Things you can thank porn for: E-commerce, Streaming video, Webcams, Bandwidth, Subtitles and closed captioning for the hearing impaired, Microfiche, Digital cameras.
https://patchenbarss.com/2011/06/05/ten-indispensable-technologies-built-by-the-pornography-industry/
Let's not forget the most important one: the VHS tape.
Also *a lot* of the most talented people working in independent film back in the day learned how to make movies by cutting their teeth in porn.
Imma be honest the only good thing to come out of that was VHS and Subtitles, and all of those things would have been invented without porn
also digital camreas did not come from porn, they were invented in 75 and took off in the 90s because they were more convient and cheaper than using film
You must not be old enough to remember having to use the same old static images in the same old greasy magazines over and over.
Now, with the internet, we're all like monkeys watching the banana channel.
You ain't seen nothing yet. You can use AI to create your own porn now, using any picture of a face you provide. This is creepy shit.
[https://pornx.ai/create](https://pornx.ai/create)
Some facts about Project 2025: The "Mandate for Leadership" is a set of policy proposals authored by the [Heritage Foundation](https://pro-lies.org/the-heritage-foundation/), an influential *ultra* conservative think tank. [Project 2025](https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration) is a revision to that agenda tailored to a second Trump term. It would give the President [unilateral powers](https://theweek.com/politics/heritage-foundation-2025-donald-trump), strip [civil rights, worker protections, climate regulation](https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/impact-overview), add [religion into policy](https://imgur.com/a/m2e72ht), outlaw ["porn"](https://www.salon.com/2024/03/19/decoding-project-2025s-christian-nationalist-language/) and much more. The MFL has been around since 1980, [Reagan implemented 60%](https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/reagan-and-heritage-unique-partnership) of it's recommendations, [Trump 64%](https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations) - [proof](https://www.scribd.com/document/369820462/Mandate-for-Leadership-Policy-Recommendations). 70 Heritage Foundation alumni served in his administration or transition team. Project 2025 is quite extreme but with his obsession for revenge he'll likely get past 2/3rd's adoption.
r/Defeat_Project_2025 intends to stop it through activism and awareness, focused on crowdsourcing ideas and opportunities for practical, in real life action. We Must Defeat Project 2025.
The only way we beat it is by voting against it.
And holding the people we do vote for accountable for their actions. Winning in 2024 doesn't mean you are my first choice, it means I don't like the alternative.
Exactly this. Voting is the only way to defeat this, and I'm honestly not seeing a real effort to increase voter turnout. We're either going to lose or win by the slimmest of margins, and all because of the millions who for whatever (bad) reason don't vote.
Sadly you might be right. Because if people can't be motivated to vote, they sure as hell can't be motivated fight.
I don't see how the Union remains unsundered if project 25 comes to fruition however.
A lot of young kids are disenfranchised which is true but also sad because their the ones who have the most to lose but are the ones who don’t feel like their participation matters.
It's not a problem exclusive to young kids, plenty of adults who should know better just don't vote. But young kids need to realize what you said and couple it with the fact that they could, if they show up to the polls, actually change things.
When billions of dollars are invested in marketing the ideas “both parties are the same,” “politics are gross,” the old “every accusation is a confession,” minimizing evil doing by claiming the other guy is doing the same thing all leads to why should I vote. Even topical stuff like Biden is part of the problem in Gaza when that war has been going on since before even Biden! was born. We are also being overwhelmed by nonstop propaganda paid for by foreign authoritarians who hate American democracy. The funny thing is the Biden administration seems to be the first admin to internally acknowledge what the country is facing. Whether they will attempt anything to slow the onslaught is another matter.
I think it's perfectly consistent and health to call out your own camp when they can do much better. That said, this is very different from defaulting to moral equivication.
We WILL get new elected officials no matter what, you might as well have a say in it.
Again, if they have accomplished more in three years than every single admin other than FDR, yes you can demand more, but maybe not in the bullshit ways fabulists are coming up with. By the way you know how you achieve even greater success? By building on your successes.
