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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • As the Senate Democratic caucus met privately on Thursday to discuss the party’s approach to the ongoing government shutdown following key electoral victories earlier this week, progressives sent a message to any centrists thinking of breaking ranks: “You cave, you lose.”

    Those were the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has vocally warned Democrats against abandoning their push for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies as a necessary condition for any deal with the GOP to end the shutdown—now the longest in US history.

    Always cutting progressive names outta headlines…



  • Yes, everyone should take it as a reminder not to listen to people on social media with no idea what they’re talking about.

    Because obviously the people spreading dangerous information will insist “just a joke bro”.

    Even if you’re not lying now, you’re gonna keep doing it. You’re going to get someone hurt and seriously fuck up their lives from behind your keyboard. Like, either youre naive enough to think /s isn’t needed, or you just don’t give a fuck that some people will invariably not “get the joke”.

    Lots of right wingers are going to be springing up on similarly fresh accounts doing the same thing intentionally for nefarious reasons.

    Maybe you’ll stop, but I doubt it. Some people just don’t have empathyenough for others to put a second thought into the consequences of their actions or even words.







  • The problem is instead of finding better ways to stop it (regulations) you’re looking for “productive” ways to use it…

    Apparently because you’ve pre-emptively given up.

    But if you succeed it would lead to more AI and more damage to our planet.

    I fully understand you believe you have good intentions, I’m just struggling to find a way to explain to you that intentions don’t matter. And I don’t think I’m going to come up with a way you’ll beavle to understand.

    It’s like if someone was stuck in a hole in the ground, and instead of wanting to climb out, you yank everyone else back into the hole when they try and keep trying to get them to help you redecorate the hole.

    I truly hope someone can present that in a way that gets through to you, because you are doing real damage.