When you say that if I don’t like it I shouldn’t participate in the conversation it makes me think you’re against negative opinions. But that can’t be the case because you’re defending someone expressing a negative opinion about someone else’s protest. This makes me think there is a double standard at play here.

Do what you need to protect your energy, it is in short supply.

The power of the one depends on the ignorance of the other.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Can we just stop policing people’s acts of resistance? At this point I’m more upset at the people doing absolutely nothing other than maybe post stuff online.

You play a different game so that even if you lose on the propaganda front, you still win gains elsewhere.

It is a lie that Trump is a dove but the silence by Democratic leadership to call a genocide a genocide is giving this lie wings.

13 Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?” 14 But He answered him “Your Mom”, so that the governor marveled greatly.

There is one who determines to take a stand in the world by acting on his own freedom. He values the necessary action more highly than an untarnished conscience and reputation. He is prepared to sacrifice a barren principle to a fruitful compromise or a barren wisdom of mediocrity to fruitful radicalism. Such a one needs to take care that his freedom does not cause him to stumble. He will condone the bad in order to prevent the worse and in so doing no longer discern that the very thing he seems to avoid as worse might well be better.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Democrats love giving the Republicans rope to hang themselves, but this time they might have given them so much the rope is touching the floor.

Not asking for perfect, but better than terrible. Genocide is terrible. What ICE is doing is terrible. Rigging elections is terrible.

• GOP when they gerrymandered Texas

Ranked choice got us Mamdani. It matters for local politics.

MMW: Prop 50 is going to make somethings worse. I live on a blue island in a red sea in the blue state of California. Disenfranchising voters is going to lead to violence. If they were serious they would give us rank choice voting.

I just wanted a cookie.

My cousin was very dumb and signed up. The guilt killed him.

My guy, I would repeat myself as well if I thought it would help.

I didn’t realize what is good or bad is reducible to what I alone experience and everyone else can fuck off.

Where does the capital come from though? Someone has to pay for the shovels and if there isn’t a profit now, how will they pay for the next bubble?

Lol. I’m sure some new fangled NFT AI Slop wouldn’t be another bubble.

Nah, when Trump won the nomination in 2016 I knew we were cooked. Vance doesn’t have the same appeal. He’s got the “owning libs” part down but his humor lacks a broader appeal, unlike Trump.