Writing letters addressed to the fire…

Cis-female|30|Bisexual|Pro-Choice|INTJ-T|Swiftie. Very salty.

[runawaymarbles]

Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

[runawaymarbles]

To be clear, I don't mean we should forget or take our eyes off the ultimate long-term goals of getting Cool Shit, but to get there, we're gonna have to support things like "half-measures" and "small steps" and "not tearing down people who won't get us all the way there" and "understanding that they are starting from the basement basically because every government institution is being decimated"

[aquawyrm]

Yeah. Don't refuse to vote for someone who isn't going to get you where you want to be as fast as you want to be there - vote for someone who's going to bail just a bit faster then we're sinking, and we'll get there someday.

[severeannoyance]

Honestly, if we elect a Democrat in 2028 and by 2032 have reliable access to vaccines and potable water again, I'm going to count that as a win.

You do not understand how badly fucked the government was after Trump's term. everything was understaffed. A lot was in flaming ruins already. We were looking at potentially decades of work to undo that.

And then Trump won again. And fired everyone, including me, who was trying to fix it.

We are shrimp colors of fucked right now. It is going to take so much fucking work to fix it.

Y'all CANNOT just throw in the towel again like you did with Biden last year. You can't. Not if you're serious about fixing shit and getting all the good stuff. Because when you do, you throw everyone else deeper in the hole and actively punish everyone who was trying to save your ass.

[hella-marshmella]

it feels like something’s crawling on me… is there a bug?! B U G?! BU—

Oh...

it’s just a loose strand of hair…

[mariacallous]

[afurioushawk]

I hope Democrats are paying attention to the Scott Wiener situation: no amount of capitulating to the left will ever get their support. Even if you do everything, they'll just say you did it under pressure. Kick them to the curb before they drag the entire party down to hell.

[biglawbear]

And to Brad Lander and every other Jew thinking of selling out: there's nothing you can do to placate these people. They hate you because you're Jewish. You can cut off every part of yourself and they'll still hate you.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[yuhi-san]

Thats the context for this meme???

[titenoute]

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

[kstarlitchaotics]

I'm dying

[pixiecaps]

like and rb to cause another abortion

[ibetteracethatinterview]

can people stop harassing Jewish people please

[cam1lla]

Y’all do not hate republicans enough.

[aint-love-heavy]

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leav

Everyone knows politics is ugly these days. It’s always been ugly, but now it feels more and more like bloodsport. Cruelty, lies, and even deadly violence have been directed at political figures across the ideological spectrum. Generally everyone agrees this has to stop, even as our country (and public figures) get all too used to it. Even so, this is different. My in-laws had to explain to my children, whom we have taught to avoid talking to strangers, that they would need to have a conversation, one at a time and for nearly an hour each, in a place they’d never been, with adults they did not know, who would ask questions we weren’t allowed to know either. For twenty-four deeply distressing hours, we had no idea what I was accused of or what was about to happen. We could not understand someone abusing the system like this in order to hurt me and my family with an absurd and easily refuted allegation of a horrific crime. The police officer, the CPS professional, and the forensic interviewers who spoke to my children were just following procedure and doing their jobs - admirable jobs that must be incredibly difficult every day, protecting the most vulnerable children from the most horrible threats. When a serious allegation is made, they respond. But in this case, their time and resources were wasted in a cruel, politically motivated hoax that harmed our family. Now our family is left to deal with the aftermath. I worry about any unseen effects this had on our kids, on Chasten and me, and on the rest of our family. Even though the accusation was absurdly and obviously false, and was promptly rejected by law enforcement, I still worry about the harm it has done. Chasten and I worry about who else might try to do this kind of thing, to us or to others. And at the most basic level, I worry about how anyone, even in today’s world, could fail to respect the absolutely fundamental principle that whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave people’s kids out of it.

This is appalling.

[hubakon1368]

#We have all this tech in every area of our lives now #and we still don't have simple filters in place in systems #to flag the possibility of a hoax against a public figure #prior to irreversible action being taken #like...

Preserving @parentheticalaside's tags.

[biglawbear]

After spending a sleepless night wondering what the hell was going on, and spending half a day anxiously picturing what our children were going through without their parents, I waited until the appointment time for my “interview” finally came. With the kids back at their grandparents’ house after their appointment in town, and Chasten having been asked to wait upstairs, the officer and CPS worker sat down at our kitchen table with me and my new lawyer.

Then, for the first time, the officer explained what the allegation actually was. An anonymous caller had contacted CPS. The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.

