and Daniel Johnston

The silver-lining is this announcement may open up avenues for international asylum for trans people before shit starts going down.

Fuck Brendan Carr

I use Homebridge on a Pi for a secure camera feed. It works well.

You can safely add Amazon electronics to that meme too.

Typical all or nothing response. Let’s forget the 535 members of Congress have primaries every 2-4 years so we can complain that ‘it was either Fetterman or Dr. Oz’ when Fetterman beat three primary contenders, two of whom were progressive, in a primary that saw <9% turnout.

If you think abstaining is the solution, why has it only made things worse for the last 40 years?

Why must it be one or the other? Do you really believe the best strategy is to focus all of your efforts in one direction?

I don’t care if you play. I’m merely saying how continuing to do nothing is pointless. Good luck complaining the government out of power.

That’s a form of cognitive distortion, not a political strategy. Mamdani won against 10 other candidates because we showed up. We have literal evidence that’s all it takes. Quit with the victim mentally and take your country back.

Then show up and vote in the primaries🤷‍♂️

All they can do to him is withhold funding. He won the primary with a grassroots campaign. The part you really don’t understand is that short of voter suppression or ballot tampering, we control the election.

Do you eat fast food everyday because of advertising or do you choose to be self-informed and eat healthy? Do you blame Big Lettuce for not advertising salads enough?

If you’re honestly expecting a three-party system to emerge from FPTP, you need to work on your mathematics.

Correct. What caused the Democrats to move right over the last 40 years were the retirees who continuously voted for centrist conservatives in primaries. They’re the only ones who always show up, hence the <15% congressional primary attendance.

Mamdani got the NYC primary up to a record 30%. That’s all it takes for us the move the Overton Window back to the left.

Oh, then by all means. Maybe show up to a Democratic primary once in a while and you’ll get your chance.

No one’s stopping you. Go get locked up.

Oh absolutely. We should be leveraging Israel’s aid to ensure compliance for Palestinian aid delivery and maintaining safe routes.

That’s correct. Her husband also had a restraining order against her, for him and their children, due to her psychosis. After being released from the hospital, she showed up at his door, begging to see the children. He declined due to her excited state, and recommended she go home and rest. She killed herself that night.

It’s a horribly tragic story of a woman who bore way too much trauma for one lifetime, but it really isn’t suspicious once you read the details.

I said they were elected into power. Do you believe Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are representing their constituents in our representative democracy?

I have moved no goalposts. I maintain the defense of innocent civilians, regardless of their residence. This became a debate when you suggested there are no innocent civilians in Israel, simply because Netanyahu is the aggressor. That’s wildly narrow-minded.

You say that like it’s as simple as a choice. I’m in the US. I do not want to live in the US. I do not have the means to move out of the US. To be eligible for asylum, you need to prove that your life is threatened by staying in your resident nation.

I voted against Trump three times, lobby my congresspeople, and am an activist against the atrocities of this administration. Does that make me complicit in Trump’s actions? If so, how do you justify that?

I’m saying they were elected into power, just the same as Trump and Netanyahu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

No, I don’t agree with bombing civilians, regardless of the justification. No, I will not defend the atrocities of the US government simply because I’m a citizen. Governments and military are to blame for killing innocent people, not entire nations.