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I think Republicans use spoilers when there’s something somewhat unpopular but it’s gonna pass anyways. Like if there are 54 would-be votes for something in the Senate but it’s a controversial issue, you can expect a no vote from Collins, Romney, Murkowski so it passes 51-49 and they can look better to their constituency. If it’s closer than that, they rotate who votes no, but the three of them never actually block anything

Tough race between r/Seattle and r/Portland

Parenti stopped being friends with Bernie after the Kosovo vote afaik

Have you seen that TikTok video that was like a 3 way split screen of Yellow Parenti, someone playing Subway Surfers, and one of those visual ASMR videos? We need to make more of that type of content

/r/trueanon is probably on the shit list unfortunately, gonna miss those nerds

I can’t imagine that that’d happen, they need to maintain some level of “we’re trying here” in order to effectively rile up their base to vote. Not appointing someone to the NLRB is much less noticable than Supreme Court justices stepping down. I think that the optics are best for both parties if the Supreme Court is basically always a 5-4 split one way or the other, or it is always 5-4 ®. That way the line is that it’s always this close to {getting the Supreme Court back,the other team getting the Supreme Court} to mobilize voters.

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some “fun” anticommunist highlights included:

• The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
• The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
• The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
• The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
• The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
• The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
• The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren’t forbidden from existing by the state
• The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it’s not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn’t doing this)
• There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren’t allowed to deviate from the USSR’s policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

Can I be racist to Fr*nch and Br*t*sh people too?

Aren’t hand counted ballots the most reliable form of counting ballots and the hardest to tamper with? I must say that I don’t really trust voting machines

https://web.archive.org/web/20201105081005/http://berniewouldhavelost.com/

https://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/

Not the op but everyone raves about this tofu feta whenever I make it: https://erinireland.ca/vegan-recipes/the-best-tofu-feta-ever-hands-down/

Bonus: if you have access to powdered lactic acid (e.g. Druids Grove), use 1/4 tsp of that instead of each tablespoon of lemon juice