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I once voted for a candidate in a primary because I thought they could win, instead of the candidate I preferred. I regret that vote terribly. how can a candidate win if people don't prefer them? non-preferred candidates shouldn't get votes. don't even rank candidates you don't prefer.

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

regarding the solar panels on parking lots/fields thing. farmers need electricity too. oil/gas uses up/destroys more agricultural land than solar does. I never hear people saying we should frack parking lots.

My fiber internet has been unreliable lately, ever since Verizon purchased it. sometimes it goes out for several days at a time. Luckily Verizon has a new modem which includes a 5g connection! for just a subscription fee my internet can be reliable again. capitalism solves problems folks.

soon it will be 20 years since Obama's election. and the dnc legacy for the past 20 years seems to just be eschewing fdr-style progressivism, letting down their voters, and paving the way for trump's version of "yes we can" and "hope and change"

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

republicans are absolute trash and always have been. it's disgusting how the dnc wants republicans to vote for them.

if trump does deploy the military to Asia again then, well, thank you for your service to the oil industry. there would be no all-time-highs and ever-increasing dividends without your sacrifice.

I see people saying solar energy will bring peace to the world. I think it's a good way to generate support for solar energy, because people want peace. but to those of you who are warmongers, also remember that solar energy won't bring peace & you can support solar too along with the pacifists.

strange how liz Cheney disappeared after she helped trump win by associating herself and thus her daddy dick Cheney with the dnc candidate.

if only the republicans cared about America's present and its future. they are so obsessed with America's past. their own past. an entire party of people who only fear the future and what it will bring. people who see no place for themselves in the future.

it's actually a good thing when NATO isn't used for offensive wars.

ICE reveals their faces in airports for the same reasons why guns are banned from airports. the secret police and gun violence is just for the average american, not the wealthy ones.

so the "productive talks" the republicans mentioned is just Iran informing the republicans they would retaliate against Middle East desalination plants. what a productive discussion.

qatar bribes trump and in return gets their desal plants destroyed. wonderful. that's your just reward for your part in usurping United States democracy.

republicans: "you can't rely on solar and wind because sometimes it rains" nevermind how we rely on solar power to produce all of our calories and oxygen. and solar power is more abundant than fossil fuels (which are fossilized solar power btw). but iran & republicans prove oil/gas is unreliable.

mueller was part of the cover-up imo. he did less than the bare minimum and sabotaged his task.

farmers don't exactly spread good will towards cities, and that's been the case for several thousand years. not a new phenomenon.

every month I hear new stories of a seat flipping from republican to democratic and I just get a feeling of dread that the dnc will continue to campaign on the republican's failings instead of a progressive platform which inspires a new age of american ingenuity and renaissance

just finished Joe Abercrombie books after reading the Pierce Brown series and Tchaicovsky's children of time series. quite a hard act to follow for the next book, anybody have any suggestions? I was thinking Prachett, maybe Hobb.

people who dismiss climate change probably don't know what a chilling hour is.

incredible how centrist idiots keep believing republicans are good for the budget when all they do is start wars in the Middle East to increase oil prices

the Bible quickly became detached from Jesus' teachings and has since killed so many people and destroyed so many civilizations. pretty much right when Rome adopted it as their national religion, and probably before Jesus' body went cold.

I like Star Trek academy, I really do. but I'm like the opposite of Quentin Tarantino, I don't want to see the feet

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

bluesky sees people talking about hegseth announcing war crimes and using Ellison to silence criticism from can, and bluesky labels the discussion as "media criticism". thanks bluesky. I would suggest maybe "war crimes" as the topic instead.

editorialboard in china in 1990: that we are not seeing massive worker protests in china like the ones we saw in Tiananmen square suggests a level of bad faith in many of those protests.

racism probably. america since its inception has not wanted everybody to vote. republicans attacking education is a roundabout way to attack voting, since we can't let idiots make important decisions.

of course trump knew their shoe size. he didn't want to accidentally get shoes that would fit them or be too small for them to wear in front of the journalists.

Iran threatening California shows just how bullshit and unimportant the divisions are in this country tbh. they threaten California because they are our money-maker, breadbasket, and center of american culture. republicans hating on California are hating on america.

for the love of god Canada and Mexico, please obtain some nukes

it just wouldn't make sense if an intergalactic space police force was uniformed with earth clothes in a contemporary style

republicans waged war against EVs, killed the ev tax credit, and raised the price of gas in an illegal war.

american rightwingers are among the dumbest fucks on the planet, even dumber than foreign rightwingers.

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

@kevinbaker.bsky.social trump-putin theorizing is not that strange when you remember both trump and putin are idiots. just because you see them doing stupid stuff doesn't negate the obvious ties established multiple times by journalists, cops, and even republican politicians.

gas went up by 60 cents in mere days & china sells electric cars with 450 miles of range for 25k. america is a pathetic joke of a country. I just want to take a train to the beach but we have rightwingers forcing me to buy, insure, and maintain a 20k used car that runs on rightwinger-owned fuel.

distractions are over. power is being consolidated every day. republicans are not acting out of fear or vulnerability.

when people say "nuclear energy is not safe" they aren't talking about Three Mile, Chernobyl, Fukushima, or nuclear waste. nuclear would already be dangerous if that was all we had to worry about. what they are talking about is the Iran war. nuclear energy is not safe because it encourages war.