Nothing will fundamentally change until people are skipping meals. Not, like, a few people, more than half the people.

The boomers are shit. Because they are old and the elderly are generally shit.

It's not that they were born shit or taught to be shit, it's that people with money, greedy, low empathy people, live longer on average.

So the empathetic people doing their thing die off over time and leave the conservative assholes alive and voting.

Also the boomers were exposed to leaded gasoline for the longest period of time.

Gen X wasn't shit but they are turning to shit because they are getting older and wealthier. Millennials will be the same. There used to be a theory that millennials would break the trend and stay leftists but it was just delayed and as they buy houses and build wealth they are shifting right.

Every generation turns to shit because they get old and the poor die off and the remainder vote to hoard their wealth and fuck the younger generation.

This will keep going until something changes at the level of great. Depression or WW2. A pandemic 20x as bad as COVID might do it. Actual nuclear war. Complete economic breakdown, something that destroys the wealth of everyone and resets the board. Maybe birthrate collapse will do it.

Short of that we will keep having the same fights every decade.

If PTSD sets in, the teabagging will increase.

Separating Europe and Asia is just racism really.

If you want to kill a whole lot of people, your police will suffer and eventually quit if you just have the execute people en mass. This happened to the Nazis and it's the prime reason the gas chambers were constructed.

The police need to feel like they are doing the right thing.

The realistic hope I think is that Cuomo had support from extremely wealthy backers. New York Real Estate and Wall Street, Bloomberg, all backed Cuomo.

The people said no. The money didn't swing it for Cuomo. The name recognition and the money didn't swing it for Cuomo. The dynasties didn't swing it for Cuomo.

Mamdani came in and offered real improvements to people's lives and they gave him their votes.

They fought like the fight Trump. Sternly worded letters. Op eds. Speeches. Press conferences. Maybe a procedural vote or 2.

You must be really inspired by that energy.

Dems did the same thing to trump. This could go really well.

Anyone could have run vrs Biden. That asswipe from Michigan did. I looked into his politics and decided I would rather have Biden.

Small in number. Bernie came close both times, but 40% of the primary voters is like 2% of the population.

I would remind you that Clinton was legit popular with dem primary voters. She nearly won vrs Barak Obama, historically charismatic candidate.

The rules for primaries are clear. Anyone can run in them if they get the signatures.

If you don't like the candidates that's fine but Democrats individually decided not to run against Biden.

The party can't stop them.

Middle age progressives have been pissed off since 2009 or so, when Congress scraped the public option from the ACA. We won a few victories (yay marriage equality) but the ghouls can lie, like they lied about keeping roe. So they will keep winning until they are met with honest people willing to change the system.

Socialism or lose.

Sounds accurate to me.

AI avatar of the victim spoke of forgiveness. Family that created it asked for the maximum sentence, more than the prosecutors, and the judge delivered the maximum, saying he could hear the genuine forgiveness in the AI voice.

This sounds like some black mirror doublespeak.

Article says his sister wrote the words, and she and her husband created the avatar.

If just my state left, and I could leave to another state, that would be pretty good. Two Republican senators gone, roughly 15 net house reps gone, and an influx of dem refugees like me into neighboring states.

Texas could legit try to make a go of it as an independent nation. It would be a disaster for my family though.

You have been playing too much rainbow six. There are no good guys in the halls of power looking after us.

There are only the rich fucks over here and the rich fucks over there pulling the levers of power.

It's the only rational course of action we have left for them. They would be insane not to try. I don't know if they will succeed. Mosad seems all powerful, but they will certainly try.

When I first saw the pic it was clearly blue/black. I laughed out loud when my wife asked me about the white/gold dress. I showed her my phone, and she agreed she could kinda see the blue black. She showed me hers, and I could kinda make out the white gold.

The device you view it on matters, and the lighting around you. For a while I could switch between them with concentration.

This pic is obviously white/gold.

I gave my wife anxiety by moving through life blissfully unaware after transition. I was blessed to have only positive experiences for a time.

A few conversations and experiences later and I take more precautions.