No, the democrats are doing exactly that by sticking with Biden- instead of a combative, progressive anti-trump agenda we get Trump’s agenda either way. He has been AWFUL on the border and not much better on climate change. His VP is a transphobic cop. He curbstomped Bernie sander’s movement through friends in high places and ruined our chance at a decent healthcare system all the while constantly appealing to the right. Let me hate the guy ffs

Both candidates are establismentarian ASF and represent the oligarchs FAR more than any everyday American. I am not a “concern troll” I’m a leftist with concerns and I’ll be voting third party, (most likely green) as a matter of principle. I’ve done this my entire adult life- you aren’t changing my mind in a million years. I legitimately think he’s too old, too right-wing, and too corrupt. Dude should just be running as a Republican tbqh.

Lol this tribalism is ridiculous. Biden had one job, to be different than the genocide guy. I don’t care about the complexity of the issue here, but when our choices are both establishment warmongers it’s not really a choice is it? Is it really that big of a ask not to fund the eradication of a group of people and a nationalist government? That should be the bare minimum for a “leftist” candidate IMHO and it’s depressing how the goalpost landed here of all places

Google wants the internet simplified so they can get it under their control, what else is new? I started learning web design a few years back and this is the kind of shit that makes me suicidal. There’s almost no point when they have such a huge monopoly in the space.

Tax the rich and/or defund military or police just enough to pay for decent healthcare and mental health services in this country. Can’t have responsible citizens if you’re driving them to the brink of insanity- these conditions are intentional so the state can turn the mentally ill into free labor in prisons and maintain a military force against the people at large.

8 is old enough to know a lot of things about yourself. Personally I knew I hated the idea of “being a man” at that age, i just wish i had realized sooner that growing into something else was a option. My mental health would certainly be about 1000x better if I had been able to transition then instead of as a overwhelmed, forsaken and misunderstood 19 year old…

Well, as a american- everywhere I’ve ever worked has had a recycling bin but it’s always treated as another trash can. Just something that depresses the absolute fuck out of me.

The goalposts HAVE moved right with Biden. Everybody forgets that he was the token establishment white guy VP for obama- he hasn’t changed, he is not a progressive superstar. Dude is shitting the bed on a few key points; especially this and climate change.

The way you rationalize all of this is just gross, not sorry.

I’m a millennial and I think it has been for most of my life. Ive seen two people become president who didn’t win the popular vote- and I long ago became convinced this system can’t be fixed. It’s working against the poor, for the rich as it was meant to. We need to tear it down and try again, we need drastic change. This said, police abolition and even the barest redistribution of funds from that to address the living conditions that cause crime in this country is one shortcut I fully believe in. Police organizations started as slave patrols and even today primarily criminalize poverty and hurt struggling individuals. They have no duty or obligation to prevent violent crime. Furthermore, in America it’s one of the most overbloated areas of federal spending and that money could easily give everyone a higher quality of life instead of being used to turn free-thinking citizenry into free labor and sustain the brutalist temples of inhumane evil called prisons.

Okay, well I’m ready to write a angry email now who’s with me? Anybody know the best address?

Dwarf fortress. It makes me want to forgo sleep in favor of weed lol

Living the laws - choking victim

Right back atcha - atmosphere is SO important to the higher-ups, and it really is a big challenge to maintain given the low pay, early mornings, demanding customers and scammy, if all-too-normalized business practices.

It’s brutal. More draining than any other retail job I’ve worked, and I’ve been in warehouses, unloaded trucks. Especially near a airport or hospital some locations do business NONSTOP. And the customers? FIENDING for sugar and caffeine in the form of some obscure, brand new tiktok hack that uses ingredients we probably don’t have in stock and is made the total opposite of how a reasonable person would want it. It’s like any other job, a lot of people DO put in hard work and most of those get nowhere but burned out.

Yeah of course there are operating expenses, but you have these same companies buying the lowest quality equipment and products they can get away with as well. It’s inexcusable.

Inflation and wage theft are absolutely out of control in this country. I’m a barista. My store makes $1600 in a eight-hour day. Mine and all of my coworker’s wage in there probably adds up to about $50/hour on average. So the profit margin is ridiculous. And these businesses have the gall to think they can make MORE MONEY. No, fuck you. At some point the human beings doing the hard work need to get a bigger cut.

You’re a straight guy who likes getting fucked. This is way more common than you’d think and shouldn’t be a big deal in a healthy society.

Yeah that’s definately another great point. Ukraine and Palestine are both threatened by colonialist erasure, that’s the parallel I’d like to see drawn- they absolutely have that in common. Would love to see Israel and it’s nationalist government compared to Russia more often- there’s so much misinformation and misdirection in the news nowadays.

I hate that the two are becoming more and more conflated. Ukraine is fighting off a invasion; Israel is invading and has driven the people of palestine into radical organization and direct action. These funds should go to aid and peace efforts instead.