you know… I don’t think I could pick many better ways to remind a population that they are nothing more than chattel.

superior quality rulling there, supreme court.

/s on that last sentence, cuz you never know.

you are absolutely right.

I just wish more of us did not allow ourselves to be purposefully distracted from our own self-governance

please stay safe.

yup. the rise in diagnosed neurodivergency isnt just because tools are better. I think we have genuine, solid frequency increase.

please stay safe.

with dwindling resources on a warming planet, I think the likelyhood of a significant nuclear exchange is dramatically increased - perhaps even inevitable.

agree with the great filter. it makes me think that humans, having acted as a great filter for our hominid family tree, are about to reap what we have been sowing for the last 200k+ years.

or this could be a one of many catalysts for speciation. I sometimes feel that some people are already a different species. not better, not worse (not willing to engage in subjective morality) - just different, with different goals, problems and problem solving tools.

"…because Donald Trump is the leader America deserves.”

unironically, this hateful village idiot may be right.

gonna sign off for a while. I just cant stomach looking at the festering, gangrenous wound these people have opened up when I know it will destroy the lives of so many I care about.

deeply worrying article.

if by some miracle the country is saved from an own-goal and trump is not crowned god king by January, it will be due solely to the American public - in spite of the Democrats.

we are literally down to the very last line of defence - an educated, engaged, caring voting population. I am worried.

The pro-trump crazies aren’t the majority of the Republican party anymore.

this is an underappreciated truth, but they quite clearly control the party. the dems need to give a reason for a solid majority of people to get off their asses and vote - apparently the threat of a literal fucking fascist takeover isnt quite enough.

“I’m not trump!” is typical dem fantasy BS at this point. the maga crazies taste blood and are about to frenzy feed.

He won’t apologize for killing queer folks

indeed. trump is completely removed from the suffering of others. everything has been performative so far. but the dems best be packing political heat in 72 hours or america is collectively cooked - but I have no faith that they will get their act together.

seriously, at this point the Democrats have got to do something bold. the combined trajectories of this election and the country are not promising.

edit to say… my bold move would be:

• biden steps aside (powerful good of the country speech and all that - huge opportunity to remind everyone what a shitbag trump is)
• kamala sanctions this process by somehow transitioning funds to a diff general account.
• dems flood the news cycle with a mini primary (flash campaign and debates) all the way up to the convention with a diverse selection of candidates… showcase the big tent and range of ideas.

don’t know how they deal with delegate votes for a nominee, but the dems have to take over the news cycle and keep the focus on them with at least the veneer of something vagely democratic and energizing, otherwise I think we get king klepto-fascist.

this is likely a pipe dream and I am going to shut up now.

musk provides the word games, trump provides the word salad. sounds like an appropriately shitty party to me.

…you should do the opposite.

does poor and politically unconnected count?

as, for example an elm or maple? a random mutation may have provided a small spur to a seed. the spur changed the trajectory of the falling seed and may have allowed it to fall further from the parent plant and into a more ideal growing environment or simply further afield, which would allow it to slightly out-complete others plants.

if this change proved sucessful over longer periods of time, then the mutation would likely get more pronounced as long as the mutation continued to improve the plants fitness for its environment. fast forward 100,000 years later and environment pressure combined with inheritability and mutation have given you seeds with glide wings.

they were already united.

this is about mobilization and harris may be able to bring a wider, deeper pool of voters to the polls. I can tell you, where I am, there is absolutely no fire or enthusiasm for biden and we will miss warm bodies at polls pulling D levers because of it.

she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.

¿¡ they came as a pair. if either one were so completely distasteful, neither one would have elected. the “ticket” included everyone on it.

well… doesn’t matter, ranked choice hit the threshold. ;-)

ranked choice voting will help save whats left of american democracy.

will he remember though?

ooof.

but seriously, he was not my first (or even third) choice. I tolerated joe “nothing will fundamentally change” biden for 1 term, and expected him to step aside and (my words) “show the world what a vibrant 2024 d(D)emocratic process looks like for a nominee that makes the choice between between Republicans and Democrats as clear and night and day - after all, the stakes for america and the world could not be greater, right?!”

I did not expect cognitive freefall (for both biden and the democratic party) with a side of kill more brown people. guess many more of us should have taken the “nothing will fundamentally change” bit to heart and expected the soulless machine to eat us all. seriously, fuck this bullshit.

excellent point.

I will just say that life extention has made vampires of old men. with only a few exceptions, they express no real desire to hand the future to those who will be living it.

n… ye… goddammit!

those boxes seem to be getting ticked mighty fast.