Hextube simulcast of said stream
give me more election streams if you can
So how's it gonna turn out? Will Fettermania sweep Pennsylvania? Will the Pied Piper strategy fail yet again? What excuse will Dems have for not doing anything?
Fuck if I know. Discuss below or something.
That sounds like Latin to me.
Is this place turning into Italian-friendly zone?
I have never been so checked out of an election cycle. Normally I get in some high quality shitposting on :reddit-logo: but even this go around - not even that. Why bother? There's was only one contest on my ballot and both candidates are total fucking ghouls.
I remember rolling up to a bar in 2014 to drink my sadness away. Tonight, I'm playing D&D with some friends and I haven't bothered to check shit.
Gotta say, this feels like a much healthier way to live.
I know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels nearly embarrassing to think I thought anything would ever change for the better. And equally embarrassing having feelings of utter despair 2 years later when the dems would on cue get rekt.
Knowing this is all meaningless now is very freeing, even though I still vote (usually). I feel 1000% better mentally.
I know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels nearly embarrassing to think I thought anything would ever change for the better.
Obama was one hell of a drug, particularly to a liberalized college-brain. What's the old adage?
If you're under 30 and you're not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're over 30 and you're still a liberal, you have no brain.
There's a real appeal to liberalism. It plays on a kind-of naive optimism that shit is going to work out because people are fundamentally good and all our goals are reconcilable with the right technical expertise. And as you grow up, you gain all this competency and agency, and its easy to think that your personal development will mirror the rest of the world around you.
Knowing this is all meaningless now is very freeing
Its frustrating to me, because I felt like I had a plan when I was younger. Now that I'm older, I feel more helpless and exposed in a way I never did as a younger person.
I do feel better not being plugged into the circus. None of the anxiety that wracked me after 2016 - literally keeping me up half the nigh just staring at the ceiling in stunned horror. Now I can just not care.
You only live once.
Don't waste your life being a wonky politics guy - unless that makes you happy.
Gonna watch fellowship of the ring then play GoW ragnarok. :grillman:
letting go of the american electoral system has done wonders for my mental health lol.
i got hit by a car on my bike for the first time on the same day i voted for democrats. coincidence? i think not
i'm fine btw, just a bit banged up and my bike is kinda fucked, no biggie
I'm going to worry about you anyway :meow-hug:
Car insurance should pay for all bicycle riders to have a gundam flying behind them protecting them from cars.
I'd Sue them no matter what. Insurance will pay 10k to make you go away. Go to the hospital now. Get some documentation.
This, happened to a friend of mine and the insurance company has set package payouts for this. Anything that made it hard for you to go to work is especially good.
my chain ring and the metal piece around it is super fucked, will have to be replaced. i'm not sure if there's anything else.
Ah that's good to hear, decent chainrings are pretty cheap, and if by "metal piece around it" you mean some sort of chainguard that can possibly just be bent back in shape.
Oh, and you should have a good look at the chain to see if it was damaged with the chainring
Every other day a car barely hits me when I'm on my bike, this happens way too much i fucking hate cars especially in cities
Can’t believe Oz isn’t going to win even after the CIA shot Fetterman with the stroke gun. They must not have had it tuned up to Large Son mode
I think this is the first election in my life I've been 1000% checked out for. I don't know shit about shit and it feels nice. Been really stressed out lately, not caring how badly the Dems get their asses beat is a load off ngl
Say whatever you will. I agree with it all. But god fuck am I glad Dr. Oz isn't going to be a fucking senator.
Democracy itself is on the line. The right threaten to undo everything. Which is why we need to lurch to the right. Lurching to the right is the only way to stop the right being ascendant.
oh wow first gen z congressman!
Pro-Palestine position reversal controversy
In early August 2022, the Jewish news website Jewish Insider published a candidate questionnaire from Frost's congressional campaign that marked a sudden reversal in Frost's foreign policy positions on Israel and Palestine.[25] Frost had formerly participated in pro-Palestine activism, but in the questionnaire he distanced himself from his past while declaring an aggressive stance against the BDS movement, calling for unconditional military aid to Israel, and stating his opposition to anti-Zionism.[23] His campaign later released a position paper that formalized these new pro-Israel positions.[22][25]
Progressive groups have since lambasted Frost for "abandoning Palestine on his way to the Democratic primary victory",[26] while his former pro-Palestine activist colleagues have accused him of deceitfully using pro-Palestine "organizing success as a stepping stool to become anti-Palestinian" and engaging in a bait-and-switch as vote by mail ballots for the primary election had already been cast before his shift in policy positions.[10][26]
:doomjak:
I mean he is a Floridian. I half-expected him to be a Cuban gusano.
AIPAC is willing to play both in the primary and general, and Democratic leadership isn't pushing back.
If I got rug-pulled into voting for a zionist like that I'd be :the-plan: :the-doohickey:
We make fun of the Democrats so much here that we sometimes forget that the GOP are just as capable of fumbling the bag. What an absolute embarrassing night for them.
John Fetterman:
“Whenever I’m in a situation to be called on to take up the cause of strengthening and enhancing the security of Israel or deepening our relationship between the United States and Israel, I’m going to lean in,” ... “The relationship is a special one that needs to be safeguarded, protected, supported and nurtured through legislation and all available diplomatic efforts in the region.”
Fetterman said he was “eager to affirm” his positions on the record, lest there be any uncertainty among supporters of Israel who have similar questions. “I want to go out of my way to make sure that it’s absolutely clear that the views that I hold in no way go along the lines of some of the more fringe or extreme wings of our party.”
Embarrassing is an understatement
Midterms? What midterms? My students midterms are next week, and they're kind of fucked if I'm being honest.
Almost wished I had completed my education degree.
Teaching was fun the two summers I shadowed at a CC than a HS.
I haven't done it in a few years, but it's nice to do it again, for the most part.
88% of colorado voted to get rid of taxes for widows of veterans, but only 50% voted for affordable housing :centrist:
:maybe-later-kiddo: you get to enjoy tax benefits because your spouse is a murdering piece of shit who got domed by some guy blind firing
