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(this is not a bit btw, these events have confirmed my undying hatred for internet points)

So we’ve seen how the party allows transphobes in their leadership. Why should I care about this official statement at all?

These people seem to think that being vegan requires a blanket judgement of all people who eat animal products as immoral regardless of whether they’re forced to to survive or not

Do they really think our primary concern is random people lost in the woods who need to eat??

NO NO NO NO NO

This is probably a weird thread to drop this but it’s relevant as any.

“nothing ever happens” is a silly argument. Things absolutely happen, all of the time. Is the cutting off of water and food from Gaza nothing? Are people forcibly drafted into fighting in the Ukraine proxy war nothing? Are the disabled friends and family dying from the deeply misanthropic Covid policies in the west nothing?

Things happen a LOT. They just haven’t happened to you (“you” in this case being whatever person genuinely thinks nothing ever happens) yet so you think they can’t happen to you. They will and it will probably suck ass.

imagine if the internet just didn’t work on the ship, and everyone came back in four years to see the country entirely different

I actually can’t find anything about it- I either misheard or it’s been seriously downplayed

Tbf I should not have said it so rudely, we’re all trying to exist / live / survive what’s going to happen next and what’s happening right now and I shouldn’t be going at others throats like this who are in the same situation (like you).

Sorry, I should have clarified, 12 years of this specific Dick Cheney/Hillary strain of hitlerism

the “liberal” in me is angry that democrats have been campaigning as the lesser evil for 12 fucking years and won’t do the bare fucking minimum to stop the minorities they hold hostage from being killed and enslaved

the communist in me is angry that anyone on this website would even consider this a good thing, because the amendment is currently the only time-reasonable way to try and prevent there from being neurodivergent labor camps and mass deportations

both sides of me are the communist, actually. we need to start banning this weird Hitlerite minimization shit. Elon “Most Divorced Trans Hater” Musk, RFK “Brain Worm” JR, and JD “I Love Murder Actually” Vance are going to be in office in a position of power and they don’t even have the ghoulish apathy of your average war criminal dem to stop them from killing as many people as they can. They want to kill more people than are being killed now. They WANT the working class to suffer, not because they love to exploit it as is usually the case (though they likely do as well), but because they genuinely believe the majority of the working class is subhuman and should be eradicated. These aren’t the usual kind of hollow ghoul we’ve seen. They have principles and their principles are absolutely monsterous.

To be clear, I do think the Dems are probably similar at this point, if not since the beginning. I think they just hide it. There’s no other reason I can think of for why Biden why refuse to do such a simple thing that would vastly increase the approval of him and his party.

And as someone else mentioned there was a time limit that the archivist is hem-hawing over too. It’s kind of just a bullshit thing though that Dems are respecting because of “law and order”

The time limit was put in serious legal question, it’s being used as an excuse but it’s not even remotely an actual roadblock

Edit: not to mention the whole “everything the president does is legal” thing lmao

It did happen, in 2020 while Trump was president. Virginia was the 38th state to ratify it. It’s been three years and the administration has not added it to the constitution despite it meeting the requirements

So, this is it, right? Unless some sort of genuine miracle happens, we now have a head of the FDA who thinks vaccines shouldn’t be used at all and will likely attempt to curb their use and possibly even ban them, and we have a new confirmed infectious and dangerous virus spreading in our population. How does this end in anything except an outright coup of the government to reinstate actual health policies, or the death of the majority of the country?

Didn’t the Black Plague kill enough people to change how names worked? How would this unchecked plague be any different?

How would the US war machine function if based in a country with a population of 110 people?

DiU is the best and most communist part, I hope it was a fun viewing session!

To approach your question: No, I don’t think you have to worry about your organs saving Dick Cheney. Rich people almost definitely have other ways to get organs and have some sort of priority, so you’re way more likely to save some poor person than you are to save some rich person who would have died otherwise. Rich people will always find a way for organs

I dunno, honestly I’m scared I could be killed by some transphobic doctor who assumes I’m better off as organ material than alive. And that could actually be legalized here soon.

I actually genuinely want to be an organ donor which makes this pretty fucked up

Tbf it’s less that small talk isn’t straightforward and more that it’s painfully and excruciatingly hard to force myself through. Office parties and Trojan horsing in organizing is much easier in that sense