I think many ITT need to hear this: perfect is the enemy of the good.

Possibly true, but not why we are where we are

Hope and strive for perfection, sure! But anyone looking for a candidate that is going to exactly mirror their own own views on policy are as misguided as those who voted for the orange shit stain because he “talks just like me.”

Again, not why we are where we are, and it’s a copout to say that. Here’s why:

Good thing I didn’t say what you said I said.

???

That’s such a copout though. There is like 3% of the population that won’t vote Democrat because they’re not super-based anarcho-communists or whatever. There is a far larger percentage of people that won’t vote Democrat because they fucking suck at doing half of what they promise, and only promise a quarter of what they should. Perfect is the enemy of good; good should be the enemy of student loans, or for-profit healthcare, or, oh yeah, fucking genocide. I voted for Kamala, I pushed people to vote for Kamala, but holy shit you can’t just bury your head in the sand and pretend that everyone who didn’t vote for her was just purity testing.

I mean my contention isn’t that he didn’t know what it was, it’s that you gotta be kidding me that he didn’t learn what it was in the 20 years since. I don’t give a shit about his reddit history; if anything its just kinda affable to me. Hell, I’d be willing to even take the tattoo at “I learned what it was at a really dark time in my life, and I just haven’t confronted the tattoo itself, even if I conquered the ideologies that led to both its creation and its application to my body.” Like obviously military service is its own alt-right pipeline. But like, bro, you got the super non-pirate skull and crossbones across your tit, bro, what are you doing?

Like I’m not even saying don’t vote for him, deadass I’d still take his dumb ass over some Zionist shill 8 days a week. But, can nobody just call a spade a spade?

Mmm, intelligence is a broad, multifaceted descriptor that as defined rarely describes the full tapestry of a person’s skills. I can still very safely say that in most cases though, Trump is an absolute dumbfuck. He just happens to be smart when it comes to convincing other dumbfucks of his dumb shit.

I endorse hating the right. I endorse creative writing exercises. I do not endorse this.

What do you mean “Making Linux work?”

Honestly? Fuck it. Corporate Dems are pushing Newsom hard; I’d love to see Kamala wrestle with being abandoned by everyone she gave up any morals for.

Those better be 2 12’s per job, big guy. Also full time is still defined at 35 a week

To drop the shitpost a bit, every time I think of American politics I think about, I can’t remember his name but some racist internet personality decided he’d try meth to prove that addiction is a personal choice. Fast forward, dude obviously ended up getting his whole shit wrecked by meth addiction. Like obviously we have politicians that want to bring resource extraction home for dinner, but we have an entire populace convinced we’re just built different.

It is cool, but I would hazard anyone excited about this to note that they are by and large dropping AIPAC funding just for J-Street funding. Liberal Zionism is still Zionist, and even if J-Street is nominally critical of Bibi, they still couch the ongoing genocide in dismissive language, to say nothing of their ongoing support of Israel continuing as an apartheid ethnostate.

It’s Hitler from Lil’ Nicky, an Adam Sandler movie from the late 90’s. He’s forced to wear a French maid outfit and have a pineapple shoved up his ass all the time.

Bruh why they making flirty eyes

The day I punch my own ticket is the day some tech bro makes a billion dollars selling public transportation as “service-based architecture.”

Let’s goooooo

Sorry, I should have clarified: The lack of incentive is only economic. There are millions of good artists and writers that work every day of their lives to make things with beauty and meaning. What I’m criticizing is the companies themselves, not the creatives behind their products.

And good on you for keeping your kids screen-free! Genuinely good parenting.

I wouldn’t say they could learn anything from the 90s; after all, it was those markets that led into today. It’s just that the profit motive has shifted. 30 years ago, Marvel spends a little money on an IP like Biker Mice from Mars, licenses it out to ABC to distribute and Hasbro for toy manufacturing, then ABC pockets the ad revenue while Hasbro shares climb come Christmas. Not defending the system, but at most levels there was incentive to make a product good enough to maintain hype.

Today, Disney produces Spidey and His Amazing Friends, and there is literally no financial incentive for it to be good, or even marketable. It’s streamed in-house on a subscription they know you have. The only competition for eyeballs is also a Disney Plus exclusive, so who cares as long as subs and usage times don’t drop? The toys are a wash; it’s 2025, your kid is more likely to have a smartphone in their hand than a toy. Better to invest in a freemium mobile game, or toss the character skins into a preexisting freemium game. Hell, even better, since they own the show and it’s competition, just throw everything in there. All Disney needs is the bare minimum product to keep up screentime; something they made easier on themselves by funding politicians that actively removed any and all public works to create or maintain anything else for kids to do. And the only reason they need to keep up screentime is that the real money maker now is collecting and selling user data to grow your speculative forecasts before the next quarterly. Who gives a shit selling toy manufacturing rights to Hasbro for $60 million over 3 years when you can grow stock shares by $12 billion for less than half the effort?

Honestly fuck these leeches, drop a zero from each.

Honestly massive applause for Brandon Johnson. There are so many performative voices that call for a general strike, but it’s so rare to see someone with political power and a national stage call for one.

I mean if you can build a competing hegemony, be my guest lol

On that Bernie 2028 type shit