BlitzoTheOisSilent

This is exactly what I was pointing out, dude. You asked how there was a debate, I showed you the debate from the perspective who may be having it themselves (I'm not Palestinian, btw, I'm a white trans veteran, so I don't need a lecture on fascism or any of your moral grandstanding, thank you).

Your response is to immediately dismiss all of it.

Have you even been watching the news these last eight years?

Have you been following the voiced and vocal outcry from the Arab community via their protest vote movement? Or any other actions taken to silence the voices of anyone who tries to publicly bring attention to the Palestinian Genocide? Actions taken against them during a Democrat presidential administration on both college campuses and public and private forums?

This is clearly something that is very important to people, and you're doing exactly what I pointed out:

Condescending to me as if I don't understand the two options, while refusing to understand why this demographic may not want to vote for a party that's demanding their vote while giving them the middle finger.

I'm not attacking you, and I'm voting Harris, and will continue to encourage others to do so as well. But to act like "tRuMp BaD FaScIsM" is enough for the Democrats to keep riding on is delusional. If our issues don't matter, what difference does it make what form of government fucks us over?

"We have more important things to worry about than your concerns, so stfu and vote for our people so we can go back to ignoring your concerns."

That's more or less what you're saying here, and what the Democrat Party has been saying this entire election cycle. Anyone who is having conflicting feelings, regardless of where they may be coming from, is insulted, condescended to, or outright attacked because... They have concerns they want addressed?

Explain to me how that is unreasonable? And if it is unreasonable, I would then ask, why should they care about what you want? I pointed out on another thread, but if both parties are going to ignore you and kill your friends/family, and the only thing the people you thought were supposed to be allies will say to you is "Get the fuck over it, it's not important enough, etc...."

Well, put yourself in their shoes, and ask yourself why the fuck you would care what happens then? If your family is going to be genocided either way, and one party is going to be worse, but the end result is the same... Why do you care? Your allies don't care, so why should you?

The Republican party may be a party filled with hate, racism, misogyny, facism, and every type of cultural phobia there is, but they at least support each other. The Democrats are condescending and entitled, particularly towards their own constituents. Then they wonder why they always lose.

And I give Harris credit, to be clear, for coming out and saying there will be contingencies on weapons shipments to Israel should she win, and I hope she carries through on that (even if it's just political showmanship). But if she loses, I will have zero kid gloves or sympathy towards anyone who didn't think Palestine was important enough.

When people show you who they are, believe them, and the fact that Harris: won't commit to stopping arms sales to Israel, just had Bill Clinton tell a crowd of Muslim and Arab Americans that Israel has to kill civilians because of Hamas, and rejected pro-Palestinian group's requests to have Palestinian-American speakers at the DNC...

Sure seems the Democrats don't like Muslims/Arabs much when you look at it from their perspective.

Texas isn't landlocked, though, they have a decent sized coast along the Gulf of Mexico.

Other than that... No notes. 👍

Idk if I have ADHD, but I have been diagnosed with depression, and I've said this almost verbatim to my therapist several times over the years, including yesterday:

Life is too overwhelming and I'm always burnt-out. Every single day. Even if I'm doing absolutely nothing, I'm tired all the time and never have any motivation ever.

I'm depressed and miserable because society is set up in a way that my brain just doesn't work with. I've dropped out of college twice, and my work history is like a hopscotch board of different employers across various industries. I get burnt out at a job (the workload increases too much, the pay is too low, management ruins it, etc), end up quitting to try another industry, usually taking a pay cut because I physically feel like I'm going to explode if I even step foot in the old job again. Spend indefinite amount of time unemployed before taking some other job I'll grow to hate and resent in less than 6 months.

Even my current job, I'm probably going to quit this week because I'm so fed up with life I've called out for basically three weeks straight. It cost me a raise I needed badly, but the whole time my friends are telling me to do what I need to do to take care of my mental health... But now I can't pay my bills, and they've got overdue and overdraft fees because they're late because I'm not making enough to keep up.

And I'm just done, I'm tired of it. I'm put on meds so that I'm not an inconvenience or burden to society, that's it. It doesn't matter if they fix anything or help, just so long as they make it so I can wake up and go to work and make money for the system that is actively leaving me behind. And I'm expected to be nice and pleasant and shit rainbows and sunshine while suffering day in and day out, because the idea of death makes people uncomfortable, because the idea that life isn't working for someone else lile it is for them is just nonsense, it's impossible.

And I fucking hate it.

I don't get this. Y'all on Lemmy are constantly screaming about, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," about people like Trump and the GOP, but you won't acknowledge the same about Democrats.

You're right, Bernie is older than Biden, and some of the Squad are in their 40s/50s. I never said otherwise. And AOC is the youngest a president can be.

Bernie ran on a progressive platform, Biden did not, and Harris is not, by her own admission. The Squad have progressive ideas they push and campaign on, Harris and Walz have not shown support for these same policies. She's showing all of us that is not a progressive candidate, which is all this discussion is about.