Edit: and you know how FDR achieved his successes? 1) labor/farmer violence in first third of the century 2) rise of communism is Russia and Fascism in Germany 3) an American economy in complete tatters following a few horrifically incompetent and Republican administrations 4) voters of every stripe and every part of the country completely turned away from any Republican candidate for several Election cycles. 5) none of the “Goodies” could be attained by black peoples.
Other than #4 which of those would you like to see? (I will tell you that Trump and his strategists have promised number 1 to be a top goal).
Hot-take: Even if we vote Biden in again, I don’t know if this country has too many more elections left in it before “*the end of the USA as we know it*” happens.
Our country isn’t doing well.
The Supreme Court thing may be the lowest grind. We can get through this, be a good neighbor and show up to vote.
We are up against the billionaires buying the whole system: be a citizen, there’s a lot of us.
man we had literal legal slavery and managed to turn that around. it took a long time and things still aren't great despite generations later but we have to stay optimistic. the enemies of democracy and freedom want you to feel pessimistic and defeated and do nothing.
It’s actually a really good piece with two great sound bites I hope all democrats will pick up—the line about Dark Money Racketeer Leonard Leo and another one in last minute which I forgot to note.
I genuinely have no idea how anyone in good faith can see the fake elector plot and think that’s fine in a democracy.
It’s because they’re all bad faith actors who want power at any cost.
Biden should replace Harris with Pressley as his running mate.
That would lock in Massachusetts for Biden.
Pressley is more outspoken and honest about her views than Harris.
That’s an important consideration, given that Biden probably wouldn’t finish a second term.
"everything is about guns all the time"
i don't see the good guys with guns slowing down the christofascist creep in this country that we've been seeing. or the book bans. or the diminishing personal freedoms and rights. or the dismantling of the public services like public education or basic healthcare.
Because the current political systems are still by and large working as intended.
It's not unimaginable for MAGAists and republicans to start tearing down checks and balances and send police door to door to enforce their theocratic utopia. They would send people of my skin color away the instant they have an opportunity to do so. You best bet liberals should be armed if that time ever comes
We get it. The Dems have zero plans to help the middle class but we need to vote for them else the consequences will be dire.
Then when Biden wins again they can give another $1T away to the rich and watch the lower classes have to deal with the inflation caused by their largesse.
I’ll vote against Trump again like I did in 2020 but I expect nothing in return again like the Dems gave me in 2021. My boss got 900k in 2nd round of PPP, got a $500k low interest SBA loan with zero collateral, and another $1M in ERC money that he spend all on real estate. Meanwhile I was making $82k so I was too effing wealthy to even get a stimulus check.
Who do you think created those PPP loans? What $1 trillion dollar tax cut has Biden given to the rich? Look at all he’s accomplished with the worst, most ineffective house.
>Then when Biden wins again they can give another $1T away to the rich and watch the lower classes have to deal with the inflation caused by their largesse.
Well, there goes any credibility you thought you had.
> The Dems have zero plans to help the middle class
You know that we can actually just Google what bills are pending and what things they want to accomplish to see how this is patently false, right?
Affordable child care programs, universal pre-k and head start education to relieve early education costs, pushing to restore the full Child Tax Credit and expand it, make the Earned Income Tax Credit permanent for workers not raising children, multiple pending bills and proposals for homeowner support and tax credits (like expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and a new Mortgage Relief Credit for first time buyers), the Protecting the RIght to Organize Act that is meant to reform labor laws to give workers more power to organize and collectively bargin - hence why pretty much every union in the country is on the Democrats' side.
Dems want to pass the Affordable Care Act, they want to invest in building more houses and apartments, and funding green energy initiatives that might actually give you a future. ...But I guess that's "nothing"?
The whole dems don’t help the middle class us some ignorant ass brainwashing.
Every Republican since Reagan has worked for the rich and only the rich
You’ve been lied too and if you believe the gop is going to help the average worker vs a democratic administration you’re either ignorant or in denial to justify your social conservatism
You aren't paying any attention if you think the Democrats aren't offering anything meaningful.
