LangleyDominos

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

Odds on us getting a NYT or WaPo piece that's like "2028: What Democrats could learn from Musk's America Party" within the next 16 months?

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 34 points 6 hours ago

Here is the platform:

  • No new taxes (especially for Elon)
  • Update military (contracts for Elon)
  • Pro-tech spending (contracts and tax breaks for Elon)
  • Less regulation (on companies owned by Elon)
  • Free speech (Can't ignore/delete Elon tweets or criticize him)
  • pro-natalist (Let Elon keep paying for babies)
  • Centerist policies everywhere else (Gaza? What does that have to do with Elon? Just take care of it yourselves leave me out of it).
[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The song back then was quite different.

Cool rock, Earthenware
Leather thong, Mammoth scare
Fertile crescent
North migration, Living in the snow
Stone tools, Painting caves
Start a tribe, Wolfs behave
Exploration, Navigation
Spears you can throw

WE JUST STARTED A FIRE
IT STARTED BURNING EARLY THIS MORNING
WE JUST STARTED A FIRE
WE TRIED TO LIGHT IT AND COULDN'T HIDE IT

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

I keep my hands clean by using an anus-scratching fork.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

there...

...is...

...a...

...god-DAMN...

...CHEETO...

...in the WHITE house.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago (8 children)

There was HW's new war on drugs. He got on TV and told everyone that crack was being sold across the street from the White House. He pulled out a prop bag of crack, as if it were the actual bag police confiscated. Who else does shit like that? That was 89, but it carried into the 90s obviously. You were also still dealing with the AIDS crisis because Reagan did shit to help anyone and instead they made it about morality. The 90s inherited the 80s problems because that's how history works.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 71 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Rodney King, OJ, Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, Family Matters N-word episode, Fresh Prince episode about racial profiling, Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh show (before radio), CNN Crossfire, Menendez Brothers, Assassination of Virsace, Newt Gringrich vs Clinton, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia

"The world was better in the 90s because I watched Fraiser and Friends"

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago

I hope someone out there is also setting their sights on some positions of authority.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

They can't make money off of selling good coffee, cologne, shoes, etc. Everything has to be cheap because their real commodity is political animus. It doesn't have the biggest markup, but there is value to capture if you're big enough. The coffee is actually the value add, not the main attraction. Therefore it has to be dirt cheap. They can't make money off selling decent coffee.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Someone on reddit had an intriguing take for once. The people who are like "ChatGPT revolutionized my work" are people who are just really bad at stuff. I read that comment the other day. And then now if you go to reddit and look at the AI subs, you get stuff like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lpte80/chatgpt_is_a_revelation_for_me_in_my_work/

I know the arguments done to death surrounding AI and being a risk to jobs etc. but I work in a very niche area of law and there's a lot of complex pieces of case law and legislation that deal with it and, frankly, my memory is terrible with retention of this info. I also struggle sometimes with interpreting judgments, specifically when Judgments are written in very complex "legalese" which I've always hated.

It's a very tempting thesis considering it predicts observation. But I think I would temper it a little bit to avoid ableism or getting too far into technocratic thinking.

 

Where we're walkin' he-ah one, we're walkin' he-ah all.

Given the chance that Zohran wins the general and start working on these huge public projects, it might be cool to help comrades move to NYC. There is more organizing to do and a short window to take advantage of momentum.

If I may, uh, borrow a quote from our friends, the imperialists:

Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

If we can light up NYC, then we can light up any major or minor city. The finance capital of the world can become the catalyst for the end of finance capital.

To hedge against any struggle sessions. This isn't "You're bad leftist if you don't move your life around for this one event" This is more for people who have the ability/privilege of being able to drop everything. We need comrades everywhere so no sweat if you can't move.

Questions I have:

  1. Currently, which areas need the most help in terms of organizing?
  2. Which local orgs can I join and are they connected to national orgs?
  3. Which areas should non-locals stay away from in the interest of not disrupting current organizing/community efforts?
  4. What are vooooting requirements/limitations for out-of-towners?
 

We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

 
 
 
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