DagwoodIII

I have tremendous respect for Raquel Welch’s son

When he was 10 years old his mom was the biggest sex symbol on the planet.

He managed to live a quasi-normal life and wasn’t crucified once.

imho using any political label is a giant waste of time.

When I see folks arguing over whether someone is a ‘democratic socialist’ or a ‘Left Liberal’ I just want to shake my head.

Look at the famous 1956 GOP Convention political platform. None of those people would have called themselves ‘social democrats’ but that’s pretty much what they wanted.

I’m a pragmatist who votes for whichever major candidate seems to be best. I don’t vote for Third Parties anymore because the Third Party never seems to draw votes from the GOP.

I see what you’re saying.

On the other hand, that’s more about corruption than it is about actually solving the problem.

Where do you get the 75% useless?

What is a specific situation you’ve seen where it didn’t work?

Serious, not trying to start trouble.

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The only time I heard the phrase ‘shadow’ used that way was on the show ‘Silo’ based on the book ‘Wool.’ Hugh Howey author

I honestly think most of them would rather ‘win’ an internet debate than get a real world win in an election.

You do understand how elections work, right? The voting booth only cares about how many votes get cast.

Maybe instead of reading theory, you should study how politics works in the real world.

Look up Jerry Falwell.

He was a televangelist with an extensive mailing list. His plan was simple. Local GOP clubs decide who is going to take job. Things like county clerks and sheriffs. Falwell would flood every meeting with his people. If there were twenty folks at the last meeting, Falwell’s Moral Majority would show up with fifty. It didn’t take long for the grassroots campaign to sway the higher ups in the GOP.

Look at Leftists who have actually won elections in the US. Neither AOC or Mamdani spent a lot of time talking about Marx, they talked about saving consumers money and making their lives better.

And if you need a good example of action over theory look at the transportation network. How many bus drivers or train operators can repair their machines? Not many. Or food service. Think a lot of cooks understand the chemistry of baking? An ambulance technician doesn’t need to know advanced cardiology to do CPR.

Finally, if you plan on playing the ‘Democrats are bad’ card, think on this.

Back in the day, Frederick Douglas supported Abe Lincoln over a candidate who was 100% opposed to slavery. Lincoln was fine with the south keeping their slaves id it meant keeping the Union.

Douglas did a cold-blooded assessment and decided that it was better to help Lincoln win and be able to get close to him later, than it would be to lose and not have a chance to make a difference.

If you enjoy doing it, it’s not “work.”

I don’t want to get into a long argument over definitions of terms.

We can agree that effort is required, but effort can be done joyously.

You couldn’t pay anyone to match the efforts Olympic athletes, who happily do the work

I beg to differ.

A good teacher finds a way to excite the student and stir their imagination.

I’ve learned plenty of things because I associated it with something I enjoyed.

Unpopular opinion.

Studying Marx is a waste of time.

Focus on real world politics and what can be done right now.

An hour spent reading a book is an hour that could have been spent putting up posters for a candidate.

You aren’t going to get a revolution any time soon, but the next election is coming up fast.

https://www.actblue.com/

Foul liar!

When you were growing up phone jacks were the ultimate in high technology.

My personal take.

I’ve never met anyone who remembered teething pain. I believe that after we die we translate into a state where all the suffering we’ve seen on this level is meaningless.

I have no conception of what a higher power would look like.

I knew about Jack, but didn’t realize he had standards…

https://youtu.be/U-UYK4nahoo

For no particular reason

A space launch and ICE not being funded?

It’s like we have a functional government.

/s

Reminds me of another joke.

Edgar Allan Poe, the famously morbid and twisted writer, runs into an old friend. Edgar tells him that he’s just had the best day. He finished two poems and sold them both. He went to the tavern and won three games of chess in a row. And on the way home he found a $20.00 gold piece on the ground.

“Fantastic news, Poe. Sounds like the kind of day that makes you feel glad to be alive!”

“Meh.”

Here’s my take.

Trump was in bed with the Mafia since dad gave him that small $1 million loan to get started.

But the real top bosses took one look at Donnie and fobbed him off on the second stringers. The top guys get the money, and the mooks hold Donnie’s hand and show him where to sign.

So, Donnie learned from really dumb crooks. A smart crook would have kept all three casinos going, made legitimate profits and done ten times as much business laundering money.

Donnie thought he was a genius doing a bust out* that made him less money, but looked cool.

*Bust out. A legitimate business gets taken over by the mob. Starts ordering all kinds of high end merchandise. Don’t pay for anything and sell the stuff cheap to other crooks. Eventually the legit business goes bankrupt, but the crew doesn’t care.

Gee, I’m sorry I hurt your feelings.

Let me ask you this.

What do you know about building roads? Running schools? Setting up a lab to do cancer research? Keeping a navy afloat?

It’s really too bad you don’t own some sort of device that connects to the internet.

Or maybe you can’t figure out how to get past the controls Mommy put on it.

If your mother doesn’t want to checking out escorts, I’ll acede to her aurthority over you