How dare anyone stand against the status quo, am I right?

This is all very true, and I agree completely. But you’ve overlooked two very important factors that I can think of:

1. Many people attending these meetings do not have the authority to cancel them, and the people who do have the authority may not be receptive to this argument.
2. Some people will benefit from assisted notetaking even if the meeting was worthy of the time.

I’m neurodivergent and when I’m writing notes my brain shuts off audio processing. I literally can’t take notes without missing more of the meeting than I’m writing down. And unfortunately most people above me in the hierarchy can’t fathom writing a message instead of speaking for an hour.

Reminder that you can also do this if your rep voted against tabling to express support for what they’re doing and they they’re representing you well.

Millions do not accept this leadership and are actively protesting, but I guess fuck all of us?

That’s so very Christian. Oh yes, this nice young kid who gleefully responded to let you sit next to him just isn’t interested in your religion and respectfully declined your unwarranted solicitation. That means he’s a sinner and you have to actively self-regulate not to hate him?

That’s awesome, I love how excited cats are about their favorite routines. Does she ever go sit there and look at you like she’s asking for something to sniff?

What a warm, loving thing to do for your companion. He got to keep some normalcy with the added comfort of being held by his person. Thank you for sharing, that made me happy.

Definitely, my cats love to sniff all of my cooked meals. I’ll bring it to them if they’re lounging to pay the sniff tax!

I normally set the grocery bags down when I get home and let them investigate before I put stuff away.

That’s good enrichment right there! Cats love to investigate new and interesting smells within their territory.

Might want to tone down the bigotry there. Criticize the government and the individuals running it, criticize the citizens that are supporting this genocide. Don’t make it about the ethnic group.

There are literally four currently alive (and stragglers from past generations) that lived through the same 3 events. And in my very strong opinion, Gen Z was not hit the hardest of the current generations.

Yeah, I agree. This article paints a bit of a different picture than the initial ones. Idgaf what dispute two of my neighbors are having with each other, if one of them is drumming and loudly singing late at night I’m calling in a noise complaint, god damn.

I’ll tell you what I’m not doing though:

1. Arson
2. Psychological torment leaving a pet skull in a burned home
3. Murder

Whoever killed Joss is fucked up, even if 1 and 2 aren’t actually true (barbecue inside…???). Regardless of how much of an ass Joss might have been as a neighbor.

As a matter of fact, don’t let nothin’ hold you back. If the Scat Man can do it, brother, so can you!

The effort you put into this is so impressive! What a lovely post to read.

Never underestimate stupidity. Though I do think it’s at least not normally people trying to connect two strands that are themselves already live. It’s normally people who are connecting several strands together and started at the end not plugged in with the male end poking out, not realizing that this means when they’re done stringing and go to plug in they’ve got the female end and no way to plug it in.

Left facing the daunting task of completely undoing all the work they just did, they try to look for something to bridge the gap without thinking through to the danger.

I appreciate a good “um actually” but this really is about Christmas lights. People really are stupid enough for this to be something posted specifically around December.

As far as I can tell from a reverse image search this is the original. (Not linking to the other place, DM me if you want the link for some reason).

I’m gonna guess winter, hanging Christmas lights. People string up their lights and then realize far too late that they put two strands with female ends facing each other and instead of restringing they look for a male-to-male cord to bridge the gap.

A little live wire shouldn’t stand in the way of holiday cheer, after all.

I quite agree with what you’re talking about with local elections.

But you’ve misinterpreted what I’m mad about. I’m not mad that they don’t support progressives. I’m mad that the Democratic Party (the DNC, not your local party chairs) spends more time and effort demonizing and sidelining progressives than learning to work with us. That has effects all the way down to local primary elections where voters who have been fed anti-progressive propaganda are voting against progressive candidates.

What I’m mad about is not the lack of support, I’m mad about the absolutely ridiculous hypocrisy of a party clearly working against progressives at every turn and then blaming us when they don’t get their way.

As a side note, I’m also mad that the progressive movement has a lot of real shitty candidates in local elections. Many of them are clearly just absolute weirdos who shouldn’t be anywhere near an elected office. But a small movement isn’t going to have the reach everywhere. My House rep is progressive, and I get to watch as the person that represents me gets hamstrung by their own party time after time after time. And then the very same Party blames us for Donald Trump. It’s absolutely infuriating.

I am left of the Democrats, and do not feel represented by what they do (regardless of what they say). I vote in Democratic primaries to try to move the party left. I vote D in the general. But you continue to dismiss what I’m saying. You seem to agree that the Republicans trained their party to move to the right but act like it’s some crazy idea that the Democrats are doing the same thing? The wrong side is winning within the Democratic Party, and we’re all going to lose everything because of it.

I’m not saying they’re a shadowy cabal. They’re very openly anti-progressive, no shadows necessary. They spend so much of primary time shitting on progressives and then complain when progressives don’t want to vote for their neoliberal hacks in the general.

If you’re taking the “progressives are irrelevant” position, please make sure to never blame progressives for the losses of the Democrats. Not even nonvoters. If we’re not important enough to justify catering to, then we’re not important enough to blame. You don’t get to eat our cake and shit in it too.

Gonna continue to call bullshit here. The grassroots movement failing to gather momentum in the face of propaganda at the cost of the nation’s future is not the same as the Democrats blaming a minority for their own failures. Not even a little bit, can you please reflect a little on how absurd that claim is?

You’re also not comparing apples to apples here. First: the Tea Party was an unknown element, there hadn’t been a growing fringe movement like that within a major party for a century. The Democrats had the benefit of seeing that happen on the right. Second, the Republicans were willing to embrace the crazy of the Tea Party for the sake of their continuing victory. Very much in contrast, the Democrats are very clearly willing to sacrifice national victory in order to keep progressives down. Three elections in a row they’ve insisted on running the most centrist candidate possible, resulting two very predictable losses and one surprising victory.

Democrats insist on siding with money and corporations every time, their failures are their own fault, and very much also the fault of their supporters.