You’re not wrong.

The difference is their brain-damaged guy behaved as he always does, where Biden clearly did not.

I’m not judging you. (And I should have made that more clear. I apologize.)

I’m judging the sentiment, and until Democrats learn to actually speak to workers, they’re going to lose elections.

If you’re working 2-3 jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week, none of it will matter to you. All you know is you have to struggle to live and no one we elect will change it.

And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don’t listen to you.

Fair point.

No matter who we elected we were getting a useful idiot for the rich, but that’s partisanship for you.

Their platform was weak.

They ran an old man with brain damage for most of the campaign.

His replacement spent two months of campaign time telling poverty wage workers to be joyful and didn’t even put a platform on their website until a few weeks before the election. Watching that felt very tone deaf and condescending.

The other meme they repeated was how weird Trump and Vance are, as if they didn’t already objectively know the voters don’t care about that.

They didn’t run a good campaign.

People stayed home.

Abstaining is a vote unto itself, and partisans of both flavors are wont to ignore that voting doesn’t materially affect the lives of the poor and middle class. No matter who they elect things get worse, so when faced with the choice of missing a badly-needed day’s pay and voting, they choose to get paid.

What democracy?

The Democrats and Republicans fought harder to keep the party I support off the ballot than they did to stop each other from getting elected.

Agreed. Those fuckers are rich enough to treat workers fairly. Full stop.

Yeah, there was a TV show once where the plot of the episode was the theft of some new, important classified tech.

In the last scene the bad guy drops their suitcase and this important, secret tech falls out.

The prop master used vanilla, recognizable RAM chips. It annoyed me so much.

Please go look up the Dow as of October 1994.

Thank you.

In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.

Excellent analogy. People who equate the stock market and gambling should go look up where the DJIA stood in October 1994. The slot machines in Vegas don’t magically start spitting out profit just because you’re patient, but stocks generally do over time.

This is the shit we need to be thinking about when we read about a black person getting shot by a cop for stealing a loaf of bread, if you ask me.

Also that CEO has an eminently punchable face.

When I entered the work force in 2005, it was with a company that had never had a layoff in its thirty-year history.

Then, in 2009, they had their first layoff, and I learned later our CEO had taken an 80% pay raise that year.

Taxes aren’t theft. Literally firing people and taking their salaries is theft.

Just using the Brave browser takes care of a few of these by itself and without add-ons.

Just that the cheap ones suck. I got a two-pack from Walmart and the first one I used started falling apart in weeks.

I’d get one handmade off Etsy. They’re a little pricier, but the less expensive ones are garbage.

That’s good. I wasn’t even aware such a thing existed, but thankfully I know now.

I have my location turned off for everything and keep mine in a Faraday bag. That said, there was one tip in this article I wasn’t aware of: deleting my advertising ID, so everyone should read it and see if you can’t improve your own privacy.

It feels good when I have to use it and, for a moment it says “no service”, like kicking the tech assholes in the dick.

If you’re invested in these stocks, make sure you have your stop loss orders in place, 100%.

I imagine the bubble bursting will be quick and deadly.

It’s not like there’s any meaningful consequence if he is lying.