https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

It resulted in the liberation and elevation of an entire segment of society from the darkness of repression.

I mean. They weren’t even ready for Ukraine and they started it. Twice.

I should do a kickstarter for a wifi connected butt plug that starts vibrating anytime a major AI providers system goes offline.

I think the point of the words inclusion is that you might have a very different perspective of the implications and effectiveness of voting when the state doesn’t explicitly cater to your identity as the default.

No you gotta do it harder.

-idk blue maga probably

Its lump.

I mean a conservative project to do exactly this is what transformed the Cheney era neocons into the modern day fascist party we see. So at least in principle that’s possible. but clearly the neocons were more than happy to go along with fascism. Fascism and conservativism have effectively the same goals.

The neoliberals who faced the same kind of insurrection from within their party at the same time were unwilling to adopt progressivism and are still unwilling to adopt progressivism. The right was able to change their party into a fascist one, the left has failed to move the demo party into being a progressive party

I think we’re showing mixed results on your third bullet. It did seem that way, for a while, as we pushed on social issues. And when it came time to get on with the economic issues, the core management team of the party rallied, and rather than adopt the left flank to win, steps right to hand control to Republicans.

And it’s happened more than once now, to obvious and clear effect: the goal of the Democratic party isn’t to win elections, it’s to keep the country idealogically aligned with a neoliberal ruling class. And if that means handing control of government to Republicans, they’ll do so, then blame the left (even though it’s them moving to the right losing elections).

To the fourth bullet, no, it’s not clear that within the machinations of the party infrastructure it can be overcome. Because if not now, when? Party leadership has never been weaker or more vulnerable nor the times more desperate. Democrats as a party poll worse than Trump, yet progressives can win elections with both the entire Republican and Democratic apparatus gunning to take them down. yet somehow we can’t replace Schumer’s or Jefferies.

Skipping to the 6th point, again, that isn’t actually borne out by the evidence. It’s not something well know in advance and only as an artifact of history. What’s been extremely clearly is that so far, voting has been wildly insufficient to make the kinds of structural changes necessary. Obama is the classic example of this. He runs on healthcare, holding wallstreet accountable, and ending the wars; he delivers corporate “access”, bails out the banks, and continues the wars. The voters did their job and the system didn’t work.

So a relentless optimism that the system will just work as intended doesn’t seem warranted, and it’s clearly not going in a good direction.

Until we recognize that the Democratic party, it at least it’s current and historical structure is at the core of the problem with why we can’t advance political change, its pretty clear that this decent into autocracy, fascism, and a degraded quality of life is inevitable. The Democratic party isn’t just part of the problem: it’s the core element of the problem.

Pollen is the balls! We’re inhaling plant balls

Not even that… really. Your balls or ova are still “yours” as in your genetic material.

So we have gametes, unicellular haploid phases. But plants have gametophytes, and evolved from the gametophytic phase being the “dominant plant body” stage.

So… in analogy, in plant evolutionary history, the “big obvious plant part” literally was the sperm, and still is in bryophytes, chlorphytes, and some rhodophytes. So mosses are still this way. The big flip happened when vascular plants branched off, with the development of tracheids and plasmodesma.

So its more like… if we’re going to do metaphor imagine each “sperm” or egg being the big multicellular part we would all recognize as the “plant” and the tiny, microscopic bit, being the diploid part, would be us. So like, if there were an equivalent, it would be like if when you cum, the eggs or sperm grow up into their whole totally different looking person, which we might call a ‘cum gremlin’. This ‘cum gremlin’ then finds another ‘cum gremlin’ to have sex with. Then these cum gremlins get together to have one of you, but you are like a tiny version of yourself.

why man?

My personal #1. Got to meet Le Guin at a play in Portland.

Also, the colonists from the view of the oppressor are “free on paper only” from their view.

When you trying to explain how seeds aren’t analogs of eggs, and how pollen isn’t even analog of sperm

I was gonna write my final report, but then I got high…

The internet is method acting and some of us are in too deep to come out

Seems reasonable

Eat a few figs and a square of dark chocolate with that first cup. Also, make sure your bathroom has a grab bar.

Like with “generations” perhaps cougar is more a behavior and state of mind than a demographic. For example if you are getting blond highlights and brunette streaks on a one sided Karen cut, while sporting a whale tail and listening to Brittany Spears… so what if you are 29?

Suck my ear