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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’d prefer to not think about how you could get worst than this. Thanks.

    Seriously?

    This was an accident, you can’t imagine they wouldn’t trade this kind of info for personal profit?

    Like, they’ve done worse than this even in this situation. The attack was worse than how they planned it or that a journalist was added.

    I swear people focus on the dumbest shit to be upset about

    It’s exactly what fascists always try for, but they need a population willfully ignorant of history for it to work.

    Which is why Republicans and neoliberals united for “no child left behind” decades ago, and today’s younger generations suffer from “brain rot” that shit was intentional.




  • I think the intern

    Was an intern…

    And he was the fucking president.

    Think of a scenario where anyone in management at a company can have “sexual relations” with an intern in their office and it can be described as “willing”.

    Now, despite what Biden spent four years saying, understand that a US president is more powerful and has more of an effect on their interns careers and lives than some random CEO.

    For fucks sake, it’s 2025, do you really understand how the implict and explicit power dynamic prevented consent at least during working hours.

    You think she did what she did with a guy 3 times her age because he was charismatic? It’s because he was the president.

    Just…

    I feel like I’m rambling but there’s so many obvious ways this was problematic, and you’re still just fucking ok with it?

    but why the hell fscking someone there is a bigger deal than, for example, just ordering murders overseas or legally starting this whole mass surveillance thing?

    That was never the big deal, it was wrong and fucked up…

    But the big deal was Bill lying under oath to Congress about it, and Dem politicians and voters closed ranks and said it didn’t matter.

    The coverup, not the crime.

    That was the beginning of the end of the two party system. Only one party had any integrity and we gave it away to protect Bill Clinton and neoliberalism.

    I guess this was all 30 years ago, and a lot of people weren’t old enough to remember it happening, but it was also too recent to be in history books yet.

    There’s not really an excuse to not learn about it now, political literacy literally saves lives. We need more informed voters.


  • It’s almost like excusing neoliberals for breaking the law just normalizes republicans doing it…

    And they’re a lot stupider, so when they do it there’s more likely to be negative consequences.

    The solution is higher standards and holding someone responsible even when they have the right letter by their name.

    Letting neoliberals be as shitty as they want hasn’t been working out for 30 years since they tried to convince us a president lying about sexually taking advantage of interns in the oval office and then lying about it under oath to Congress was a “nothingburger” to use their own vernacular.

    All lowering Dem standards does, is make us look like hypocrites. And that depresses turnout, which lets fascists into office.




  • In his view, the party’s descent traces the rise of money in politics, which over time made Democrats reliant on wealthy donors and inside-the-Beltway consultants. While he credited the party with ushering in progress on social issues such as civil rights, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights, the senator said Democrats have for too long failed to champion an economic agenda that would meaningfully address the concerns of working class people – an assessment many leaders roundly rejected.

    That’s 100% the problem, and a textbook definition of neoliberalism.

    They want to use bare minimum on social issues and not address anything fiscal.

    And that’s how fascists keep getting elected.