Do you think Biden has done nothing for you in the past 3.5 years?
I know you aren't gonna read it, but:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1d8ev8o/unopingmywayout_lists_all_the_good_things_biden/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Doubt this will matter, but if we were to run with the idea that a president’ first term is usually riding the coattails of the previous administrations before them or cleaning up the mess, wouldn’t that make it 1.5 years under his administration?
(saying this with the understanding that it’s not executive branch only that runs the show. As much as we all want to hang single individuals out to dry, it’s a group effort.)
Biden needs to retire so he can spend more time with his ~~family~~ crack-addled nepo baby. He can take Kamala Kush with him along with Pete, Gina, Dick Levine, and the rest of his clown car cabinet. He and Trump belong in the same convalescent home, with MTG and Gaetz and Boebert and Gym Jordan occupying the same institute for the criminally insane as the Squad and Pelosi. Our parties are owned and corrupted by corporate megalomania and delusional interest groups — evangelical nut bars on the right, and Hamas apologists, “degrowth” fanatics, and autogynephiles on the left. The whole system needs a reset.
I remember by 80yo mother listed off to me all of his accomplishments. I was flabbergasted as to the definition of an "accomplishment" after hearing the list.
Yeah like yesterday’s announcement that lenders would no longer be allowed to repossess prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, and other medical devices. Who gives a shit? Those people are poor.
And it was tied into cutting a top reason middle class people fall into poverty: medical debt. I’m never going to get sick so fuck those people.
/s for the thicker amongst us.
I'd love for him and Congress to do more, but like... People's heads are stuck in the sand if they think he's done nothing and doesn't have any plans/ideas on what he'll do/keep doing for the Lower and Middle Class if he is reelected and Congress has a Democratic Majority.
Like, yes, we need to reelect him because of the literal fascists taking over the other party, but that isn't the sole reason to reelect him
You sound like a person who lives paycheck to paycheck and yet will still vote for tax hikes, inflation, and gov mandates that have no basis in reality
Tax Increases are necessary in order to both pay down US Debt and to expand/improve/and rebuild our public services and infrastructure.
It's also worth noting that Trump raised your taxes with his "Tax Cuts" unless you were a millionaire. Those cuts will end this year and our taxes will go down if we reelect Biden, otherwise Trump will reinstate them.
Inflation is largely a result of post-pandemic woes, fuel prices, and corporate greed. Biden has done things that help mitigate inflation, such as expanding energy subsidies and going after corporate price gouging. He has done some things that made inflation a bit worse such as the stimulus checks (but this only contributed a very small fraction of inflation)
>gov mandates that have no basis in reality
I'd love to know which ones you are describing here
Tell me about the fantasy dimension you live in, where any US administration over the past 90 years has done more for middle and working class Americans than
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/s/MpBX8latP0
What specifically did you expect him to accomplish during this term? I’m not even asking that rhetorically, I’m genuinely asking. It feels like every time I see somebody saying “Biden’s done nothing” or “Biden isn’t doing enough”, it’s almost never about any specific action or policy point. It’s always predicated on a general vibe that he’s over-promised and under-delivered, but that’s all.
I’m not going to sit here and pretend like Biden’s perfect, but ffs this country really learned nothing from the Obama presidency. Presidents are not kings, and they need the cooperation of other branches of government to get a lot of stuff done. Political action costs political capital, and if a campaign promise isn’t fulfilled, it’s usually because its proponents didn’t have enough capital; i.e. votes.
If there are things that Biden promised that you wanted done but didn’t get done, the answer isn’t to sit out this election or protest vote for somebody else. All you’re doing there is closing the gap between Biden and a candidate/party who are diametrically opposed to most policy items that most Americans actually want enacted. If you want things to change, do what you can to increase the political capital available to people who are in a position to enact it. That means, among other things, voting for representatives who share your values, fundraising for those candidates, talking to friends and family about the issues, and yes, holding your nose and voting for Biden in November.
