Agreed. Apple cider, pumpkin pie, warm enough to not need a light jacket during the day, then when the sun is down just a light jackal for the wind. Watching Over The Garden Wall and eating Halloween candy.

Not speaking up or pushing against policies and such that target specific groups of people because that’s the way we’ve always done it makes you a bastard still. We all know there’s probably one or two good cops per department/precinct that truly wish and do help people when they can. But they’re silenced for the sake of their job speaking out against the mistreatments and policies.

Studying all that is cheaper than therapy. Trust me, if I could afford the financial commitment I’d go again.

It’s part of a larger issue of science and research being funded and backed by big companies that benefit from it not saying their product as bad. There are defunct research articles that state smoking is healthy for you from long ago. A lot of those researchers and doctors were later found to have gotten kick backs from companies that benefited from the positive research. This is just a modern example of money meddling in research for their benefit despite knowing the opposite.

True enough. It’s your typical Democrat work, make a half measure that doesn’t readily improve the situation but looks like it can.

I don’t want any sort of device or appliance in my home that requires an internet connection that doesn’t get a long time of security updates. My old printer died and they’re so bad now I just don’t have one. I’m going back to a dumb flip phone because this one’s battery s dying. I use everything I can without spending money because I’ve never had a lot to spend to try and maintain my privacy. I keep spam email for the random site that wants you to enter one. The IoT is cancerous, it creates huge security holes because these appliance manufacturers don’t care about security one iota. I have worked in IT for 15 years professionally with over that personal experience. I hate what the internet has become, I want something more akin to the 2000s back or at least the scrubbing of corporate mandates cut out. It’s actually more dangerous to be on it because of advertisements. I would still have internet and gaming PCs regardless, but I want tech that’s basic and functional.

You’re expecting people who are worth a minimum of 7 figures to consider the plight of people who struggle to maintain 5 figures. Companies were already lowering time employees worked to begin with regardless.

They were keeping people below full time hours to begin with, it just got lowered to squeeze that extra penny from their buttholes.

Don’t blame the ACA, those companies always had people working part time and just lowered the hours further.

The current political climate is galvanizing and honestly I don’t see it as a problem. We cannot survive as a society much less species with how things are now. Some people are only concerned with how they’re viewed, so they lie about what they believe in order to look not terrible. Truthfully, nuance is dead, and playing both sides means the one that takes away will always win.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Most centrists I have interacted with have the same thought, I don’t care as long as I’m not affected by it. As long as the sense of order is maintained they will let babies starve, houses burn, and deforest our planet to maintain that stability. So you must excuse those of us on the left who have interacted with people more conservative to us for so long. We’re tired of the bullshit and we’re not going to let you live it down anymore. I have heard people talk about how centrists/moderates, whatever term you use to describe them, are the swing voters. From my personal experience in the USA with the moderate, the moderate fucking sucks.

If the moderate is who truly votes in presidents then they have failed us multiple times now with Trump. Thoroughly, absolutely. I don’t know how you can live a life seeing the horrors perpetuated for money and power to still think our system okay. If you’re not swayed by the plight of the fact we can feed everyone on the Earth, we just cannot satisfy the gluttony of the wealthy to do so. Of maintaining order while a group of people who had no choice in their birth are subjugated, beaten, rounded up and jailed just for existing, and lynched for existing. If you look at everything wrong in this world and aren’t galvanized away from moderation and right wing politics, then you’re lost.

Those who have been critiquing, reading critiques, and debating about it for a long time are naive for not blindly buying Carl’s Jr’s Big Bucket of Fries!

Democrats Win: We didn’t need the left’s help with this!

Democrats Lose: It’s all the left’s fault, here’s endless articles why.

So hating a hateful ideology and people who hold that ideology is bigotry. Damn, you need to see a chiropractor, you just twisted yourself in knots for that poor argument.

People thinking the Dems are left. They’re left of the GQP, they’re not left of the spectrum, far from it. The neoliberal is as much not your friend as the fascist is.

Makes more sense when you realize a lot of so called “enlightened centrists” are just Republicans who don’t want to be lumped in with them but love their hateful policies.

Indeed. The only real difference is the smile on the face of the liberal as they step on your head as you’re drowning.

When progress and socialism is on the rise, libs will side with the fascists to stop its rise. Even so called moderates are to impede with progress.

Got into an argument with a neo-liberal who was happy the rail strikes were over without much going to the workers. I asked them if they felt any worker solidarity and they said no outright. There’s people who just don’t care about you at all as long as they get theirs.

Wait, guys, insurance is paying out to you in a reasonable amount?!