So why does this only show Republican states as actually banning it? Yeah I'm with you on Democrats slow walking this issue, but Republicans are actively banning it. Until that changes we're stuck with only those two options. Corpo Dems or corpo-fascist Republicans...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
I generally feel pretty dead inside most days, but I did find some value in this video today. The Internet is usually pretty good for finding humorous stuff. Hopefully you at least get a chuckle from it!
Exactly! And of all people an editor-in-chief pretty much rarely encounters the written word. That position and the entire industry around it aren't exposed to words that often so it's totally excusable.
We're in such a wonderful position: Kamala does nothing about Israel like she's paid to do and Palestinians die.
Trump wins and not only does nothing about Palestine, but encourages Bibi to go harder, more Palestinians die annnnd we get to enjoy the beginning of a fascist dictatorship!
Notice how Stein isn't even mentioned in the above? You can claim it's about putting pressure on Kamala all you like, but this is the literal election. When she loses because of this "pressure" (that isn't pressure, it's literally not voting for her at all) what's the outcome? It sure as hell has nothing to do with Stein being anywhere.
We've been having this argument about the green party for fucking decades and what progress/policies have they "forced" the Democrats to adopt?
I think aside from the obvious genocide, what really fucking pisses me off about Democrats and this topic is that "we" can sooooo easily say "handguns for self defense ok! Shotguns for self defense ok! Rifles for self defense ok (depends on magazine size and rate of fire) bombs? No! Tanks? God no!" But when it comes to Isreal they suddenly completely lose the capacity for nuance... Bombs = self defense? Are you fucking joking?
We’re all powerless alone
That's the "funny" thing about it. ALONE we are powerless. The really really hard part is getting all of us together.
Media in the past that wasn't purely propaganda for the sake of manipulating the population would have achieved this simply by the reporting done. Now all they do is give cover to the assholes committing the atrocities across the world and we have to fight with each other just to convince people what is actually happening and why it's bad...
Divide and conquer works and it's why we never seem to make progress. :(
So just going to chime in here with a little advice that really should be obvious, but don't tell someone who is suicidal to just get over themselves.
A person wants to end their existence and your only reply is to completely dismiss their pain as absurd. As someone who is suicidal pretty much every day, the whole point is not wanting to exist in this pain and not seeing any way out of it. There's nothing to "get over" as people like us think of ourselves as the lowest form of garbage imaginable. A joke I often make is "Hitler had more redeeming qualities than I do."
The only thing accomplished wtih your statement is making you feel better about yourself, it doesn't help the other person at all so the whole "got nothing nice to say, don't say anything" applies here.
I feel similar but I wouldn't say I particularly hate my parents.
I was an accident and honestly if anything I'm very frustrated that the only reason I was born was that my grandmother is super religious and refused to even entertain the idea of an abortion, hell she's even responsible for my name (again from the fucking goddamn Bible. For me that's ironic since I loath most organized religion.) but my parents in no way should have gotten together. I think my mom was just attractive and my dad is a pig for sex (I recognize some of that in myself so I guess I got that from him... Thanks...)
As others have mentioned it's not so much that the entirety of all 38 years of my life sucked, but for me I have a distinct memory at 11 years old of having this feeling that something wanted me to kill myself because it just kept "poking" at me, making life miserable in various ways. I gave the sky the finger and said "fuck you I'm not doing that" simply out of spite of whatever it was. (I don't believe anything like that now). So I have to imagine childhood wasn't as bad although I did have to live through 2 stepfathers that both wished I didn't exist probably as much as I do.
Anxiety runs rampant through my father's side of the family and I've definitely been depressed for the entirety of my teenage and adult life. The world wouldn't be affected by my passing, but I sure as hell would love to hit the "off button" as well. All that said, if women even found me worthy, I would never want to pass these absolute garbage genes on to anyone. That should be a crime thats how shitty they are (except my immune system, that seems pretty ok lol)
I'm rapidly approaching 40, but I'm there too.
Most "normal" people see watching a movie or playing a game as a passive experience, you're "doing nothing."
For me that couldn't be more wrong. I almost never "just" watch a movie or show, that's wayyyy too passive for me. Playing a game is engaging, you may not be physically running around, but you absolutely are "doing something."
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