nickwitha_k (he/him)

He’ll get right on it, after infrastructure week.

Nah. If they’re willing to overlook how anti-leftist Russia is, the rest of their work is suspect.

Everyone deserves to feel safe. Except for Nazis, slavers, and the like.

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If killing civilians and starting a war makes you euphoric, you’re not a good human being.

That’s why they took hand grenades during the W years. Soldiers were getting pretty sick of fighting for Halliburton.

Like UFOs and cryptids and shit. Yeah…

Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to engage in actual leftist activities. And unlike tankies and accelerationists circlejerking over “theory” and only the minimum to explicitly make the lives of vulnerable people worse (because their religion says that this will magically ignite class consciousness), I prefer to engage with my community and volunteer to help those in need. Seems the lot conveniently forget the “act” part of “think globally, act locally”, and are just happy to pretend that you’re “fighting The Man” while doing fuck all to actually improve the human condition and push things to the Left.

“Non-violence doesn’t do anything” - well, put up and take action to prove it or shut the fuck up while the adults talk and try to avoid unnecessary deaths of working class people who tankies really don’t give a shit about.

“We’ve tried non-violently pressuring people into violence so that they can die for our beliefs and it hasn’t changed anything for the better in a century. Therefore, non-violence doesn’t work.”

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Is, I think, what this boils down to.

You love to see it.

Yup. As jerry illustrated, this shit isn’t free.

Donations, subscriptions, etc are definitely fine. They are not invasive fuckery that inflict themselves on people without consent, nor do they seep into the space in a commercial manner. Ads do not respect consent and they fundamentally force commerce into every place that they touch.

Ads are the root of the rot in the www.

I read it as a poly relationship of some sort.

38 (cis-M) here. Yes, I do want kids and have pretty much all of my life. I want to give them opportunities that I didn’t have, encourage pro-social attitudes, and share in the joy and wonder of discovering things that, as an adult, are very much taken for granted. At this point, however, I’m getting pretty doubtful that it will happen.

Coming up on 10 years with my spouse and I’m not sure that I’d even have the energy at this point - being sole income and providing care for someone who has disabling mental health conditions and endometriosis has been extremely stressful and exhausting. And she’s back and forth on whether she even wants children, due to said conditions (which is not unreasonable). If we had more partners than just the two of us to share the load, it could work but, endo is chronic, degenerative and hers has only been getting worse recently so, I’m not too optimistic - for bio or non-bio.

Quick footnote on the subject: The “selfish ones” related to having children are the anti-natalists and anti-childfree people who think that everyone has the same life experience as them and want to judge others based upon their myopic views. Having children is not inherently moral or immoral - it’s just a function of biology and a personal decision.

Abso-fucking-lutely not. People need to be able to exist without having hypercommercialism forced on them everywhere.

Hope he uses the saved energy to double down and remove every last right-winger from the party.

There are those of us who will never see the protest (non-)voters as allies again due to their willingness to ignore the basic math of the election and enable fascists to win to “prove a point”. They are a step away from collaborators and hold part of the responsibility for every person who has been kidnapped by ICE, the end of a possibility of a free Palestine, every murdered protestor, every trans youth who commits suicide because they are denied care, every child that dies from measles.

Performative bullshit driven by the desire to feel moral superiority while helping get a fascist elected and undoing a century of civil and societal progress doesn’t make one an ally. It makes them useful idiots to the far-right and betrayers of people in vulnerable populations, everyone whose life is ruined by global warming.

I might forgive this who take responsibility and try to lend a hand in the multi-generation effort to try repairing the damage that has been in under 200 days (protest voters have fucked over GenX through Alpha, at the very least). But, as long as I live, I’ll not forget, nor will I allow them or anyone else to do so, lest someone make the mistake of thinking that they would stand up for anyone in any effective manner capable of positive change.

ackshully…https://hackerfab.ece.cmu.edu/

Yup. I’ve been pissed off at him since he started using the pied piper approach to avoid competition from the left, during Trump’s first term. He’s done a lot of good and bad since.

Resulting proportionality would fix all of that, and guarantee that a minority party like the GOP never gets total power. But, that’s a bit of a pipe dream.