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Sooner or later they’d get me for one thing if not for another…

[But if] a fellow ain’t got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then…Then it don’t matter. I’ll be all around in the dark – I’ll be everywhere.

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  • There are political parties currently in existence in the states other than D&R. If Bernie were considering building a movement quickly he’d probably be talking to or about one, rather than nebulously asking these questions.

    While a politician speaking like Bernie used to be refreshing to me, his words now feel stale. He has been a statesman since before Christ, therefore I am unimpressed at broad and simple questions like:

    How do we deal with citizens united?

    Oh indeed, this is a question! I expect an idea. I expect a plan. I expect a lot i guess, but i don’t expect he’s serious. He’s just throwing shit at the wall.

    Finally this guy here.

    Should we be supporting Independent candidates who are prepared to take on both parties?

    Gigantic “duh” aside, while it’s a list of grievances, imma still invoke Betteridge’s law of headlines here. If he’s asking? Then he doesn’t know. If he doesn’t know? He aint leading shit.

    I canvassed for him so the bitterness colors this final salt-stained opinion: if i was somehow convinced he wasn’t just taking up and dissipating all the leftist energy again? I no longer believe the man’s got what it takes.



  • I’ll say first i’m not really arguing just in case i seem aggressive towards you. I’m not in the greatest mood but it’s not you or this subject at all.

    Let’s not forget this convo is stemmin from a joke an all, but that aside yes there are more important targets but they would hardly be sacrificed for his eternal reign now would they?

    Context of joke being the govt starts killing its lowest level workers and (which isnt even far of from the truth), not which of these motherfuckers should face the wall first.


  • I don’t think the bulk of democrat volunteers are directly complicit in Gazan genocide.

    Though i am in no way fit to judge others whom i do not know, i strongly disagree with this. “Just doin their jobs” doesn’t hold no truck with me. If you knowingly continue to work for a killer you are explicitly consenting that your own basic human right to life is equally valid. That is to say, their claim to that right is only as strong as their commitment to that right.

    At the very least it would be unfair to be surprised of that being a consequence of their lack of morality.






  • Oh believe me i have tried. He’s amenable but those two are even more stubborn than I am and unfortunately it’s off the table. MIL loves her cable news. Loves the cable experience. Yes i know that sounds nuts but it’s the only way i can describe how she is with it… She’ll browse that slow loading list of mostly bullshit channels like she’s digging for gold. She told me once watching the news with her father is a cherished childhood memory. It’s bonkers man, but i dunno how to extract worms so deeply buried.


  • I wanted to read the whole thing but it is so unhinged i had to bail. Fuck me but i cannot engage my empathy software for these chuds.

    It’s partly gotta be my FILs fault. This guy, proudly apolitical (“they’re all crooks so i stay out of it”), voted for the first time in 2020. Now that he’s become “engaged” (watching MSNBC) he’s become absolutely insufferable. It’s the absolute worst having the world explained to me by someone like him, who knows i’ve at least been paying attention for decades. What is MSNBC’s secret sauce? How do the talking heads make him and others like him so confident that they know better?

    I don’t wanna shit on my poor FIL too much tho… Even though he’s definitely a dipshit, he’s mostly alright, and now that trump won he’s on the bottle. He and MIL are killing a bottle a day. Never has that man had a drink outside typical socialization. Wild i tell ya, you’d have to know him to know how wild that is. MSNBC et al are killing him, killing both of them… and it’s awful to see. And. AND. What could i even tell them to make it better? That FIL had it closer to correct before he ever cast a ballot?