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They're like modern day utility pants! Plus you can get them with fleece lining which is god tier for winter

My gf says the same thing. She thinks they're comfy but she cant wear them as part of an outfit. I'm sure if someone made joggers without the hang they'd get plenty of customers. I'm surprised nobody has tried yet, its like the only legitimate complaint I hear from people about them lol

For one thing we were watching the same genocide for the entire year before the election. Another: She hasn't said anything about Gaza since losing except to congratulate the idf soldier who got released a month ago. Literally nothing would be different outside our borders. If you guys would just accept reality on this one thing people would stop bothering you about it bc you're wrong.

The candidate who lost.. because she was silent on palestine, and still is. Welcome to reality. It's annoying because its accurate. We live in a society where you have to campaign on promises and kamala couldn't even lie and say she would protect Palestinian children from "war" to win the election against a fascist who was openly planning to finish the ethnic cleansing. Not our fault, hers. She knew the exact outcomes better than any of us and still chose silence.

Slam dunk easy election to win and they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by being completely feckless and having nothing of value to campaign on. Go yell at the DNC for being enablers of fascism instead of the people online who correctly assessed that unlimited genocide would lose the election for them. We didn't hold their tongues, they chose not to speak on the single biggest issue of the year and lost. We continue to speak because they do not.

Again, what good is criticism of trump when the people yelling at us are defending the democrats for doing the exact same thing we're criticizing trump for? Why would I say "Donald trump isn't doing enough on gaza" when "doing enough" in his eyes is building his own commercial real estate there? Are the genocide defenders suddenly going to jump on my side because my accurate criticism of US support for genocide is pointed at the santioned enemy of "progressives"? Critiques are most well placed and most effective when pointed at the people claiming to be for the same thing. I'm not moving republicans on this issue, and its kinda gross that I have to work so hard to persuade liberals out of the same position their "opposition" holds. Its just ironic to claim you're against Trump except for this one issue where the interests are identical, in which case you should only criticize trump for those interests and not the dems.

People criticize kamala because she is the reason we're here and democrats still dont want to listen and still won't back down off their "defending israel is not negotiable" bullshit even after losing the election and losing even more respect from voters after the fact. They learn nothing and demand praise for losing with pride and dignity. Fuck off!

Corey Booker, attack dog of the radical left, talked for 25 hours and didn't mention the genocide at all. These people dont care. Stop pretending like they care. Why do you feel the need to protect them?

They should be removed from office and replaced with principled representatives who will actually do something with the power they are afforded. They chose this. Let them burn for it. They dont need any more protection.

Joggers broke me out of the cycle, free your mind

Lotta propagandists on lemmy weren't good enough to be on the reddit/Facebook teams I've noticed

All great, no notes. Kill Tories is even better than up hamas imo

Im afraid youre probably right, but I've got my friends in New York joining his campaign to canvass for him and do outreach to get as close as we possibly can to winning this.

They said he would never get past 5% in the polls but now we're talking about him directly competing with Cuomo for the nomination. If this momentum keeps building I believe that if people knew who Zohran was and what his policies are they would vote for him without hesitation.

The real hurdle is convincing people that they're safe in giving their vote to someone outside of the democratic party. The bots on here and I'm sure everywhere are peeling their skin off trying to beg people not to think about voting for anyone who isn't a Democrat.

As long as people get the truth, its not a question of who people WANT to vote for, its whether they'd get up and go to the polls for the chance to keep Cuomo out of the race. Most believe they have no choice so they just dont care, that's what the campaign is trying to fight against. They've proven they have momentum and now they're building mainstream recognition. Im still keeping faith that the people in new york want MORE than fucking Eric adams and they won't allow Cuomo to come back and get a free pass for all the shit he pulled as governor. Thanks for the insights from a real new yorker lol

And considering that people with more money get more votes it kinda doesn't matter if you support it or not. Somebody will, and somebody with more disposable income than your entire income could decide on a whim to defeat the collective action all by themselves. Same thing as candy crush type stuff, they only need one whale to make all the free players worth it.

I agree that piracy should become more widespread. It's the only way for companies to feel the pain of losing customers. Otherwise its an opportunity cost calculation for the corporation: how many players can they afford to lose in order to increase returns from the players they dont lose.

Make that calculation unbearable and suddenly the math changes – customers are prioritized above further optimizing of profits. That only happens if the cost of not doing right by customers is an outright loss of money. Not lower profits, monetary losses.

Until these choices stop being profitable it's literally irrational for them to not abuse their customers.

Fair enough, I cant even pretend to understand how this stuff works lol I figured we would be at least a decade out from "emulating" a steam deck if it even were possible anyway

200 people being treated in a hospital along with a journalist you already attempted to murder? Human shields. Level the hospital.

Every single idf troop using a Gazan slave as a bullet sponge? Standard operating proceedure. Most moral nation.

Anyone claiming otherwise is antisemetic.

