EmptySlime

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[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago

Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him "owning" the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called "resistance" amounts to?

I hate them and their strategy of "Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don't have to promise anything or stand for anything." They gave 'em though rope alright, except they're not hanging themselves, they're diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, in the case of stuff like this the usual failing of the Democrats is limiting these programs too much. Usually born of their pathological need to seem "fiscally responsible" to so-called "moderate" voters. Things like allowing the child tax credit expansion to end with no fight, or means-testing programs to the point of absurdity. They'd rather deny assistance to 10 people who need it than let a single person benefit from assistance they think doesn't "deserve" it enough.

Generally speaking, for Republicans the cruelty is the point. Whereas for Democrats the cruelty is a byproduct that they lack the imagination to realize doesn't need to exist.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

1992 when he was an MP according to this article. He's been saying they're only X years/months/weeks away almost as long as I've been alive.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Hot Dog + Ketchup just to cause chaos. I'm more of a chili dog or meat sauce creature myself anyway.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

B-but, if we stop rewarding seniority and nothing else even if we run terrible losing campaigns... Multiple times in a row... Th-then it'll never be MY turn...

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Didn't Pelosi say she wasn't going to run for reelection this time around? Or am I mistaking her for one of the other Do-Nothing Democrat Fossils?

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Shinji, crank that Soulja Boy!

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

At a minimum this guy won't have the same level of intuitional clout Pelosi used many many times to hinder progressive policies and engage in political horse trading. So even if this guy is literally a 1-for-1 Pelosi clone he'll be a much weaker hurdle to overcome than she was.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Biggest reason I never picked it up back in the day. I'm too ace for that fandom.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Wonder if it's the same Fae I accidentally gave away my attention to.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Huh TIL... That's actually kinda funny to me since the tail end of my time working retail happens to be when I first started developing gynecomastia. I'm nonbinary so it never bothered me but I found out shortly after when my doctor was trying to figure out another issue that I've got really low T levels so it's funny to me that there's technically a remote possibility that working retail caused that whole thing.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

Like, get enough people signing up or youre fired push.

I used to work at a place that was like this with their loyalty card subscription. The worst part was that only US residents were eligible for it but the last location I worked at was right next to the Canadian border so we got a ton of Canadian customers. Management however would still count all of those as missed sales even though we literally couldn't sign them up for it. Too high a ratio of missed sales and you started losing hours up to them letting you go.

Not only that but if you started recognizing Canadian bank cards and didn't still try to sell them on the membership that they couldn't sign up for you'd get in trouble for that too. So we were forced to be super aggressive with it on those we could sell to if we didn't want to get in trouble for poor performance. Was totally not worth minimum wage with no commission. I was so glad to finally quit that job.

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