Everything you’re describing here is pretty much the exact opposite of reality. There’s no question that we deserve better candidates; that’s not even remotely the point. The point is that once you get to the binary choice of Trump vs Harris, there isn’t even a doubt which one to choose. Only a traitor who belongs in prison would refuse to vote for Harris in a swing state. Everything is else is irrelevant.

I know it may be difficult to imagine, but if people call a screwdriver a hammer, that’s what it becomes. Language evolves and it’s biological. It’s really bizarre that y’all struggle with this so much.

I’m sorry you don’t understand language but I can’t both explain it to you and make you think correctly. You have to do the second part on your own. I do believe you can get there though.

It’s not a defense. It’s an observation.

That’s the literal opposite of what I believe.

This is exactly right. I frequently call these extremists right wingers because that’s basically what their attitudes amount to. They are right: liberalism leads to fascism. Capitalism is obviously a problem that needs abolishing. These are all things socialists believe because we’re socialists.

The problem is that harm reduction is no small thing. It’s not avoiding a scrape on the knee or having a pool instead of a hose. We’re talking about real human beings who are suffering, to paraphrase Chomsky. How privileged do you need to be to think it’s hardcore communists or nothing?

Tomatoes are fun guys indeed.

I can’t stand this faux leftist bullshit. There’s a reason why I call this right wing nonsense: it impedes the improvement of people’s material lives. We don’t have to like the Democrats in order to reject this absolute nonsense.

As I said, that is not correct. Language is how people use it, and people use the term acronym to describe all of these things. This is not a technical discussion.

Exactly. We need to fix the entrenchment, and we can fix this stupid two party system.

Bernie created capitalism, he can destroy it. He chooses not to!

I’ve only ever seen a few episodes but I don’t know how accurate this is at all.

Only for the parts that don’t help rich people.

Sorry, that’s not correct. Acronym is the word we use for both when it forms a word and for an initialism. They are all acronyms. Perhaps next you’ll tell me that decimate means reduce by ten percent?

They are both acronyms.

Exactly! It’s similar to that kind of thing.

I don’t know what that emoji means, sorry. Have you never encountered this before? Acronyms sometimes transition into their own words that are divorced from the original meaning.

ATM originally meant automated teller machine, but after it took on its own separate word identity, people started adding in machine. It’s weird If you know the original acronym, but it’s a natural phenomenon.

People sometimes say SMH like this for emphasis. Another one I’ve seen is “SMHing my SMH”. It’s not meant to be literal. It’s similar to when an acronym becomes its own word, like ATM machine.

I guess we’ll have to make our own memes that are similar but convey the proper message about capitalism and institutional responsibility.

I would say both. Multifaceted approach. If there’s a legitimate use case for private jets, maybe they could be allowed once we’ve transitioned to clean energy.