PugJesus

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[–] PugJesus 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You sound like you have a promising future as a GOP speech-writer! Assuming they still need speech-writers after the electorate is dumbed down further. At this point, just making monkey screeches for an hour might be enough to get the appropriate Pavlovian reaction from the GOP's base.

[–] PugJesus 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Didn’t realize I had to itemize my criticisms any time I wanted to bitch.

[–] PugJesus 57 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Maybe 'raw milk' shouldn't be-

Oh, nevermind, we're going to have RFK in charge of public health now, it's a lost cause

[–] PugJesus 3 points 1 day ago

-> ‘the rock hit just where it ought to’

Perfect, just like the shot

[–] PugJesus 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Where in your comments did you assign any blame to anyone else but there?

Abstainers (and, for the record, FUCK them for not caring about literal fascism)

This election was fucked from top to bottom, and ultimately the responsibility lays with the American people for voting in fascism.

Didn't realize I had to itemize my criticisms any time I wanted to bitch.

[–] PugJesus 4 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Well I’m pretty glad they tried something like the IRA, chips, and infrastructure.

I'm explicitly talking about campaigning, not policy. Unfortunately, campaigning matters as much as, or more than, policy, when it comes to winning elections.

[–] PugJesus 7 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Maybe Harris should've made it a centerpiece of her campaign rather than the message of normality, 'they go low we go high', and 'being the adults in the room' style of 'bipartisanship' which appeals to Beltway types and other such Very Important Commenters, but is viewed indifferently by most of the country.

Fuck, man, I'm not trying to assign 100% of the blame to the Dems. This election was fucked from top to bottom, and ultimately the responsibility lays with the American people for voting in fascism. But it's hard not to be pissed at the Dems for trying nothing new and being all out of ideas.

[–] PugJesus 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

GOP voters were never going to vote anything other than Trump. Abstainers (and, for the record, FUCK them for not caring about literal fascism) largely saw no point in turning out for the Dems for a lack of inspiring message.

[–] PugJesus 9 points 1 day ago (16 children)

We're the politically involved, man. It's not us that need the messaging. It's the mass of American voters who don't remember anything if the drum isn't being beaten 24/7.

[–] PugJesus 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Kind of. Male-male relationships were widespread in Ancient Greece, but typically as part of a temporary mentor-student relationship between a teen and an adult man.

The Theban Sacred Band was exclusively gay, and more 'recognizable' to modern eyes, as it consisted of adult male couples who swore sacred oaths to be loyal to one another.

[–] PugJesus 6 points 1 day ago (18 children)

As if it would make a difference. Success doesn't matter if your PR arm can't meaningfully capitalize on it. The Dems could bring up fully automated luxury gay space communism to the US with total success, and their obsession with being an inclusive, big-tent party, like it's the mid-2000s, would make them unable to campaign on it.

[–] PugJesus 17 points 1 day ago (52 children)

…what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.

I don't suppose being up against a senile rapist who fellates his microphone in front of a crowd and peddles deeply unpopular policies at all counts as a victory that should be, by all rights, a layup, except for the fact that Dem messaging is and has always been pure dogshit?

Those jaws.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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[Red Army Choir Intensifies]

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9697959

The so-called Blanchard lathe [actually, it’s a shaper since the cutter is a rotating wheel] works much like a modern key-cutting machine with a stock blank [a rough gunstock form] in place of the key blank. An iron master form, in the shape of the musket stock, slowly rotates allowing a guide wheel to roll over it and to direct, in turn, the cutting wheel as it makes identical movements on the rotating wooden stock blank.

https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/thomas-blanchard-and-his-lathe.htm

 
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