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I've been writing non partisan letters and postcards to voters and my main selling point is we need to protect democracy and stop leaders who want to trade away our freedoms to the rich. If anyone wants to help me pay for $700 in stamps holler cause I'm poor AF.
Why are you so angry about trans people? You are comparing one party that are making actual laws to limit what women can do with their bodies to a party that asks you to respect the gender with which people most closely identify.
Who cares how Presley chooses to refer to them? These things are not the same.
Anything this woman claims should be vetted to the 100th degree. Like most of the Massachusetts delegation, big yappers with zero results for the state.
Worse than people trying to destroy meaningful participatory democracy? Nah. You just are scared of women and people of color. Don’t be a soft fascist. Just tell us you don’t the voting is fair and you want a leader to make all your decisions.
Bro ww2 granddad taught me about dudes like you.
Who does this guy Ayanna Pressley think he is?
Everytime he comes out to speak, he says something completely out to left field and I completely disagree with every he says. I truly believe he has major anger issues.
Ayanna Pressley is part of the so called squad of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. All of them are radical left wing political hamas sympathizers. This is a fact. Her closest allies are people who refused to denounce Oct 7th. What does that say about her? And as bad as project 2025 sounds, it is just one of a handful of outlines by a far right think tank that will never see the light of day. You should take anything that she says with a grain of salt.
bro, you guys literally stormed the Capitol and tried to overthrow the elected government. You can't say shit after that. You guys literally committed treason.
This is not my side. I hate extremism in any form. It is tearing apart our country and I'm sick of it. The extreme right storms the capital and the extreme left caused 2 Billion in damage during the BLM riots. The extreme right comes up with ridiculous projecr 2025 policies. And the extreme left supports an actual terrorist organization. The US is doomed if we continue to support this type of extreme 2 party politics who are unwilling to communicate and compromise with eachother. Ayanna Pressleys claim that project 2025 and the Supreme Court are linked is baseless, and pure speculation, and it is what the left would call "misinformation".
Except Project 2025 is very explicit about their aims, has a well documented history of influence, and isn't even shy about letting people know. It is wild they know they can be so obviously shit and still get their stooges elected.
PROJECT 2025 OUTLAWS PORN That should take care of it. Repeat that to everyone.
r/defeat_project_2025
The 1 good part of that plan
You monster
Im just saying no good has ever come from porn
Things you can thank porn for: E-commerce, Streaming video, Webcams, Bandwidth, Subtitles and closed captioning for the hearing impaired, Microfiche, Digital cameras. https://patchenbarss.com/2011/06/05/ten-indispensable-technologies-built-by-the-pornography-industry/
subtitles? LMAOOO
Let's not forget the most important one: the VHS tape. Also *a lot* of the most talented people working in independent film back in the day learned how to make movies by cutting their teeth in porn.
All portable media, really
Imma be honest the only good thing to come out of that was VHS and Subtitles, and all of those things would have been invented without porn also digital camreas did not come from porn, they were invented in 75 and took off in the 90s because they were more convient and cheaper than using film
And easier to make porn with
That's like saying Twitter is successful because it allows porn
Im sure it helps
So don't use it
We would still be on dialup if it weren't for porn. Fact.
Just like not true but has the internet really been a plus for humanity?
You must not be old enough to remember having to use the same old static images in the same old greasy magazines over and over. Now, with the internet, we're all like monkeys watching the banana channel.
