Bad area, ceiling leaks, noise all night from the railyard, recent mouse infestation despite two visits from an exterminator, pipes intermittently stop working, pretty sure something is fucked with the electric bill, rent just went up 100$. And it’s still one of the cheapest places I can find.

I’m fucking living in it. God bless America.

New York mayoral races are notoriously unpredictable due to the city’s chronically low turnout. In 2017, for example, Bill de Blasio won reelection with only 14% of registered voters coming out to support him.

Damn, my hopes for Mamdani just got even higher. Low turnout under ordinary circumstances give high-enthusiasm candidates an advantage, by that enthusiastic base’s relative size to the ordinarily voting electorate.

Sadly ineligible. He’s a naturalized citizen.

Christ, it’s 2025. I should fucking hope that none of this fucking matters for the 2028 primary.

“6-figure salaries just aren’t cutting it”

Reminds me of the people who insist on higher taxes but complain that raising taxes on their lowly 300k+ two-income household would be oppression.

It’s never enough.

Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.

What is wrong with us?

Apathy, hopelessness, ignorance, and, in the case of GOP voters, malice.

Not sure where they’re getting that number from, honestly. The actual numbers are MUCH smaller, though still non-neglible.

So you’ve decided shitting on people who voiced valid opposition is the best course of action

Ah yes, the ‘valid opposition’ of critical support for literal fascists winning, under the excuse that “both sides are the same anyway”.

Very valid, as this event (one of many, I might add) shows. Marginalized groups which depend on the government not being fascists thank you and your kind for your principled stand against our lives. It’s truly a privilege.

I believe that the ultrapurist attitude that many Lemmy users follow was a non-zero factor in the loss in 2024, such as the some 2 million 2020 Biden voters who refrained from voting for Harris solely on the strength of the Palestine issue; and that the Dem Party’s fecklessness and incompetence was, likewise, a very non-zero factor.

Lemmy users ourselves, as with any small community, are not really a factor in anything but in determining which discussions are useful to have here.

Let’s not blame the insane people in power, no it’s the Lemmy people who had valid criticisms of Harris who clearly swung the whole vote in trumps favor. Actual insanity.

Goodness gracious me, why would I complain on Lemmy about the behavior and opinions of people on Lemmy?

It’s truly a mystery.

Don’t worry, I was assured that elections don’t matter because of The Duopoly™.

If they’re ordered to shoot me, they’ll shoot me.

It’s not 1970. If the Marines decide to shoot you, it’ll be for reasons slightly more complex than “They were ordered to”, like “They were ordered to and believe that shooting you is in line with their values.” Unfortunately, you’re probably looking at a 50/50 split as to whether they’re Trump bootlickers or not

Or you catch one of the Corps’ pet psychopaths, that can happen too.

Policy was mixed on that - sometimes they kept auxiliaries near their home regions (because they knew the land and because they were less prone to ‘acting out’ when they were posted near home), and other times, especially after mutinies or revolts, they’d post them far from their home province, like sending North African and Sarmatian (near modern Ukraine and Romania) auxiliaries to the sunny reaches of the northern borders of Britannia.

I work for the good people of the Fediverse 🙏

I return to Reddit mostly to harvest memes to bring here, or to ask obscure questions that I don’t think there’s enough of an audience here to get a good answer (I’m still looking for the “The Swaggoraki are swarming!” pic, if any Warhammer meme fans can find it)

“Donald Trump stands up for the little guy like you and me” - the mental giants we’re dealing with

Apathy - the human constant

Maybe the Afghanis didn’t want to be a vassal state to the country that was invading them for 20 fucking years.

Luckily, as every good campist knows, the holsum Taliban, definitely not an imperialist catspaw of Pakistan which has been invading them for 30 fucking years, is widely beloved by comparison.

I mean, the Progressive Politics comm is run by campists who will accept any argument as long as it can loop back around to some form of critique of The West™. In that same thread is a commenter saying that violence is the only language those damn woman-educators understand.

Not sure why you expect them to remove this critique of the Western-backed Afghan government, regardless that it’s built on a racist premise. It’s against Bad Camp, after all!