Franklin

bye-bye fast food, hello real estate business

i mean I’m glad they fact checked but… no fucking shit

at the rate the Senate’s spine is deteriorating i suspect it to slip by their scoliotic corpse within a couple years.

I mean yeah, Dems have complacent leadership but they are definitely the much better of two bad options.

My point is even if you had ideal leadership, inevitably discontent of uncontrollable externalities would cause a tick-tock cycle between the two parties as reactionaries are just part of the human condition and the party willing to play dirty will always come out on top in a two party system.

well that’s kind of the point isn’t it? every time the Republicans get in they do so much damage that it can’t possibly be done in the inevitable swing back to the left that they create and then by the time they get back in because of all the reactionaries they just do more damage

kind of the end result of a two-party system if you think about it

i think the number itself is fairly arbitrary. what we need to evaluate the cost of living and aggressively taxed above the point at which only exorbitantly lavish wants come into consideration.

i think this would be wildly different depending on externalities and extremely difficult to ensure fairness, while avoiding excessive means testing which can cause a lot of overhead.

it’d be interesting to hear other’s ideas. that being said it’s a lot easier to say fuck the rich than to determine an enforceable definition of excessive.

put that limit at 100 million please

I think they mean the $100 million to billionaire class. Or at least I’ve always taken it to mean that, no one in any fabricated middle class will be harmed.

CGP Gray’s rules for rulers still sticks with me.

Completely irrelevant because

1. This is what “forcing” the democrats to make a change looks like, all it will ever do is shift the overton window to the right and make things even worse.
2. What really lost the democrats the election was years of gerrymandering, voter suppression and making it just difficult as fuck to vote in Dem areas.

Imagine thinking democracy is only your duty if you feel energized by the candidate.

voting is power, hell not voting is power. is it a fair system?

fuck no, but not voting did help get us here

disclaimer: gerrymandering and voter suppression also played a huge role

For people who are so against transgender folk they sure do like to take advantage of gender affirming care.

Unfortunately that does seem to be the way it’s going, I give Bluesky 8 years before it’s as bad as current day X.

needs to be in the form of that Henry Cavill meme where he says “PC”

the way I’ve always put it is you have an idea of who you want to be and you have to work to be that person every day and it’s okay to fall it’s okay to fail but it’s important that you keep trying.

I really would like to see some of those checks and balances I’ve heard so much about. Must have gotten confused—it’s cheques for the rich, on our dime, to make their balance keeps going up.

this meme made by the brat gang

I thought it was just called a switch

Ubisoft’s management won’t let them make a good game. imagine getting up tight about the color of the cast and not the mountains of copy paste garbage quests, microtransactions and time padding rpg mechanics.