which is worse for young people than just using a playboy mag
You ain't seen nothing yet. You can use AI to create your own porn now, using any picture of a face you provide. This is creepy shit. [https://pornx.ai/create](https://pornx.ai/create)
Cursed
Some facts about Project 2025: The "Mandate for Leadership" is a set of policy proposals authored by the [Heritage Foundation](https://pro-lies.org/the-heritage-foundation/), an influential *ultra* conservative think tank. [Project 2025](https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration) is a revision to that agenda tailored to a second Trump term. It would give the President [unilateral powers](https://theweek.com/politics/heritage-foundation-2025-donald-trump), strip [civil rights, worker protections, climate regulation](https://www.stopthecoup2025.org/impact-overview), add [religion into policy](https://imgur.com/a/m2e72ht), outlaw ["porn"](https://www.salon.com/2024/03/19/decoding-project-2025s-christian-nationalist-language/) and much more. The MFL has been around since 1980, [Reagan implemented 60%](https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/reagan-and-heritage-unique-partnership) of it's recommendations, [Trump 64%](https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations) - [proof](https://www.scribd.com/document/369820462/Mandate-for-Leadership-Policy-Recommendations). 70 Heritage Foundation alumni served in his administration or transition team. Project 2025 is quite extreme but with his obsession for revenge he'll likely get past 2/3rd's adoption. r/Defeat_Project_2025 intends to stop it through activism and awareness, focused on crowdsourcing ideas and opportunities for practical, in real life action. We Must Defeat Project 2025.
The only way we beat it is by voting against it. And holding the people we do vote for accountable for their actions. Winning in 2024 doesn't mean you are my first choice, it means I don't like the alternative.
Exactly this. Voting is the only way to defeat this, and I'm honestly not seeing a real effort to increase voter turnout. We're either going to lose or win by the slimmest of margins, and all because of the millions who for whatever (bad) reason don't vote.
Sadly you might be right. Because if people can't be motivated to vote, they sure as hell can't be motivated fight. I don't see how the Union remains unsundered if project 25 comes to fruition however.
A lot of young kids are disenfranchised which is true but also sad because their the ones who have the most to lose but are the ones who don’t feel like their participation matters.
It's not a problem exclusive to young kids, plenty of adults who should know better just don't vote. But young kids need to realize what you said and couple it with the fact that they could, if they show up to the polls, actually change things.
When billions of dollars are invested in marketing the ideas “both parties are the same,” “politics are gross,” the old “every accusation is a confession,” minimizing evil doing by claiming the other guy is doing the same thing all leads to why should I vote. Even topical stuff like Biden is part of the problem in Gaza when that war has been going on since before even Biden! was born. We are also being overwhelmed by nonstop propaganda paid for by foreign authoritarians who hate American democracy. The funny thing is the Biden administration seems to be the first admin to internally acknowledge what the country is facing. Whether they will attempt anything to slow the onslaught is another matter.
I think it's perfectly consistent and health to call out your own camp when they can do much better. That said, this is very different from defaulting to moral equivication. We WILL get new elected officials no matter what, you might as well have a say in it.
Again, if they have accomplished more in three years than every single admin other than FDR, yes you can demand more, but maybe not in the bullshit ways fabulists are coming up with. By the way you know how you achieve even greater success? By building on your successes. Edit: and you know how FDR achieved his successes? 1) labor/farmer violence in first third of the century 2) rise of communism is Russia and Fascism in Germany 3) an American economy in complete tatters following a few horrifically incompetent and Republican administrations 4) voters of every stripe and every part of the country completely turned away from any Republican candidate for several Election cycles. 5) none of the “Goodies” could be attained by black peoples. Other than #4 which of those would you like to see? (I will tell you that Trump and his strategists have promised number 1 to be a top goal).
I wish we had someone in the third district that was more outspoken like Ayanna Pressley. Instead we have Lori Trahan...
Good for her, project 2025 is the end of USA as we know it.
Hot-take: Even if we vote Biden in again, I don’t know if this country has too many more elections left in it before “*the end of the USA as we know it*” happens. Our country isn’t doing well.
Fuck that defeatist mindset, fight harder. Show up to every vote. Take part in local politics. Do good.
But like.. just in general. If someone like Drump can get elected and our SC can be filled with corrupt people.. it’s a bad omen.
The Supreme Court thing may be the lowest grind. We can get through this, be a good neighbor and show up to vote. We are up against the billionaires buying the whole system: be a citizen, there’s a lot of us.
