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I don't think it's the case that people are rewarded with power, then somehow turn into pstchopathic fuckwads, but that only psychopathic fuckwads are willing and able to do everything it takes to gain that sort of power in the first place.

Think of all the compromises someone has to make and lies they have to tell and asses they have to kiss and backs they have to stab to fight and crawl up the ladder to that sort of position.

No truly sane and stable and honest and empathetic person would or even could do all of that.

Cue the next learned essay about how what Democratic voters really want is centrists in 3, 2, 1...

I would count it as certain fact that every single society that's ever hit any sort of national identity crisis point has spawned commentary from people insisting that the "problem" is that young people are no longer being indoctrinated with some set of ideas with which they used to be indoctrinated (and with which the commenter personally agrees), and that that has made it so that they can be and are instead indoctrinated with some other set of ideas (which the commenter personally opposes) instead.

I would say that the rather obvious problem is indoctrination in and of itself, though unfortunately the solution to that problem is almost certainly more evolutionary than societal, and it's going to take at least one and likely a few more mass die-off events before humanity will have any hope of beating it.

For whatever any of that's worth, to those of us on the wrong side of that event.

It's a shame we don't have a government agency dedicated to eliminating wasteful spending, since they could've done their own job and avoided this situation by cutting off the subsidies that are the only thing that prop up south Texas rice cultivation - the biggest waste of water in the region.

Just another day in the life of the Toddler-in-chief.

I'm getting tired of Pelosi's transparent attempts, by offering up insipid advice and critiques to the younger generations of neolibs, to distract from the fact that her main accomplishment in her own career was using inside information to build up her stock portfolio.

You had your chance bitch, and you sold us out for your own privilege. Just go crawl off into a hole somewhere and rot and leave the rest of us the fuck alone - we're busy dealing with the crapsack world you helped build.

Notice how every time Musk is criticized for being a toxic piece of shit, one of his parents or some other authority figure sticks up for him?

Guaranteed that that's the way it's been his entire life, and that's why he's never outgrown being a petulant, reckless, self-absorbed, blameshifting teenage edgelord.

Discworld's fine by me.

And that after that we got a new DNC chair which completely changes the organization?

I'm calling bullshit on that too.

The time for leadership is right now, when the US is facing the greatest threat in modern history and the Democratic party is at the forefront of organizations that can and should step up.

And they very much have NOT. That, all by itself, amply proves that while the names may have changed, the organization hasn't. Even in this extreme hour of need, they've painfully obviously chosen to do fuck-all.

I'm entirely comfortable presuming that the neoliberals have never let go, and they're already astroturfing their counter to the inevitable criticisms that are going to come when they yet again run on a platform of being not the Republicans, and of being just barely to their left. Just as they've done in the past, they're going to blame their inevitable failure on us. Just as in the past, it's not going to be that they're corrupt sacks of shit wholly owned by moneyed interests and willing to lose an election rather than risk reducing the flow of soft money - it's going to be that we didn't go ahead and support them anyway.

I have zero reason to believe that this whole song and dance about a supposedly new and progressive DNC is anything other than just a new spin on the same old con job.

I'm calling bullshit on this.

There's no possible way that Biden or any of his people could let or not let Harris do anything. They had no actual control over her campaign.

The only outsiders who had any control over her campaign were the DNC and the party establishment - the same pieces of shit who torpedoed Sanders in 2016 and 2020,.

I'm 100% certain that this narrative is coming from them, trying to dodge the blame they so richly deserve by pinning it on the senile guy.

Musk never outgrew 8th grade.

He's still in there, day in and day out, doing everything he can think of to try to get the other kids to think he's cool, and still just making himself look like that much more of a creepy, pathetic douchebag.

What he meant is that nobody rich and white died.

Nobody else counts.

Agreed on both counts.

And on another note, I took a gamble there by just referring to "Bob," and it's cool that that worked.

"I can't believe I used to like these guys."

All I get from this is that right-wingers are more likely to be so stupid that they rely on somebody else to tell them what to think.

They share his desire to destroy the country.

Professional politicians are looking forward to the day when they can come out from under the shadow of dark money and influence peddling and financial reports and openly live as lords of the corporate/kleptocratic new world order.

I've long assumed that many (most?) of the tankies, and of hexbear's userbase in general, are teens.

So seriously - at what point do we collectively face the fact that the PotUS is a raving lunatic?

I have zero doubt that a large part of the reason that Trump appointed Musk in the first place was so that he could later throw him under the bus.