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Cake day: August 22nd, 2025

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  • A 2am xhitter tweet by a demented president doesn’t actually change their orders. Even a signed executive order signed by the president doesn’t do anything if it’s general. Specific instructions need to be formalized and implemented and the morons in the WH aren’t so good at that - it will take time, and if the try to back date policy they will likely be sued. Meanwhile, companies are shifting product to US warehouses quickly right now. And of course they won’t lower prices to consumers because why would they, especially since the orange moron has said he will add tariffs back as soon as he can.







  • It’s not just kids doing the shooting. It’s to do with deteriorating mental health, poor social connectedness, availability of guns, and more media reporting.
    Well the shooter drills might help. Did you know that when the j6 rioters stormed the capital buildings, the interns immediately got people to go into offices; shut, lock and barricade doors, turn off lights and hide out of sight of any windows or doors. They did this because they’d got the practice in school.


  • Mmm dead bugs and kid piss soup. Actually I think most drownings are in private pools that aren’t really like that. But I don’t think anyone cares about guns kept at the range. It’s the general availability that means the mentally unhealthy can easily get them and that leads to problems. And it’s not the just the numbers of kids killed at schools, it’s the knowledge that this happens regularly, the live shooter drills they all have to experience. It’s traumatizing for a lot of kids.




  • The failure was of Americans to not stop trump. The democrats wouldn’t be as bad a the republicans, so it was pure dumbfuckery to not vote for them. Why didn’t Kamala appeal to every one of your wants? Sure it’s part because of donors; but also because any issue has potential voters on both sides. There was no selection of issue stances that would have garnered enough votes if people only voted if they agreed with all of them. And clearly enough Americans were (and apparently still are) unable to see the logic of voting for the better candidate even if not perfect.









  • Oh, I know. But it’s hard to be a pro-Palestine figurehead and also show a sane moderate peaceful approach and still maintain enough support. It’s not that there aren’t lots of people who would want a fair peaceful outcome in the Middle East, it’s just that it’s not something that Americans get excited over. Mostly only those with more extreme views make it a voting issue. Hopefully there’s enough attention to the genocide that it will get some traction in the midterms. But I think an ‘anti-genocide in Isreal’ stance has a lot better chance that some ‘pro-Palestine’ stance that can be interpreted as wanting more violence, just the other way.