IM DOING MY PART
man we had literal legal slavery and managed to turn that around. it took a long time and things still aren't great despite generations later but we have to stay optimistic. the enemies of democracy and freedom want you to feel pessimistic and defeated and do nothing.
Lets be clear, the kids are alright. Let the MAGA boomers fade away and watch how this country bounces back
I'm not gonna watch the video because it's just preaching to the choir. I'm just here for the trolls.
It’s actually a really good piece with two great sound bites I hope all democrats will pick up—the line about Dark Money Racketeer Leonard Leo and another one in last minute which I forgot to note.
Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party want to destroy free and fair elections They are un-American. There is no other argument
I genuinely have no idea how anyone in good faith can see the fake elector plot and think that’s fine in a democracy. It’s because they’re all bad faith actors who want power at any cost.
Biden should replace Harris with Pressley as his running mate. That would lock in Massachusetts for Biden. Pressley is more outspoken and honest about her views than Harris. That’s an important consideration, given that Biden probably wouldn’t finish a second term.
leo leonard most dangerous man in politics today
When Joe Biden is the " left wing" alternative to literal fascism we are truly fucked as a nation.
Imagine trying to find leadership amongst 330 million people and the best options anyone comes up with are Donald trump and joe Biden?
Plus she’s hot. Love me some beautiful bald woman
And yet she campaigns for gun control. Project 2025 is exactly why we need the second amendment
"everything is about guns all the time" i don't see the good guys with guns slowing down the christofascist creep in this country that we've been seeing. or the book bans. or the diminishing personal freedoms and rights. or the dismantling of the public services like public education or basic healthcare.
Because the current political systems are still by and large working as intended. It's not unimaginable for MAGAists and republicans to start tearing down checks and balances and send police door to door to enforce their theocratic utopia. They would send people of my skin color away the instant they have an opportunity to do so. You best bet liberals should be armed if that time ever comes
We get it. The Dems have zero plans to help the middle class but we need to vote for them else the consequences will be dire. Then when Biden wins again they can give another $1T away to the rich and watch the lower classes have to deal with the inflation caused by their largesse. I’ll vote against Trump again like I did in 2020 but I expect nothing in return again like the Dems gave me in 2021. My boss got 900k in 2nd round of PPP, got a $500k low interest SBA loan with zero collateral, and another $1M in ERC money that he spend all on real estate. Meanwhile I was making $82k so I was too effing wealthy to even get a stimulus check.
Who do you think created those PPP loans? What $1 trillion dollar tax cut has Biden given to the rich? Look at all he’s accomplished with the worst, most ineffective house.
>Then when Biden wins again they can give another $1T away to the rich and watch the lower classes have to deal with the inflation caused by their largesse. Well, there goes any credibility you thought you had.
> The Dems have zero plans to help the middle class You know that we can actually just Google what bills are pending and what things they want to accomplish to see how this is patently false, right? Affordable child care programs, universal pre-k and head start education to relieve early education costs, pushing to restore the full Child Tax Credit and expand it, make the Earned Income Tax Credit permanent for workers not raising children, multiple pending bills and proposals for homeowner support and tax credits (like expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and a new Mortgage Relief Credit for first time buyers), the Protecting the RIght to Organize Act that is meant to reform labor laws to give workers more power to organize and collectively bargin - hence why pretty much every union in the country is on the Democrats' side. Dems want to pass the Affordable Care Act, they want to invest in building more houses and apartments, and funding green energy initiatives that might actually give you a future. ...But I guess that's "nothing"?
The whole dems don’t help the middle class us some ignorant ass brainwashing. Every Republican since Reagan has worked for the rich and only the rich You’ve been lied too and if you believe the gop is going to help the average worker vs a democratic administration you’re either ignorant or in denial to justify your social conservatism
You aren't paying any attention if you think the Democrats aren't offering anything meaningful. Do you think Biden has done nothing for you in the past 3.5 years?
Biden has trashed this country that is what he has done in the past 3.5 yrs.
I know you aren't gonna read it, but: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1d8ev8o/unopingmywayout_lists_all_the_good_things_biden/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Incredible substance in your post. Really convincing.
