Life long Ohioan here. Transgender folk were not even a topic of discussion until after gay marriage was legalized and they needed a new Boogeyman.

I’d wager Brown never had much reason or need to comment until the bathroom bills started making the rounds. “The forced surgery” has always been a made up conspiracy, but it’s weird they’re making Brown of all people out to be some champion of illegal surgeries.

I don’t think they’re saying his narcissism was a road block to power. But the vast majority of his enterprises were straight up failures or crimes. His wealth was inherited and mostly squandered until others let him in on the grift and be the face of wanton abuse.

Its pretty easy to declare ‘success’ when you lie, cheat, and steal and are never punished for it. ‘Success’ is only accurate if power acquisition is the only metric. And even then, lied and cheated to do it. If someone cheats on a test, we don’t consider them an A student.

Team Bonesaws is definitely worse than the Ellisons, but they’re both in the Blight Against Humanity Hall of Fame.

There is absolutely merit to joining the army to acquire skills/knowledge/discipline, but they should be the ones to sell it as such. US just has commercials with cool tech and jerking off about being a warrior right now. I think they’d probably do a lot better if they focused on what can be learned or gained.

Preposterous!!

The ‘leak’ itself is lame and unimportant. But the Admin using ‘The Leak’ to justify more abuses is the real story. They leak it, cry about the leak, then blame leakers and abuse more power.

No, this is more ironic.

It worked last time. Rs attack ads in Ohio literally just fear monger like crazy, no policy points ever, rarely any truth to them and any truth present is twisted to hell and back.

Last election the ads were all about how he is for ‘They/Them’ and against Trump. Bernie Moreno is a literal used car salesman who stole from his employees and destroyed evidence of such despite a court order and alleged familial ties to a south american cartel. Brown had a solid reputation for actually working for/with his constituents.

This year they just say that he always ‘Falls in line’ and will do so again with the new ‘Extremists’ (AOC and local politicans from NY, ofc). The ads against Amy Acton basically blame her for our feckless governor’s leadership during Covid and call her a drunk.

I swear last week was the first time I’ve seen an ad against Vivek (or any R really) that actually calls out his billions made through fraud.

I don’t see why UBI has to remove the rest of social services. Feels like that would fit in the “More social welfare” bin.

I don’t need Bernie to fully understand AI before he continues advocating for the people. He also has enough of a track record to trust that he does not blindly believe the AI rhetoric, which is primarily pushed by the same Corpo types he usually rails against. I’d wager he’s also for adding guard rails and protections.

Its good to keep pushing for good things, despite whatever noise is going on. Perfect being the enemy of good has sidetracked many an effort. Like conservatives have had no problem taking their little victories over the years chipping away at rights before going full out fascist. We need little victories do push back too.

Buttcrack album cover guy. Classic!

After a few seasons yeah

Some of the extra nuance is that she routinely would dip her toes in the ‘far right’ hate cess pool. Disney, being Disney, asked her to dial it back. After enough incidents they cut bait. She was a bit character on a show that had some heat and refused to just not cry about courting Nazis.

Like you gotta know that Star Wars on Disney is going to be focused on kids. And if you’re running around pushing conspiracy theories about Jews, you can’t be too shocked when they shut it down.

I was aware of him as a right wing troll debater through the internet but never ran into his content, or a fan, out in the wild. But a week after he died a billboard by my office had like an obituary ‘never forget’ type thing for him. Nauseating.

Just some extra red sauce, all good

Your discourse is talking in circles and insulting people who agree with you.

You calling anyone sanctimonious is hilarious. Good stuff buddy

You keep acting like your choice is different. It’s the same result. You ain’t organizing a protest vote. You’re talking up a sit in.

Name a candidate. Push for an actual protest vote. The rest of your nonsense is the same milquetoast critique we’ve seen trotted out every election for at least the 3 decades I’ve been voting. You stand for nothing. Just a popcorn fart you’re confusing with actual discourse. It’s easy to offer criticism, but you’re just another finger pointer who noticed people ain’t doing shit and your solution is to not do shit.

Get over yourself.

Not voting is the second best thing Republicans want next to voting Republican.

Choosing to not vote is still a choice. A choice with identical results to voting R. Wax poetic about useless Dems being Republican-Lite all you want, Rs are still worse.

1. You can know things aren’t totally private and should still be able to make dumb jokes without the FBI getting involved.

2. Does a dumb joke about a bad experience really merit a ‘reality check’?

3. Social Media company reporting suspicious stuff is a good thing. What isn’t good is the zero due diligence. Just right to the FBI.

4. It is the fault of the social media for auto-flagging things then automatically forwarding to the FBI. I’d like more due diligence from the FBI too, but we don’t know how urgent they thought it was. Again, no due diligence and they auto-forwarded something to the FBI that must have made it seem like an imminent threat.

None of these are good things. Privacy should still be private. If we’re going to tacitly accept that nothing is private on the Internet for ‘safety’, then it should absolutely be called out when that privacy is violated for little to no reason. And again, some due diligence from someone. All of these things being done without anyone looking into it until the FBI is on someone’s door step is not good. Let’s also note that law enforcement jumping hard on bad information has led to plenty of wrongful deaths and injuries.