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What the fuck?
It's called Shrekia now, grandad.
All we can do is keep choosing the less bad option
That's absolutely not the case. For the Democrats to pull back towards the left, their viability as a choice for left-leaning voters needs to be threatened. It's too late for this election, so vote Dem, but in the medium term it means taking action to support a better third party that actually champions progressive and egalitarian governance and peaceful foreign policy, and also challenging the Democrats with protests and campaigns.
Waiting did not get women the vote. Waiting did not achieve the victories of the Civil Rights movement. Waiting will not stop US proxy genocide in the Middle East.
I agree with your stance, but it's a hell of a hard pill to swallow when both action and inaction directly support the continued financing of a genocide.
Vote for the lesser evil now, but make up for it by holding them to account to the fullest of your ability once they're in.
Unfortunately - and particularly in online discourse - it's difficult to determine in the first instance whether someone is authentic or sealioning (that is, trying to start a "debate" in bad faith). In a trans-positive community with frequent memes on gender fluidity, it's not unreasonable to assume that someone posing a question like this is being deliberately detrimental.
I genuinely expected better of c/196 than ignorant comments like this to be upvoted.
This is a crop of a larger painting of Dresden in the mid-18th Century, titled Ansicht von Dresden, Der Altmarkt von der Seegasse aus ("The Old Market in Dresden from Seegasse").
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canaletto_(I)_003.jpg
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Give him all the fowl language you like, he won't quack easily.
Don't tell anyone, but I am not a trained duckologist.
Skepticism is healthy, but it took me less than 30 ~~seems~~ seconds to find an answer. According to Forbes, they were "ID NOW" machines by Abbott Point of Care - so presumably V1 of this device.
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