LSC will also ban you for telling people that they are a honeypot to get people to stop voting.

Apathy doesn’t accomplish anything. Action does. Action other than no kings protests and bitching online.

Then why are you currently bitching online and being apathetic?

Talk to a therapist, buddy. And if you can’t afford that, talk to a real person. If everyone was like you, we’d still be exactly where we are. Do not kid yourself and grandstand on morals when you would sacrifice the people you pretend to care about.

You are not better than anyone else. Stop pretending you are.

Simplicity is childish. And yet you fucking agree with it.

It isn’t complex. The “complexity” is that Israel is a military ally, and we sell fucktons of weapons to them. The “complexity” is that Israel justifies their actions by pretending that the political situation is complex. The “complexity” is that Israel contributes lots of money to various politicians to let them do their genocide. The “complexity” is that Israel pretends to represent all Jewish people and uses them as a shield for their actions and then calls any criticism antisemitism.

The complex part is that the US doesn’t want to intervene, in spite of an internationally recognized duty to do so should a genocide be happening. That’s why people don’t want to call it a genocide. If you call it a genocide, you have to do what you can to stop it. But no, we can sweep the hundred thousand plus dead Palestinian children under the fucking rug.

The “complex” part is that it’s a genocide. Anyone that defends this shit (including you) is a fucking depraved loser.

Israel is murdering children daily, intentionally. Please explain how that is complex? Just follow your own fucking ceasefire and stop murdering children and let fucking aid in and stop murdering journalists. See how un-fucking-complicated it is?

Or is there a complex reason that should keep going?

It is truly sad that you believe these things. Especially because your logic explicitly makes coalition building impossible, and thus a revolution equally as impossible.

How the fuck do you expect to build a revolution when you can’t make a concession or work with people you disagree with?

You are the definition of perfect being the enemy of good enough. I get that you want to save everyone right now. Cool. Great. Uh, one problem: FUCKING HOW??? You live in a fucking fairy tale if you think you can do these things. Your ideals kill the people you think you are standing up for, and it is shitty behaviors.

You aren’t doing what you do to save queer people. You’re not doing what you do to save minorities. You’re not doing this for any noble reason.

You are doing this so that YOU DON’T HAVE TO FEEL BAD. You are doing it because the people that might die from your lack of doing anything won’t weigh on your shoulders. And to that, I say, you should feel more of the remorse than those that tried to make things better. Because they tried.

But, you won’t. The type of person who thinks voting third party or not voting will save people are the exact type of people who will say “It wasn’t my fault.” when people die, because they tried one thing that did jackshit.

You can have good and push for better a shitton easier than having perfect from the beginning.

Fucking there you go, buddy. Are we going to finally admit that you just want a violent revolution? Good job, if true.

Now, I do have to point out that voting third party and not voting are, indirectly, voting for the status quo, so you did sort of box yourself in with that zingy one-liner. Thanks for the agreement, though.

Anyway, surely you realize that vulnerable groups suffer the most in a revolution, right? So, if you don’t really have them on board, then you are condemning many of them to death. Who is going to join you? Obviously, not liberals, since you refuse to negotiate with them. So… Uh… Do you think there’s enough leftists to make up for that deficit? Because I fucking don’t. I have trouble getting people I know in real life to understand that capitalism is the cause of most or all of their problems. But, if you can, let me know! I’ll be there!

Fundamentally, I agree with that. Fundamentally, I am exactly on board with everything you and they have said. And fundamentally, that is not the hand that has been dealt in that situation.

Third parties cannot win a Presidential election in the US as the system currently stands. So, voting for a third party is either a nonvote or a vote for the defacto winner. Advocating for a third party candidate because your candidate lost the primaries is loser behavior. Because you cannot have your way, you’re going home. And if that decision fucks over the very people you are pretending to protect, then you should feel just as culpable for that as anyone that did vote for that.

Fucking like it or not, trans people would be better under Newsom than any Republican. Fucking Kamala Harris did jackshit to defend trans kids, but she wouldn’t be actively trying to harm them right now as President.

It is disgusting to me to pretend that not voting or voting third party is somehow stopping genocide or protecting queer people. It just isn’t. All it does is make you feel better.

