offering the bottle to SixPack, an alcoholic and minor hero. Unknown to himself, SixPack is a sleeping god whose dreams warp reality. He was starting to sober up after a traumatic event but it was causing him to dream a version of the world without superheroes, our world. Superheroes were losing their power or becoming vulnerable.

And so, Superman figures this out and to prevent the collapse of their known universe, he offers SixPack a bottle of liquor so that he forgets this other world and the sleeping god becomes dormant again.

which I hate… especially the “shorts”…

tween daughter has adhd, easily falls into tiktok brainrot hellholes. Has trouble with self-regulation and self-control… I still want her to have music to listen to and do things (some lofi to study/chill to, etc)… but now, Spotify is yet another vector for distraction that consumes her.

People be like “parent’s should take responsibility for their kids”… I’m like “mf, I’m trying, but every app in the world is trying to be social media” And the parental controls they offer are shiiiiiiiit. Because it’s not in a companies best interest to provide parents with tools to limit features.

Cops do the right thing once defending the capitol… that’s not gonna cut it. That’s like a toxic abuser and just lovebombing with convenient justice once.