You were voting for fascism with either one of these candidates

Harris told pro-Palestinians protesters to let her finish speaking. Trump stripped their degrees and departed then. Dems are problematic in their own neo-liberal way, but they weren’t kidnapping innocent people and shipping them off to Salvadorian death camps. We can criticize the Dems without equating them the other, much worse major party.

You can’t even make a defense for the Dems here other than “they’re not Republicans,” so maybe you should point that anger toward the very people running the party

Again, I don’t know where you get the idea that it’s difficult to do both. I’ve got plenty of anger to go around, and lots of guilty parties that helped get us where we are: the oligarchs themselves, MAGA, non-MAGA that voted R anyway, Congress, SCOTUS, the Biden administration, the DNC, and the abstainers.

Each one deserves their own bespoke ire, delivered in a method suited to reaching them. I point my anger and my words in the same direction. When I’m mad at my senator, I write my senator, and take other actions designed to communicate my disapproval to my senator. This particular space is a hotbed for idealistic, counterproductive leftists. Guess who it’s most protective to criticize here?

Why are you here calling people names instead of directing that anger towards the ones responsible?

We don’t need it. We still like it, but we don’t need it.

Yeah I figured it was a profile for the dog, and the owner just saw him score and come back in a better mood.

Are they? It certainly looks a lot more like they’re just refusing to white knight the people who were bending over backwards to boycott the Dems in the face of actual fascism. That’s not sycophancy, that’s fighting against the “leftists” who poison praxis with vain ideology. A noble contribution to the leftist cause.

why aren’t you holding to task the actual elected representatives from the DNC

Why do you assume they aren’t? It is possible to voice dissatisfaction to the DNC for their failings and also voice dissatisfaction to non-voters for theirs. I don’t know where this idea comes from that a person can only do one political thing ever. It is very possible to do multiple things.

When you see a palmetto bug inside, it’s because it wandered in from outside. When you see a German cockroach inside, it’s because there are thousands of them living in your walls.

I’m really not sure how you’re defining “randomness” then, or how that randomness precludes complexity and interconnectedness.

We expect some points of higher and lower density, not pure uniformity

Which is precisely what we see. I’m not sure where you’re getting the impression that it’s totally random noise, every scientific and mathematical field is based on the universe having consistent, ordered rules of operation.

It seems to be nearly perfectly random

How so?

Totally inaccurate, that guy is wearing a uniform.

I just checked the list of playable races, and yeah they do. Even the plasmoids and the bird ones have hands with thumbs.

I could see dipping warlock for subtle spell, negate the somatic components. You could even be like that one guy from Doctor Strange, no hands at all.

Someone hasn’t watched enough mobster movies.

It seems like the twist is you lose fingers

It’s an old French comic.

However, there is still some part of me that is screaming these positions are important only because of the potential opponents that can take the reigns instead.

This is why both are important. Even if you don’t accomplish much in office, you can keep the greater evil out of office. We need to offset as much systematic evil as possible if we want direct action to be effective. Politicians won’t save us, but some of them will absolutely make things worse.

Does Teleportation have somatic components? Can they make the intricate gestures with a dislocated thumb?

Yes, that was intentional to further color the sentiment.

Cast Iron! That’s not a spell, it’s the kind of pan I’m going to bash your head in with.

Wallet back right, phone back left. When I sit down, I pull it out.

applause with your mouth

Did we forget the word “cheering”?