Everything posted by fuggled
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It’s Time for Organized Resistance
I understand the sentiment, but there's no quick win here and it's never too late to live your values.
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It’s Time for Organized Resistance
Yes, I hear you. Just to be clear, I was specifically suggesting that Texas Democratics should look to take action and make an impact privately, not through legislative/state action. Find ways to do good for people despite state failings.
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The Democratic Party
More of this
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It’s Time for Organized Resistance
I recognize that you're full of shit and not asking any of this in good faith, but I've been thinking for a while that there's something to this. If the Texas Democratic party (as an example) wants to build any type of support, they should focus on winning hearts and minds through practical action that actually improves people's lives. Words and rhetoric aren't going to move the needle. People aren't going to pay attention to abstract concerns about "fascism vs democracy" or finger pointing at Republicans. Instead they should focus on things like: Welfare checks, meals and other support for the elderly and disabled Providing books to kids (better yet, daycare, after school care, summer camp) City beautification efforts Honoring every single veteran in a visible way on Veteran's Day Recruiting and training CASA volunteers and foster parents Sponsoring sports leagues, teams and facilities for kids Providing free sex education resources and contraception These are just a few ideas off the top of my head. Some require a ton of resources. Some invite more controversy and criticism than others. But the point is to put the focus on things that matter to people. Don't try to fight fire with fire. The more the regime takes away, the more the opposition should step up and give away.
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
Were Kimmel's comments more or less horrifying than this?
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
Nothing Kimmel said was incorrect. He never said he thinks the shooter is MAGA. He said that MAGA was tripping over their dicks 5 seconds after the shooting, with no evidence, to point the finger at any other possibility than MAGA. He was 100% correct.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Add Ball State to the list...
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Mainstream media boycott
Democrats getting a spine? Probably too much to hope for. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-68cc022e8f0816a4522bd35a#block-68cc022e8f0816a4522bd35a
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The destruction of America's public education system
I missed this yesterday. Nice to hear some alternate voices. I don't know anything about the Interfaith Alliance. Is this a fairly sane, mainstream group? https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-09-17/interfaith-religious-freedom-schools-summit-texas
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Mainstream media boycott
There might be something to this as the unions are speaking out. https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-trump-abc-cancelled-fcc-free-speech-2131701
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
I had forgotten about his January 6th involvement. I could totally see one of those convicted rioters turning on him. That's as good a guess as any.
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"it's time for hunters to leave the NRA"
Huh, well that's interesting...
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Who's been covid vaxxed? Stand up and be counted.
You assertion that others take a more evidence based approach has no factual basis. You're just making things up. Sweden also doesn't recommend the flu vaccine for most people. They recommend it for those over 65 and for those in risk groups (i.e. underlying conditions). That's it. Whereas the US recommends the flu vaccine for anyone over 6 months of age unless there are contraindications. How do you explain the difference? Is it because the flu vaccine has become a political dogma in the US? Is it because we're wailing and gnashing out teeth? It is because we're ignoring evidence in the US? Give me an explanation and then juxtapose it with COVID. The reality is that we have the same evidence as Sweden and the rest of Europe regarding influenza and the flu vaccine, but we've made different policy decisions based on that evidence. The reasons the US recommends the flu vaccine for everyone and Sweden doesn't vary, but include: It's a simpler policy. If you're targeting young children, the elderly, pregnant women, high risk groups, etc. you're quickly getting to 70%+ of the population. At that point it's simpler to just suggest everyone get vaccinated so you don't have to worry about people parsing the guidance. Access is simpler in the US. When the US adopted this policy, vaccines were available in US pharmacies but that wasn't the case in lots of European countries where you had to visit the doctor to get a vaccine. The access restrictions impacted the European policies. Impact is different in the US. In the US, the vast majority of working adults do not received paid sick leave and will go to work even if they are sick. This is not the case in Sweden and other European countries. This means a virus will spread more easily in the US. So we put our dollars towards vaccines to prevent spread while Sweden puts their dollars towards sick leave. We have different public policy recommendations because we operate in different complex systems of public/private health with different tradeoffs in prevention, access, treatment, etc. It's reductive and misleading to claim one approach is "evidence based" and the other is not. I suspect you know that are attempting to mislead others intentionally.
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Big Bend - Alpine - Marfa - Fort Davis
I had pulled the trigger on lodge rooms for spring break before realizing that the restaurant is closed up there. That's why there's so much availability. They have a food truck for lunch and the convenience store is open, but not restaurant for breakfast/dinner.
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Non-political tariffs thread
- Alina Habba...she was gone, but now she's back
So the suit was brought by criminal defendants asking that their cases be dismissed because Habba is not a legitimate AG. The judge said that neither Habba not anyone under Habba's authority can prosecute these cases, but the cases aren't dismissed. It's not clear if/how this actually leads to Habba being removed.- Alina Habba...she was gone, but now she's back
And....she's gone again....maybe- Texas -- a failed state
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/26/texas-schools-commandments-requirement-lawsuit/- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Cross posting from the Gulag thread for those who don't venture into CR. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has moved to dismiss his case for selective and vindictive prosecution. It seems pretty obvious that this entire prosecution is to punish the guy for asserting his right to due process. https://thehill.com/homenews/5460679-abrego-garcia-pushes-to-toss-criminal-charges-he-says-amounts-to-vindictive-prosecution/- Trump’s El Salvador Gulag
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has moved to dismiss his case for selective and vindictive prosecution. It seems pretty obvious that this entire prosecution is to punish the guy for asserting his right to due process. https://thehill.com/homenews/5460679-abrego-garcia-pushes-to-toss-criminal-charges-he-says-amounts-to-vindictive-prosecution/- The Trump Economy
I thought this was a really interesting read on the data behind the recently claimed spike in job growth among native-born Americans. The gist of it is that this data can't be used to compare years as it was never designed for that purpose. For example, the data shows the US native-born population rose by 3 million people from 2024 to 2025, when typical annual population growth is closer to 500K. The 3 million number obviously isn't really. It's just a byproduct of how the data model is constructed, but it illustrates why it shouldn't be used for trends across years. https://jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-born-employment-has-not- Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
https://www.pets-megastore.com.au/- Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
Man, I went online to restock Simparica Trio (heartworm/flea/tick prevention) and I'm finally fed up with how expensive it's gotten. $800 to get a 12 month supply for 2 dogs from our vet's pharmacy! I pulled the trigger on ordering from Australia. It was $250 (before tariffs) for the exact same thing and I didn't need to provide a prescription.- Trump’s America
You know this is fake, right? The infinity arrow at the end should be a dead giveaway. Apologies if you were posting it as a joke. For example, there are ~300K men ages 18-30 in the US, about 23K in each 1 year band. Going from 40% in 2023 to 50% in 2024 represents a shift of 29K+ men. Maybe you could explain that 1 year shift through a shit ton of born again virgins. Maybe they all realized they were in a hot tub or it was in the butt so that sex doesn't count any more. But my money is on fake.- Trump’s America
His bit is to post stuff he doesn't actually believe in order to get a reaction out of people. What exactly do you think trolling is? - Alina Habba...she was gone, but now she's back
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