She's the far better candidate compared to Der Orange, no one should be voting for Trump. This isn't a "y'AlL nEeD tO vOtE tHiRd PaRtY" comment, or one telling anyone to stay home, or any of that.

Harris is just not a progressive candidate, and a 60 year old woman who's lived her entire life in the upper middle class has much less in common with the average person than someone like AOC.

That's what this whole comment chain was about: someone asked why Harris may have pressure behind the scenes to oust Kahn as FTC chair, and that would be the only reason I could think she'd do it: her wealthy donors want a less progressive FTC chair so they'll stop going after the oligarchs, and Harris's campaign seems to be very "return to the status quo" like the Democrats always seem to be doing.

I don't get this. Y'all on Lemmy are constantly screaming about, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," about people like Trump and the GOP, but you won't acknowledge the same about Democrats.

You're right, Bernie is older than Biden, and some of the Squad are in their 40s/50s. I never said otherwise. And AOC is the youngest a president can be.

Bernie ran on a progressive platform, Biden did not, and Harris is not, by her own admission. The Squad have progressive ideas they push and campaign on, Harris and Walz have not shown support for these same policies. She's showing all of us that is not a progressive candidate, which is all this discussion is about.

She's the far better candidate compared to Der Orange, no one should be voting for Trump. This isn't a "y'AlL nEeD tO vOtE tHiRd PaRtY" comment, or one telling anyone to stay home, or any of that.

Harris is just not a progressive candidate, and a 60 year old woman who's lived her entire life in the upper middle class has much less in common with the average person than someone like AOC.

That's what this whole comment chain was about: someone asked why Harris may have pressure behind the scenes to oust Kahn as FTC chair, and that would be the only reason I could think she'd do it: her wealthy donors want a less progressive FTC chair so they'll stop going after the oligarchs, and Harris's campaign seems to be very "return to the status quo" like the Democrats always seem to be doing.

Blazing Angels. Amazing flight simulator fighting game that I still have the discs of for either XBox or XBox 360.

The game is still listed on Steam, but you can't buy it. I absolutely loved that game growing up, making your way through the ranks, taking part in some of the biggest air battles of WWII.

I told a cousin once I wasn't going to be lectured on morality by a woman whose sole contribution to society was how much money she could spend at a liquor store. That whole post I wrote was honestly, according to my brother, some of the best criticism he's read, quote, "You called her a lush without ever actually using the word, while also going up one side of her and down the other, saying everything the rest of us wanted to." That cousin, to this day, will not interact with me at family gatherings.

I also once threw shitty advice I was given back into my boss's face in my resignation text, to the point where he mentioned it felt "personal" when he called me to try to get me to stay. That was the resignation friends/family told me I should be a writer because, "You have a knack for telling people to go fuck themselves in a way where they thank you afterwards."

My go to, though, when someone insults me is to usually respond, "I've been called worse by better."

When it stands up, it made me think that RoboCop and the Pixar Lamp had a baby 😱

The examples I gave have been from her campaign this year, I'm glad she's voted progressively compared to most US Democrats, but she is campaigning as a moderate.

As for her age, yeah, I'm glad we don't have someone who's an octogenarian running, but she's closer to Biden's age than she is AOC's, an actual progressive Democrat.

Well, to start, politicians will say anything to get elected, so their words mean absolutely nothing, regardless of party affiliation.

This article was the first I'd even heard about Harris potentially ousting Kahn, so that's potentially a good sign. However, Kahn and the FTC have been taking swings at the oligarchs via their Google monopoly lawsuits, going after Apple, etc.

Harris (and Walz) are centrist Democrats, they are not progressive. A progressive candidate would be calling for the minimum wage to match where it'd be if it was tied with inflation, around $26/hr, not bringing up the $15/hr debate that should've been done a decade ago. She hasn't signalled support for Medicare for All as far as I remember, she went back on her promise not to expand fracking, and she's made no mention of enshrining LGBTQ+ rights into law or stopping weapons sales to Israel (she has said their would be contingencies, so she still agrees to help the guy actively working against her with her opponent), all progressive ideas.

So, she likely doesn't support these things because her party, and more importantly, the donors who line their pockets, don't want her to. She's a career Democrat, she's not that much younger than Biden in comparison to someone considered progressive, like AOC, so her policies are going to closer align with the Status-Quo centrist Democrats versus the We-Need-Change-Now progressive Democrats.

Tl:dr: Harris is a centrist Democrat whose party (and by extension, her party's wealthy donors) do not want progress made, they want a return to the status quo, as their policies have shown (Palestine, M4A, Fracking, etc). Her donors likely don't like that the FTC chair actually has a backbone, and since the status quo is more important to the Democrat Party (look at how they treated Bernie) than progress. So, the donors are likely pressuring her behind the scenes to put a Garland-esque Chair in charge of the FTC: someone with no backbone.

My dad asked me recently how much I made per paycheck. I told him I take home $1100 every two weeks, assuming I didn't miss any work because I don't get PTO.

Dad: "You make $2200 a month?!?"

Me: Yep, I told you, I'm broke.

Dad: "You're not broke, you're poor."

Me: No, I'm both.