That was all. The officer had a couple of obvious questions. He asked if I had been to the town where the woman claimed she had met me. I have not. Then the officer made clear that he believed this was politically motivated, and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor. Nothing in the forensic interview with the children, which was conducted by trained personnel, had led to concerns.

After the officer spoke, the CPS worker likewise indicated she had not found anything to substantiate the allegation, though her process would take a bit longer to be formally completed. I no longer needed to avoid being around my children unsupervised. Chasten was invited to come back downstairs and hear the same information that had just been shared with me. Then, per standard procedure, she verified that there was adequate food in our kitchen and asked to take a look at the kids’ bedroom.

There's something bizarre here. I don't know child welfare law and I know that they take things seriously as they should. But if there was nothing but vague allegations and the officers themselves thought it was politically motivated, why take someone's children away for a day anyway??

What was done to Pete was horrible and a crime. But also, I don't think CPS should have taken his kids away for a day. There's gotta be some other way to handle that, and do due diligence and investigate as necessary, than to traumatize a family.

[hawthorn-and-ivy]

It’s wild. Shit like this for an unsubstantiated claim, and on the other hand trying for a year to get anything useful for a kid who’s parent tried to abandon them, provided them with drugs and tried to get them locked up in juvie because of it, the counselor and the healthcare team and the cops trying and we still couldn’t get kid away from mom

[afurioushawk]

Being a pragmatic-realist liberal normie Democrat in 2026 is basically self-flagellation. A humiliation fetish, even.

[afurioushawk]

"But it SHOULD be this way"

Well, it's not, and it's never gonna happen given the political compass of this country, so now what?

"We can pass an AMENDMENT"

Good luck, sib.

[sprinkledsalt]

The "both sides" crowd who likes to respond to liberals pointing out the consequences of Trump's win with "BUT DEMOCRATS DID THE SAME" seem to be missing that, with the 6-3 conservative SCOTUS saying their special boi can rip away TPS from anyone for any reason, Trump can only take away TPS from people who had it under Biden to begin with. You can't do your little "both sides same" song and dance when Biden quite literally did not take TPS away from hundreds of thousands of people and chose to extend protection for them instead. "Democrats would've--!" no, they simply did not. So. Try another excuse for why it was so cool and based and humanitarian of you not to vote against the white supremacist who lied about Haitians eating dogs and cats right before the election on national television.

[mariacallous]

[afurioushawk]

[alan713ch]

MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last year | Fortune

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[afurioushawk]

At this point im waiting for Jeffries to eloquently tell the DSA to fuck off. Or for Crocket to just say it.

Jeffries isn't in a position to do it as House Minority Leader but after Mamdani backstabbed Congressional Black, Jewish, and Hispanic Democrats, I'm hoping they understand they can't trust those snakes and develop a plan.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

do any of you even enjoy reading or watching fiction at all? if i wanted the plot with virtually nothing else i would read the wikipedia page

[hella-marshmella]

Perhaps a controversial take:

Guts > Sour > …Girl So In Love

[afurioushawk]

My main takeways from the NYC primary results:

The fact that leftists care more about tearing down Democrats than fighting Republicans further cemented my absolute hatred for them. This was never about progress or improving the lives of marginalized Americans. The only thing they cared about was justifying their brand of bigotry and playing the roles as tyrants.

People talk crap about California but at least they had enough sense not to entertain the fake ass ego driven champagne socialists.

One potential upside will be the showcase for the rest of the country why anyone affiliated with the DSA shouldn’t be trusted.

I need more rational Democrats to fight back against the DSA for side knifing the party in broad daylight and bring focus on fighting Republicans so we can get the hell out of the hellhole presidency. Their gender, race, religion, home state etc. is a non-factor. As long as they’re not a deranged DSA shithead, they have my support.

New York City normies are just going to have to feel the burn of having elected a wacko who thinks prisons should be abolished. Over here, Portland had to learn its lesson the hard way about electing the far-left. It literally took destroying a bunch of the city and making it completely unaffordable for the lesson to just recently start sinking in (and we're going to be paying for that hard-learned lesson for years).

People who live in blue states/districts become complacent. They'll have to suffer to get jostled out of it. But the people who will suffer immediately will be the ones who didn't enable it (in this case, NYC Jews and other minorities).

And now that you got a bunch of affluent white NYC gentrifiers online calling themselves the Tea Party and threatening Black/Jewish Democrats that "You're next", are we finally ready to talk about how the left is a white grievance movement? Are we ready yet? Or are we still pretending these are good people?