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Funny, this is actually more specific about your birthday than just saying your birth year. This also encodes whether your birthday is before or after the current date within the year.

So… 1999 with your birthday later than May 10?

If Ukraine wants a breather they can agree to it knowing they need to stay alert for the Russians to break it.

If Ukraine doesn’t want to play that game, they can just say “we’ll agree to a ceasefire when you leave Ukraine permanently” and carry on.

Good for you, but still wrong. The party fucked up. It’s their job to win elections, and they had loads of opportunities over the last 10 years to act differently and chose not to every time.

It’s not the voters’ fault that a heavily corporate-friendly party doesn’t represent them well enough to reliably get votes. That’s some victim blaming thinking right there.

Uh, you missed a few steps. Like the people voicing concerns over Biden’s mental health and being told to shove it while the party hid him from public view as much as possible. And then when they couldn’t hide it anymore they still tried to gaslight us that we didn’t see what we just saw.

And then finally they succumbed to that public pressure when it was far too late to have an actual primary and rally as a party, instead being told to vote for someone who was candidate-by-default.

The Dems constantly try to pander to the right which only fuels their real enemy in elections: voter apathy. If they actually governed and gave more than lip service, they’d never lose another election.

I think Jerboa was being pitched as the best RiF alternative super early on in the exodus. I also found myself on it but it never clicked for me.

I was on Connect for a while but there were some things that were a bit harder than they needed to be with different account/instance/filter management. Moved to Voyager and I’m quite happy with it, very smooth experience.

This is very true. ALSO, if you think the Democratic party gives two shits about the economy for working class people, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Allow me to ask again: who did you vote for in the last 3 presidential primaries?

Who did you vote for in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 primaries?

And what exactly makes you think that? I’m royally pissed because I’ve done everything to stop this and yet centrists can’t stop blaming everyone but themselves for the problems they caused. Take some goddamn responsibility.

Gotcha, so complete dismissal. You know that just proves my point, right? Stop blaming a hypothetical nonvoter for the sins of the Democratic party. If you need to blame voters, blame the ones who backed the wrong horse.

Look, I’m not a protest nonvoter but this line does a lot more harm than good. You get to feel smug but all you’re doing is alienating the people who voted against this despite having to vote against their conscience to do so.

I feel ideologically aligned with people who couldn’t stomach voting for either party, because despite all the stupid mockery both sides are bad. The Republicans are actively evil and the Democrats are knowingly complicit. It’s not equally bad, but it’s all bad. Every smug comment like yours chips away at my desire to hold my nose and vote for centrist neoliberals against my own interests.

How about instead, for a change, we blame the people who voted in loser candidates like Hillary and Biden? 1/3 is a failing grade, and we’re all paying for it because of Hillary’s pied piper. Yet people like you continue to blame the people who didn’t like a bad candidate.

For those that don’t know what the French above said:

Vive le roi = long live the king

Vive la révolution = long live the revolution

I tried to point it out in the reply you ignored, but you need to look up what “rigged” means. It doesn’t necessarily mean a guaranteed outcome, it means conducting something fraudulently to give one particular outcome or person an advantage. That’s quite literally what the DNC does, by their own admission, and from your own comments it doesn’t sound like you disagree. You just can’t accept that those actions equate to “rigged.”

The courts didn’t say the DNC hadn’t rigged it. The courts said the DNC hadn’t broken the law, based on the DNC’s argument that it was within their rights to – you guessed it – rig the whole thing.

Obama was cheated, but he caught the DNC off guard. They learned their lesson from that and prepared more for Hillary’s coronation that Obama disrupted.

Obama was also an insider, so they didn’t fight back quite as hard. But they used a lot of the same dirty tricks, stoking racism against him and accusing the opposition of sexism.

You’re arguing on a very narrow definition of “cheated.” If you agree that the Democratic primaries were not democratic, then it’s just a matter of semantics. The DNC had rules on their charter to conduct primaries impartially. They did not abide by those rules, and flat out said they didn’t have to. That’s conducting a supposedly impartial primary fraudulently in order to give advantage to their preferred candidate. It’s not criminal fraud, but it is the definition of rigging. They did do it to Obama and he overcame it, they did it to Bernie learning from their mistakes and Bernie couldn’t overcome it.

Justice sensitivity is a good motivator for resisting fascism. Also for causing arguments at family board games nights.

I completely agree that was the only winning option. I also believe the DNC would have thumbed the scale in Kamala’s favor and she probably would have won the primary despite better options. If the DNC cared about winning the general they’d stop interfering with elections. But while that would have royally pissed off a lot of us on the left, a lot of us still would have begrudgingly voted against Trump.

Had Kamala at least gone through a primary first and then carried any semblance of momentum into the general rather than unexpectedly starting cold, she might have eked out a victory.

Sorry about the rant, I have a lot of feelings here.

Realistically, we all have this inherent bias and no one in my life has had their lives improved by Biden. Not a single one. I’m not upper class, my family is stable lower middle class now but we grew up very poor on food stamps and money is still a constant struggle for all of us. I’m glad that apparently people at the bottom have benefitted under Biden but I frankly don’t believe it.

Unions in my city are always fighting tooth and nail to get livable wages and most don’t succeed. I know many people in lower paying positions at my company who left and moved because they tried to get a livable wage and failed, so they went elsewhere because the only way to get any semblance of a good wage anymore is to quit and start anew. Everyone I talk to has suffered under inflation since 2020, without exception.

Again, if some people have benefitted that’s great. But I just haven’t seen it. What I have seen is year over year the C-suite giving themselves 10%+ raises while the rest of us get increases under inflation. That’s not Biden’s fault directly, but he sure hasn’t done anything else to make it any easier on us.

Didn’t do shit for student loans despite using that as a carrot for both the general and midterms, then claimed he was doing so much when all he was doing was acting in accordance with policies passed by previous administrations.

Didn’t tell the truth about his cognitive condition until well after the primaries, meaning Americans didn’t have a choice in the primary and Kamala’s candidacy was hamstrung from the start. Therefore we got Trump 2.0. I’d bet money she could have won the general if she wasn’t a nominee by default (I’d’ve voted for someone else in the primary, but I think she could have won it).

I’m not smug, I’m tired of my government actively working against my interests and then holding up nothing to pretend they’re on my side.

I’m very happy you can be so blase about our utterly broken country. Great job.