Listen to the other folks, but also if you graduate in the fall semester you have way less competition for a job since most people graduate in the spring.

So you’ve got that going for you.

“Sorrry, I have an NDA”

+5 if their little sibling is riding a tricycle around the restaurant

I was thinking their inter-war bomber designs, and their early attempts at fighters post WWII

Not pictured: French aircraft design

My dad has had a wall wart that does this since the 80s. Goes from 1.5 to 9 volts and even lets you adjust barrel polarity.

I broke so many electronics with that thing…

For racism!

Even fewer people are aware of internal DNC politics than they are of primaries. And based on my experience with a state and local Democratic Party it will take overwhelming force to push out the cliquey busybodies who dominate those sorts of organizations.

But if that happens then we have the problem of actually winning the general election more than once, otherwise it’s just a flash in the pan and back to business as usual.

The structure of our government makes pushing for legislation without a cohesive party and total dominance nearly impossible. One jerk can torpedo the whole thing, and unless we provide significant change all the folks who get excited to vote won’t bother coming out to vote again, and the progressives lose.

And the neat part is that this can happen just two years into any massive reform and undo the whole thing.

tl;dr - I don’t think it will work. I don’t think anything will work. The system is too broken and the problems are too big and numerous.

If Republicans could feel shame* I’m sure they’d be very upset.

* about anything other than sex

The world was very different 80 years ago. In order to have that kind of governance we’d have to restore people’s faith in institutions as a concept which is at an all time low.

Progressives don’t win because progressives don’t vote, and they don’t vote because they don’t trust the establishment.

As much as I’d love a progressive third party there are too many people who would immediately dismiss it that it won’t happen without giving conservatives the entire government.

Though that already happened so maybe.

To be fair, they can barely win even if they’re backed by billionaires.

I think it’s because this is a fundamentally conservative country, especially if we just include voters, and they don’t want progressive things.

And the people who don’t vote do that because they don’t believe that the government can actually do something that really helps them because it hasn’t really happened in their memory.

If you ask ordinary folks about government they don’t like it, so why would they think it would help them?

Yeah but at least they’d have style. Their popularity would at least make sense. It would feel a little less horrifyingly alienating.

Land is more important than people. That’s why Wyoming gets the same number of senators as California.

See, I only throw my vote away on primary candidates who lose and Democrats who also lose to republicans.

I also never expect anything for voting, let alone a cookie, because I no longer believe voting works.

And I don’t have to worry about giving republicans power because they just take it anyway since democrats have no cohesion.

You mean like the off-year, primary election ballot I have sitting on my table to be filled out?

I know how this shit works. I’ve been doing what people say to do for 25 years.

When will it start working?

It’s not fair to call them bootlickers.

They are people who may be persuaded to apply a lingual polish to certain footwear if the poll numbers say it might help them lose by less than 5%.

To be a bootlicker would require decisiveness that liberals do not have. Otherwise they wouldn’t be liberals.

Be the change.

They say never meet your heroes and they’re right.

I never thought SMCF would be spineless.

Pro tip for you adults: You have to actually win elections once in a while.

What’s the etymology of a red circle implying “this is not a thing to do” as opposed to circling something in red to highlight it?

At first I thought this was some kind of toxic management fad where you only hire people you can berate into following orders.