Dude never would I ever have dreamed I'd yearn for the days of 2 minute videos with notepad being used to communicate but here we are.

Im not defending anyone. You notice I literally called them Corporate Whores, right?

What Im saying is people need to use their brain and think strategically about the situation and not be all Pollyanna about it. I'm sure 80% of the people that voted for Kamala didn't give a fuck about Kamala, I know I didn't, but the FACT is, every person in a purple state that voted third party likely contributed in some way to where we are now.

You're on a bus with 100 people and they take a vote for lunch. 40 people want Tacos, 40 want Pizza. The other 20 of people all want something different from everyone else...a few want sandwiches, this guy over here wants Thai food, those two old ladies want to go to a steak house. Are any of those people going to get what they want? No, obviously. It is a mathematical certainty that they will not.

But those 20 people, knowing they're not going to get what the want, can still at least take steps to not get what they absolutely don't want. They may not want either the tacos or the pizza, but they probably have a preference between those two. They can at least cast a vote for the meal they can live with, even if it''s not their favorite. At least they can eat something, and won't be sitting on a bus fucking starving for the next 6 hours until they stop for dinner.

As you said, people can vote for whoever they want. But here's what you can't do...you can't dig your fucking heels in, refuse to compromise, and then whine and complain afterwards when the bus is pulling into Taco Bell and not Pizza Hut if you fucking hate tacos. You could have cast a vote for Pizza, it might have won, and you could have at least had that and not Taco Bell. It might not have, of course, but at least that was a possibility. The Thai never ever was. No matter how much you wished it were so. No matter how much you cry and complain.

This is like, functional adult sort of stuff. People have to compromise every single day, that's life.

Thats the thing people that have never gone under or fainted cant conceptualize...its not like falling asleep, its a literal off button.

Ive fainted a few times in my life, as well as been put under, and its like one second youre doing thing, next second youre on the floor, and the funniest part is, at least for me, when I came to after fainting, I felt like I slept for 12 hours...like rested in a way that I never feel waking up from normal sleep.

I read somewhere that the reason cats are so fickle is that they've been much more recently domesticated compared to dogs

my kitty crossed over 10 years ago now, but I served her faithfully for nearly 20 years. her behavior was atrocious and she whined for food like you wouldn't believe but I still miss her and her five pointy ends a ton lol

I wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It's superior in every way.

HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.

I used to love Mitch Hedberg. Still do, but I used to, too.

That depends, is there cocaine?

Rumor is that Boston Dynamics is working on integrating this into one of those Dog Robots so that if it detects you shoplifting it can run you down and tear you to pieces right there in the cereal aisle

Hell, even just having a completely different conversation can sometimes lead to huge breakthroughs! I've seen it happen!

If there's a realistic choice beyond "Corporate Whores" and "Corporate Whores who also want to institute Christian Sharia law in the US", and you still support the whores, then yes, I will be right there front and center to call those people scumbags all day long.

However, everyone knows that is not the case in US politics within the electoral mechanisms we're currently operating under. Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn't going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you're making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people...no, you don't get a pass. Not anymore.

The cost of a dozen eggs is of no fucking consequence when LGBTQ+ society is under assault. The price of a gallon of gas pales in comparison to the fact that ICE is out there literally wiping their ass with the constitution every day and the courts have no recourse to stop them. The fact that your property taxes may be a point or two higher or lower means precisely dick when you're watching a war be instigated and fought that nobody wants solely to distract the people from the fact that our president belongs on a sex offender registry so his movements can be monitored for the rest of his disgusting life.

I haven't considered myself a supporter of the Democratic party since they sidelined Bernie, but if my choice is them, or someone that thinks the things I listed above are just fuckin great, you're goddamn right Im going to pick them. Because at least with them we can stop the fucking bleeding. With the other guys, we're just counting down until someone decides to trigger a nuke and once that happens elections as a concept are going to seem quaint let alone all the other luxuries we enjoy like running water or a functioning power grid.

Hey at least you guys all have fact checkers in your pockets now lol

Imagine what this was like when we had to go to the library and find a book to prove them wrong lmao