It’s not just DOE, a bunch of agencieS were forced to use “out of office” autoreplies blaming Dems, even if that employee was still having to work without pay.

Why do so many people keep making text posts and memes?

Nope, the wealth inequality makes them sociopaths too…

It’s a hard reality, but if me or you had Elon’s net worth, we’d be just as fucking weird and just as dangerous to everyone else.

Like, as much as people say it, people don’t realize how much just a single billion is. Just a single billion is enough to fuck up anyone. Like 100 million, some people might be able to remain relatively normal. But a billion would get us all.

What you’re doing is the same as writing of the Nazi movement as Germans being intrinsically violent or sociopathic. When obviously that shit can happen anywhere.

It’s just a very hard truth to face, so we rationalize by saying “those people” were born evil.

No one is inherently good, just some people are properly socialized to be “good”. And we need to accept that so we stay vigilant against it.

It does though, and the longer we pretend that garbage stop gaps like this

Then take this opportunity to organize primary votes for someone who you think will pick a chair you want.

But this has been going on for two days, if I haven’t helped by now, my time is best spent elsewhere.

I hope you vote in every primary tho

Yeah bro, I burnt a forest down yesterday, but it’s cool, I did it for the funsies

Yeah, I didn’t play V until this year when I got it for free.

I’ll play GTA 6 someday, but probably not till it’s at most $20.

Pay morally bankrupt actresses to dress up as a videogame chare ter for sex work then leak the photo to brag about it…

Then probably all the shit Dubai princes do.

That level of money will fuck you up, because not just the human brain, but damn near every living organism is wired to always want more.

No matter what kind of thing you find enjoyable, if you have acces to it 24/7 then your going to get bored and move onto something more extreme.

Why do you think all these old rich/powerful people become rapists and child molesters?

It’s not that they were necessarily born evil, this is just the “natural result” of someone having this insane level of wealth inequality. Which honestly doesn’t even.make the top ten lists of why we need to address wealth/power inequality, but like…

Certainly topical when trump won’t release the Epstein list because it says he raped kids.

you have a fundamental and comically naïve misunderstand of what/how American style democracy works and the function of political parties to where I have a hard time knowing where to start.

The confusion is I’m talking about how they should work, and how Martin ran Minnesota for a decade…

You’re talking about how it’s corrupted and how the DNC was ran for 50+ years.

But the thing is it doesn’t take a crazy amount of work to fix it, we just needed a single good chair because the chair has 100% power and 0% accountability. It’s a terrible system and we should change it, and the progressive Dem that Martin allows to the general should appoint a chair willing to fundamentally change the structure to distribute power from the chair to some kind of governing body that is obligated to kick big moves to full member votes.

What is the distinction between liberal and neoliberal?

An American neoliberal is someone who is pro-corporate (essentially pro-billionaire because they own the corps) and tries to appease voters by not wanting to exterminate minorities directly.

If you’re trying to start using 27 different labels for various groups, that leads down a dangerous road to tribalism and no one understanding exactly what anyone else means. And you’re falling into the neoliberal’s trap where they just change their self identified label every 5-12 years and pretend they’re not a countable for the last group and totally different.

If you need to break it down more than:

1. Republican
2. Neoliberal/ “moderate”
3. Progressive

Then it’s worth the time to at least break it down along fiscal/so ial policy lines, so:

1. Conservative/conservative
2. Conservative/progressive
3. Progressive/progresisve

Just as accurate as tarot cards…

1. Fire a bunch of people who were forming a union, blame any other reason.

2. Say game needs another 6 months to make perfect, don’t acknowledge it’s obviously because you just fired a bunch of people.

3. Profit, because there’s a huge GTA fan base of idiots

What is that insane domain name that I’m not going to click?

https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-vote-day-38/?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe

Here’s a clean link:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-vote-day-38/

You realize “the DNC” is just the chairperson right?

There’s ~400 voting members who pick the chair, except when a Dem wins the presidential they go with the pick.

So 2016 they fucked up and picked a shitty chair.

2020 they went with the presidents pick.

And 2024 they realized that wasn’t working and didn’t pick a neoliberal.

Those ~400 people have turnover too. The ones who voted in February this year weren’t the ones who voted in 2016.

Change can happen very quickly because of how it’s structured. We have a non biased chair for the first time in like 50 fucking years bro. Because Obama abandoned the DNC instead of appointing a progressive or at least someone unbiased

Since the party put it’s fingers in the scale for Carter because even Jimmy Carter was further right than voters if his time wanted.

Like, we won the war over the party months ago, and you’re like one of those Japanese soldiers that kept “fighting” on an island for decades because they never got the surrender order.

