Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state. We just fail to do so because it’s more profitable for the old money that own the current media empires (and Larry Ellison), with the added benefit that the general public are treated like mushrooms – feed them shit and keep them in the dark.

yeah, truth is only something those who can afford to pay should have, better that the poors get their news from Facebook posts as God intended

attaboy

well, you sound like someone about to prove me right. go on.

I like poking them with a stick every now and then, but I don’t have the patience to go out of my way to jab them every time I see them, indefinitely – some of them can go on for weeks. Bless those of you who do.

watch this, I’m gonna toss this one out and it is gonna make one (Or five. Or twenty :3c) of them so mad: You can be opposed to moving towards the center and also realize that bullshit purity tests of leftism do nothing but help nazis in a time where the republicans are happy to welcome every kind of single-issue voter – gun rights, your family all votes this way, anti-abortion, hate women, hate blacks, hate mexicans, anti-lgbtq, maybe you’re a jesus freak, maybe you’re a business owner, maybe you’re an outright neo-nazi, maybe all you care about is that rich people are never taxed anything ever (regardless of your own income) – they’re all too happy to welcome all these various flavors of people under a big tent that tells them THEY BELONG.

I’m all for trying to talk these people out of their mediocre centrist shit takes, but that can wait for after we defeat the actual factual nazis, no? For now, we need to vote in every election we can to try and take the path of least harm – if the DSA runs more candidates in primaries, fucking vote for them, but if one isn’t the nominee, don’t let perfect be the enemy of “better than what we’ve got”.

now, sit back and watch the fireworks. I adore hearing from “true leftists”, they’re a laugh riot.

Oh, good, and you fellas had me worried.

No, but I have pets that need me.

Also, Shinji’s a bitch.

Needs to be a thin outline/buffer zone around Toowoomba called “Sufficient Woomba”. Surely one could have one foot inside Toowoomba, one foot in Insufficiently Woomba, and have a perfectly ordinary amount of Woomba for oneself.

“if we fuck up our primaries, I’d still rather vote for a mediocre centrist by US standards, than allow what would likely turn out to be an actual factual Nazi to come to power through inaction/further bad choices.”

“ACKSHUALLY you’re on the right!”

“clown” – my default response when some fuckwit from .ml starts purity testing about leftism. Hi, by the way, you do realize you’re the exact kind of dipshit the OP is complaining about, right? Why are you even here?

… did OP get your knickers in a knot in another post?

“I’m gonna pretend like you didn’t just call me a clown, and tell you what you already know, that Gavin Newsom sucks; but that because you’re voting pragmatically instead of based on What I Think True Leftism Is, I don’t like you and therefor I’m right and you’re wrong” – and while subtly implying I don’t know political theory, that’s cute. I like your moxie.

>I proceed to explain why you’re a clown, that this country’s elections do not operate in a way that will result in anything better than “the least bad choice” being the correct way to vote until we reform how our elections work.

>instead of taking this moment to reflect on what I actually said in my first comment – I even just re-wrote a summary of it, just for you, first line in this comment, keep up sport – you decide to divert into “g-genocide!! newsom bad!! y-you’re still on the right if you vote for him!!!”

… I know he’s bad, you breathtakingly dumb fuck. Ideally, primaries will mean I don’t have to vote for him – Ideally, we have a primary that selects a more progressive candidate, and hopefully they then win in the general election. But I live in the real world, and here in the real world, we run the candidate that wins the primary, and frequently our primaries are won by the exact kind of person Gavin Newsom is. Which is terrible, but still better than Trump (and I shudder to imagine how he could be worse).

>followed by a bit of

>you think this is somehow dunking on me.

Man, I’d hate to see your performance when you think you’re losing. 50/50 shot I’d piss myself laughing or weep. I’m done now, best of luck in your future endeavors. 🤡

silly .ml troll thinks he’s entitled to engagement 🤡🤡🤡

No they don’t, it’s the same fantasy – “good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people”, just aimed at different demographics.

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Needs a 1/1000 chance to just say “behind the wheel of a large automobile”

someone get the narcan, they’re overdosing on copium over here!

yeah, you’re right, if my choices in 2028 are between a mediocre centrist and a literal nazi, I should just stay home and not vote/vote third party so it doesn’t count (in the US presidential election, yes, they functionally do not count; no, this is not up for debate). I’m sure that won’t have the same effect it did in 2024 and get the Nazi elected! thanks, .ml user, what would we ever do without your peerless authority and insight on True Leftism™?

now run along and go be a 🤡 somewhere else.

As it so happens, they can indict ham sandwiches, but not turkey subs. And I think this is arguably funnier.

They want them to get shanked to death by other inmates. “Chomos” are generally not integrated into gen pop because the average lifer will quite happily remove them from the mortal coil, as many criminals have been abused as children.

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yeah I’ll just pull another couple hundred bucks out of my ass every month, thanks pal