Yeah. This is the argument I've been making since the election in 2024

Things like this are why I fucking love alt text!

I agree with what you got here that this take seems wildly optimistic.

It's not a perfect solution. They're shit they don't do GREAT and you lose a lot of fancy extras... but they generally ain't been bad for me.

And they ain't for everyone. But I REALLY do like em. Make sure you bring a quarter for the carts. You'll get it back at the end but you need it to take one

If you live in a place that has Aldis try shopping there.

Even with rising prices it's been like half what I'd spend at other stores.

suddenly that 5 dollar chicken has turned into one to two means when you've eaten that meat and then another week's worth of soup.

Imma keep it real I don't know how reasonable this is for folks because I know how expensive non-frozen veg can be. But if you've got one of those places that sells cheap rotisserie chickens you can get one, eat on it until it's bones and then use it and any excess veg you got to make soup.

It gets easier the more you do it so use that as a starting point. It's never as bad as it is in your head

Being super afraid of phone calls doesn't preclude you from putting one in. If all you can truly manage is "I need to file a complaint about your censorship of legal adult content because it's wrong and it's making me lose faith that you're someone I can continue to use (or something)" that is fine

Again, I asked a local guy running for state office if he believed the GOP were a legitimate political party.

It ain't the nail in the coffin, but the fact he couldn't answer "no, they ain't legitimate" pissed me off.

Right. The next one of these fuckers we elect has to believe these people need to be punished by hook or by crook.

the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were

so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”

Do no harm. Take no shit!

I want that new VRA to have teeth of iron and apply to FAR more states because so many have demonstrated they can't be trusted.

Then, after the GOP are eliminated politically as a national threat, THEN we can get rid of gerrymandering and let the Dems splinter into new parties.

I want areas that voted for Trump to have to marched at gunpoint through the camps like we did to Nazi Germany. I want GOPers tried for treason. I want ICE destroyed. I want all 6 conservatives impeached, removed and replaced. 9-0 liberal court. I want citizen's united eliminated and a new VRA

Cause I don't think on a national scale this is what people want and it's definitely not what I want.

I want accountability and I want these conservative fucking monsters cast down! I want trials. And not soft ones either. I want these fuckers perp walked in chains!

Yep. I got it in one and I still don't like it but that's because I'm not the kind of person this slogan is designed to win over and I can deal with that. I also agree this needs to be more about the safety net than big national outcomes.

... ... I mean, you did just kind of describe a lot of the appeal for submissive folks in kink.