Quite fittingly, the original name of that song was My Grandfather’s Cock. Then the clergy complained…

I feel good

Music piracy isn’t rampant at all. It’s the “immigrant crime is out of control” of the internet.

Japanese corporate culture is atrocious ≠ American corporate culture isn’t atrocious

Both need some major reforms in order to be just non-awful, let alone acceptable.

Yes, like Sterling Mallory Archer, code name Duchess

Why not? The ways of Pope Zendaya are inscrutable 🤷

Guess I’m gonna go with my backup choice, then:

The less Timmy Chal anywhere, the better.

It’s Zendaya, a woman of color who’s about as cool and modern as people who didn’t pay much attention thought Francis was.

Mostly, though, it’d piss off American regressives so damn much 😁

You’re not Walter Cronkite breaking a story here.

More like Walther Cronkite breaking wind in this community, amirite?

What does that even mean, though?

Do you consider scrapping a long overdue minimum wage increase because an unelected bureaucrat with a strictly advisory role says it can’t be in a budget bill “due process”?

Because I consider that a gross miscarriage of justice for the people working two or three jobs and still failing to make ends meet because profiteering employers are still allowed to exploit them horribly.

Guess so! Right there with you myself!

I hope the next pope is as cool and modern as people not paying attention thought Francis was. And at least as infuriating to American conservatives.

I suggest Zendaya.

Take my popemobile, we’ll make it, I swear

So THAT’S where you want the goal posts now?

Sure, due process is an inalienable human right that should never be infringed upon.

That obviously wasn’t what I was talking about, though.

That’s a false dichotomy.

You’re assuming that the only alternative to slavishly adhering to the rules as determined by people who could not possibly predict today’s circumstances is to ignore the very concept of rules and procedure.

I’m not advocating for Dems to do either. I’m advocating for them to change the rules for the better when they can and to bend or even outright break them when it’s necessary and justified.

Following rules for their own sake even when it’s clearly contrary to the needs and wants of the people is just a more socially acceptable form of authoritarianism.

That first part is kinda what I’m saying: Dems adhere to the rules and procedures even when it prevents them from taking completely reasonable actions that the people who they’re supposed to represent want.

Republicans break all rules and norms to do awful things and Dems refuse to break any rules or norms to stop them.

It’s like a fistfight where one fighter is wielding a sawed off shotgun and the other refuses to even fight dirty.

That’s literally the opposite of what the Dem leadership ever does. Expecting them to put the outcomes for regular people over system rules and norms (and their owner donors) is like expecting a sheep to become an obligate carnivore.

Neoliberals don’t change the system, they ARE the system. You’re not going to get systemic change from someone whose raison d’être is protecting the norms and rules at all costs.

No worries, none of us get em all right and far too few of us have the integrity to admit when we’re wrong on the internet 🤜

I mean, "los dos“ is exactly what I asserted. Since that’s the obvious truth 🤷