Whirling_Ashandarei

But cheesecake isn't pie

Dawg we had Washington warn about the 2 party system, we never listen

Tbf, I think this happens to everybody. To ADHD peeps more tho

Heard this for 30+ years and watched the Dems just go further right. Don't think it works bud.

Not sarcasm!

What a goddamn comment. Informative, thoughtful, and an amazing rebuttal without being condescending. Is best of a thing on here?

Reich wing.

Now I know what my is gonna look like once fully grown!

Idk if that's out of control or not anymore, what's a dollar worth? But I've avoided goodwill for Habitat for a while because there were various stories over the years about shady things. Now, they're big and basically all franchises so some of this was always gonna happen; lawsuits w/ racist/sexist/otherwise discriminatory managers will eventually happen once a company gets large enough, and franchises have a lot of independent control which leads to a lot of variance, good and bad, at different locations.

But they're also pretty shit at the corporate level: https://www.cracked.com/article_33357_15-impressively-evil-things-goodwill-has-done.html

So overall, on the astronomically low bar of regular evil corporate behavior, they're middling, but you should probably donate/shop elsewhere if you want to do the most good.

Milquetoast but your point stands.

This is a very reasoned argument, I don't understand the downvotes. Nothing said here is inflammatory or incorrect, it's a pretty valid take on how Lemmy reacts to things they don't want to be true, including legitimate criticisms of Harris. A lot of people seem to think anyone saying "but wait" means they're for Trump, even if that's not the case. I mean I get it, he was a disaster and it's crazy the collective amnesia that half this country seems to have about it, Harris will assuredly be better than him, including with Gaza. It still doesn't mean we should just unilaterally ban asking the Dems to do more, even if there are some that attempt to argue such things in bad faith.

I will say "vote hard enough" could work if we actually did it, but only way may be to have auto registration at 18. But I agree, Dems need to stop courting the ever decreasing "undecideds" and actually represent something left of center-right.

Voting is still valid though, a lot of us on the left seem to disdain voting as useless and only want to go with rhetoric, but it's literally how MLKJ got the most done that was enforceable. Civil disobedience to get attention, million man marches to register the vote and getting people to the polls no matter what was in the way. If we ever actually did that maybe we could get some more lefty candidates on bigger stages.

I think there are plenty of instances that aren't, and those don't include the hyper tanky/toxic ones. The big instances have tended to skew neoliberal though.