The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.

I see this, since half of the letters appear to be uppercase, and the other half lowercase:

JaGUar

Oh shit or get off the pot, ffs.

But he did his best, and that’s all that matters at the end of the day. 🙄 God was I livid when he fucking said that.

I’m trans, and that’s what bothers me the most about those two congressional Democrats coming out against trans athletes in sports. Parroting the “biological boys in girl’s sports” line the right has been using for years now.

They were so comfortable saying it, that’s what pisses me off the most. It shows me it’s not ingrained in the party’s platform, and we were just a token group to support when they thought we brought in enough votes. So they’d rather scapegoat us and try to court a minority of moderate Republicans that won’t vote for them anyway.

It showed me we, trans people, don’t matter to the DNC. Maybe we matter to the electorate of the DNC, but we don’t matter to the DNC.

I agree wholeheartedly, believe me.

I have a lot of socially unpopular opinions regarding how technology has and is progressing, and how dependent we’re becoming on all of it.

I think it was more of a long way to say “manual windows and door handles have worked since cars were invented, why are we reinventing the wheel and introducing new fail points on something like a door handle by making it electric?”

We were taught about it, but most Americans don’t view westward expansion with the same… Reverence? Notoriety?

Like, I remember learning about it across multiple grades, but… Oregon City being the final destination, that’s not something I would probably remember a year or two later, nevermind a decade or more.

Kurzgesagt has a video about life after nuclear war… It’s not pretty.

I’ve seen billboards for one of those “Have you been in a motorcycle/car accident?!” law offices and it’s one of the lawyers squaring off with Tyson.

I’ve had so many questions: Did Tyson actually agree to do that? How much did they pay for him to do that? Is this law office illegally using his image? Do these offices usually have these kinds of celebrity-endorsement funds just lying around?

And then, it’s like, why Tyson?! Like, yeah, he’s probably one of the most well known boxers, but… He’s a rapist, and when someone asks me to name a celebrity to endorse lawyers, the first name that comes to mind isn’t “Mike Tyson, obvi.”

It’s just so weird all around.

The DNC during their campaign to save democracy refused to compromise with their base on genocide.

To reiterate, genocide.

And after they lost, they threw trans people and the left under the bus.

So what makes you all think they’re going to change their stance on anything now? They’re already screaming that the DNC was too far left during this campaign, this campaign, where they unapologetically and unconditionally showed support to a fascist and his genocide.

They had Republican after Republican parade across their convention stage, but had zero Palestinian Democrats come speak despite requests from the Uncommitted Protest movement.

What’s that thing all of Lemmy is always saying, “When people show you who they are, believe them?” They’re showing you who they are and who they want to be, so believe them. There’s no saving the DNC, it’s just a slow march to fascism under them versus the speed run with the Republicans.

Alexander von Humboldt, the Father of Ecology/Environmentalism, noted the first “theories” of climate change back around 1800. He was a Prussian naturalist who was one of the most famous naturalists of his time (more things like parks, streets, etc, are named after him than anyone else in the world).

He explored a lot of the world, particularly South and Central America. While he was in Venezuela in 1799, he noted,

During Humboldt’s travels through Venezuela in 1799, he noticed that farmers in the Aragua valley were deforesting the region to grow indigo. As a result, the nearby lake was drying up. Later, in a letter to President Thomas Jefferson dated June 1804, he wrote, “The wants and restless activity of large communities of men gradually despoil the face of the Earth.”

Source

If you want to learn more about him, I highly recommend The Invention of Nature by Alexandria Wulf.

“It’s a big club, folks, and you ain’t in it.” - George Carlin

But yeah, I said that months ago and was downvoted for it. None of their lives are going to be affected by any of this, any of this fascism coming through. That’ll be for us poors to bear, the wealthy don’t hurt the wealthy. It’s the only honor amongst them.

This is what I’ve been trying to get across to the people screeching about anyone who didn’t vote versus voting for Harris (I voted for Harris, just fyi, begrudgingly).

Voters were vocally and publically opposed to the genocide in Palestine being aided by the Biden admin, but the DNC would not back down, making these half-ass “Well, if Israel crossed the fifth line we drew, ooh, they’re really in for it this time! That next phone call, I’m gonna use the F word!”

Voters were making their concerns and their internal conflict known online, and they were either outright attacked for being a Trump supporter (y’know, instead of a human being trying to weigh which lives matter more in their voting decision). Or, you were told that we just had to bite the bullet “one more time,” and then this time we’ll be able to get the party to listen to us, and start to move in progressive directions.

But when you pointed out that there was no way to know the DNC would actually listen based on 2016 and 2020, and the fact the longer the campaign went on the further right Harris and her policies shifted… You were dismissed and screamed at for being a Trump supporter.

