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Right! That's not the only reason I like to emphasize their weakness rather than their strength--good morale is its own reward!--but it's an important one. You see SO much learned helplessness here.

So you want to be bribed. That's it. You want to be bribed to give a damn about your fellow human beings.

What we SHOULD do is mandate proper behavior for you and your billionaire buddies and actually throw you in real jails when you commit crimes.

It's also one of those pokemon that feels like it shouldn't be much bigger than a large dog and would make a decent amount of sense for a child as long as they could learn to be real careful of that horn.

I mean Absol is basically Pokemon Cassandra.

An image of the pokemon Absol. It's like a white and black cat/dog creature with a sharp blade coming out of one side of its head and a sharp black tail.

Probably this one. Early warning system pokemon probably given to my host as a child to keep him out of danger.

Does Cuomo think this got legs for real?

Experienced a bit of this the last time I went on a trip and it was REALLY good.

She's definitely hitting on exactly what we've said we want them to hit on.

And vaccination grew out of a practice folks were doing in West Africa and was taught to a western doctor by a man he enslaved.

Worst of all worlds. We got an incompetent response to the initial outbreak, which then spiraled out and made the later responses less effective, and yet somehow also the saintly and benighted People have taken this to be what Democrats would have done and wanted to have done and that's a lie

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was Donald Trump actually handling the first nine months of COVID and somehow Joe Biden and Democrats got tarred for everything Donald Trump actually did, shittily

The only king I'd quibble about this on is Mansa Musa and even then, the living standards are so astronomically disparate that even if the money is the same adjusted for inflation the standard of living isn't even close.

It's unfortunately why I'm nowhere near as optimistic as some folks while keeping the worst of my thoughts to myself and hoping/working as though the optimists have the right of it.

Autopilot is a bitch and a half and I GET how the first bit looks so I ain't mad about it.

Yeah that's nice and all but Europe literally dropped the ball with Putin and has Orban and his ilk to contend with and you people just bury your heads in the sand to pretend it goes away. Sweden elected Nazis over hearing Arabic in Stockholm.

Agreed. We been in threads making this EXACT argument together.

But I'm also tryin' to point out why the constant beating on them doesn't do anything good.

We do "Trump take egg" as a bit, but groceries are legit super expensive now and there's been so many that I don't know exactly which one of Trump's stupid policies to blame that on.

understand Dems are basically beaten dogs at this point because of the way we treat them and that doesn't make them want to fight. It don't make ANYBODY wanna fight.

You gotta build the fuckers back up.

This is the kind of rhetoric we SHOULD be taking to our Dem electeds. On their phones, in they town halls, in the email boxes and stuff.

Let them know the kind of fight we want and THEN when they do it go "yes more of that please!"

Gotta give em some praise when they do what you want.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker rejects Texas Republicans' threat to arrest state Democrats:

"Texas law does not apply in the state of Illinois, and there's no federal law that would allow the FBI to arrest anybody that's here visiting our state. So it's a lot of grandstanding." @nbcnews.com

i think you need D+15 but yeah

That should've been enough last election and yet we saw a bunch of wreckers sabotage Harris and legions of people who just would NOT support a Black woman. -_-

Honestly not believing anything until it gets down to voting time. People can say anything in a poll and I've seen first hand how polling can get weird.

RIGHT!

And I think that shit TERRIFIES THEM!

Hell, Coogler made the embodiment of that white fear the villain in Black Panther and gave us a whole movie with Black women telling him he needed to not be on some fool shit.

No, the REAL fear is that we WON'T do that shit.

And what it says about the folks who did all that awful to begin with and then used the idea they'd get it back as an excuse.

"WE don't care and that's what really bothers ya'll"

Is right next to a point I STAY making. Some folks think white folks are scared if we get a fair shake and start running shit we'll exact revenge on em.

And I don't think broadscale that's what we do. Cause it's happened and we didn't do it!

Like nationalistic rhetoric delivered by vtube anime catgirls reeks of algorithmically optimized propaganda promulgated by moneyed interests hell bent on steering us away from class consciousness should fill regular people (all colors genders and ethnicities) with revulsion.

Blacksky was amazing to find when I got my ass here but yeah, I've seen the same thing. We've been less than satisfied with this place from the beginning and times it feels like it only gets worse.

progressive men are dating fine because it turns out straight women like it when their boyfriends respect their rights

Is it? In my circles the narrative is still that they're repressed, anti-sex and shitty in the sack.