Doubt this will matter, but if we were to run with the idea that a president’ first term is usually riding the coattails of the previous administrations before them or cleaning up the mess, wouldn’t that make it 1.5 years under his administration? (saying this with the understanding that it’s not executive branch only that runs the show. As much as we all want to hang single individuals out to dry, it’s a group effort.)
Biden needs to retire so he can spend more time with his ~~family~~ crack-addled nepo baby. He can take Kamala Kush with him along with Pete, Gina, Dick Levine, and the rest of his clown car cabinet. He and Trump belong in the same convalescent home, with MTG and Gaetz and Boebert and Gym Jordan occupying the same institute for the criminally insane as the Squad and Pelosi. Our parties are owned and corrupted by corporate megalomania and delusional interest groups — evangelical nut bars on the right, and Hamas apologists, “degrowth” fanatics, and autogynephiles on the left. The whole system needs a reset.
You are just mad that Democrats are holding people that are close to them accountable. While every repub is a nepo.
I remember by 80yo mother listed off to me all of his accomplishments. I was flabbergasted as to the definition of an "accomplishment" after hearing the list.
Yeah like yesterday’s announcement that lenders would no longer be allowed to repossess prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, and other medical devices. Who gives a shit? Those people are poor. And it was tied into cutting a top reason middle class people fall into poverty: medical debt. I’m never going to get sick so fuck those people. /s for the thicker amongst us.
I'd love for him and Congress to do more, but like... People's heads are stuck in the sand if they think he's done nothing and doesn't have any plans/ideas on what he'll do/keep doing for the Lower and Middle Class if he is reelected and Congress has a Democratic Majority. Like, yes, we need to reelect him because of the literal fascists taking over the other party, but that isn't the sole reason to reelect him
You sound like a person who lives paycheck to paycheck and yet will still vote for tax hikes, inflation, and gov mandates that have no basis in reality
Tax Increases are necessary in order to both pay down US Debt and to expand/improve/and rebuild our public services and infrastructure. It's also worth noting that Trump raised your taxes with his "Tax Cuts" unless you were a millionaire. Those cuts will end this year and our taxes will go down if we reelect Biden, otherwise Trump will reinstate them. Inflation is largely a result of post-pandemic woes, fuel prices, and corporate greed. Biden has done things that help mitigate inflation, such as expanding energy subsidies and going after corporate price gouging. He has done some things that made inflation a bit worse such as the stimulus checks (but this only contributed a very small fraction of inflation) >gov mandates that have no basis in reality I'd love to know which ones you are describing here
Sure, traitor. Vote Trump because your boss got money during the pandemic.
You may just want to read off the laundry list of things Biden has accomplished so far.
Trumps plan for the middle class is? Is? Is? Is? Is?
You don't vote for democrats this time to do anything for you, you do it to stop republicans from doing things TO you.
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Tell me about the fantasy dimension you live in, where any US administration over the past 90 years has done more for middle and working class Americans than
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/s/MpBX8latP0 What specifically did you expect him to accomplish during this term? I’m not even asking that rhetorically, I’m genuinely asking. It feels like every time I see somebody saying “Biden’s done nothing” or “Biden isn’t doing enough”, it’s almost never about any specific action or policy point. It’s always predicated on a general vibe that he’s over-promised and under-delivered, but that’s all. I’m not going to sit here and pretend like Biden’s perfect, but ffs this country really learned nothing from the Obama presidency. Presidents are not kings, and they need the cooperation of other branches of government to get a lot of stuff done. Political action costs political capital, and if a campaign promise isn’t fulfilled, it’s usually because its proponents didn’t have enough capital; i.e. votes. If there are things that Biden promised that you wanted done but didn’t get done, the answer isn’t to sit out this election or protest vote for somebody else. All you’re doing there is closing the gap between Biden and a candidate/party who are diametrically opposed to most policy items that most Americans actually want enacted. If you want things to change, do what you can to increase the political capital available to people who are in a position to enact it. That means, among other things, voting for representatives who share your values, fundraising for those candidates, talking to friends and family about the issues, and yes, holding your nose and voting for Biden in November.