The closest thing to pro-billionaire Martin’s ever said is:

Yeah, we’ll take their money if they give it, but we won’t be biased for it.

And yeah I know what your response will be “they’ll only give it if they get something!!!”

Which logically…

Means billionaires aren’t going to give to the DNC under Martin.

Exactly what you want. Martin just said it diplomatically because it was during his campaign for chair, and he was making it clear that if billionaires stop giving, it’s not because he’s be rejecting their donations, it’s because they’d only give if it’s a bribe instead of a donation.

What?

The OP is asking if he can contact her family to ask why she doesn’t reply quickly enough…

If her family doesn’t care enough to investigate why she’s not replying to them, then they’re not going to care after OP contacts.

If they care enough that they would contact when OP asks…

Then they would have already reached out to their own daughter/sibling/whatever if she wasn’t responding to them…

Meaning the woman isn’t self-isolating, or her family is already trying to engage with her.

A friend that moved away two years ago their daughter isn’t texting back and is t meeting up when possible…

Probably just isn’t an important part of this woman’s life.

And at some point OP has to accept that, unless they’re a stalker.

So she still lives where all your mutual friends live…

Where her family lives…

Let them handle it.

Rest is also mostly an invention in your side, but not believing at face value someone somebody said on the internet is generally a good practice.

Buddy…

You keep making “typos” that completely change the meaning of what you type or just make no sense.

Just leave the woman who clearly doesn’t want to interact with you alone.

Although I’m sure you’ll ignore every response that’s not:

Only you can save her! Do anything possible to talk to her no matter how many times she says she doesn’t want to talk to you. Shell appreciate it after you save her! You know her needs more than her!

Her moving to another country and not talking to you or your common friends doesn’t mean she’s “self isolating”. No single friend group is everyone’s life. Especially since it’s been two years since she left your country…

Going to her family would be creepy as fuck.

And honestly it feels like you have more motivations than just friendship here. And she’s been trying to let you down gently for over two years now…

Like if “reconnect” means a text, go for it. But it sounds like you want someone to tell you it’s ok to contact her fucking family that you don’t know to complain she doesn’t text back immediately.

That’s dangerously close to stalker shit, and they will always present a narrative similar to yours and use that for justification of inappropriate actions.

I still love that despite all the tech and AI hype…

There is no better method of re-establishing wetlands than just dropping 10-20 beavers off and letting them do their own thing for a couple years

It’s more “doubling dipping”.

Walmart pays their employees less than they need to survive, and so they can keep working, they help them get on Snap program.

Then they use SNAP to buy groceries, likely from Walmart.

But even if not, lots of others do.

So they get hit twice as hard. Employees won’t be able to afford to keep working there…

And a shit ton of their customers can’t afford to shop there, or anywhere else.

So they’re likely to get hit by theft as well, when people starve, they stop thinking about anything besides the next meal, and everyone knows Walmart lets you walk out till you pass felony threshold.

People really going to be snatch and grabbing groceries soon. Shits gonna get real bad real soon if we have even more desperate people not thinking past tomorrow.

All the more reason to start making sure people know they can vote in D primaries without any obligations in the general.

The only way Newsom gets the nomination, is if billionaires convince people not to vote in the Dem primary. And they’ve already started their propaganda.

So we absolutely need to make sure Dem primary turnout is as high as possible.

The neoliberal voters will show up in the primary, we can’t just let them have it.

Great news!

The DNC agrees with us now on that:

Following years of pressure from progressive advocates, the Democratic National Committee’s resolutions panel on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure aimed at limiting dark money—undisclosed independent campaign contributions—in presidential primary elections.

The resolution, which was introduced by Chair Ken Martin, was approved during the DNC’s summer meeting in Minneapolis. The measure calls for creating a panel tasked with pursuing “real, enforceable steps the DNC can take to eliminate unlimited corporate and dark money in its 2028 presidential primary process.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dnc-dark-money-resolution

Keeping that out of the primary, means the deciding factor is just who voters want, not who donors want.

It’s not as easy as it sounds, and I fully get any hesitation or doubt that they’re “looking into it”, but shit man…

It’s huge they’re even putting in a good faith effort to figure out how to do it and hold candidates accountable

I mean, it makes sense…

Billionaires own the media, but not the DNC anymore.

That’s why Pritzker and Newsom’s names are constantly in the news. They can’t rig the big primary anymore, so they’re gonna spend the next three years acting like only neoliberals are doing anything, and they’re all super progressive.

But they all have “experience” so if they were really progressive, wed already know.