The Democrat party used to be the party of the people, but they aren’t anymore. They don’t want to be anymore and it’s been like that since Bill Clinton.

That’s just wrong. Americans are desperate for major changes to a system that just isn’t working for us. It works great for the rich and for corporations, but not for the average American.

Democrats have ignored the plight of the average American by only looking at the data that affects corporations and the rich. And that data shows that everything is great. We have one political party that’s so wildly out of touch with reality.

On the other side, we have MAGA Republicans who actually acknowledge the struggles of average Americans. The MAGA Republicans make grand claims of tearing the whole damn system down which is very appealing. The system isn’t working for us, we’d love to see it tear down.

But the Republican party is a bitter pill. With them in charge comes abuse of power, crime, and authoritarianism.

So on one hand, we have the Democrat party that’s out of touch with reality, holds elitist attitudes towards average Americans, and has a long track record of implimenting meaningless micro-changes that don’t actually address the seriousness of the problems.

Then on the other hand, we have the Republican party that directly speaks to the average American, acknowledges their struggles, yet redirects their anger towards minorities & women, and has fascistic tendencies.

It’s a tough choice between Democrat, Republican, and casting no vote at all. I can’t blame the average American for voting for Trump to burn the whole damn system down. The Democrats need to get their shit together, but as of now they’d rather just voter shame and victim blame.

They’re not going to retake power for a long time, and even then they wouldn’t do anything with that power to fix what’s broken.

I guess the positive ray of sunshine here is that all of his picks are wildly incompetent and don’t understand the position nor the laws that govern it.

I think the general population of humans struggle to recognize, understand, and address large scale threats.

There’s the scientific community that’ll try to explain these issues to the general public in simplistic term. But they’re often overruled by dumb idiots in charge who store snowballs in their freezer as proof that climate change isn’t real.

There’s a belief that humanity needs to be brought to the edge of extinction to realize how bad things really are and to get their shit together. I don’t believe humanity would be willing to save itself from extinction as it’s just not profitable to do so.

To conservatives, any porn viewing is a “porn addiction.” That’s their line.

Porn addiction is not on that line, not even close.

The perception of time can feel different from person to person and emotional state to emotional state.

…BlueSky does not have any federalization technologies built into it, meaning it’s just another centralized platform, and thus vulnerable to the same things that make modern social media so horrible.

Ask your average social media user what any of that means and you’ll get blank stares.

Every time a friend asks to “borrow” a lighter…

I too enjoy a good strawman fallacy.

As a Satanist, it’s my religious freedom to be LGBTQ+. My religion celebrates and honors us.

Such discrimination laws would violate religious freedom constitutional rights.

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For Arab Americans, it was a choice between total genocide vs total genocide. If my family was in Gaza, I wouldn’t be able to vote for Harris or Trump either.

Personally, I like the iPhone charging port better as there’s less that can go wrong with it, but USB-C is pretty good too.

I like that I don’t have to orient the cable plug-ins just right. I can flip it over and still plug it in just fine. That’s why I don’t like mini USB, micro USB, or USB-A

Bernie is a leftist politician. The Democrat party is not a liberal leftist party, they’re a conservative corporatist party.

Democrats are NOT leftists, they’re center right at best. They ultimately serve corporate interests and NOT the will of the people.

You will never get universal healthcare, police reform, free college, less military spending, and other leftist ideals from the Democrat party because they’re not leftists. Doing these things runs counter to the interests of their corporate masters.

We have a fascist party and a conservative party, but we don’t actually have a liberal party. We haven’t had one since before Clinton.

The “All Lives Matter” retort wad nothing more than an attempt to dilute the issue of police brutality and wrongful killing of black people. That was it, nothing more.

Right wingers invent retorts to everything, even if it goes into extremism and silliness. Eating horse paste instead of getting a vaccine, drinking their own urine instead of getting medical care, destroying their own personal property as a protest against numerous companies for imaginary slights, nonsensical boycotts, and on and on.

The founder of the Proud Boys terrorist organization once shoved a butt plug up his own ass on video just to “own the libs.”

Democrats are not leftists, they’re center right. I’m so sick of people thinking Democrats are going to fix this, protect that, and make things better. Democrats serve their corporate masters, and they’ll make vague promises that they know they won’t keep.

Portsmouth, Virginia here. The early in-person voting line was around the block and took over 2 hours to get through.

Granted it’s not as long as others, but it is a good sign when early voting lines are so long.

If you want a good job, become a social media influencer. It pays more than most other jobs, and you can be the worst type of person and still make it big.

Because I saw the news about voter dropbox being fire bombed and the head of USPS deliberately slowing down mail. I don’t trust that my mail-in vote will count, so I voted early in-person.