Which of these are going to survive the coming purges?

To ask the question a different way, what are some examples of recent progressive wins accomplished by the preferred methods?

So, you don't think that the suppression of nonviolent methods of reform influences the decision between violence and nonviolence?

I understand your point. The ideal solutions are nonviolent ones.

Do you think if given the choice between nonviolent reform and violent revolution people would mostly choose violence or reform?

How* do you think the suppression of non-violent avenues to reform might influence this decision?

Another example of how peaceful, nonviolent reform is being made impossible.

Tried it once you mean.

I still don't believe the first 'attempt' was real.

A guy at the rec center I go to to work out literally just threatened to fight me because I told him they would close the sauna for a few days if people leave wet paper towel on the thermostat.

I have never heard a thicker more forced Italian American accent in my life. Took all my willpower to keep the peace and not ask him how long has he been an associate of Mr. Soprano.

Happy holidays y'all

No.

I'm not certain that the opinions of adults can be changed except by reflection after something traumatic happens to them personally or sometimes a loved one.

I wonder if we will have elections again or not

I've told this to multiple people but still can't work out an emotionally tolerable handle on the situation.

I am only alive because the very rare and life saving open heart procedure I had as an 11 year old was paid for by a program called Children's Special Healthcare of Michigan. As child/ adolescent would be star of the GOP, I argued against socialized medicine on the basis of 'cost' while my own family would have been at best, bankrupted and homeless trying to pay for my procedure, or I would have died in an emergency room of a preventable infarction.

For the entirety of my life, when this program has come up for reconsideration for funding in the Michigan legislature, Michigan Republicans have voted to try to defund it. They don't campaign on it because it would sound ugly, but candidates my parents voted for, supported removing the program that saved my life. They still do.

I have wept salt tears several times since the election because this program and others like it are not likely to survive the coming purges. The number of preventable deaths among a community I am deeply connected to is going to rise and I feel helpless to do anything about it. Particularly because among the parents of sick children, there are still republicans arguing that they SHOULD be bankrupted by their children's medical expenses. That their child SHOULD die if they can't afford to pay for a life saving surgery or medication. I don't know how to deal with this. I've deeply offended several people I've known almost the entirety of my life for being rude to people who say their own child's healthcare should be paid for but not those people's kids because they are brown. For being rude to antivaxxers who are trying to spread their misinformation in a community that is protected from dangerous infections BY vaccines and masking precautions.

I'm heartsick, and grieving already.

My new therapist who I had only seen a handful of times was recently put on life support and is expected to pass away soon if she hasn't already, I haven't heard an update in a over a week.

My disability got renewed again without fuss, which is good. Been fighting with the spouse which is bad. Going to couples therapy which is good.

I fucking hate this time of year. If I could just be put into a chemically induced coma until December 26th I'd go full jordan peterson russian detox in a heartbeat.

Funny, just last night I flooded my kitchen by walking away from the sink refilling it to thaw a turkey.

Cheers to being damp.

S

Apropos of nothing, Glorb has been essentially outed publicly as the semi-famous YNG Martyr

Glorb did an interview a few months ago with MoistCritikal, a super famous youtuber, and the internet did its usual sleuthing and compared shots from Martyr's social media and videos to the interview and it seems to line up. If YNG Martyr isn't himself Glorb, its his producer or someone very close to him.

That being said, in his latest song 'Guapanese' he drops the line 'I got two acts like I'm Miley C, Miley C' which most people have taken to be an admission that he's Glorb.

The battleground looks different if you are looking on this side or the archeological side of the media extinction boundary.

I need to just suck it up, buy a pair of carboys and start brewing my own kombucha like i've talked about for almost a decade now. I have basement space, I have time, I lack willpower, weak bitch I am.

Hopefully I can post in a few weeks of kombucha progress. Tired of paying for something that does so much good for me esp since I can do it myself.

Do you still feel this way now?

Forget legacy media.

looking at instagram, tiktok and youtube, the Harris campaign has been EXTREMELY active and MUCH MORE hands on and willing to get 'nasty' than I've ever seen democrats.

Strong defenses of Walz's military record, the 'weird' attack seems MASSIVELY effective based on the conservatives immediate and strong reaction to it.

If we are being positive, this is a post legacy media election. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, all irrelevant except as citations being quoted to people who don't read them anyway.

He also fucked a couch.

Future funk has a reputation problem where a lot of people will hear a few licks and think that it's the opening music to an anime.

We are so cooked bro.

Ok.

My 'hang up' is the fact that our system is being actively used against us, in front of us, and the best we can muster is outrage when the rule of law is outright ignored by 48% of the country.

I hope MK's prediction of 25 years from now the Anti-Mcconnell reaching the peak of his/her power is correct.

Ok.