Yeah. Ego, in the sense of the story about yourself that you tell yourself, is an extremely potent concept. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people get called out on their extremely shitty and deliberate choices and react with “I won’t take this, this isn’t fair, I’m a good person.” They actually believe that they are a good person, and good people don’t do bad things, so they’re being misunderstood and unfairly attacked. When the mirror is held up that attacks that narrative about themselves, it’s like an actual psychic pain, and people react almost like they’ve been physically attacked.

“but all I wanted was an even more negative tax rate and to be able to fire workers for getting hurt on the job! I didn’t want the dictator to threaten me with the window treatment”

“free speech”

Never ever take fascists at their word, they’re all bullshitting you always.

I… Somehow just realized that I can of course change my editor font. After three years in professional software dev.

Any recommendations for maximizing readability?

I think this is it, tbh. I have to constantly remind my kids that math isn’t memorizing the answer, it’s knowing how to look at a problem, follow the rules, and figure it out. And it always seems so very arbitrary to them, as it used to for me as well.

Worth noting that a BUNCH of votes got disqualified thanks to distributed, local efforts by Republicans, and the effort was targeted. The article I read pointed out that black people got their votes tossed 900% more often than white people, for example.

It’s a little known fact that the Nazis were turned back at Stalingrad by a weekend protest full of clever chants and picket signs.

Reminds me of Red Dwarf:

Lister (or maybe it was Rimmer): That’s a mermaid? Shouldn’t it be a woman on top and fish on bottom?

Cat: No, that’s the stupid way round!

Danny John-Jules absolutely crushed that role

Did Putin write this?

Until I can pour them into my gas tank, they’re not facing enough pressure.

Yeah, I still think that was the advisors. The DNC is really big on hierarchy and shit, and there’s a lot of high ranking people that would have shit their pants in horror if Kamala had admitted anything bad about Joe.

I mean, I literally didn’t vote for Biden-Harris in the primaries. I think I voted for Dean Phillips?

But yeah, honestly, if they hadn’t had Biden step down the election would have been an unmitigated disaster, like 1984 bad. I really think that they had a solid chance to win, but then they pivoted away from the excitement and new, raw energy in the Harris-Walz ticket and pivoted into “Look! It’s Katy Perry and Beyonce, wow! Look, here’s Obama lecturing down to black men, it’s not even a little cringe! Look, it’s Liz Cheney! Worried that we’ll say mean things about republicans? We muzzled Walz!” At some point, it reminded me a lot of the HRC 16 campaign, and it turns out there was good reason for that: they put the top HRC '16 people in charge of the Harris campaign. If anyone ever deserves to get struggle sessioned, it’s those folks. Maybe not killed, but definitely at least the public dunce hat treatment.

The democratic party is very big on hierarchy and pecking order from what I’ve seen. They believe that being a long time party member should count for much more than being an actually effective politician or persuasive speaker. To suggest that the ancient corpocentrists should be even remotely threatened is tantamount to heresy. That’s why they were so horrified when Obama “stole” 08 from Hillary.

That’s exactly the plan. Schumer has said out loud that the plan is to just let the republicans off the leash, let them sink their own poll numbers and hope they teach the voters a lesson.

That lesson, of course, being that you can put a Democrat in office to do nothing, or you can put a Republican in office and the democrats will still do nothing. These fossilized assholes need a solid kick in the pants. I would like to wish Schumer and his ilk a very merry get fucking lost.

Woah, there, enthusiasm?! Listen, buddy, we prefer our voters begrudged.

It’s still awful, jesus

Jesus Christ, this is awful

Ehhh. I worked in EMS in the US for 15 years, people definitely thought worse of the homeless than the dead.

Well, yeah; if you’re dead, the government and society won’t go out of its way to kick you in the head.

Part two turning things into cool physics made me giggle IRL, good job