Democrats: “We lost the election because of Transgender people”
Republicans: “No, we lost the election because of Transgender people”
Transgender Voters: “Wow, I guess we have enormous political influence and you have to listen to our demands.”
D/Rs: “Absolutely not!”
sh.itjust.works was down too
I sure wish my client could auto fail over to one of my other accounts grab posts though.
I mean, in theory, the folks admining .world could create their own fail-over. But hosting costs money and redundancy costs even more money and this continues to be - at its heart - a labor of love by a handful of charitable admins, not an enterprise level app looking to maximize uptime for revenue.
To get Fediverse to switch instances or substitute a working mirror, you’d have to pivot away from the inherently decentralized nature of the application. At a minimum, you’d need an endpoint that worked as a switch between communities.
Like, its possible, in the same way Torrents have a single entry point that ties out to a semi-unreliable cluster of hosters. But it is not (to my knowledge) how Fediverse is currently designed.
My Brother in Christ, you need to read more English, because you don’t seem to understand the words on your screen.
Why do you think that is?
Because men had a 120 year head start at electoral politics. More time, more opportunities, more generations of fathers training their sons to be politicians than mothers training their daughters.
Are we going to ignore the DNC shenanigans around Hillary / Bernie?
Hillary out-muscled Bernie the old fashioned way. You’d have an easier time arguing Obama pulled the rug out from under Hillary (re: Michigan). At least that was a close race.
I guess we can ignore each of the instances where there was a woman on the POTUS / VPOTUS ticket
You’re ignoring all the instances where there wasn’t. You think LBJ would have lost to Goldwater if Humphrey had tits? Or that Reagan needed Bush’s dick to crush Mondale by 20 points? Do you think Obama needed to be a man to win, when he was already playing with the biggest handicap in national politics?
Put your name on the ballot and, statically speaking, your gender simply does not matter.
Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad asset in the US, so I can’t say I’m shocked to see a bunch of his work censored to the hilt.
And all but once
A full three time, total. Twenty four years between the first two of them.
There’s never been a woman that won any presidential primary (other than Hillary if you count that)
How do you not? But in between Geraldine Fererra and Hillary Clinton we added 20 women senators and six governors.
Politics is a numbers game. You have to run before you can win. And I’ve seen very little evidence to suggest women do worse than men on average. By the number, they run at parity with their male colleagues. You simply have fewer candidates.
The two female candidates who lost were WILDLY more qualified
According to whom? You’re trying to apply an objective rubric to a purely subjective selection process and mistaking the job of President for job of Running For President.
That’s long before you get into Harris’s “qualifications” as a party flak riding the coat tails of her superiors. Let’s not forget that Harris has never won a national primary. She couldn’t even win her home state the one time she put her toe in the water in '20. She was unqualified for President for the same reason Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio and Michael Bloomberg were unqualified. Because they were losers.
Ready to gamble what’s left of our democracy?
I will put all my chips on a Zohran Mamdani or Rashida Talib before I bet a bent penny on the next Pete Buttigieg or Beto O’Rourke.
We need winners, not nepo hires, running the party going forward.
YMMV. Some of the pop ups like to make the “Reject” button difficult to find.
I’ll have to give this a shot. Thanks for the link!
I mean, she’s right.
She’s not. She’s throwing out an easy answer to a very complex question. “Two ladies ran for President and lost? I guess ladies can’t win the presidency.”
But you could play this game with literally any presidential campaign and be wrong.
This country is a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic trashcan.
Obama beating Hillary in the primary in 2008 proves that our country hates women more than black people. And when he beat both McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, it allowed us to conclude our country hates Veterans and Mormons.
Then Trump beat Hillary, proving the country hates women again (but not before Trump’s primary win proved it hates Latinos, Black People, People Still on Their First Wife, and Ohioans). Then Biden beat Trump, proving the country hates Septuagenarians. Then Trump beat Harris, proving you need to be a billionaire before you’ll be seriously considered for the White House.
Conservatives get ZERO pussy
Everyone knows the Other Team is a bunch of unfuckable losers, while Our Team is irresistibly sexy. “Liberals get ZERO pussy” is the line you’ll see all over conservative online communities, typically complimented with “Look at these ugly idiots saying stupid shit” meme material.
At the same time, “all your teenagers are getting pregnant” is a line conservatives and liberals love to throw at one another. So you get to bend your brain into a pretzel trying to explain why everyone is - simultaneously - incel homebodies nobody wants to fuck and trailer trash having a dozen kids out of wedlock because they can’t control their animal urges.
It’s really sad to see what Donald has done to people’s brains.
This isn’t Trump. This is standard conservative brainworms going back to the Limbaugh Era and before. Just textbook Protestant-flavored Homophobic Misogyny. Dig through James Dobson’s prodigious backlog of public brainfarts or poke around in the Joe Pyne archives, you’ll find similar sentiments and commentary.
Enjoying good sex with one’s wife is now checks notes gay
Anything that gives a person undeserved pleasure is sinful. And the Protestant Work Ethic teaches us that only productive economy-stimulating labor is a worthwhile pursuit. Sex is a job, not a hobby. You do it to make the babies, not to experience any kind of corporeal pleasure.
raping children on an island is checks notes Ephebophilia
That falls under the “Very Rich Guy’s Addendum” to the Protestant Work Ethic. If you’re rich, it proves you worked harder than everyone else and none of the working class rules apply.
I hope your 401K is diversified
When the MAG7 makes up half the S&P 500, its hard to get away from. Even if you somehow manage to avoid holding a big tech company (or a company that’s predicated on the spending of a Big Tech company), a downturn will force cascading sell-offs.
Even if Nvidia stocks crash, they will recover.
NVIDIA is up 1500% in two years, with a p/e ratio of 56 in a market that’s absolutely ravenous for semiconductors. The idea that the demand for semiconductors can flatline as data center production stales and NVIDIA’s valuation will just rebound to its current high is… well, it’s highly speculative what NVIDIA is going to do, but I wouldn’t bank on the current status quo.
If nothing else, it’s a stock that can safely be described as “overvalued”. Selling now isn’t a bad idea.
Peter Thiel sells his Tesla stake
Telsa price goes up
Lolz. Lmao even.
Lemmy’s front page is quickly becoming the Reddit Recycling Center.
man-splaining how women’s orgasms work
Just… point of order. Did we already establish that UltraMagnus0001 is a man?
vaguely misogynistic, incel-like posts
They’re definitely horny. Idk if I’d go for misogynistic and incel-like. People can fuck and meme, occasionally even at the same time.
Neoliberals love to slap rainbow flags on brutal oligarchical governments, while downplaying or denying the civil rights abuses of friendly countries.
And they love to kick and scream about historical wrongs committed by prior leaders, while dismissing any kind of reform or social advancement in the last generation.
meanwhile back at home… in conservative areas…
Back in liberal areas you still see conservative state and local administrators treating LGBTQ as pariahs and punishing them for any kind of outspoken queerness. You’re allowed to be gay in the US only as long as you are indistinguishable from all your straight peers. If you look gay - even in bleeding heart of NYC or the Hollywood Hills - you’re going to take shit from the police, the mayor, and most major employers.
American liberalism is entirely a legal fiction. In the free market, it might as well not exist.
Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.
Headline news at the NYT as recently as July of 2025.
Dems torn over transgender issue: Centrists worry that party is ‘reading the public wrong’
Also heavily flogged talking point in November of 2024.