I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.

Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.

Yeah. Using “women” as an adjective may be more socially acceptable than using “female” as a noun, but it really shouldn’t be.

I worked as a volunteer and then paid staffer on Democratic campaigns for a decade. I know good and well the kinds of dirty tricks the party can and does use to ensure the “right” candidate wins a primary. The fact that you don’t want to understand the argument doesn’t invalidate the argument. The Democratic Party exists to give the left flank enough faith in the system to keep them from revolting, they serve no other purpose.

Blue MAGA is a perfectly apt term for the people who put party loyalty above critical thinking. The people who decry Trump’s immigration policy but happily voted for Kamala when she ran on an identical policy. The people who don’t believe that there were kids in cages at the border before and after Trump’s first term bcs that would require accepting that Obama and Biden weren’t much better than Trump. The kinds of people that believe Trump mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and refuse to accept the twin facts that decades of bipartisan neoliberalism made someone like Trump inevitable, and that Hillary Clinton’s campaign allies deliberately pushed their tame media talking heads to normalize Trump, ensuring that the slide to fascism would start in 2016, when it could have been delayed another 10-15 years. The kinds of people who’ll scold people with principles for not voting against those principles rather than blame their party for running a candidate that principled voters could not accept.

When someone loses a race, they shouldn’t look at the comprehensive post mortem of the campaign and decide that since the things it says aren’t acceptable to the donors they’ll ignore it and keep punching left. But they did, and it doesn’t seem to have dampened the enthusiasm of Blue MAGA in the slightest.

You could have just said you don’t understand the difference between defending a socialist revolution and capitalist wars of Imperialism. The demonstration wasn’t necessary.

Pray you never have to find out

A vasectomy, mostly. I did try to get into some studies for things like IVD, but that never materialized either.

I was shocked at how easy it was when I got to the NW and just…walked into a Planned Parenthood and scheduled the appointment.

Florida in the late 90s/early 00s was very “unreal”, but it’s gotten worse every time I’ve gone back to visit.

I blame the party for offering them inducements to quit and making it know they’d ratfuck anyone who didn’t go along with the plan.

But mostly I blame Blue MAGA cultists who’ve kept their eyes squeezed tight shut any time their party is just as bad as the other one and every time the party has played dirty tricks to keep its donors happy at the expense of its voters. Because y’all are the ones letting them get away with it and continuing to reward the behavior with your vote.

In 2024? I doubt it.

In 2020? Sure, now see the rest of that sentence about the party not cheating to annoint a donor friendly genocide enthusiast.

Or so you think it’s totally normal that 4 people quit the night before Super Tuesday, moving Biden from 6th to first? Or that Warren held on long past the point where she had no chance to ensure the anti establishment vote got split? Certainly the late night phone calls Obama made to every establishment candidate polling ahead of Biden were a coincidence. And the Dem leadership adjacent members who’ve said on the record that Biden was chosen to stop Bernie and not Trump, that’s just regular party squabbles, right?

Do you really think the DNC has run a fair and free primary in the last 10 years?

They’re anything bus serious, but that does appear to be what they’re suggesting, yes. Typical pronatalist nonsense.

As a man who’s been very sure he wanted to remain childfeee since his teens: most surgeons won’t sterilize men on request either. I was told several times to come back after I was married with at least three kids. Had to move to the literal opposite corner of the country to a place where Planned Parenthood isn’t under constant assault to get a vasectomy after decades of chasing one.

Yeah, equating calls to end Zionism/Israel with genocide/Antisemitism is absolutely Zionism, and banning isn’t nearly enough, but it’s all you can do to someone online.

Fuck Israel and any genocide enjoyers that defend it.

Yeah I guess having an actual primary where the party doesn’t just cheat to annoint a donor friendly genocide enthusiast would look too much like democracy for the Democratic party to ever tolerate.

Fascism is capitalism in decay. The internal contradictions of capitalism become too much and it starts to collapse in in itself. To prevent this, it begins using the techniques of control perfected in its colonies to maintain control in the imperial core, that’s what you’re seeing now

The only way to stop it, and the only way to prevent it from getting much, much worse is to end capitalism and overthrow the capitalist government that is ready, willing, and happy to shift into fascism mode as soon as the line stops going up

In the year 2026 where being a straight dude approaching people at the park will get you labelled a predator.

This is way more due to technology than the economy. It doesn’t cost money to have friends yet there’s a loneliness epidemic

Where have you been going to meet people that doesn’t cost money?

Bro OSS runs the fucking world

Yes, I’m well aware.

OSS office productivity tools still suck out loud, and the OSS nerds should stick to making widgets that make networking work better and keep their noses out of a domain they clearly don’t understand. Because open source office and graphic design software sucks out loud, and always has.

Get snooty with people who want to criticize OSS compilers, networking, and development tools all you want. But don’t try to push GIMP as an equivalent to Photoshop or the ridiculous Open Office suite as being in the same class as Microsoft. Don’t get me wrong - I wish to fuck there were a worthwhile alternative, but the industry standards are industry standards for a reason, and the people who make OSS don’t spend enough time working as an admin grunt to have the faintest clue why their “alternatives” aren’t worth the time it takes to install them and then uninstall them when it takes 20 minutes to create a document template.

Because if you ask a forced birther to be ideologically consistent they will shit themselves and start screaming until you apologize for ever questioning the righteousness of their imaginary friend.

Nah, you’re just delusional that your toy hammer is a good hammer.

The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.

I never said that was true. But I’ve sat through enough budget meetings to know for certain that if Open Office were even “good enough”, let alone “as good” it would be the corporate standard, because everyone hates paying for Office.

But it isn’t, for all the reasons I listed before.

They also differ in the sense that you have to completely relearn how to do everything you’ve been doing your whole career and usually in a way that is more complicated and less efficient.

It’s not missing components, it’s the fact that the most commonly used components are clunkier, less user friendly, and feel like an afterthought tacked on after someone made the software to prove they could.witbout ever talking to anyone who uses the software to do their job. If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.