I think a lot of people stopped listening to the rad libs like Maddow and became disaffected from the Democrats since then. those folks are (at least around me) engaging in more radical acts of resistance than the marching-and-shouting that dominated the public actions of that time. so while buttegieg probably hasn’t shifted much, and might think he’s still talking to those same people, many of them are no longer listening.

I think his audience has shifted

2018 was a different time

tale as old as time

I didn’t see this film until the 2010s, and I couldn’t believe how accurately it lampooned my local scene.

just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s worthless, and charging for content doesn’t make it valuable

nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so.

that’s a lie

what i’m reading is that being joining the military as a trans person is a hack to get medical care. that’s universally true; a lot of poor people have considered joining the military for healthcare (and other) benefits.

but queerness is axiomatically incompatible with the US military.

it sux, for ppl who were counting on it, that the option is gone. i’m sympathetic. but, like, fuck the pentagon.

queerness should preclude military service for the hegemonic empire. if the USA were kurdistan, i’d consider a nuanced view. since we live under pax americana (whatever that’s worth), no one who is queer should be anywhere near it’s military.

Russia? Insane dictatorship with rather infamous harsh policing. You disagree, you die. China? Same. Cuba? Same though arguably the least worst of all, still shit

none of those are classless, moneyless, stateless societies.

You’re the one claiming it will

I don’t think I did.

it won’t scale

you can’t prove this

communism, it requires you to kill a lot of people and basically become a dictatorship.

communism is a stateless classless moneyless society. it can’t be a dictatorship.

I don’t think you know what you are talking about

ending all oppression just isn’t your style?

I was aiming at anarchist utopia

so you know people did vote for gore

right. smash Canada and the USA. no borders, no nations.

al gore won his election

I’m unironically in favor of border abolition

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veganism, as defined by the vegan society, which was founded by the folks who invented the term… opposes exploitation and cruelty. if you can find a way to kill em without being cruel, I think you are good.