FlashMobOfOne

Just don’t watch the “extended” version. The only scene added was a janitor walking into Bastian’s hidden reading space and complaining.

I’m in my 40’s and still have nightmares about G’Mork sometimes.

And the latter portion of the book was even darker.

It’s really fucking shitty, I agree.

The sad fact of the US is that what you described is what we vote for every two years.

Respectfully, only someone who doesn’t know much about investing would make the argument this meme is making.

This generation isn’t going to be cashing out any of their retirement funds for another generation, and isn’t going to realize any gains or losses until that happens when they retire. Any gains or losses in the interim are generally inconsequential.

People at retirement age likely have the bulk of their funds in money markets and other exceedingly low risk investments, as that is money you cannot afford to lose.

Now is the time to buy stocks at a discount. Think of this as a Steam sale for your pocketbook and buy as much as you can while stock prices are in the tank.

(But yes, the news headlines are very scary.)

And remember how the guy who lead the My Lai Massacre got house arrest? (But only after documents on the case were leaked.)

I love how, in the same thread, you credit Republican opposition with stopping the Democratic agenda and then claim that Democrats are powerless to do the same.

Why are they powerless?

***Because they’re voting with Republicans and helping them steamroll us when they get a chance to withhold their votes and draw concessions or filibuster, which yes, is something they deserve full credit for doing as a party. ***

Nope, but I have seen the Democrats hand away their leverage and capitulate to fascists.

Hence point #1.

On average, between 4,000 and 5,000 bills are considered in Congress every session.

Democrats should filibuster every one that makes it to the floor until Trump is out of office. Zero wins.

Correct on both counts.

Their opposition is purely performative.

I did, however.

Exactly.

1. Replace Schumer and Jeffries as congressional leaders, and make it publicly known it’s because of capitulation to fascism.
2. Filibuster every fucking thing. Zero legislative victories, no matter how minor.
3. Dredge up every scandal against every Republican, go on every podcast and every news show and put them on blast. Make sure there are a personal and professional consequences for supporting fascism.

They are not powerless. They just have to fight dirty, which they should damn well be willing to do after watching the government get plundered for the last three months.

I remember Kamala and Mike Johnson being all smiles on Inauguration Day.

To me, it means a general sense of shame.

I’m glad I live in a place of general abundance and I have everything I need and some of what I want, but being someone who reads extensively, I keep finding myself learning things that were deliberately withheld from me in the public school curriculum and I understand why the rest of the world hates us. (Some examples, the Tulsa Massacre, the Battle of Blair Mountain, railway strikes in the 1800’s, etc.)

I don’t stand up for the national anthem either, because even though I was born here, this country doesn’t represent the values important to me. (living wages, health care, leaving people the fuck alone even if they’re a different religion, etc.)

It’s punctuated every election season, when I watch 49% of Americans make excuses for genocide, poverty, and endless war while the other 49% pretends to give a shit just because the other team’s guy is currently in charge. There’s never any meaningful self-reflection by either 49% in the wake of massive negative change.

Nope. It’s all because of the Dems. They did this. Those bastards.

You’re being sarcastic, but yes, part of this problem goes back to that. History has proven that inventing superdelegates to subvert democracy in their own primary process was an absolutely horrible idea. It was also a fascist one.

They not only broke their own primary process, but they got sued for it in Florida and argued it was their right to do so.

Patently absurd, but they did it and got away with it.

They just need to stop crowning candidates.

You know what’s uneducated?

When voters tell you exactly what they want, and for the most part, it’s only two things, and you ignore both.

They wanted food prices to come down because staples were becoming cost-prohibitive, and they wanted the US to stop sending WMD’s to a child genocide.

The candidate you expected them to vote for said they wouldn’t change anything and that these people, who are having problems affording food and are sick of watching their friends get bombed to “just be joyful”.

Your education, and that of other Democratic voters, didn’t do much for their critical thinking.

It’s like they slept through the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.

I suppose, in a way, they did.