My friend said if I was a mega Man boss I would be “Do-man” because I’m willing to do the leg work to make shit happen including the basic research!

It means that I have a tremendous catalog of useless facts. They keep the unregulated useful facts in line…

Much of the American Christian establishment is the type of Protestant that does not consider Catholics to be Christian.

I know that doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense but that’s how Americans “do religion”.

Baptists don’t care what the Pope has to say, seventh-day Adventists think he is actually the Antichrist. Most American Catholics don’t really care what the Vatican has to say and would resent the implication that they’re supposed to give a shit about the Pope’s opinion.

Americans just don’t do religion very well.

Obviously something they’ve been doing got under his skin because they ousted their long time leader and spirit animal Bill Owens.

Social security disability insurance.

I second this.

I have three large disk shelves, one made from a J23 CSA connected to an perc h730 in HBA mode, one made from a super micro connected to a LSI HBA card, and one that uses a repurposed DATTO unit with its original raid card flashed into IT mode.

They are all extremely reliable, handling dozens of drives and I use only ZFS for all of my bulk storage. The best part is how much faster I can replace a dead drive with ZFS than I could with any raid 5 anything. Also, ZFS is flexible enough that you can put ssds in to use for journaling and slog.

I have one machine with 192gb of RAM and I just use the ramdisk for slog. It’s all streaming media so if it crashes only the buffered streams are lost, and this way I’m not burning holes through SSDs quite so quickly.

He had to know this was going to happen.

I’m just amazed at how incredibly ballsy it is for him to go down there knowing that doing so is basically kicking a hornet’s nest of entitled fascists that have already defined themselves by ignoring orders from the court.

She’s a woman and ‘the help’. I doubt they care what happens to her.

They were both extremely bad candidates who should not have been in a position to run. If the party had been allowed to speak they would not have been allowed to run.

They weren’t really candidates that failed on their own merits, they were set up to fail by being put into a position they should never have been in.

Neither Hillary nor Kamala could have won a primary that wasn’t rigged in their favor. Since they didn’t get to their position as candidate based on their own merits, it’s reasonable to describe their failure in similar terms.

That said, there is such a thing as more than 100% blame, and this is a situation where A lot of people have a lot of blame. Those two women are 100% responsible for the stupid decisions they made. No one can take that failure away from them, but because of the nature of the mistake, there were a lot more people who should also be blamed and similarly excommunicated from politics.

There are elements of sexism here, but that’s just endemic to politics. They didn’t fail because of sexism, they got to where they were because of it and were set up to fail by it, but there are a lot of problems here beyond and before sexism.

Union busting, lavish funding for genocide, corporate tax cuts, no healthcare plan, increased funding for police, pro-fracking, pro-drilling, 'tough on immigration ', etc etc

They have already not done this with Putin or Netanyahu.

There is a less than zero chance they will do this with a sitting American president. No one’s coming to save us from him we’re going to have to do it ourselves.

Blocking nominations, slowing down general procedures, grandstanding about every fucked up stupid thing that Republicans are doing, Lock up the Senate and the house with debate and bullshit, introduce bills that would do the things that people actually want even if they’re not going to get voted on, wherever possible don’t cooperate, stop confirming his appointments, etc.

The Democrats should not be letting Republicans get anything done. Republicans always manage to rule from the minority by just being obstinate little shits. The Democrats should at least try that.

Donald Trump must be stopped and since that’s not possible the least they should be doing is slowing his roll.

It’s a great game for couch coop, vs and it works online too.

There isn’t too much to discover after you have beaten everything, but it’s great fun for any fan of road rash or comical ultra violence.

Road redemption is so much fun and I’m kind of amazed that the guy never made a sequel it seems like it would have been easy enough to keep developing.

Nothing of value was lost.

Musk’s company doesn’t exist to sell cars, it exists to sell stock. The cars are part of the commercial. His entire fortune is built off of low interest rates and high speculation.

Not enough. Israel should be sanctioned and its entire government arrested.

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Unfortunately for many of us Americans, there is a substantial contingent of our government that would really like to do away with public schools.

Did someone suggest we do that?

Is someone here in this thread suggesting that we should force the entire country further to the right and allow a dictator to return to power?

Did you maybe mean to reply to somebody else?

The solution to America’s problems won’t materialize if we magically criticize Donald Trump and the Republicans hard enough. There’s no magic words we’re going to say that are going to change those people. Instead, I would suggest that conversations about criticism of the opposition be separated from conversations about criticism of ‘our team’.

The Republicans aren’t to blame for the faults in Democrats, and the Democrats are not to blame for the faults in Republicans. The major political parties have plenty of faults and some of those faults they have in common, but they are distinctly different in a number of important ways.

The Republican party can’t help America improve. It’s not just that the system is rigged against the little guy it’s that Republicans don’t want to help the little guy. They want to squeeze him harder. The cruelty is the point.

The Democratic party can’t help America improve. The system is rigged against the little guy, but literally anybody who wants to try and help the little guy has to come here to this party to make that attempt because the party is at least hospitable to the concept.

The stumbling block of the left is not Donald Trump. He’s a symptom of our problem. Our problem is people like Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein who are pathologically incapable of cooperating with anyone to the left of Reagan.

You don’t get Donald Trump if you promote Bernie. You don’t get Donald Trump if you have real primaries, let the people pick the candidates, and create a pipeline to put rising Stars into leadership positions.

I’m really worried that the deadweight at the top of the party is literally willing to sacrifice democracy to fascists rather than give one inch to progressives.

No response to "Democrats ran a shit candidate who didn’t even mention healthcare or taxing the rich, and never won a primary " involves the words ‘Trump’, ‘putin’, ‘nazi’, or ‘republicans’.

Donald Trump isn’t the problem. The problem isnt that donald trump is so attractive or that the voters are so stupid. That’s like blaming fire for drawing an audience or being mad that ice is slippery.

The problem is that Democrats don’t want to win if it means a progressive agenda. The function of the Democratic party is to mollify progressives and help ratchet us to the right by providing a fig leaf for the same owner class that does almost all the donating to politics and is literally driving the legislative and judicial agenda of the GOP.