And this is why the Left can’t win.

It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.

The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!

I should’ve put a /s at the end. The joke was too good.

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.

…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.

“I’m the bigger person here. Only two of those were made up.”

Fenn better not be your root password.

I can agree with the general sentiment as a 50 year old American man. Our culture is far too accepting of abusive behavior and circumstances. And it’s markedly better than when I was a kid, which is wild to me even now.

But there’s also a very vocal segment that doesn’t want to be better, and I don’t know how to deal with that without resorting to extreme measures.

All I can do is try to personally be better and to call out the abuse when I see it. (Well, and listen when I’m still exhibiting problematic behavior.)

Of course that’s all excepting the current shitstorm of denying history and trying to take us back to the 1850s in rights and attitudes. To bring it back to the main point, yes. Eliminate us here. It may save the world.

Are you even a real activist?

How many times have you sent the Bee Movie script today?

They don’t expect to need votes ever again.

Please don’t use LOL in these kinds of circumstances. You shouldn’t laugh off people’s attempts to fight back.

That’s all fair. I’m not at all satisfied with their performance, just not surprised. Legislators don’t know how to respond to the Gish Gallop, especially when it’s taken the top offices.

I don’t see a voting way out of this, sadly.

So if it’s a revolution, and we win, we then get to institute different rules that don’t lead to the inevitable two party domination.

No. The people are going to have to do it. Or the military, but that rarely ends well for anyone.

Democrats aren’t revolutionaries. They’re legislators. Most of them didn’t sign up for this but for normal work.

It does mean we have the wrong people in office when we need fighters, but I don’t see how you can throw all the blame on them.

They’re the ones who are afraid of going to Gitmo, assuming they aren’t otherwise disappeared.

Oh, they’ll turn eventually. And then we will have VP Pence and Project 2025 still happening. It’s part of the plan. The president building his own insurgent army is not.

Had a job interview and kicked ass. Should hear back in a week.

I’m out of my current job on May 1st, so if I can have a new job lined up before then, I’ll be in a good place.

Plus it’s an organization I have zero qualms supporting, and my parents worked for them multiple decades ago. I’m hoping it all comes together.

Edit: Not trying to bring that karma shit here but I truly appreciate this being the most upvoted comment in the thread at the moment. It’s not like me to be optimistic, and I’m extremely happy to be this confident right now. If it’s not this job, it’ll be another.

There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.

Two quick examples from the book:

Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.

Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)

You get to grieve there with your family. The weird people leave with your old dog (sob), after everyone gets to give their respects, and then it’s just you and your remaining family.

It’s a funeral. And I’m so lucky to have this because we don’t get charged for that extra service - the boss considers us family for that. The hospital went corporate and that touch won’t last but I appreciate his efforts there for us.

Shit like this fuels the deep state nonsense.

This isn’t a secret Supreme Court, it’s just something public that you didn’t know about before.

They’re just public administrators. It’s how government works.

I’m glad you’ve had good experiences in waiting rooms! Mine were mixed and now I honestly never have to deal with any of it because she does.

And I completely agree on the latter. We have that done and it’s so much … better? To have that closure, with all the other pets able to be present and see/smell them and say goodbye.

Just replying again since my wife got home.

She said what actually happens is that when the pet is in the exam room, the customer is brought to the room. I just didn’t know the whole process post-covid. You were right!

I just remember it from the premise. A good dad who was widowed, and as such is not a divorcee with toxic attachments. The almost impossible to find guy, a unicorn.

The premise is slightly toxic itself and not that interesting. As I recall, my wife liked it.