Marginally related personal story: My grandparents had a Pomeranian that was spoiled rotten when I was younger. My grandfather (sit tibi terra levis) would sometimes buy McDonalds for the family - nothing unusual there. He would feed the dog a few nuggets - nothing unusual there.

… he would tear apart each nugget with his teeth into little pieces for her before giving them.

We human beings can be so weird about these precious creatures we’ve taken in as our charges. XD

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]

So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.

“Maybe another billion dollars for police to jerk off in their cruisers and collect overtime at the expense of all other municipal budgets will help!” - Political discourse in this fucking country

Someplace in the Anglosphere. I don’t think I have it in me to learn a new language just to get by in day-to-day life. New Zealand, maybe.

Unfortunately, my immensely low income and numerous medical issues means that I’m not much of a candidate for emigration.

Also, ideally, a region without a lot of insects.

In any case, though, I’m probably going to die here, stubbornly. If these fascist fucks want me dead bad enough to see it through, I’m at least going to inconvenience them with getting rid of my body.

Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.

Guillotines

One of the biggest hurdles would be, since we still have a FPTP system, mutually agreeing when to withdraw and support the other party’s candidate in races where the fascist candidate(s) seem poised to win. Especially since the nature of politics means that both sides would be looking to screw each other over… and the Dems have a lot of experience in screwing over political rivals.

Yeah. I’m not shocked or anything, but there’s a very nonzero chance that I’ll be vomiting blood on the floor of my kitchen in the coming years until I exsanguinate.

At least I won’t be a drain on the taxpayers anymore. Thanks, abstainers, for saving a poor wretch like me the immense burden of continuing life.

Don’t worry, plenty of non-Russians think Ukrainian lives are an acceptable price to pay for…

… not really sure what they think they’re getting out of it. But it’s very important that Russian fascists get to genocide all the Ukrainians they want, apparently.

This is what I mean when I talk about how no amount of suffering will turn people to our side.

Suffering will not cure these fuckwits.

Fucking fascist ghouls. Good on Mamdani for not putting up with it, though it’s horrifying that this is already a fucking concern.

Center-left, if we are using those definitions for far-left and left, would probably be social democracy - ie a genuine attempt to redistribute wealth within the framework of a capitalist system.

Center would be Rhineland capitalism - attempts to make a capitalist system with basic controls and direction for the interests of the people or the state.

Center-right would probably be whatever the fuck incoherent shite America has been doing the past 100 years or so, where there’s regulations and a welfare state but the government itself is constantly campaigning against them and shaming its users.

Right would then be the Reaganite trickle-down fever-dream where laws are a suggestion and the accumulation of wealth to the elite is an end in and of itself.

Thus putting far-right as outright fascism or ancapistan.

I remember having a talk with a vet friend about this very subject. We both mused that it feels like having a fucking funeral for a deeply flawed creature that we nonetheless loved very much, and that is now shuffling around like a grotesque, insect-ridden meat puppet.

I love when people use the results of the ratfucking to try to prove there was no ratfucking

Oh, great, we’re back to the “Every poll was forged in a massive media conspiracy to cover the DNC’s vote forgery” hours, it must be 2016 or 2020 after Super Tuesday.

maybe let the people who actually vote for the party decide who they prefer as candidates

Those people said “Clinton” and then “Biden”. Both over Bernie, who was far more charismatic than both and with a fucking spotless record, unlike both.

Not sure that the primary voters’ll be delivering a progressive savior unless the demographics of who votes in Dem primaries changes radically.

(the closest we’ve ever been was Sanders, and the DNC ensured that he was not going to be on the ballot.)

Ah, yes, when the DNC forged millions of votes to make Sanders lose. Twice.

Fuck’s sake. Show up for the primaries next time, goddamn you.

Bad area, ceiling leaks, noise all night from the railyard, recent mouse infestation despite two visits from an exterminator, pipes intermittently stop working, pretty sure something is fucked with the electric bill, rent just went up 100$. And it’s still one of the cheapest places I can find.

I’m fucking living in it. God bless America.