No no no, we evolved five fingers to be able to give radical high fives to all our bros and broettes. You ain’t rad with a high four or high six, what even is a high six?

See also: Shska, brah. 🤙

My guess is still internal polling suggests this is the most popular message with centrists and independent voters, or something to that effect. But I agree with you, it’s nuts that they still don’t get that messaging fails overall.

Lol, maybe the perception that Democrats can’t do anything is kind of working in their favor when they actually are doing something.

Good question. This is a case of me reading a headline to a paywall so I don’t know.

Double checking, seems like they don’t but they do get back pay when it comes back just like everyone else. Would not be surprised if they’re more full of people willing to work for free than other sectors, though, as racist hate is a strong motivator.

Most fucked part to me is it doesn’t even stop them; ICE is considered essential and therefore it gets to keep operating during a shutdown.

I got my daughter novelty Pokemon toilet paper to encourage potty training, but we ended up using as a family it and I can’t help feeling bad smearing shit across Mimikyu’s face. Lol

I can tell it’s a Democrat strategy consultant making that framing decision and it’s just so… stupid. Yes, we’re ok with a shutdown, just as we were in March when Schumer et al decided to cave in out of fear for this exact situation, and now they’re getting a lose lose scenario because they can’t just say “governments on hold until the fascist stop fascisting” to at least use this shutdown to galvanize the left.

We’re so cooked, ugh.

Fun fact, LA has independent Cambodian-run donut places because the so called Donut King lost his fortune to gambling addiction and had to relinquish his ownership to the families to pay debts.

Not only does that sound like a better date to me, but I also make it pretty clear upfront we split the cost of the date. Like, I’m pretty good at winning over friends and they end up getting my back during a misunderstanding (speaking from experience lol).

Mostly agree with you on bluesky but my feed has plenty pro-trans folks so I don’t see that. Still very shitlibby, though, and it’s mostly used how I used to use Twitter: to follow celebrities (well, comedians) for lols.

It’s a stupid medium for discussions, anyway.