Todd Bonzalez

That’s also the behavior of profoundly unhappy people. I think the real issue is that these are the Republicans answering 10/10 on happiness in the polls:

Ignorance is Bliss. I too would be happier if I thought all the people destroying the planet were the good guys.

This was a study in the UK where 92% of people use public healthcare, so I doubt it.

I’m confused. You think Windows 11 is better than Windows 10?

The VotePact strategy: A would-be Trump voter and a would-be Harris voter should pair up and both vote for other candidates who better reflect their values: Greens, Libertarians, whoever.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard all day, and I just watched J.D. Vance speak for over an hour.

“dismiss any criticism of Joe Biden”

“Voting for anyone but Biden”

“We’ll tokenize anyone from unrepresented groups who are in favor of Biden”

“We’ll blame marginalized communities if Biden loses.”

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lmao, what do Tankies and Fascists have in common? They still think Joe Biden is running for president. 😂

“The president can bypass Congress when it comes to funding a genocide.”

Joe Biden has not bypassed Congress to support Israel. Congress keeps voting to help Israel, because, regrettably, Israel has bipartisan support. However, between the two ruling parties (of which one will win the election in November), one is far more interested in ending this conflict peacefully.

“…but not when it comes to codifying Roe v. Wade.”

This can only be done through Congress. An EO will be toothless and get struck down instantly. With a Republican majority in the House, Congress will not pass this right now.

“Project 2025 has been in motion since the 70’s and 80’s.”

First of all, no it hasn’t. Second of all, if you’re gonna choose when something started, pick only one starting point, because something cannot start in two different decades simultaneously. Easy to misspeak when you’re just making shit up as you go I guess…

“Already experience Fascism under Biden.”

Good thing he’s not going to be president next year no matter what. I also am curious what exactly you think “Fascism” means in this context…

“Gaslight ourselves into thinking life under Biden is better.”

Good news: He’s stepping down in January no matter what. So you can stop talking about him…

“Despite the fact that we’re all struggling to feed our families and pay our bills.”

And this is Biden’s / Democrats’ fault how? They’re trying to forgive hundreds of billions in student loans that are financially holding back several generations of Americans, and what party is preventing it?

“Liberals won’t watch gore videos from Palestine.”

Yeah, no shit. Why is that where you draw the line? I don’t need to traumatize myself to support Palestine.

(Some whiny shit about social media that doesn’t acknowledge that it is corporate controlled speech)

Log the fuck off and touch grass. Nobody cares about your Instagram experiences.

“Liberals are destroying the world with their private planes.”

Rich people aren’t voting (D)…

“Liberals will criticize terror attacks targeting civilians”

Yeah, and it’s worrisome that you don’t.

Narrated by a rich white blonde girl in a $2,000+ fur coat.

Of fucking course it is…

…who is speaking on behalf of underrepresented/marginalized people

Of fucking course she is…

Tankietube

Tankies are no different from Fascists. Their entire worldview is built on lies they wish were true, and they both want another Trump term…

Sounds like it would be better to fight against this form of disenfranchisement rather than rolling over and saying “we have to split the vote if we want to run in other elections”.

Or, at least, if they’re going to split the vote to maintain ballot access, they could try actually using that ballot access to run candidates in smaller elections.

But they don’t…

Then run in local elections and fight for ranked choice voting instead of only running sybolic national campaigns that only serve to spoil the left-leaning vote…

Easy. Hamas isn’t the resistance.

There is a two-way misinformation issue right now that really complicates things. If you legitimately criticize Zionism, the pro-Israel side accuses you of antisemitism, which is bullshit. However, actual antisemites are using the word “Zionist” as a proxy term for “Jew”, and exploiting he current climate against Israel to spread classical antisemitic narratives. The result is a mix of honest “Zionism motivates human rights abuse against Palestinians” statements, and dishonest “Zionists control the world” statements.

When Jews and their allies attempt to counter antisemitism masquerading as anti-Zionism, their legitimate criticisms are treated like pro-Israel gaslighting. One of the most egregious examples of this happened in Seattle, where the Wing Luke Museum hosted a “Confronting Hate Together” exhibit featuring contributions from different ethnic communities in the city.

