In 1992, Ross Perot got about 20% of the popular vote as a third party candidate. How did that “help get away from a 2 party system”? That’s not a rhetorical question, I’m curious.

What “lesson” do you think the DNC learned in 2016?

What’s your plan to institute ranked voice voting & national popular vote?

Ok Boomer.

Lung is dumb as fuck, but can you not use ‘retarded’ as a slur in the year of our lord 2024??

Were you alive in 2000? Bush & Gore were often parodied as too similar

Also, The End of History

Does this remind anyone else of House of Usher?

Libraries are physical media

Tell me you haven’t actually been to a library in the last 15 years without telling me.

Have you not heard of Libby? Of Overdrive? Next thing you’re gonna be telling me Libraries aren’t a solution because not everyone can use microfiche…

As relevant here as it was there

No one’s fucking voting for genocide; not even Biden (whose actions on Gaza are not acceptable) is voting for genocide; say what you want, but he’s not telling them to go into Gaza. And the 2024 election is about whether you want America to still be a democracy. A fascist USA helps no one.

Can libraries not get subscriptions to news services for public access?

Libraries?

Could you explain more- so you want a la carte options, like pay on a per-article basis? And to be clear, you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right? Like, you never could access all articles from the entire history of the NYTimes on demand for free, that was never a thing. The paper for that day was locked in a metal box you had to pay to open, and all you got to see was half the front page.

Or, you know, support libraries…

I’m actually pretty happy Trump exists.

Good to know you’re not one of the many women he’s sexually abused. Good to know you’re not a pregnant child being forced to give birth to her rapists baby after Roe was overturned. Good to know you’re not one of the million+ Americans who’ve died of the pandemic Trump bungled.

I’m glad you’re privileged enough for the Trump administration to not have devastated your well-being.

Fuck accelerationism.

Facing The Consequences of the Bill You Yourself Proposed is good actually, and should apply to both parties, yes.

For real; that comment was either made by a child, or someone severely ignorant of history

In the US on Android, unencrypted SMS messaging comes default. How do you propose getting a technologically illiterate boomer to not use SMS?

Can we PLEASE, in the Trump / Brexit era, recognize how baseless accelerationism is? Have we not learned the lesson of

“Once these people do this terrible, stupid thing, they will realize how terrible & stupid it is”

-is completely false? And in fact tons of people will double down on the stupid terrible thing? They’ll double down so much that they’ll gladly swallow horse dewormer & bleach, and not get vaccinated, and literally die drowning in their own fluids before admitting that maybe that wasn’t such a good idea?

The Russian Federation actually does give a fuck about climate… They want to make global warming worse. They get to sell more gas, they get more arable land up north, and they open up shipping routes in the Arctic. Putin is Captain Planet levels of evil, fr.

“retards”, really? The fuck is this, 2001?

Hey folks, polite reminder that YOU (yes you!) can be on the DNC instead. If this headline upsets you, ask- why are you not on the rules & bylaws committee of your local Dems chapter?

People get upset at the DNC as if it’s some mystical wizard that exists in a different dimension. BRO, what are you doing right now to get involved in the DNC you have such strong opinions about?

Dems started 2021 with a 50-50 split in the Senate. In 2023 they no longer had the trifecta. Do you understand the limits of lawmaking?

There is little chance that Trump would do much worse than Biden.

This was your original statement. I have demonstrated beyond a doubt that it is absolutely false.