We’re in ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ mode.

Invest every dollar you can spare, because that’s the only way to win in any of this. Both ruling parties care far more about your stock portfolio succeeding than they do about you.

LOL “controversial salute”

Looked pretty fucking clear to me.

I’ve had some fun Anti-Nazi movies playing while I work-from-home lately, like Inglourious Basterds and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

I thought that my first couple of days, but TBH, I actually really like that Fedi social media is completely self-directed. Not having the Jack Dorseys, Donald Trumps, and Zuckerbergs of the world vomiting content or stupid ads onto my feed is well worth the modicum of extra effort.

I found half of the people I’m following just by posting a picture of my dog and tagging it #CuteAnimals, and that got a nice response. I do follow a few hashtags and found follows there, but I will probably take them off once I’m up to 30-40 follows and I like my feed.

My feed on Pixelfed is way better the second week, now that I’ve followed a couple dozen folks and put some posts out there.

And pro tip: Post and tag a cute picture of your pet and people will see your account.

My grandfather didn’t get any close-ups with historic fascists, but he did shoot two Nazi planes out of the sky.

And then my mom and dad voted Trump.

The article says…

…where the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made two stiff-armed salutes that many interpreted as a fascist gesture.

Can’t say I care for that characterization. Half the world is trying to gaslight me about this but my fucking eyes work.

It’s laughable that you claim to have done any introspection and still blame 3rd party voters for Democrats losing elections in the same post, as if it wasn’t the choice to run a brain dead candidate, ditch said candidate and do zero democracy to find another (granted, as we’ve established, democrats don’t run democratic primaries anyway), and then the replacement candidate spent their whole campaign telling millions of people watching their friends get genocided or working 100 hours a week to live in a roach-infested studio to just be joyful about it.

My brother, we lived through 2016 and the superdelegates. Democrats don’t get to punch someone in the face and then complain that they broke their hand, and the votes aren’t coming back until they start caring more about workers than they do about finding more money and WMD’s for genocide.

And we’re not winning just because the person doing the fascism wears a blue pantsuit.

Vote third party?

Yes, for starters.

Also, do some introspection. Democrats do not support democracy. Despite all the nice things they say, they are fascists. Voting against them is a moral act.

I’ve been saying it since June. I know I’m shouting into the void. Unless you’re willing to go full Player 2 or you’re a billionaire, you have no power here.

The only thing worse than the morons too stupid to see that Trump is going to do what he says, are the morons who think that you can just drop all aid to Israel overnight and nothing will happen.

That’s one of my favorite excuses for Democrats breaking promises and/or doing nothing: It’s hard. (As if we shouldn’t expect the people we elect to do hard things.)

And yes, when Israel wants more WMD’s to perpetrate a genocide, I would expect a conscientious president or legislators to do something about it and say no.

The primaries are where the accountability should happen.

Democrats do not run democratic primaries. It’s why they invented superdelegates and fought for their presumed right to run dirty, undemocratic primaries in court.

It’s this simple. Dems knew since their primaries that voters wanted them to stop sending WMD’s to Israel. Multiple state level primaries had double-digit percentages of voters that voted “undecided” specifically to communicate that they wanted change on the Israeli genocide.

Democrats just shrugged their shoulders and ignored it.

That part comes after, once democracy is assured.

LOL, sure Jan. Did we just watch the same Biden presidency?

Refusing to hold Democrats accountable is also voting for Fascism.

They really are out here pretending that Genocide Joe didn’t enthusiastically help Israel stack corpses for the last 15 months of his presidency, literally down to the final day.

I love that your defense here is: “Look at that, you’re just as big of a piece of shit as we are.”

But in reality, they’re objectively more moral than you are in voting against genocide. That it may happen anyway doesn’t change that.

Specifically referring to the coming ceasefire in Israel, but there’s been reporting on a path to peace in the Ukraine/Russia war too, which I’m glad to hear about.

Between Israel and Ukraine, there are a lot of leftists out there who were just plain wrong in their assumption that Trump’s election would make matters worse for both.

We’ll see if these changes hold, but from where we’re all sitting, there’s been more progress on international initiatives in two days in the in the last four years.