Whoa there!

The world would be a much better place if that (and the inverse) was true…

Strictly for those that don’t need it. Just like most of what the likes of Hochum and Adams prioritize.

That would be…

Yes, just like the legal term for a predatory debt spiral disguised as a short term loan used to be “payday loan” (now called something else to avoid regulation imposed on the previous euphemism).

The more innocent-sounding but deceptive term that a predatory industry prefers doesn’t become correct just because they successfully bribe politicians to make it become/remain the official one.

Fair enough heh. You have yourself a nice day 🙂

Yes, it was. Now leave me alone before you start your nonsense on me again.

Not really, no. Read my subsequent response to their poorly thought out reply for more information.

It’s going to affect immunocompromised people every day of the year regardless, whether it’s supposed to or not.

Infectious disease doesn’t take a break because the cops “need” to identify “troublemakers” with their Orwellian spying on blameless people.

Besides, making it unsafe for everyone who ever participates in a protest to be around anyone who’s immunocompromised is a whole new level of oppression!

At least that one seems to be targeted at protests

You’re celebrating that, rather than accidentally targeting immunocompromised people, it deliberately targets people exercising their constitutional right to dissent?

Btw, like with abortion, any exemptions a GOP ban has will just be a fig leaf for the complicit media that’s not going to be in effect in the vast majority of cases.

Great job, dude!

I’m not gonna hold you to the impossibly high standards of the original vocals of the great Elton John, but that being said, great cover! Gave me literal goosebumps! ❤️

Gambling, not gaming. Games are things you play for enjoyment, not things that you pour money into with the (almost always disappointed) hope that more money will come back to you.

Examples of games:

• Fallout New Vegas
• Settlers of Catan
• Twister
• Truth or Dare

NOT games:

• Roulette

• Blackjack

• Slot machines (whether physical or virtual)

• Predatory capitalism

Hybrids and edge cases:

• Any game with loot boxes and similar bullshit

• Poker, though it’s more akin to sports gambling than enjoyment with gambling.

• online dating

Oh yeah! I remember that too, now that you mentioned it! That frog was hella polite-looking! As is his capy successor 😁

that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

Such as insisting on doing a bunch of reprehensible things that your base hates while you’re running for public office?

Yes, exactly! That is a counterproductive action. And I levy my criticisms regarding that action to the actors themselves, in my direct communication to them.

You have a direct line of communication with the president and vice president of the United States? That’s impressive, but I don’t. Hence the need to express my critiques to peers in stead.

Two things can be true: it is in the best interest of the DNC to more effectively court their base, and it is in the best interest of leftists for the lesser evil of the duopoly to win until we can break the duopoly.

Yes, but I have at no point argued that the lesser evil shouldn’t win.

That’s what you keep refusing to understand: I want them to change their actions both because the actions are themselves atrocious AND because I wanted them to win and those actions were causing them to lose.

That’s why my correspondence with my representatives is focused entirely on their failings

First of all, I still don’t have a direct line of communications to the white house. Second of all, I guarantee that, if I had, my complaints and warnings would not be heeded. Like those you pretend to have made were.

and my correspondence with other voters is focused entirely on their virtues.

Well that’s just obsequious serf bullshit. Pretending in public that “your team” is always perfect and can do no wrong doesn’t convince anyone. It just makes you a bootlicker whose perspective only fellow bootlickers will relate to.

It’s amazing how you keep holding the meaningful actions of the most powerful people in the most powerful country in the world to a much lower standard of responsibility than me, a regular poor person, expressing a reasonable opinion.

I hold them responsible for their actions,

No you fucking don’t! You claim that you have a private line where you get to discuss all your concerns with the White House, but we both know that that’s bullshit.

You may leave a message for your congressperson and/or senator to ignore, but that’s it. That’s the extent of your options for expressing dissent ay we both know that won’t stop the support for genocide any more than me voicing my displeasure in a public forum. If anything, it’s LESS effective, as public dissent is much harder to ignore.

and I hold you responsible for yours

My actions of checks notes making my opinion on committing the most heinous crimes against humanity and (correctly, it unfortunately turned out) warning that continuing to ignore the people could cost the election and lead to the fascists taking over

Ooh, such transgression! Ever heard of the first amendment to the US constitution? It has a few sentences specifically about this kind of thing.

It’s not that my standard for them is lower, my standard for them is irrelevant to the actions of others.

That would normally make sense, but in the specific case of arguing that it’s wrong to ever criticize the Biden administration in public, that’s absolute counterfactual nonsense.

Be better and demand better from the people supposed to represent you, please.

You are allowed to be counterproductive, it’s just a stupid thing to do.

Such as insisting on doing a bunch of reprehensible things that your base hates while you’re running for public office?

It’s amazing how you keep holding the meaningful actions of the most powerful people in the most powerful country in the world to a much lower standard of responsibility than me, a regular poor person, expressing a reasonable opinion.

Do you REALLY not see how ass-backwards that is??

There’s a time and a place for criticism, a close race between bad and worse is not that time,

The only reason why the two overlapped at all was because the ones aiding and abetting genocide have been refusing to even acknowledge any wrongdoing for over a year!

A blindingly obvious example of this “not listening to their base” problem I mentioned.

online leftist spaces are not that place

Where else would you suggest?

Far right places like Truth social where everyone will agree for the wrong reasons, wrongly thinking that it’s about making sure that Trump wins?

“Centrist” places where everyone will automatically disagree, wrongly thinking that it’s about making sure that Trump wins?

Just admit that there’s no time and no place where you would actually take constructive criticism from the left seriously and pretending that there is is a pretense for making people sit down and shut up.

Every leftist voter who chooses to abstain contributes to the fascists’ margin.

Again with the classics bootlicker role reversal.

It’s the job of politicians to earn the confidence and thus the votes of the people.

It’s NOT the job of the people to meekly go along with politicians with ethically and morally compromised politicians with bad ideas unquestioningly, even IF they’re still the least bad option.

The politicians failed the people, not the other way around.

The difference is that you don’t control the DNC’s strategy, you do control your actions.

The irony of telling the that I’m only allowed to voice dissent at specific times and places where it would be ignored and then saying I’m in control 🤦

Newsflash: the people is SUPPOSED to control the DNC’s strategy! They’re public servants paid through public means to enact the will of the people FFS! That’s literally what they’re there for!

Thanks, I will now that I’m hopefully done with your nonsense for the day.

I was employing obvious hyperbole to make a point. That you chose to take it literally in spite of that in order to build yet another strawman is on you.

Thanks for the weird threat to my day tho?

Wishes aren’t threats. If I was powerful enough to wish things into existence, Trump would never have become president and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Now go bother someone else with your bad faith nonsense.

Says the moral “GeNoCiDe” warrior