Yep. Apparently I was wrong tho, it’s 150 not 225.

No idea where I got that from, probably some upper band from somewhere.

Anyway, when trying to figure out why I was wrong, I found an old David Wong article on from before he went batshit and Cracked shit the bed:

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

Dude really was a great writer back in the day

Socialism has been the middle for 99.99% of human existence…

It’s the center. The natural organization of a human social group. The problem is our brains can only handle ~225 different individuals. After that we have to categorizes everyone else into groups which makes it easier to dehumanize those groups in modern society.

That’s how capitalism became the norm in large societies

If you’re wealthy and you everyone you interact with is wealthy…

Our brains are wired to stop giving a fuck about people not in that small ~225 circle of people.

He can go back to the McKinsey foundation…

The biggest danger to the Dem party is someone like Pete winning the primary. Hed put the old guard back in power over the party and bend to American oligarchs.

But it’s a very open field:

A June Emerson College Polling survey, published on Friday, finds Buttigieg, who is gay, leading the Democratic field with support from 16 percent of likely primary voters. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who once dominated early polling, has slipped to 13 percent, followed closely by California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 12 percent.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez each earn 7 percent, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders captures 5 percent and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker 3 percent. Nearly one in four Democratic voters, 23 percent, remain undecided.

I’ve been all for Bernie since 2015, but I hope he doesn’t run either. I’m honestly surprised to see he still got 5%, but if he does the smart thing and sits this out, I’d imagine he endorses AOC.

All of them had earlier signs than the general public about Biden’s mental issues

But they didn’t give a fuck until it was undeniable to the general public.

Especially Schumer tho, he didn’t act until the very lose possible second after they’d already shut down the primary

We could have had Biden sorted and sidelined with plenty of time for a fair primary.

Because the other billionaires who own the media really really really want to avoid progressives accomplishing anything.

So now that neoliberals are out of control of the DNC, the media isn’t going to have many good things to say about the DNC.

I’d say that’s obviously, but holy shit some days I feel like I’m explaining it to the same 12 people who just can’t fucking grasp that billionaire owned media favors billionaires.

Like, could you imagine someone falling for that dumb shit and getting mad at anyone other than the fucking Nazi in your gif and the media system defending fascism

No, no…

Clearly you’re right! How the fuck could I think that Republican politicians could be bought*.

Those great upstanding citizens who always put their personal profit last.

/s

For all the money he has, the only political influence he ever had was through Trump.

No, you’re right …

I completely forgot money doesn’t play a roll in the American political system

/S

Like, what kind of logic are you using that makes you think money just doesn’t fucking matter?

Especially in Republican primaries?

I dunno, maybe there’s some I missed, but what you just said…

It’s a Republican that’s not voting how trump wants, specifically the budget.

So trump made an entire PAC to primary him, now Musk is backing him against Trump’s pac.

And apparently Musk is gonna make a 3rd party if the budget passes?

Which would be amazing. If Musk and Trump both have their own parties, it just splits the Republican vote. Regardless of policy, no one is switching from D to either of those asshats.

A snake moves left to right back and forth, over and over, just to make an inch of progress in the direction they want to go.

The people the article is talking about are the people Martin’s run out of the party…

They’re doing this because they don’t have a job anymore.

The people who had been running the party and fucking everything up don’t have the power to keep fucking stuff up. So they’re going to present themselves as “outsiders” against the DNC…

And honestly?

Some people are dumb enough to fall for it.

They’re not running anything except their own club they just made for themselves. We don’t need to get upset they’re not letting progressives join. They would love if we stopped using the DNC (that they don’t control) and start using the new thing they just created (because they’re in control of it).

It’s blatantly obvious what they’re doing.

Noooooope.

If you were in anyway involved with anything to do with a US president from 2016-2028, everyone else is better off if you just sit the fuck down and permanently kept your mouth shut.

Regardless of which geriatric piece of shit it was under, they were both mentally incompetent and no one from either admin did the right thing and blew the whistle.

You didn’t understand my comment

But instead of asking questions you…

Just did whatever it was you tried to do there.

If you want to get better, ask more questions. Of someone else, obviously.

Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling

You’re so stuck in a capitalist mindset that you view people being “unemployable” as a personal failure on their part, rather than a success of society as a whole…

Were you out there screaming “think of the children” and “they can do anything they put their mind to” when people banded together to say maybe 7 year old children don’t have to work in the fucking coal mines anymore?

I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing…

Handedness isn’t binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.

Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.

But “all wheel drive” can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.

So while people who prefer their left hand. There’s a difference between a sleight preference and someone who’s right hand is so useless it’s easier to hold a guitar upside down.

Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup

People ignore how many women hate women.

Lots of them have the mindset that every woman is completion, just like lots of men see it.

Women (not dissing your wife) can be fucking awful.

And just like some men can fall victim to that line of thinking and say prejudiced shit without meaning to, so can women.

Like, sure, it’s undeniable that AOC is attractive. But I’ve had loads of platonic friends who were more attractive than she is. Above all else we’re all just human, it’s fucking played out to assume physical appearance is always the most important quality.

Baddies can be more than one thing

Look around and ask yourself whether this country would ever, ever, EVER elect a woman.

Kamala and Hillary combined had zero charisma, ran policy Dem voters hated…

And still almost won.

So yeah, a charismatic woman with popular policy would win.

To any moderate who is “concerned” how this will influence the election, two words:

Barack Obama

Hell, they called Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton communists.

No matter who we run, they’ll say insane shit. So what they say should never influence who we run

Congrats to his wife for kicking him out…

The best part of Ironman was him locked in a cave with junk…

It got boring when every movie he’d pull 10 billion dollar suits out of his ass that we’d never heard of before.

“Ironman but no money” is 100x more interesting than Tony Stark.

The first couple episodes are out, it’s decent.

And honestly, any half decent show that pisses off racists gets my “views” even if I’m not really paying attention.

The patriarchy is insane in the USA.

Two of the last three presidential elections have had a woman candidate…

There was a laundry list of valid policy based reasons why the last two women lost, and they barely lost.

How the fuck does that make you think no woman in America could manage a win?