I didn’t know you could sign lease terms that long

Wow, if we take them at their word the fash are terrible at their jobs and should never have been allowed into office.

I’ll make your ass sense!

That doesn’t make any sense.

We’re all going to die. We were already all going to die. We signed our own death warrant when we knowingly allowed omnicidal fascists to take control of the most efficient death machine mankind has ever devised. Or maybe not, history is weird. Maybe a meteor evaporates DC and the country balkanizes. The only thing I’m sure of is that there’s no way out of this that involves a glorious uprising of the organized left. We couldn’t organize our way out of a paper bag.

Idk, pretty standard for the trades no? I’ve seen gigantic dildos everywhere from tech backpacks to snap-on roll cabs.

I’ll deduct your ass points.

You can excuse child rape? 🤨

instructions unclear we are all now blind thanks to lifted shipping carts with trail lights that the grocery cops will do nothing about

I feel like desktop as a service might work pretty well in a world where municipal fiber was commonplace but it’s the damnedest thing, the billionaire aligned politicians banned it in a bunch of places

Well they’re not gonna do anything anyway, so I might as well.

This is what grinds my gears about getting into discussions with people who take your position. I do not have to make apologies for the undemocratic first-past-the-post system, or the undemocratic electoral college. Had more people voted, the fix would not have worked. Rigged elections can be overwhelmed, especially when they are being attacked from the outside.

I am thinking about what I’ll do when I can’t vote anymore. And it does not involve common cause with people who do not understand basic strategy.

I can’t take you seriously, man. You don’t appear to understand how power works, or how movements work, or how organizations work. You will never convince me of this idea that somehow not voting for the lesser of two evils in the general would have improved where we find ourselves right now. I will never convince you that Harris, flawed status-quo neolib that she was, would have been much less bad than unrepentant fascism. This conversation is a waste of my time, and yours (however much that’s worth). Have a good day.

e: misspoke

You better chase after that other poster, because that’s not something I ever said.

You will never be the swing voter, but the only way your vote doesn’t count at all is if you don’t cast it. The republicans have fought for half a century to suppress voter turnout, and sadly it has worked. Throwing up your hands and saying “well, if they don’t want me to vote I suppose I simply will not vote” is worse than useless.

I’m not sure where you are getting this delusion that I chose any sort of strategy. She was a shit candidate. If I could have stopped them from anointing her, I would have. They didn’t ask me. My best option – everyone’s best option – was still to vote for her, because the alternative was worse.

Do you think voting works like betting?

Yes, I am vote shaming. You don’t seem to understand that you had two options. Harris could have been the second shittest candidate to ever run for the office and she still would have been a preferable choice. I think that by failing to oppose mask-off fascism in this admittedly tiny but still quite meaningful way, you do bear some small amount of blame for the state of things.

To wit: If you couldn’t hold your nose and vote for a bad candidate to stop the candidate who everyone knew would be much worse, I do not want to form a coalition with you and I certainly do not want to climb into a trench with you.

Fly out of smaller airports if you can afford it. That’s the differentiator, is cost. Business travelers are (anecdotally) more likely to fly out of the closest and most convenient airport, whereas your regular broke joe (that’s usually me) will absolutely make the 1-2h commute to get myself to a hub airport to save a couple hundred bucks.

I remember when we did that during COVID. I wish it stuck.