Believe it or not, we're not living in the 1850s. There is no path to victory for a third party in our system. Not in 2026, and not in 10478. We live in a 2-party system.
New York just nominated a true progressive that pissed off the corporate Dems. If they can do it, so can the rest of us. We should be riding that momentum instead of working hard to get Republicans re-elected by telling people not to vote Democrat.
Trump's first impeachment was about withholding military aid from Ukraine. Nothing came of that, and nothing will come of this. Republicans don't care about the law.
Same thing happened to me recently. Super fun loop.
At least now I know it's a panic attack so it doesn't feed itself as aggressively.
As long they can send people to torture prisons without due process or evidence, we do NOT have a First Amendment.
The primary voters in New York City just selected a leftist. The establishment is passed, but he's their nominee.
You know why Bernie didn't get nominated? Because he lost the primaries. It wasn't swung by superdelegates. They didn't fix the vote. Yeah, they clearly preferred the corporate dems, but all the "interefering" they did was getting the party establishment (that had been selected through primaries) to push for their preferred candidate.
Trump wasn't an establishment Republican until he won the primaries, and then the establishment who opposed him was primaried. He transformed the party in just a few years by getting his base to show up and vote in primaries.
The left needs to learn from that.
I had a Fold 3, and while I loved the form factor, the battery was shit.
The screen got broken, and I decided to upgrade to a Fold 6 so far I'm very impressed. I took it off the charger in my car at 100% on Wednesday night around 10pm, and put it back on the charger at 11:30pm Friday with 15% left.
48 hours with moderate usage (including some gaming and YouTube) is pretty good.
But non-tech people aren't buying Faiphones, but whatever they're pushing at the Verizon store.
You change the party in the primaries. You choose which party wins in the general.
When your choice is between a shit sandwich and fascism, you eat the fucking sandwich.
When your main issue isn't on the ballot, it doesn't matter in the election.
Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.
Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.
We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn't really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they'd service.
About 2 months later, they said we weren't selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
They massively missed the amount of rainfall. They expected a fairly typical flood event, not 20 feet of water in an hour.