And this just proves to me that the DNC was never, has never, and will never compromise with their voting base on anything. Period. Even now, what are DNC pundits going on the news and saying? "The voters failed us, the DNC went too far left this election, the voters are tired of “wOkE” policies, I’ve even heard two Democratic politicians throw trans people under the bus.

The party of supposed LGBTQ+ lost an election and immediately turned on one of the most marginalized groups of their voting base.

But no, no, they’ll totally listen to us after we get them elected and give them over a billion dollars in campaign money. 🙄

I had a friend in the Navy back around 2015 that wholeheartedly believed that this is why America would fail.

The US government is the longest, unchanged Democracy in the world. We’ve had the same documents, modified slightly but not enough, as the rule of land for almost 250 years now.

He equated it to a white board that, over 250 years, kept having stuff added to it, but nothing was “removed,” just crossed out and something written next to it, or over it.

And now 250 years later, we’ve essentially resorted to trying to fill the spaces between lines and letters and around the margins, but they’ve already been filled, so we’re just writing over what’s already written.

Yep, keep plugging your ears and telling yourself the voting base that wasn’t represented in either candidate stayed home and it’s their fault.

Not the fault of an unpopular platform telling Americans the numbers on their papers and charts are more important than their lived reality.

CiAo 🙄

The average person wants change, they want the system that is actively oppressing them to change.

Trump has promised change. It’s the worst imaginable, but he’s promised it, he’s made his voters feel heard and seen, and he showed them he was willing to upend the whole system to make change happen.

Harris told the American people she wouldn’t significantly be different than Biden and that we “Weren’t going back,” which just sounds like “Status Quo with extra steps” to the average American. And when the voting base asked for something progressive to excite them, something to vote for, the DNC scolded them that the time wasn’t right like they did in 2016, and 2020, and 2024, and probably 2028 at this point.

The system isn’t working and people want change. Trump promises to change things up (for worse, again, to be clear), Harris promised to maintain the status quo that isn’t working. I imagine after being disenfranchised and disillusioned election cycle after election cycle, and being ignored with fascism at the door…

I’m not saying it’s right, but I think America chose negative change to maintaining the status quo for another 4 years. Which… If 2016 wasn’t the canary in the coal mine, I would hope 2024 would be for the DNC. Turning further right is losing them their own voters while trying to win over Republicans who will never vote for them.

Their voting base is tired of being told now isn’t the time for compromise/policy changes in the party, but then watching the party change policy and compromise with Republicans. You can’t tell your voting base you’d rather be Fascist-lite than work with them, and be surprised when they refuse to support you. 🤷‍♀️

No, to the point where I’ve had a few friends and family members offer to buy me decorations (or they’ll text me of ones on sale), and I always turn them down.

Halloween, I’ll put out a pumpkin if I’m feeling frisky, but that’s about it. Christmas, I’ve considered getting a tree, and had a roommate that had a really small plastic one with two ornaments that’d we’d put out.

But they’re too expensive, they’re too much work to put up/take down (especially outside in the snow), they take up too much room both while in use and in storage, my dog would probably fuck with them or be afraid of them (Halloween), they drive electricity use and cost up, they can be stolen, they can increase fire risk, I normally live alone so it’d only be for my dog and I, the list goes on.

I tell friends/family, particularly for Christmas since many of them can’t believe I just don’t do decorations, that I draw a Christmas tree on a piece of paper and tape it to my wall every year. Costs $0.05 in ink, paper, and tape, and 5 minutes to put up and take down. Easily movable, lightweight, efficient.

What do you want them to do, unlock and get back in the car, restart it, put it in reverse, reverse a couple feet, put it in park, and shut the car off before having to close the door and lock it again?!

My guy, they already got out of the car, like… 🤷‍♀️

/s

The DNC clearly needs progressives to win, and yet liberals refuse to do anything but antagonize and insult and condescend to leftists.

We tried “incremental change” with Hillary in 2016 and lost, Biden leaned more on progressive talking points and won (barely). The DNC saw that and said, “alright, so 2024, we’re gonna go hard right again.”

All the while, leftists and progressives, throughout the campaign, were vocally calling for policies that better reflected their needs and concerns. They weren’t asking for everything, but they wanted something to show them the DNC was willing to compromise with them.

Instead, people like you and the Harris campaign, doubled down on Republican-lite policies because “stop fascism,” condescended to and screamed at anyone who tried to criticize Harris and her policies during the, refused to meet us, the leftists they need to win the election, anywhere in the middle, but then extended a warm and welcoming arm to Cheney and her Republican ilk.

So why is it the Democrats are more willing to compromise with Republicans who won’t vote for them, but not compromise with their own constituents looking for a progressive option to vote for rather than only an option to vote against?

If the government doesn’t take care of his poor, minorities, what are they doing.

Grifting and insider trading.