There’s gonna end up being a story several years down the line where there’s an investigation of some terrorist group or fascist dictator or country on the ‘s naughty list that shows a huge chunk of their arsenal is arms that were sent to Ukraine and “somehow” ended up in their hands.

The irony is the original post falls under the sub’s prohibited post types for being about the U.S. general election, potentially also for being a call to action as well.

The pertinent bit from the actual poll:

When asked about their preferences regarding the upcoming presidential election, 46.3% of respondents would vote for Donald Trump, and 36.5% would vote for Kamala Harris. Another 6.8% chose neither candidate, 7.3% did not plan to vote or cannot vote, and 3.1% did not know (Figure 11). After excluding those who do not plan on voting or cannot vote, 49.9% of respondents would vote for Donald Trump, and 39.4% would vote for Kamala Harris. Among registered voters after excluding those who do not plan on voting or cannot vote, the support for Donald Trump was slightly lower, with 48.2% of respondents supporting him and 43.2% supporting Kamala Harris (Figure 12).

So the five percent margin assumes none of the “don’t plan to vote” respondents vote anyway, that none of the “not registered” registered after getting polled, that the undecideds don’t break for Trump, or that any of the “can’t vote” respondents actually can. This also wasn’t a traditional presidential poll but rather a general statewide opinion poll done by a university so make of that what you will.

More like classist, as illiteracy and poverty tend to go hand in hand

TBF there was a lot of dumb lib resistance pink hat shit under Trump that engaged in performative mass movement politics without actually building any meaningful movement. If that’s what she’s talking about then fine. If she means “do we want to go back to brunch being interrupted?” then

I think she honestly believed she could “work with” the party leadership to move them and the last six years have been her going deeper and deeper into sunk cost bias.

If you didn’t want your candidate linked to the spawn of a war criminal, maybe they shouldn’t have made a big campaigning point of associating themselves with the spawn of a war criminal.

Highlights/suggestions from my Halloween playlist:

Pretty much any Siouxsie and the Banshees

So Alive by Love & Rockets

Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle

Anything by Dead Can Dance

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by JS Bach

Pennies for Heaven by The Legendary Pink Dots

Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Throw in Tupelo by them as well.

Anything by Switchblade Symphony

Mitternacht by E Nomine

Felines by Front 242

Wreath of Barbs by Wumpscut

Terrorbird by Author & Punisher

Dream Destructor by Plastic Noise Experience

The Ripper by Judas Priest

Democracy dies on Bezos’ yacht.

I once read this quote about French neoliberal politicians, that they’d rather lose and get the “right” kind of voters, than win with the vote of the rabble. Same thing with democrats, their goal isn’t to win regardless, it’s to ensure that they only win if the PMC are the base they have to respond to.

See, y’all think he committed suicide because that’s what the antisemitic media is telling you, but really tiny little Hamas agents invaded his brain and made him kill himself.

Killing Joke - Age of Greed

Clipping. - Story 5

Mindless Faith -Corporati$m

KMFDM - DISTURB THE PEACE

Jerry Paper - Greedy Motherfuckers

Doctor Steel - Ode to Revenge

They Might Be Giants - Kiss Me, Son of God

There’s a phrase I once heard to describe Trump, that he’s America’s biggest Small Business Owner, and that sums up why these people fawn over him. Conservatives fundamentally love hierarchy and they want capitalists at the top of that hierarchy, but their vision of the ideal capitalist is not the credentialed CEO reporting to a board representing a collective sea of rich investors, their vision of the capitalist class is a hierarchy of bigger and bigger sea-doo dealership owners.

The branding of Trump gives them that, that he’s the founder-owner-operator making all the big boy decisions on how to run his company, not a pencil-neck brigade of corporate bureaucrats. To them, he is the correction back to the “real” capitalism and capitalist class.

I’m guessing that’s a picture of Afghan women in the 70’s in Kabul or another major city in Afghanistan and not a reflection of Afghan women in the sparser population areas

AOC: “Hakeem! I went out there and told the left to vote for Harris like the good team player I am! Can I sit at the cool kids table now?”

Jeffries: “Fuck you.”

Everyone knows it’s not gay unless there’s butt stuff

Question is, how many of those are content creators getting sponsored by Raid: Shadow legends but otherwise independent, and how many are just direct employees of corporations doing content creation for their employer?

What that tells me is he’s klutzy and careless with his personal possessions.

Looking up to see which of your neighbors didn’t vote and then harangue them over it seems more like a blue MAGA thing than a red MAGA thing.

Isn’trael is the Bill Cipher of nation-states.