True, but affordability crosses party lines and it’s how you win in this particular November.

This is the Zohran playbook, and it’s what every single DSA should be doing. (And yeah, I know AES doesn’t call himself one, but he’s one policy-wise for the most part.)

If Hong had answered the stupid questions about her tweets and her half-white son in this way, she’d have won. Her choice was to pretend it’s 2014 and people still give a shit about virtue signalling more than being able to feed their families.

Keep it laser-focused on affordability.

It’s a combination of time and cost of living.

With each passing year more adults are impoverished and/or working multiple jobs for up to 100 hours a week, leaving little time for healthier activities like cooking. (And this state of being remains no matter which ruling party holds power.)

Also, ready-made and frozen meals are generally inexpensive.

I have a bachelors of fine arts in painting, and I’m dang good at it. I even have two portraits I painted of Patrick Mahomes that he signed and resold at his charity galas, so somewhere on this planet two of my paintings bear the signature of the world’s premier athlete.

I’m a working artist and I get 15-20 commissions a year, but it’s not my main job, and I’m fortunate to have a primary job that I enjoy, pays really well, and has benefits.

I wouldn’t have that if I were primarily focused on being an artist.

I also like that, as an artist, I have no one to answer to and my vision is my own, because I hate the gallery system. Mainly, though, I hate how much harder its become for the art community in general, with people losing jobs to AI Slop, arts endowments being cut or eliminated, and tuition for art school skyrocketing. The reason I didn’t go for my masters was that my graduate TA’s in art school had come from big schools in NY, Chicago, and LA with six-figure debt and they were making $20,000 a year teaching college courses.

Yup. It’s not that deep.

It’s been more of a detriment to me. I’d be tens of thousands of dollars wealthier if not for helping out family when they had emergencies on the promise of being repaid. Eventually I had to change my policy to just gifting people a smaller amount than they asked for and not expecting to be repaid.

On the plus side, I have a handful of very good friends that I’d trust with my life, and that’s a nice result of loyalty.

Between the Swiss FADP and GDPR, Europe is by far a safer place to house your data.

Just also be sure that anything you don’t want Microsoft to know is being accessed through Linux instead of Windows, or you’re shooting yourself in the foot. Microsoft obviously doesn’t give a fuck a Euro privacy laws.

Consider Proton. The Swiss have kickass privacy laws.

Reminds me of a guy at our No Kings protest in May who wore a Michael Myers costume, complete with kitchen knife, and a sign around his neck that read “Future ICE Agent”.

Oh we know.

They are garbage.

Invest it all and forget about it for a few years.

I’m sure they thought it wasn’t a big deal because I’ve been athletic my whole life, but I had a serious weight problem as an adult and lost 150 pounds. Probably wouldn’t have ended up that way if I didn’t have a taste for fast food.

Same. In hindsight, my parents raising me on McDonald’s was a terrible parenting choice.

Again, I am glad I never procreated.

Anything to distract from the Epstein Files.

I 100% believe it’s Windows’ fault on this one.

I’ve never had problems with VLC in over a decade of use until MS started vibe coding everything and doing zero QA.

The guy ended up killing himself a few years later so I guess finding god didnt actually workout. Such a fucking shame cunts cant be themselves without other cunts judging em

100%

This is why I’m always upfront about not being religious and not wanting marriage, because those two things are so contrary to the culture most of us were raised in that they are really difficult for people to absorb and understand.

Cultural appropriation.

So… You’re offended. People are living out of their cars now. I’m more worried about that.

I tried PeerTube and, unfortunately, found it terribly underwhelming. But thank you for the suggestion.

It’s wild to think that with the same amount of power Obama and Biden had, that Donald has completely rearranged the landscape of American politics, and once the post-tariff trade agreements kick in (rerouting supply chains around rather than through the US) and the BBB puts the kill shot on the poor and middle class, I think that the next year or two will be a clear historical demarcation line.