Great link - thank you
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god damn, I haven't seen that pasta in a long, long time
Well anyone voting republican is as predictable as a copypasta. Not a single self thinking thought in their head.
I've been writing non partisan letters and postcards to voters and my main selling point is we need to protect democracy and stop leaders who want to trade away our freedoms to the rich. If anyone wants to help me pay for $700 in stamps holler cause I'm poor AF.
You’re right! The downvoters are deluding themselves
Her head is so shiny
It’s that big beautiful brain power plant she has. Don’t be jealous
I’m not! I wanna buff and wax it
Sure little man
Did you just fucking assume my gender!? Your politics have ruined your sense of humor…little whatever you are
gurrrrll you are v sassy.
YOU KNOW IT SISTER
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Are you a Traitor? A fascist ?? If not why would you support project 2025. ???
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Why are you so angry about trans people? You are comparing one party that are making actual laws to limit what women can do with their bodies to a party that asks you to respect the gender with which people most closely identify. Who cares how Presley chooses to refer to them? These things are not the same.
Anything this woman claims should be vetted to the 100th degree. Like most of the Massachusetts delegation, big yappers with zero results for the state.
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Is she up for reelection this coming Fall?
She is the worst
Worse than people trying to destroy meaningful participatory democracy? Nah. You just are scared of women and people of color. Don’t be a soft fascist. Just tell us you don’t the voting is fair and you want a leader to make all your decisions. Bro ww2 granddad taught me about dudes like you.
Nice try, but I’m darker than she is, she’s just not good
Bald ain’t beautiful, look like that Dan akroyd alien movie lol
Oh the old, I can’t attack them on substance so I’ll just sling insults. The Republican goof is strong in you
Careful, Will Smith will come and slap you on live television
He’s a cuck, I’d fuck him up
Eeww
So we have a fool criticizing another fool. No one wins.
Regardless of her - project 2025 is some asinine shit and I don't see how anyone supports that
Authoritarians who wanna “hurt liberals” support project2025
Can we hurt them instead? Mentally I'm saying. Maybe call them names or something.
Who does this guy Ayanna Pressley think he is? Everytime he comes out to speak, he says something completely out to left field and I completely disagree with every he says. I truly believe he has major anger issues.
The political clown show continues
Ayanna Pressley is part of the so called squad of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. All of them are radical left wing political hamas sympathizers. This is a fact. Her closest allies are people who refused to denounce Oct 7th. What does that say about her? And as bad as project 2025 sounds, it is just one of a handful of outlines by a far right think tank that will never see the light of day. You should take anything that she says with a grain of salt.
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bro, you guys literally stormed the Capitol and tried to overthrow the elected government. You can't say shit after that. You guys literally committed treason.
This is not my side. I hate extremism in any form. It is tearing apart our country and I'm sick of it. The extreme right storms the capital and the extreme left caused 2 Billion in damage during the BLM riots. The extreme right comes up with ridiculous projecr 2025 policies. And the extreme left supports an actual terrorist organization. The US is doomed if we continue to support this type of extreme 2 party politics who are unwilling to communicate and compromise with eachother. Ayanna Pressleys claim that project 2025 and the Supreme Court are linked is baseless, and pure speculation, and it is what the left would call "misinformation".
‘Radical’ lol
Soooo PRESSLEY 2028!!!
You hate democracy?
Thank you for using the ignorant buzzwords we need to so easily throw your comment away. I won't tell you which ones though :D
This post has gaping front hole energy
That one ugly dude
That dude ayanna looks like a ugly ass alien scary 🤮
Sounds very deep statey
Except Project 2025 is very explicit about their aims, has a well documented history of influence, and isn't even shy about letting people know. It is wild they know they can be so obviously shit and still get their stooges elected.
It hasn’t been a race against trump since they published that fascist manifesto.