Do you have any data? I’m way left of the democrats, I was vocally against the pro-Israel stance, and I still voted for Kamala.

Hey, this soup is cold. Take it back and warm it up, immediately!

You can watch Winter on Fire

Republicans believe in I guess what you’d call individual exceptionalism, in that they always believe that these shitty awful policies are magic missiles that will only target the “bad people” and not themselves or the “good people” they know. I’ll never forget that when they were planning the Muslim ban, a person I worked with was talking about how they’re all the enemy and we should keep them out. When I pointed out that he worked with a Muslim woman, he went “oh, well, that’s different, I know her, she’s a good person” without even ruminating on it for a second. For him, the logic was obvious, the bad policy wouldn’t affect her because he knows her and knows that she’s a good person, so obviously she’d be spared the ill effects of any bad policy. That’s why instead of getting fucking pissed, these people are always confused and astonished when the bad policy they advocated for affects them. “But wait, no, I’m a good person, there must be some mistake”. No, there’s no mistake, dumbass, good or bad person never entered the equation, just in the club or out of the club.

These fossils still think that Millennials are kids. Bro, my kids are almost in high school, my back hurts, I feel this flesh prison decaying around me. I’m entering the part of my life where I’m traditionally supposed to be the most economically advantaged, and this bullshit is going to basically nuke my generation’s ability to participate in the economy, because we were all told that we need to go to college to have a good life.

Come on, Judge, you know what this is, it’s uh… Shmontempt of Schmourt? No, that’s not it

Take notes everyone, this is just one small example of what “fuck you, make me” looks like. This teacher has more spine than Chuck Schumer and half of our administrative state.

Jesus Christ what the fuck

My pet conspiracy theory is that there’s already been multiple attempts since Butler, but they aren’t being publicized because they don’t want to encourage others.

If you want to really sabotage the war effort, use the war to push for state secession from the union, particularly if you’re in a blue state. Most of the blue states are economic engines that keep the rest of the machine ticking. If they leave, or try to, that’ll be a huge kick in the nuts to any war effort.

I mean… I know I should be mad about it, but it’s just a master stroke.

Sorry, best we can do is fuck everyone over to protect PG&E so they’ll only declare bankruptcy once every two years instead of every six months. What? Why would you say that privatized, de-regulated utilities were a mistake?

Yeah, I remember it being pitched right after the election. Idk, if Kamala actually runs on a progressive platform and doesn’t redshift like she did late in the election, I might consider her seriously.

Yeah, I recently read a Guardian article about how the crackdown on non-violent protestors in the UK is leading climate activists to a little more, uh, active forms of protest. If you’re going to jail for five years anyway, you might as well make it count.

And how’s that working out?

I think it’s completely nuts that after the last 20 years and especially the last 12 years, Democrats still seem to think that compromising with the right will flip republicans voters. Gavin, my guy, they think you’re literally the reincarnation of Stalin. You could gargle Trump’s nuts and they’d still hate you

Speaking as a Californian, unfortunately, he probably is.

Fellas, is instantly vaporizing 60,000 people gay?

Edit: lmao, at those rates, Amtrak is less publicly subsidized than a lot of fortune 500s

I’d be cool with Amtrak turning profit as long as the revenue was always re-invested into better train sets, better routes, more frequent service, cheaper tickets, employee pay and benefits, etc etc, and never just routed to rich fucking assholes who already have more than they know what to do with.

tl;Dr fuck off and eat shit, idiot

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Amtrak is private, though. It’s publicly subsidized, but it’s not a government agency AFAIK. Same for the post office. Part of the problem with Amtrak, though, is that the state of passenger rail in the US is still down in the septic tank, largely due to almost 100 years of government subsidized car-centric development and heavily subsidized air transit development. You’d have a very hard time attracting private investors interested in a conventional passenger rail mass transit scheme, I think.

Also, everybody benefits, even this fucking douche, when public transit is high quality and affordable. Even if a private company did offer high quality, affordable mass transit, the insatiable drive for ever increasing profits will eventually cause them to enshittify one or both and put us right back here. This is really just another attempt to transfer public wealth into private portfolios, though it’s a little more of a joke compared to privatization efforts in Europe because we basically haven’t been investing at all in public transit for the last fifty years