They kicked the Jewish group out because they said "Today, antisemitism is often disguised as anti-Zionism,” and said “pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas” (both issues that affect the non-Zionist Jewish community, and that I have personally witnessed).

Worse yet, the museum defended their decision saying that the Jewish group conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism and excluded Palestinian, Arab and Muslim perspectives. The thing is, they didn’t say all anti-Zionism was antisemitism, they said that antisemitism can be disguised as anti-Zionism. That’s true. And why would the Jewish group be obligated to include Arab and Muslim perspectives? Why are they required to answer for this conflict in this way just for being Jewish? Were there no Arab and Muslim groups invited to participate in this exhibit?

The Jewish group did their own exhibit somewhere else (so much for confronting hate together), and the Wing Luke Museum director resigned.

If folks would actually learn what Zionism is and criticize it with clarity, this kind of thing wouldn’t be an issue. Increasingly, the people using “Zionist” as a pejorative are just using it as a blanket term for “Jews I disagree with”, and that is really fucking shitty.

It’s also a message to others. If you get caught committing large scale fraud, you can avoid life-ruining consequences if you throw all of your co-conspirators under the bus.

Giving her a 25 year sentence like they did SBF sends the opposite message.

Because the war criminals committing genocide are foreign leaders who exist outside of U.S. legal jurisdiction, that can only prosecuted by waging war against their respective countries and capturing them. In the case of Israel, which I assume you’re referencing here, this is a non-starter.

SBF and Ellison are U.S. citizens living within U.S. borders who can be arrested and brought into state custody quite easily when they break U.S. laws.

It seems unfair at face value, but the alternative is just “America: World Police”, and that’s why we can only arrest people and charge them with crimes inside our sovereign borders and on the battlefield.

As far as I can tell, The Harris/Walz campaign hasn’t officially responded to this endorsement. Are you getting mad about stuff that hasn’t even happened?

Believe it or not, the Harris/Walz campaign doesn’t orchestrate endorsements. Anyone can endorse a candidate with or without that candidate’s knowledge, permission, or acknowledgement.

Harris may be getting the endorsement of old-school/moderate Republicans, but Trump has the endorsement of extremist/far-right Republicans and Neo-Nazis.

If you can’t pick a side here, that’s entirely your own moral failure.

The Guardian is a newspaper. They are just covering the news.

Other outlets are covering this also, including conservative ones.

You are way too eager to find a conspiracy here… I promise you, this British newspaper isn’t run by and for American Democrats.

If you read the article (or even just the headline) you’ll see that she isn’t campaigning against the 13th amendment’s punishment clause. She’s campaigning on abolishing subminimum wages for the disabled.

I see how little time and money my friends with kids have. It’s an easy decision.

I save hundreds of thousands more dollars to spend on myself for the next couple of decades, and significantly more time to spend doing what I want. Time that I can also direct at career-building so I can also earn more money.

I did the math and with just one kid, I don’t know how I’d retire. Without a kid, I am on track to retire early (if the world allows it when I reach that retirement age).

Imagine paying money for software designed to sabotage your business if you miss a license payment.

So what you’re saying is that you know embarrassingly little about what happened in the March 1933 German federal election…

Spoiler: Hitler won because the fascists slaughtered their political enemies and seized power undemocratically.

If you think that you can avoid something like this by “not voting for the lesser evil”, I don’t know what to tell you. Until I have reason to believe that the election will be overthrown, I’ll be cautiously looking for warning signs (there are some already), and I will vote for the party that isn’t openly and proudly spewing Fascism.

A reminder that between now and November 6, everyone saying “Don’t Vote for Kamala”, is actually saying “Vote for Trump”. Especially when they’re saying it in the comments for an article about fascists being fascist.

There are only two candidates that we can vote for with a chance of winning this year. There are no serious third party candidates to campaign for. While I wish this wasn’t the case, not “voting for the lesser evil” either means voting for the greater evil, or not voting at all.

If you actually want to avoid full-blown Fascism in America, stop fucking carrying water for Trump every chance you get.

Yes, asking an LLM a nonsense question can result in a nonsense answer.

I see it as a feature. Asking an LLM a stupid question can be fun.

My favorite is “Can I take a duck home from the park?” or “How do I teach a crab math?”.