How come you won’t list a viable national-level third party?

Like, legitimately, you play this shell game where you say “Vote third party” or “Don’t vote” (and you do say don’t vote, let’s not play coy), won’t list any third parties to vote, and won’t bother compromising if things don’t go your way. It’s mental gymnastics so you can avoid any culpability if things go poorly. Fucking just clap yourself on the back right now, you can be so happy that you didn’t contribute to “blue fascism” or whatever the cultspeak is.

Good on you for hating herd mentality, along with fucking everyone else, you George Carlin-quoting individual you. Your unique snowflake melts the same as everyone else’s.

Seriously, how do you plan to convert most of the Democratic voters to your mythical third party if Newsom (or anyone else not good enough for you) is the nominee? Because you cannot convert enough nonvoters to do that, you have to syphon those voters from the Democratic or Republican parties, and most of those Republicans aren’t voting for your shit on a macro-level. Sorry, the political scientist in me just doesn’t fucking believe in that one. If you aren’t willing to conform to them, then why the absolute fuck would they be willing to conform to you?

Explain how not voting somehow makes the Democratic party more progressive, and I’ll show you someone whose ultimate goal is violent revolution.

You can pretend that’s not your goal, but there isn’t another way if you refuse to compromise or coalition build. And if that’s your goal, don’t be a fucking coward about it and just admit that from the onset. And then while you’re admitting that, you can also admit you don’t really give a shit about queer people, or you would be following the plurality of them with voting Democratic.

If you set the bar for your leftism at where you are at, anyone left of you can say the same thing and refuse to vote for you and what you believe. Like, you get that, right? You get that anyone can then justify themselves and say what you believe isn’t left enough and refuse to vote what you want, even if it would ultimately save more people.

Newsom is a particularly shit person, correct. I would vote for him over any Republican, because while he’s fucking awful, he is a particular type of awful that fucks over less people in general, and he would be the only real viable choice at that point.

At that point. Before that happens, he would’ve been through a butt-fucking-ton of primaries and caucuses and debates and what-fucking-have-you. He would’ve been the popular candidate by that point and solidified the coalitions around him. Because that’s how you build up a powerbase for change.

I get not wanting to vote him, but you make concessions in a democracy. No one likes that part, but how fucking else do you work together? My hope is that Newsom or anyone else gets shoved into the dirt for abandoning people, be they trans, poor, immigrant, or any other minority. But if he doesn’t? I hold my fucking nose and vote for the lesser evil.

Anyway, the point is you didn’t list a third party, and that makes me think you are a fake progressive. Like, imagine saying “I won’t vote” at the same time you say “Vote third party” and complaing the GOP would win. That’s some escapist logic where you pretend you didn’t help cause more issues because you didn’t do anything. Never mind that you didn’t say to caucus or primary to throw out bad Democrats. I’m really just waiting for the accelerationist foot to drop.

I mean, they are unlikely to lose the queer vote. Mostly because voting third party is almost entirely useless, especially in the presidential election, but also because it’s fundamentally easier to just change the party from within. Queer people are so much more politically active, too, so this is just shooting himself in the fucking foot. But, queer people are less likely to vote third party, especially trans people, because of that.

Like, feel free to list off any national-level third party you think has an actual shot, and you will be wrong. State-level, maybe but unlikely. Local-level, absolutely possible. But national third parties exist to push narratives, and that’s all.

I get that this will cost him votes, but this third party pushing without even naming any parties is the type of stuff that fake progressives push to destroy collaboration. If you want to push a third party, name it, so you can build a coalition.

Well, yes and no.

Technically, several rights not listed in the constitution are guaranteed to the States or the people by the 10th Amendment. Which, I guess by default makes it in the Constitution?

^ This is what AI does to your brain.

Hey, buddy, if you stop using AI now, you’ll probably gain like twice as many folds.

Actual clown.

This motherfucker tries to pretend he’s not an AI evangelist and types shit like this.

