Balerion

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[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

Jade-colored glasses?

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago

Disagree that you can't "actually date" someone you only know online. Online relationships are as real as any others.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

Yup. He's "disavowed" Trump before, but he always goes crawling back.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

No you aren't lmao

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Just say you're a conservative and go. "Progressives" like you are such cowards. You're so eager to slobber over politicians' boots and make up excuses for why they can't do anything good. I wish I could at least believe the DNC was paying you off, but I was one of you once, so I know full well you've just drunk the neoliberal Kool-Aid that hard. The people ready to jump down leftists' throats with "um, ackshually, it's physically impossible to do better than center-right austerity and authoritarianism" whenever we speak up have far more to do with why leftists have no power than any leftist "idealism." Throughout history, it's always been the lunatic radicals who made actual change, while the craven moderates fought them tooth and nail to preserve the intolerable status quo. Ever notice how conservatives are utterly unrestrained by all the things liberals insist are holding them back from making change? When MAGA wants something, they get it, no matter how unreasonable or flat-out absurd it is. But when the Democrats' base demands better of them, they wring their hands and lament how gosh golly gee, they'd love to make things better, but they can't because something something civility something something norms. If progressives fought like conservatives, we'd have fucking fully automated luxury gay space communism by now.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 71 points 3 days ago (39 children)

Remember how he ran on hope and change? How he presented himself as a progressive? Then how he failed to close Guantanamo, never even tried to codify abortion rights, didn't bother prosecuting the Bush administration for their war crimes, did a bunch of war crimes himself, and expanded the surveillance state? Because I do.

And like the other commenter said, he completely capitulated to the Republicans when they invented some bullshit about how outgoing presidents aren't supposed to appoint justices or whatever.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 days ago

I'd say to pick something light-hearted that puts you in a good mood.

 

I once heard someone describe their gender as "none gender with left girl." (For the uninitiated, it's a reference to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Pizza_with_Left_Beef) It's lived rent-free in my hear ever since. Incidentally, it's pretty similar to how I feel about my own gender.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Oh shit, I didn't know we had a day.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They aren't advocating to vote against Mamdani. They're pointing out that "blue no matter who" is almost exclusively applied to progressives who complain about establishment Dems. When it's the other way around, establishment Dems are quick to abandon their alleged principles and sabotage progressive candidates.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 161 points 3 days ago (94 children)

Jesus. You know it's bad when even a spineless centrist like Obama is calling them on their shit.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

I'm 29. My opinion on my parents has not changed much since I was a kid. My dad has a lot of practical knowledge, but his worldview is pants-on-head stupid. My mom is a far better person than my dad, but her technical knowledge is limited.

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