Good. Gentlemanly warfare is a ridiculous concept. If someone invades your country you fuck them up in every possible way you can. Send those Russians home with chemical burns and nerve damage. They’re not going to stop murdering civilians so why play nice with them?

Am I just jaded about the whole internet or does this read like an AI summary? It feels too specific to be written by a human.

If they’re worried about billionaires having too much power and trying to shut them down then perhaps the NYT should have done more to prevent that situation from being possible. I recall many instances in the past decade where they went out of their way to provide cover for both billionaires and fascists. You reap what you sow.

I suppose that’s fair. It still bums me out though.

You’re not wrong but I don’t know why we bother pointing this stuff out anymore. If there’s anyone out there still expecting consistency from conservatives they aren’t paying attention at all, which means they’ll never see any post pointing out the inconsistency.

Obviously people believe what they want to be true more often than not. That doesn’t make the phrasing unclear. It makes people stupid.

How is being more descriptive and leaving less room for misinterpretation a tactical error?

Name one judge that has flown out of a window

You think you’re as embarrassed as you could be? We’re just getting started. You can’t even see rock bottom from where we are now.

Do you think this is new information to me? I don’t understand what your point is.

Will they? They should but I’m not convinced the EU has the will to make that happen.

You’re justifying Dems being ineffectual. We don’t want to hear it anymore. We’re tired of watching Republicans play dirty to get what they want while Democrats sit on their hands and complain that governing is hard. Republicans fight despite the odds and that’s why they win more than they should. Democrats could do the same but they choose not to. I don’t want their excuses. I want them to fight even if they eventually lose the battle. Giving up before it starts is completely unacceptable.

I’m pointing out that delaying bad things is it’s own benefit. Your original argument relies on the premise that a delayed outcome is no different than an instantaneous outcome and that is obviously not true. I’m not sure why you need me to connect those dots for you.

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This is the same excuse I’ve heard for 15 years, even while they had a majority. Meanwhile, Republicans seem able to get shit done even while in the minority. I’m tired of excuses. Do something useful or get the fuck out of government.

I genuinely hope racism and sexism are the primary motivations behind this because that’s pretty much the best case scenario

You might think so but I’m not convinced. They’re both clearly not well adjusted individuals. If anything I think the pettiness gets to them more than your average person.

Part of it is that the left isn’t seen as fun. We’re too serious and judgmental all the time. Many times there’s good reasons for that but young people don’t want to constantly hear about taxation and proper pronoun usage. Talk about legalizing LSD or something once in a while.

And yes, I understand that the right isn’t fun in a way that most people would want to be but there is definitely something to be said for not gatekeeping language to an absurd degree. Let people express themselves without all the “well actually that’s ableist because…” interjections. People only listen to you a finite amount. If you burn through your educational goodwill on minor stuff no one is going to listen when you warn them about important stuff like fascists taking over the government.

There may not be anything positive she can do but a good person vacating the position seems like an additional negative.

If a small, one time pop-up designed to solve your problem makes you give up on solving your problem then you were never going to solve that problem.