Even if every single fucking person on earth stopped driving their fucking car, global warming wouldn’t fucking stop because the vast majority of it is corporations’ fault, and those data centers are a major contributor to that. But subsidizing your lack of carbon footprint by using an LLM is a weird fucking flex, I guess. You were the one that brought up how using an LLM is like using a car, so sounds like you do care about that. But, sure, highlight the major pollution issues and not the fucking over poor people who have to subsidize your LLMs water and energy usage. My car didn’t make you pay double for your water bill like an asshole.

China is authoritarian, and that’s sort of the problem. That’s why the US is bad, bozo. But, sure, why don’t we point out all the definitely not capitalism that China is doing so you can pretend that all those Uyghurs aren’t being genocided, nor that the AI surveillance state they’ve got going on to censor and disappear people. Damn, dude, I’m glad I can pick between these two shitty governments.

I don’t have discussions with people that think the problem behind LLMs with high energy and water usage is that people use cars too much. Literally no one wants to subsidize their fucking local data center. Plus, you definitely ALSO use a car, so you’re not even better than the people you are trying to criticize because ChatGPT has rotted that portion of your brain from disuse. Frankly, I’ll be a nasty piece of work if it gets it through your thick fucking skull that AI is shit, most people know it’s shit, and you are likely shittier at everything you do using it. But, sure, complain about my tone, and never my message, because all you AI bros get so fucking butthurt by anyone saying anything bad about AI. Just call me a Luddite already or whatever and then go cry in your AI discord.

I disagree. You are an AI evangelist and quite closed-minded. Having a “balanced” approach, if there was one, would be to label any AI usage explicitly. If you’re afraid to label your AI usage, you’re a fucking coward.

But, damn, let’s not blame the billion dollar data centers for global warming, guys! It’s the individual decisions you make every day that kills the planet! If you believe this, the AI has fried your brain. It’s not one authoritarian government, it’s a different one! Actual paste-eating behavior. My work has improved with LLM usage! A common saying from people who were not good at their job, and are somehow now worse without them realizing it.

Any decent developer I have found has hated LLMs because they do not work anywhere near as well as people who are shit at things think they do. Personally, I don’t really like smashing the Skinner Box button hoping the output works this time because I like programming, and having Claude rape my codebase seems like a bad idea to me if I ever want to go back in there. But, then again, I like knowing how my code works, so maybe I should just lobotomize myself and I’ll understand why you like it so much.

He did not know he was raping Nikki because there were two Nikki’s sharing the same body, and the one actively controlling the body consented.

Consenting while being incapable of consenting is still rape. If you have sex with someone that is drunk/high/intoxicated, and they say yes while under an influence, that is not consent. Having sex requires continual and ongoing consent, or else it is absolutely rape. In this case, Bear knows the wish has influenced her.

The date scene is only the 2nd moment she shows of any odd behavior, and that behavior is still relatively mild and within the realm of normal humans being human. The horror lies in the dramatic irony that we, the audience, know that is not the real Nikki while Bear does not.

Bear definitely knows the wish worked at this point. But, let’s pretend he didn’t: She is acting weird, beyond what would be considered normal, and he absolutely is exploiting her weird behavior to have sex with her. That is still not consent.

To repeat - the horror lies in the dramatic irony that we, the audience, know that is not the real Nikki while Bear does not.

Goddamn, you’d look like a real fucking moron if the director flat out stated that Bear definitely knew that Nikki was acting weird as a result of his wish.

Oh look! I found this quote from the director on the floor, it also says here that you’re a dumbass?

When he asks her do you love me more than anyone in the world, that’s very obviously the exact verbiage of what he said, ‘I wish she loved me more than anyone in the world.’ So that was the confirmation that he needed that this is 100% the result of the wish. And I think he’s in denial. I don’t think he wants to believe that that’s the truth. I think it’s a lot easier for him to just believe that she really does like him, but clearly this is not making sense, for her to just all of a sudden be obsessed with him like this.

So, like, he even knows he’s raping her. He can be in denial, but being in denial requires you to know the truth and pretend it’s not true. Bear is a rapist, and he knows it. And he does not show remorse for it. Btw, took me two seconds to google that.

But, the pièce de résistance is that when she says to kill her, he just asks if being with him is so bad. That’s fucked up villainous shit. That leaves no room for him to be anything else. He’s the villain.