They said often sweet, not…

I can’t think of something disgusting to properly describe how much I hate cherry tomatoes.

Some username squatter stole my gamer tag (which is wholly unique, pronounceable in English but utterly gibberish) on Rockstar’s stupid account system, and RDR2 being a single player game I was already pissed off. Then the settings required a restart of the game to change even the littlest things, like turning on captions, except the settings would never save.

So I got a refund and went to the high seas, got a version of the game that actually works and doesn’t require an unnecessary account login, and I’m playing in 10 minutes.

AAA game publishers don’t even make games anymore, they just sell user data.

Funded by fossil fuels. The scariest concept to a capitalist is something being too cheap to matter.

I’m ok calling the Toupee “former President and convicted felon”.

Newegg has gone down the toilet since being bought out (story of everything). If you have a Microcenter near you I’d recommend that.

I don’t want anything smart in my car. I want a(n electric) engine that starts with a goddamned physical key that turns in a physical ignition. I want a volume knob that turns with a 1:1 ratio to the volume, ditto for climate control fan speed and temperature. The only thing I want my phone to do in conjunction with my cLilar is display the GPS.

We’re talking about evil, it’d be you have moldy chicken or moldy potatoes to eat, which is less likely to kill you if you eat it?

And supported labor better.

No one with at least one functioning sense would dispute this. Why is this their campaign strategy? If they’re trying to win over Republican voters, the Dems need to amp up their bigotry to 2000% (please don’t). There are no uncommitted voters, only those choosing to sit out. And they’re not sitting out because they’re unsure which of the two evils is greater.

You’re right, the bar was set so low that only James Cameron could find it, but the Dems did clear the bar. And that’s why the lesser fascist will be getting my vote this November.

But we also want the party to be better. Real policies that might just make a difference in our lifetimes, not compromising with the party of greater fascism, and a minor token gesture towards not using taxpayer money to fund genocide, as a treat.

I don’t think anyone on the UN is ready to declare war on the United States, no matter how much we deserve it.

That would require having policies, and not just a campaign strategy of “We’re not as bad as the Other Guy!”

I’m not Muslim, but if my options were to vote for someone who wants to kill my family vs someone who won’t stop selling weapons to those who are actively killing my family, I can understand why they wouldn’t be super excited at those choices.

I’ve got $0.85 in savings, because I put my rent and car payment money in my savings account each month until I need to pay those bills. I did at one point have $1000 saved up as a rainy day fun, but then it rained for a whole year (financially speaking). Now I don’t even have credit cards to fall back on, as those have been maxed out and gone to collections. I’m looking for a job in an industry I left because it was driving me to alcoholism (software), but that job market sucks a little more than the service industry, so I’m not optimistic.

Oh yeah and I’d be homeless if I didn’t have family who were willing and able to loan me rent money.

Time to “build” a D&D campaign with an LLM as the DM.

Cool. What policies are they going to talk about?

Every time any politician gets into office is a victory for them. That’s all they care about.

How are we supposed to change their platform? Because rewarding them with victories when all they do is go to the center hasn’t been working.

Every voter wants a perfect candidate.

I’m so tired of this line, as if progressives don’t like the Democratic Party because of a 5% difference in policy opinions.

Our options for President for the past 30-40 years have been fascist capitalist or capitalist willing to compromise with fascists. To those who actually care about worker’s rights or the environment of the planet we live on, it’s a difference between a candidate who agrees with you on 0%, or one who agrees with you on 2%, but only the policies that don’t hurt capitalism.

It’s not a case of letting perfect be the enemy of the good, it’s a case of the lesser evil IS STILL FUCKING EVIL. Fascism now and fascism in 4-8 years still results in fascism; how are we supposed to be excited to vote when those are the only options we are ever allowed to pick between?

It’s not about harm reduction, it’s a slow boil towards fascism. We’re all just frogs in a pot of slowly heating water, except frogs actually will jump out before they boil to death; humans aren’t that smart.

Every four years the centrists say “vote for us, because the Other Guy is worse!” And they’re not wrong, especially since 2016. But they’re also not even pretending to be on our side anymore. Everyone says the Republicans have taken the mask off and aren’t hiding their evil, but it is the Democrats running a candidate who is openly working with members of the party of greater fascism, it’s the Democratic candidate who is pro fucking fracking the earth, and it’s the Democrats (as well as the Repubs) who aren’t even bothering to lie to us about wanting to stop the genocide that our tax dollars are directly funding.

However, I have to say that I’ll be voting for the party of lesser (or at least slower) fascism come November. Not because I agree with a single thing they’re doing (since their platform is still “We’re not as bad as the Other Guy”), but because they threw us exactly two bones in dropping Biden and giving the VP to one of the few Ds who actually looks progressive (where he can do the least damage, of course).