I really hate the amount of resources that boomer slop media is getting from the entertainment industry. It’s a relatively small percentage, but definitely larger than I recall ever seeing in the past.

I understand the logic, but fuck, older people used to just watch media from their youth. I can’t imagine the Hollywood of previous generations ever giving much of a shit about whether or not senior citizens would want to watch their films or TV shows.

“[SLUR A] is a slur” and “[SLUR B] is worse than [SLUR A]” are two separate conversations.

Brb, gonna make a kickstarter campaign for bee strap-ons

Well, for starters, I’m an anticapitalist, so I find fault with most politicians (clearly not to the extent that I won’t vote for them though).

With that caveat in mind, the biggest complaint I have is actually with his current stated position on Israel. He currently opposes BDS (which is hardly surprising even for the most progressive Democratic politicians), and hasn’t come out in support of a complete arms embargo on Israel. He’s one of those politicians who pretends there’s a difference between the practical application of Israel’s use of “defensive” and “offensive” weapons.

That being said, I think he can be moved farther left, because he cares more about representing the will of the people (or at least, the appearance of representing the will of the people) than Schumer or any of the other AIPAC-owned senators do.

Fuck yeah he is! I don’t agree with his positions on everything (I’m definitely further left than he is), but on the most time-sensitive issues at present, he’s right where we need a senate leader to be.

And more importantly, he seems to be the most ethical senator who is open to considering the role.

It’s sounding more and more like our best strategy is to advocate to replace Schumer with Chris Van Hollen as leader.

If you have Democratic senators, you can sign the below petition and it will be sent to them as a letter/email from you:

https://resist.bot/petitions/PMHONJ?ref=a2a69496-d365-42e3-baf9-90bdf97610f0&channel=apple

It’s sounding more and more like our best strategy is to advocate to replace Schumer with Chris Van Hollen as leader.

If you have Democratic senators, you can sign the below petition and it will be sent to them as a letter/email from you:

https://resist.bot/petitions/PMHONJ?ref=a2a69496-d365-42e3-baf9-90bdf97610f0&channel=apple

It’s sounding more & more like our best bet to replace Schumer is Van Hollen.

If you have Democratic senators, you can sign the below petition and it will be sent to them as a letter/email from you:

https://resist.bot/petitions/PMHONJ?ref=a2a69496-d365-42e3-baf9-90bdf97610f0&channel=apple

if you read the title of this post carefully

“Carefully” isn’t the word I would use, because the interpretation you provided, while technically a valid interpretation based on the wording of the title, is clearly not the intended meaning of the title, lol

You may want to check out the Amendment App (web app). People can use it to request a candidate’s position on a specific issue, and I’ve seen people recommending it for getting their incoming congresspeople’s position on congressional democratic leadership on the record.

(sigh) I’m so fuckin used to living under authoritarianism that it took me a second to understand what the problem was in this meme

We really need to burn it all to the ground

1. Staffers are required to keep record of what issues are being brought to their congressperson’s office by what number of constituents on a daily basis. The larger the number of constituents bringing the same issue to them, the harder it is to ignore.

2. Even receiving a form letter on your congressperson’s position is useful. Forcing them to declare their position before democratic congressional leadership has formally been chosen gives you confirmation as to how to proceed. If they are expressing support for an unethical congressperson like Jeffries or Schumer, you can share this letter with other constituents, who can then organize to make your congressperson’s life absolute hell until they choose to represent the will of their constituents accurately.

Ugh, that’s terrible. If you feel up to it, maybe you can share this response with other progressive communities in your district?

Spreading the word that he is putting himself on the record as supporting Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House can spark organized outrage and encourage folks to increase the pressure.

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Chase Center is local to me, and I can attest to the fact that they regularly allow shows there that are significantly less popular than Macklemore would be.

This decision was very clearly not based on ticket sales.

It failed because California doesn’t have a Mario to rizz up the voters 😔

Yeah, I’m a lesbian, so luckily the chances of either knocking up or being knocked up are hella low, but agreed.

I’ve run into more than my fair share while dating, to the extent that it makes me not even want to try to find a partner, because weeding out the people with improperly managed mental health struggles feels like an impossible task.

If any of you want to help take Jeffries (and Schumer) down, I made this post of resources to use to pressure our democratic congresspeople over the next few weeks:

https://lemmy.world/post/54043642

I’ve briefly dated two people with sociopathic narcissistic tendencies, and both of them were in therapy.

From what I could tell though, it didn’t seem like the work either of them were doing in therapy was focused on either their sociopathic or narcissistic tendencies.

Sooo, I’m extra impressed by this mom’s apparent willingness to actually try to do the work, lol

Awesome! Yeah, whenever I have some downtime, I browse various Resistbot petitions and sign a couple.