drthunder

Coming to VHS in fall 1998!

Gil desperately trying to sell Colecos convinced me as a kid that they were bad computers, and the association hasn’t completely gone away.

Why does all the unbelievably stupid stuff that happens have to be bad? Why do the rich keep getting richer? First the Dodgers get Sasaki and now this, I don’t know why I bother following sports

Agreed on everything except your last sentence. I argued with people all of last year saying what you’re saying. There were pretty quickly protests and rallies, off the top of my head I remember going to rallies in November 2023, January 2024, and June 2024, and people are still talking about it. I went to an event last weekend too.

I do see idiots both in real life and online who are clearly more interested in fighting the Democrats than actually helping the cause though; right after the election I went to a rally at which someone said she’ll work with anyone who wants to fight the Democrats, no mention of the impending dictatorship, and got applause, and it really put me off of my local activist scene.

There are idiots in the Palestine movement who didn’t vote, but there are plenty of people who voted for Harris too, myself included. It doesn’t take a psyop to see that a genocide that’s being live streamed is a genocide.

ICE told the government two or three weeks ago that they’d need like $26 billion to enforce the Laken Riley act, I think.

I’m biased because I wish what she advocated for was closer to what I want, but I think she needed to be bold. She had some good policies, but we need more than some good policies right now. We need to rethink how we live because our institutions are failing us. I don’t know for sure if she would have won, but I think Medicare for all, free school lunch, even more antitrust action (Lina Khan was one of Biden’s best picks), etc, probably would have helped.

And it’s one of the most useful government offices if you’re a billionaire who travels by plane everywhere. Plebs who have to drive everywhere are a lot less affected by overworked, overstressed, underpaid ATCs than guys like him.

People like to pretend Hagedorn is a “principled conservative” because he occasionally does the right thing, and it is the right thing in this case, but he’s still a homophobic piece of shit.

My guess is because they used to claim to be more queer-friendly than most, and they’re based in Minneapolis and have their name on a ton of stuff around the city.