Al Petterson

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

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Voting is a consequential act. It isn't a moral act.

And now you lose out on those issues, far more than you would have, because they weren't pure enough for you.

I guess if we wait a few more years, all the kids learning this tactic in grade school will be old enough to implement it in the field.

I want to know why the mass of civilians didn't swarm the three non-uniformed thugs brutalizing this woman - and why the uniformed police officer didn't stop these lawless thugs.

The result is that we ignore people like alec. He won't ever vote, because no one will be good enough for him. We need to build a coalition with people who will actually vote. That's the lesson here. The party moves right instead of left because the left doesn't vote.

"Be a magic sparklepony unicorn that farts rainbows, otherwise I take my ball and go home."

Voting for the lesser evil is your fucking job, otherwise you get the greater evil.

This narcissistic attitude that sees a vote as a curated extension of your personal brand or a version of a celebrity endorsement is going to be the death of this nation.

Who needs zyklon-b and ovens when you have a swamp filled with hungry alligators?

Who needs zyklon-b and ovens when you have a swamp filled with alligators?

"When was Raiders of the Lost Ark set?"
"1937, I think."
"And it was released... what year?"
"1981."
"So it was set in a time 44 years before it was released."
"That's right."
"So how many years ago was 1981?"
"... Shut up and just let me be old."

He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year
Coming home to a place he'd never been before

*laughs in YYZ*

"Social liberal, fiscal conservative" is pretty much "I want credit for caring about the situation of everyone who isn't white, male, straight, cis, and Christian, but I don't want actually to have to do anything about it."

The last second of this video had me laughing so hard - still laughing

oh my god the last second

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

"This building is full of asbestos": Veteran contractor stunned at Trump's "next level" demo of the White House East Wing for his ballroom "I would be fined out of existence if I demoed a building like this."

For everyone asking what we should do about it after the jack-o-lantern rots:

It's going to be so shoddily built it's going to fall down on its own. The best to hope for right now is that the East Room is still structurally intact, given the degree of not-giving-a-shittery the demolition entailed.

Honestly I agree they're sexy - the difference is I'm glad that ladies feel secure enough to wear them, and I want to keep the society that's okay with it.

I'll lay odds this guy was a regular at Hooters. He likes it when the restaurant *makes* girls dress like this.

I think it was always a third of the electorate, which is why "social liberal, fiscal conservative" was never anything but boutique neckbeards who read Ayn Rand and thought she wasn't clinically insane.

Gen Z programmers love it, and I can understand why: they are scared of punctuation.

There are type systems that are hacked onto it that make it acceptable, but I will never get over the disrespect that the debugger showed me.

There are design choices in this language that have been abandoned since fortran, and there were reasons they were abandoned.

The debugger will dump objects at you with zero formatting, but the language requires you to indent all of your code precisely correctly. The day I got that middle finger from this language was the day I started making plans to retire.

Hell I use his quote on democracy all the time, and 1981 me would be horrified too.

historical experience suggests they cared about the twin towers and the pentagon

For a while I bought that a lot of this was “we in the press are liberally inclined and we’re mad too so we can’t tilt coverage in our direction because that would be unfair.” Somewhere along the way that metastasized.

suggestions for improving wording?