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The "Cool Zone" is essentially a state of internecine violence (triggered by admin violence, state rebellion, whatever), described as such ironically because it would be very Not Cool to have a civil war rip the country apart.

Leisure and hospitality lost jobs, so that's probably part of why.

Also, compared to the last 3 Octobers, these numbers are down ~148,000 jobs on average (though this figure is seasonally adjusted).

Themperor Shit.

"most dem victories where centrists"

i say later in the 🧵, i'm not claiming this as a victory for either normie dems or socialists

it's a victory for opposing fascism & not trying to appease it (which comes in both lib & left variants)

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

(Men can also cure their loneliness by better socializing with other people in a non-romantic context and not all solutions to the male loneliness epidemic are about getting laid)

Like what the fuck are we supposed to be when Biden's signature achievement in office was literally called the "Inflation Reduction Act" and every commentator ostensibly on our side keeps pretending he nominated Ru Paul for Fed Chair.

My final non-important input on the NYC Mayoral race is that, as a card-carrying centrist lib, I would rather be in a coalition with Democratic Socialists (for all I disagree with them on) than in a coalition with fascists, quislings, or collaborators; it's not even close.

You brew espresso at home for the same reason you brew beer at home; love of the drink.

It is probably important that I resist the urge to literally yell at these people when I meet them IRL, but God is that a hard thing to do.

Note this is the same Sen Johnson who, when informed that seniors in his state (WI) were upset that DeJoy's attempts to kill the USPS were resulting in them not getting their prescriptions on time, basically said those upset seniors simply weren't real.

No idea why WI votes for this chucklefuck.

Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.

Democrats: Important to pick the precise dollar amount of minimum wage increase that’s most popular lest everyone get mad at us

Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!!

Voters: I like you roughly the same amount

Also the fact that everyone seems to have not known Trump's policies, even though he and people associated with his campaign stated them all the time (but also lied about them just as often, granted).

The fact that no one can remember or knew at the time about Harris's incredibly popular policies (per polling) despite her mentioning them constantly in speeches and TV interviews is so obviously a bigger problem than choosing more popular policies at the margins.

This is why some people are betting the shutdown ends after the off-year elections but not really any other time, imo. Either the elections in VA and NJ go so horribly for one of the parties (most likely GOP) that they feel there is no option but to surrender, or...? No other obvious scenario.

Like, we might have dodged the productive years of fascism where they still have enough people who are craven but effective around them, a la Germany in the mid-late 1930s or Russia in the earlier Putin years, and skipped to "can't save themselves by virtue of being themselves."

I continue to maintain that having the American fascists out of power from 2021-2025, and then being forced to pick up again with their cult of personality strongman at Hitler circa late 1944 mental faculties + foot soldiers overcooked in the propaganda, might be our saving grace here.

On the one hand, easily resolved with a few light compromises with local PDs in power-sharing arrangements that don't look down on and mistreat the local PDs.

On the other hand, that's literally the kind of thing this Admin is fundamentally incapable of doing, even if it benefits them, every time.

If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context.

People sometimes ask me why I care so much about housing policy now that I'm married and live in my wife's house in the suburbs; the answer is I spent 10 years struggling with crazy rents from bad policy choices in NYC/DC and want people to have opportunities I did not in my 20s, it's that simple.

I make a lot of jokes about how my wife is the one who owns the F-150 in our relationship (carpenter), while I, strongman competition husband, putt around in my Buick Encore because I work downtown. The forces of social masculine presentation are whack.

I'm partially convinced the whole ballroom and arch thing is downstream of someone convincing the dying narcissist that he will be remembered better from these works than from expanding the territory of the USA by invading Canada or Greenland.

The biggest Russification of the US yet (making things look like they've been bombed purely through corruption and negligence)

Based on nothing but vibes, I feel like historically you'd want to have as many pregnancies as possible where the medical threat was minimized, which seems like something communities could heuristically determine was in a woman's 20s/early 30s.

Ok, but you say you can't find where Dems are speaking out against these issues, which they speak out against constantly, then when asked if you're following them to see what they say, you respond derisively about how you can't stand hearing from them. These are obviously conflicting statements.

"I literally never want to hear from Dem electeds, which is why I don't hear them speak out on issues I care about. This is their fault somehow." lol, lmao even.

How many Dem electeds do you follow on this site, and if the answer is 0, have you considered how that might negatively impact your ability to see what they're actually saying vs the rage purveyors want you to see to make you mad?

I was going to be like "do people not remember the kinds of people the GOP nominated during the Tea Party?" and then remembered I'm almost 34 and am barely old enough to remember the 2010 cycle myself, so fair enough.

Every September I do something I call No Vice September where I quit caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, THC/CBD, porn, and this year I tried adding short-form video content, but at the end of the day it turns out you can't really deprive yourself into productivity, in my experience.