Adding My Own Bit About What Dens Do When They Lose: They Go More Conservative And Move To The Right.

Adding my own bit about what Dens do when they lose: they go more conservative and move to the right. After 12 years out of the White House, Clinton won it back by being more conservative than the rest of the democratic field. I won't say Obama did the same thing, but a lot of his policies were to the right of where Regan was in 1980.

If you, like myself, are sick of America sliding into a fascist police state, sitting home and staying out of politics is NOT the way to fight it.

do you really think voting for the dems is going to make a difference?? this is a genuine question.

Absolutely.

Because historically, that's how you get them to move left.

Now, and let me be clear, this is not the only part. Because once we elect them, we have to keep fighting them. It may seem counterintuitive, but in a two party system it is far more advantageous to have someone in power who you can fight and push on issues than to let them lose.

When Democrats lose, they don't go looking to resell the left on them -- they tend to move center, because folks in the center are still voting, and they think they can win those voters over. They don't think about the part of the pie that's missing, just what they can get out of what's remaining.

Now, long term, we need to think bigger. We need to be pushing progressive candidates on the state and local levels. This is because that's where the real battlegrounds are right now. All of our issues with trans rights in the last few years? Largely state based actions. Be active with your school boards and city councils. They have a lot more of an effect on your daily life than the folks in Washington.

This will also help build our "farm team" (to use a baseball metaphor). It's what Republicans spent the seventies doing, and it's part of how they ended up getting so much power.

The Presidency gets all the focus, but in truth we just need someone progressive enough to sign the legislation we want passed. Presidents fuck us over really easily, but rarely have the power to make our lives better. We have to keep that in mind.

We vote for Biden as a stop gap -- the finger in the dam. We then go and build the future on our own.

Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.

If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.

This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.

PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!

Signal boosting to show where I stand on these issues. While I enjoy conspiracy theories, and a lot of the New Age stuff, it's mostly because I think they are bullshit and fiction.

Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

People supposedly on our side regurgitated Republican propaganda about Hillary and Trump was elected. Many of those same people are now actively regurgitating Republican propaganda targeting Biden.

Some people are completely naive about how foreign policy and diplomacy work. Short of sending in troops Biden can’t force that little prick Netanyahu to stop this madness. At this point Netanyahu is actively trying to sway the election in Trump’s favor. Trump and the Republicans in power means the literal end of Palestine and its people.

Repeating Republican/Hamas/Iranian/ Russian propaganda will only make things worse for the Palestinians, Americans, and the whole world. Biden is a good man doing as much as he can while being hindered by a Republican House of Representatives and an illegitimate SCOTUS. Stop calling Biden the lesser of two evils, he is not. Trump is the only evil person (from an evil party) and he’s already proved it repeatedly.

Trump killed over a million Americans, killed more Middle Easterners than Netanyahu, and is responsible for the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Further it’s almost a certainty that Putin put his proxy Hamas launch the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel. Putin needed a distraction to take the world’s attention off his campaign in Ukraine and wanted to weaken Biden in the hopes of getting a more compliant Trump back. Putin funnels money and arms through his other proxy Iran to Hamas, which is also a proxy of Iran and has also attacked Israel.

Hamas are not champions of the Palestinians, they are an oppressive terrorist organization holding Palestinian as virtual hostages and using them as literal human shields. Palestinians want them gone as much as they want that little shit Netanyahu gone. Hamas leadership resides in luxury estates in Qatar that are paid for by Iran. Most Middle Eastern governments are oppressive autocracies and they only way they can keep their own people from rebelling is to provide them with a common enemy as a distraction and that scapegoat is Israel. Just as states like Iran need Israel as a foil, Netanyahu, and his conservative government, need the Hamas terrorists and hostile regimes like Iran to keep himself in power.

Protest Netanyahu and his supporters as much as you want as they deserve it and more. Donate to feeding and caring for the people of Gaza. I do both. But don’t repeatedly drag Biden through the mud and dissuade people from voting for him. Biden is trying to solve this nightmare while Republicans are giving speeches about how they are going to exterminate Palestinians and confiscate their land.

All these slogans you repeat came from a Republican think tank. Please consider doing something constructive for the Palestinians instead of working to get Trump back in the White House, because if he does we all lose.

Kenny from South Park might as well have been an X-Man.

X-Men fans: Oh no! They killed this character! They were my favorite! X-Men fans who've been reading the comics since the 1980s: Oh? They put that character on the bench for a while? I wonder what stories are coming up that the writers felt that guy needed to be gone? I wonder what big reveal will have them return, or will that be a problem for the next creative team?