I never said the public was smart, just at least a little bit observant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When the status quo sucks, any chance at improvement—even a dubious one—starts to look good. That’s why it was so fucking essential for the Democrats to pivot left economically, not (just) socially! But they abjectly refused, because in their heart of hearts neoliberals are aligned with the capitalist owner class and thus would rather have a fascist dictatorship than a socialist democracy.
having said that, I have seen more life in the traditional conservative republican of late ( @[email protected] is an example) - even a momentary recognition of ideological failure on their part and a willingness to align with more progressive ideas. I have massive differences with so many conservative viewpoints, but they are not maga, have been thoughtful in their approach and, right now, I will take any productive and functional alliance I can get.
Just for the record, all those sorts of folks are actually classical liberals who are confused about labels/have fallen for the conservatives’ whitewashing of their ideology. Conservatism has always been about hierarchy and autocracy, which makes Trump the truest conservative the US has ever seen.
Honestly, I suspect they’ve been trying trying their hardest to rig the last several elections, which is why they were so pissed off and in denial about 2020: they were incredulous that they rigged it and still managed to lose anyway.
But yeah, we’ve been having exit poll discrepancies, Republican success strangely correlating with the installation of Diebold voting machines with no paper ballot, outsized performance for certain Republican candidates even though Democrats won down-ballot races, and other weird anomalies for couple of decades now.
That said, I don’t necessarily think that Republican rigging changed the 2024 outcome. I was watching them insert MAGAts into election boards, pack the courts, and gear up to refuse to certify votes and whatnot, so I was fully expecting “stop the steal 2.0” except successful this time. But then Harris gave a big middle finger to the left and subsequently underperformed so badly that she just lost outright, so the foul play wasn’t even necessary.
Almost all the recovery went to the owner class, and you’re fucking blaming the working class for noticing. Quit your bullshit.
Classico jars are awesome until they changed the tread pattern so we can’t use the new ones with mason style lids.
Yeah, I remember when that happened a few years back. Enough people (including me) complained that they pretty quickly changed it back. 😁
(I only buy the extra-large 32oz jars from Costco these days, so I sure hope they didn’t fuck it up again for the regular grocery-store 24oz size!)
This timeline is way, way worse than the Bell Riots.
First of all, Sanctuary Districts in US cities weren’t nearly as bad as supermax prisons in foreign countries.
Second, at least they actually rioted. We’re still failing to do so, for some reason.
The conservative value he’s embodying is authoritarianism. That’s it; that’s what conservatism has always been ever since Burke and DeMaistre, who were literally monarchists, invented the concept.
I’m sorry that you got sold a lie, but what you thought conservatism was was never correct.
I get the impression that Weck or Le Parfait “glass lid with rubber gasket and metal bail” European-style canning jars are an inherently higher-cost design than Mason-style “two-piece metal lid” ones. At least in terms of up-front costs, anyway, since those jars are completely reusable whereas with mason jars you have to keep buying new lids every time.
I’ve never seen canning jars of any kind at IKEA, either in-store in the US or in their international catalog online. They have lots of jars for random storage, but none for canning.
Because jars that commercial food comes in are cost-optimized to the point that they’re too fragile to reliably reuse for canning. (That’s why, for example, the Classico pasta sauce manufacturer says not to reuse those jars, even though they appear to be normal Mason-style continuous-thread jars.)
Also, they usually use lug-style lids that a home canner can’t easily deal with. Canning isn’t just “put food in jars,” you know. It’s about creating an airtight seal in a sterile environment so that the food can be stored long-term without refrigeration. There are actual steps you have to follow to do it right.
They’re absolutely checked out and ignorant. They have no idea what either’s policies actually were and they aren’t even paying enough attention to get brainwashed into MAGA, so they just hedge by blaming both.
Those are the vast majority of non-voters who sleepwalked us into fascism, BTW. The Gaza protest types the neolibs keep trying to scapegoat, although indeed idiots who cut off their noses to spite their face, were way too few to be the real cause of Harris’s loss.
I’m supportive of a strike, but asking me to sign up with my personal information just sounds too much like a honeypot for dissidents to me. Or even if that isn’t what it is now, it would be real easy for the regime to send some goons to capture that data.
Book burnings are so analog. Nowadays we can destroy subversive information at the press of a key.
(And that’s exactly what the Trump regime has been doing, BTW. All that data being deleted at NOAA, NHS, NASA, etc. should be understood as exactly like book burnings because that’s what it is.)
I think they intentionally go out of business before the Feds have a chance to investigate it.
Depends whether Trump has managed to destroy the right to a jury trial by then. If Luigi gets tried by a jury, he walks.
insecurity of tech workers
That’s the part that kinda boggles my mind. You’d think that engineers and hackers would be exactly the types who would be inclined towards DIY. I know I am, and I feel like that’s pretty common among the sorts of people who went into tech because they had a passion for it.
I suspect all these insecure cybertruck owner types are the dudebro assholes who are only in it for the money and are shitty at their job anyway because they don’t care.
Construction companies have large orders delivered, and actual pros shop at actual lumber yards, plumbing supply stores, etc.
“Pro” parking at a big-box home store is for handymen, anybody who needs the building materials from that side of the store, and random DiYers who understand that the alleged restriction isn’t even a real rule to begin with.
“Conservatism” was founded by literal monarchists. Trump represents the truest form of conservatism seen in the US since its founding (exceeding even the Nazis and Confederacy, at this point).
I guess if the Canadian jar is actually different (really 750ml, not a slightly-overfilled 24oz) then the US-market complaints wouldn’t apply. Sorry Canadians apparently didn’t care quite as much.