I love the ones going on about how we can't let perfect be the enemy of the good when we're asking to just meet the bare minimum

It’s wild how many phrases there are for “shut up about your fucking principles” among the democrats.

Purity tests are just standards. Candidates should meet minimum standards to serve the public.

100% justifiable

There’s also a weird uptick in people policing how other people come through in this moment. Idk maybe it’s just IME, but …what part of k*ll the cop in your head wasn’t clear?

When your child succumbs to a preventable disease at least you can take solace in the HHS secretary being able to do pushups.

Combat.

People with standards are just the worst

the chat is dreaming up a NIMBY board game where the player with the fewest public amenities on their board wins

any random tech bro could announce that he's going to build a lifeship out of neutrinos and fairy dust and the press will unquestioningly repeat it and call him a genius

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
Groucho Marx, who died on this day in 1977

Hmm. Turns out the evil and the lesser evil people have evil solidarity. Drat

You just described Democrat leadership.

The fundamental solution is replacing most of them.

the world oppresses you and abuses you and the then calls you crazy when you fight back

The message is "Grow a soul, shitbags." There's no nice way to say it.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it frighteningly surreal that the terrible atrocities, injustices and war crimes of faraway lands that we studied in history books when we were kids are now being committed, promoted and even celebrated by our own U.S. government, on a daily basis?

Turns out affluenza is terminal. Who knew?

Something we should really think about is that "the children we are starving to death were already sick" isn't supposed to be some kind of exculpatory defense, it's an attempt to inject the idea that it's okay to kill people who are sick or diseased or disabled into mainstream conversation

[healthcare for all]

AMERICA: who will pay for it

[deploying ICE, police, and the National Guard to comb every inch of U.S. soil in order to protect a convicted felon, rapist, and child molester]

AMERICA: will a blank check suffice

The leadership of the Democratic party is not anti-fascist. I think that it's helpful to keep this in mind at all times.

At a certain point, it becomes collaboration.

I wish we could get people to understand that “lesser evil” isn’t neutral, or good, or even just a little bit bad…but literally the “banality of evil” which was the essential core of fascism itself.

Wow who could have predicted if you just vote for evil and lesser evil capitalist politicians they just enable fascism

If you believe that ‘we’re all going to die,’ you’re correct. Now what?

It’s a guarantee that you will die. What kind of life will you live in the meantime?

Just think about the kind of person who, today, with everything going on, thinks "I want to be an ICE officer." What are the chances of that being a decent human being?

The road to hell is paved with people saying "That's not realistic."