There’s also the folks that try to discourage folks from participating in political change, be it by voting or protest by saying both sides are bad and it doesn’t matter what we do.

It’s a tellingly consistent message, that first began showing up in the last US presidential election.

My favorite though was when I spelled tanki wrong and left it because it was cute, and they were outraged that I would spell it wrong more so than calling them tanki.

Widdle tanki got a sad sad that someone was mean to poo poo

Yes, anytime China is criticized for human rights abuses (and rightly so) replies are flooded with wall-of-text “rasonable explainers” sealioning why one should never criticize China, especially not Americans.

Get to know all your neighbors

We host a free cookout at the end of our block every week. Nothing fancy, hotdogs and smores, chips, beers, water, soda… Every time someone walks by we ask them, hey, want a hotdog? All kinds of folks show up – white middle class, punks, fellow queerios, Black and Latinx neighbors, kids, teenagers, sr citizens…

Sometimes we block off a section of the roundabout and play four-square

Absolutely the best thing I’ve seen for building relationships – community --within the few blocks radius.

No permits, zero affiliation with “open streets” (cop funded) or any other municipal grant.

The highlight of my week

9 all the way, with intervals of 1

Hey, Boomers had hippies which arguably did some good, but that turned out to be a small percentage of that generation, which itself was huge (hence the name boomers). And now all the ancient people selling out our country in Congress and in the White House are, of course, boomers who won’t leave office apparently even when they die.

Gen X is this tiny blip of a generation. We have our artists, our activists; we have third wave feminism, which honestly, thank you. But we also had fucking Rambo, and “greed is good”, mega-churches and all of that bullshit. And that turned out to be the majority of Xers.

Millennials have a bunch of good chip coming out of that generation, but also vaccine denials and all of that health, conspiracy shit.

The whole naming of generation thing is just marketing and manipulation. Pitting various segments of the working class against each other to to keep us from doing anything about the Epstein class.

Either you’re you’re part of the solution or you’re not, doesn’t matter how old you are.

Edit: My first ever piefed wall of text. Shit, I guess I’m a troll now.

Yes, I definitely make use of rsync for backups of specific directories, so, in this case, no data would have been lost if I had relied solely on timeshift. But it’s a very convenient way of snapshotting the whole system.

Timeshift is essentially a gui on top of rsync anyway, if you look at what it’s doing behind the scenes.

Yeah, I needed that, thanks.

awww, shucks… yer right. why get our hopes up early… the race is prob’ly rigged any how. might as well just stay home on election day and beg the fascists for mercy on Wednesday

NOPE

Fuck that noise, we’re going to win this thing.

Edit: hang a banner, host a BBQ, send some cash, knock on doors, and ffs VOTE

hah, thanks for the invite to study your works, but yeah, nah

it’s pretty clear from the data that laws restricting firearm access reduce gun violence.

I often wonder what happened to the 1200 people that they “lost track of” at Alligator Auschwitz.

edit: source: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alligator_alcatraz

Groucho Marx masks, fursonas, wax candy lips, infra-red disco ball earrings…

classic. (al)

this person gets it

the only downside is that once you figure that out most romcoms stop making any sense

I think it’s neat. Talacrio is a genuine progressive – him running is a breath of fresh air

Imagine people getting fired up to vote for someone they who they don’t have to hold their nose for – that’s what hope feels like

All the people in here commenting, like “oh no, there’s a hope! Step on it!”

Wouldn’t want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?

I believe this is an example of ironic understatement to emphasize the obviousness of a viewpoint

I choose to believe that Keanu Reeves posed for that meme.

I thought y’all were doing an import boycott from us south of the border…