It is indeed

As long as you don’t delve into Deaniel/Castean…

Don’t even get me STARTED on the state of my bookmarks 😄

In my case, ADHD, curiosity, and anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later.

I never said it was RATIONAL behavior 😄

I blame my ADHD and anxiety 🤷

I’m pretty much the opposite: my ADHD is generally only mild to moderate in severity, but I’m EXTREMELY distractible and curious by nature (leading to opening tons of tabs relating to everything and nothing) and get irrational anxiety about needing whatever’s in a tab later and not being able to find it again.

Of the 102 tabs, 79 were inactive ones I had long since moved on from 😄

I’m actually an elder millennial, but I guess I can hold off on any further investment until you get your Classified Fowl Arbitration cert reinstated 🤷

They’re not permanent residents, though, are they?

Even if they are, I highly doubt that they’re running a successful import/export business in their spare time…

Barring a mass sell-off of stock from Feathers McGraw

😘👌😄

Instructions unclear, invested life savings in pumpkin spice latte and avocado toast stocks

For today’s lucky 10,000 here’s the video you referenced: Jesus Christ in Richmond Park

SQUIRREL!

Three Dog, giving the dogs a pep talk:

Now what if I, the all powerful Three Dog, bow-wow-wow, were to tell you that somewhere right here in the Capital Wasteland central Chile* is a place with lots of trees?

Dogs: barking excitedly while running in place with almost dangerously waggy tails in anticipation

*that’s where they did it

Thanks, so do you 😁

Was one or both of your parents very appreciative of the Brontë sisters, by chance? 😁

Your argument is putting all the blame on the Dems

No. YOU’RE arguing for putting NONE of the blame on the Dems, I’m merely pointing out that they SHARE in the blame due to their ineptitude and/or intransigence.

The fascist GOP obviously bear the vast majority of the blame for their own actions, but that doesn’t mean that the people tasked with keeping them from being able to are blameless.

a lot of people (roughly 36%) did not vote

Mostly due to voter suppression (mostly by Republicans in recent decades) and the fact that the Dem campaign alienated and ignored their base.

With voting presenting significant difficulty for tens of millions of people, you HAVE to do better than “slightly better than the least bad fascists” to drive turnout, ESPECIALLY in a time where incumbency us a disadvantage and your incumbent BARELY scraped a victory in the last election.

you need the Dems to be so dam perfect

Nope, that’s a strawman copout. I personally always vote and recommend to others to do so, but I can understand how people who have a much less easy process to undergo than me might need the BAREST sign of faithful representation or even respect as motivation.

can’t seem to hold the republicans/conservatives to that same standard

Another strawman. I hold Republicans to the same standards as anyone else, but I argue with them directly less often because they, unlike most Democrats, are simply incapable of considering any of my arguments in good faith.

You’re looking a little Republican around the edges yourself in that regard right now…

it’s always the Dems fault for not getting through or their messaging.

That’s LITERALLY their job. And the fact that the alternative is so awful makes it all the more egregious how adept they are at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I think The voters are the ones that need to wake the fuck up for even allowing this to happen

Yes, the VOTERS are the ones that made sure that federal level politicians of both parties have increasingly represented rich people and their corporations to a much higher decree than the population in general in recent decades.

You’re blaming the victims for not falling in line to support not being listened to.

stop blaming other for them not paying attention to what was actually being said.

This is pure projection. The ones not paying attention are the party leadership insisting on sticking to the 1992 playbook no matter how much the base implores them not to, as well as apologists like you insisting that wanting to be heard at all is the same thing as demanding perfection.

No this fall squarely in the voters and the none voters in my opinion.

“If”? When 😮‍💨

I mean, at that point you might as well just cook them🤷

I am leaning towards them doing this regardless of what the Democrats did.

Again, they couldn’t have if they hadn’t come to power as a result of Dem leadership throwing away the most winnable election in modern history by insisting on their usual 1992 playbook.

And yeah, even fascists need the Overton Window to shift ever rightwards for a long time in order to amass the popularity needed. Dem leadership were complicit in that through the ratchet effect and generally working for the owner donors more than for the voters.

Dem leadership with their “bipartisanship, flowery speeches, and not upsetting the wealthy donors too much is more important than substance” approach have been gradually and consistently ceding ground to right wing demagoguery with no basis in factual reality since 1980 at the latest.

It’s never Lupus. Except that one time where it was.