Any questions?

Is there any chance some psycho is gonna make a steam deck Linux package to "emulate" on desktop? I feel like that's probably gonna happen before game devs make their games universally compatible

New Yorkers please do this one thing we will forgive you if you just do this one thing for everyone

This might be the funniest tweet in history

Hmm now I understand.

As usual you can thank Jim crow and slavery for it. Back when black people stopped being ownable property they had to be paid to do jobs but since the hard working white folk in town who had businesses didn't want to pay black people for their work they invented a system where the freed men would have a job serving the customers and it was implied that if they did a good job you'd throw them a nickel. That was the workaround to having slaves that worked for you but technically got a "wage" from "tips" for good service. It eventually became so economically viable that it became an industry standard and now everyone gets to sell their labor to a company which externalizes the cost of paying the employee to their customers. American exceptionalism baby!

Yikes man do you not hear yourself? In Germany they dont declare tips as income, and they also dont require workers to survive off tipped wages. So what the hell is your point? "In Germany we pay workers to do a job" great for you guys.

In america we have systematic wage slavery and tip based service models are the lowest class of wage slaves. They dont even get paid a minimum wage which, in america, is below poverty. They exclusively make money from gratuities that paying customers "willingly" give them for their service and the company they work for "pays" them $2/hr. Tips paid on taxes already basically didn't exist because most servers don't declare their tips as income. (My entire family was raised by waitresses.)

This legislation legalizes people who arent service workers declaring any income as tips and thus avoid paying taxes on it. It's a bad idea and fundamentally misunderstands the economic pressures making a policy called "no tax on tips" generally popular.

I'll agree to give it another 3 months and see where we are, and I appreciate you not getting bogged down in the minutia and sticking to broad strokes. Like I said, I believe we are envisioning the same future and I dont want you to think I am fighting against you. My first election was 2016, so I'm a bit more cynical. I have less optimism for those 500 members to seize the moment instead of entrenching their dying position one last time. Could it happen? Sure. I just feel it's equally as likely that a grassroots movement takes its place. I hope for the sake of the country you're right.

Wow the Atlantic posting an article about class politics in which the class being questioned isn't the working class

Something very bad is coming

Big fucking facts. It doesn't have to be all of us, but there are plenty of people I've talked to in my conversations that do have a grasp on politics and probably COULD convince people that they were better than the two parties. If there was ever a time to start running as republicans in deep red districts and just talking about socialist policies its now. People have no idea what politics are anymore.

For example: I'm a centrist, I believe in universal Healthcare and a jobs guarantee, I want a 90% tax rate on corporations, and social security should be funded from the age of 50 for all Americans. It's really easy. Words dont mean anything anymore. Tell your people what they want to hear and then get in office and fuck shit up. If fascists could do it why cant you?

I just wanted to make sure you weren't saying the DNC is run by Bernie and his ideological allies. Even if it was, Bernie is not the socialist voice of America that he claims to be, and his actions both historically and in the current day should tell you as much.

A progressive dnc doesn't fix the issues of consultants, it doesn't fix the moneyed interests, it doesn't fix lobbying, and it certainly doesn't help us get a socialist elected. Idk what the plan is. David Hogg isn't a socialist. The establishment dems are already attempting a coup because David Hogg dared to say they might have to consider fighting for something at some point in the future. He's barely progressive and the democrats proper are reacting like they got holy water thrown on them.

This is not the hope you seek. The true hope is within your community with the people who will actually show up and fight for you when there is no food left on the shelves. We're past waiting for the DNC to realize their role and take up the mantle to save America, they were given that opportunity and chose over and over to instead be the party that delivered us into collapse. Please, I'm begging you. Don't keep waving the flag for people who would sell your foundations from under you in seconds if given the chance. There are actual political movements that plan on giving power back to the people who deserve it: the workers. Help them. They don't believe the democrats will do what they're saying, why should you? Unionize your workplace, organize your neighborhood, canvass with dsa and see what a real progressive movement looks like. This bullshit the dnc is trotting out will be visibly farcical to you after having done work on the ground. I cant help much more than that, the answers will become clear when you surround yourself with actual goal oriented activists instead of democrat stooges.

I just wanna say: I'm not making judgements on you personally, more talking to the royal "you" as in whoever is still trying to align with dems. You dont seem like an idiot, I just think you've been mislead into believing a narrative that doesn't exist in reality. It's tough to break through that narrative without being a little abrasive so I apologize if anything I've said here came across as an attack on your intelligence or your morality. You are not my enemy, the corporate backed oligarchy is my enemy and the DNC is in lockstep with them. I cannot in good conscience allow people of high moral standing continue to be sheep herded into a party that exists exclusively to strangle outside perspectives and whitewash any kind of radical politics. I promise its not you personally getting me this animated. I believe we want the same things. I am just more aware of the fact that the DNC is still in opposition to the things both of us want, and I'm not willing to compromise with them.