Ah, I see what you mean now. Sadly, a significant chunk of Americans are all too willing to let a demagogue do the thinking for them.

You assume he’s not intentionally picking his words in order to manipulate his base for his own political benefit.

Because we do not live in a sane timeline

I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn’t notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.

Another idea could be to see if local small businesses would be willing to sell your wares! I’ve seen stuff like handmade earrings and trinkets for sale at the register at small coffee shops in my town, plenty of other businesses also have paintings and photographs by local artists on the walls for sale. I have no insight on those agreements are made but I’d imagine they would ask for a commission.

Walz started the trend and it resonated with and energized the base so much to the point where he surged to the spotlight from relative obscurity in a very short amount of time and ended up getting picked as running mate by the Harris campaign.

But then Harris’s campaign almost immediately pivoted to the classic strategy of, “damn our base, they’re going to vote for us anyway so instead let’s appeal hard to the right”, despite that consistently being a losing strategy over the last decade or so.

So they told Walz to shut up, just stand there and look pretty and cut it out with the “weird” stuff, it’ll alienate voters on the right. Turns out instead they just killed all the momentum growing within their own base while at the same time failing to win the votes of the weirdo cult members wearing ear pads in solidarity with their God king.

You may have already looked into it and I’m not sure what the farmer’s market scene is where you are but I often see small scale makers selling wares at mine!

“Turn your hobby into a business!”, they said. “It’ll be fun!”, they said.

My EV charging app sent me a wrapped-style email the other day. Full of stuff like the station that I used most often. It’s too much.

Not with that attitude!

I’m a white guy and I genuinely love searing mouth pain followed shortly by burning bowel movements and it takes a real effort to convince most restaurants that I can handle the heat.

Because it’s that blaringly fucking obvious

The fundamental argument here is that it’s not the system which incentivizes abusers that is the problem but rather the abusers who exploit the system. Sure, we can have another working class revolution, keep capitalism around and build institutions that keep exploitation in check but given enough time those with capital and the power that it represents will chip away at those institutions, continuing the cycle and harming people in the process.

Yeah well I charge the CBP with being complete and total fuckwits because apparently we can just charge anybody with any old bullshit now. I’ve got a feeling my charges have a better shot at sticking.

This doesn’t bother me. It would bother me if 220 * 2 = 540. The equation in this meme should be something like 11 * 11 ≠ 111

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Six pack is back.

Dayum, good for you!

Nobel should award Obama the inaugural Nobel World Cup. Trump would absolutely lose his shit.

Ackshully, it’s racist against white people to celebrate holidays dedicated to black people!

/s

Bees. So long as I stay on their good side they’re chill and they’ll protect me from the other options that want to eat me.

I almost couldn’t bring myself to upvote this one… Well done.