niomi

original writing, more or less. any pronouns, any topic. linktr.ee/demishi

The mantra now for recruiting is “be normal,” which I hate. How do people not feel like Harry fucking Dubois mid breakdown when they say this? How is this not the least normal thing to say? What else are they alluding to, if not the normalcy they are violating by asking for it?

YOU – I've taken responsibility for my actions now. I'm a new man. Weighty and normal. I'm so fucking normal right now.

I am getting cranky.

I would believe socialism seems like it could be is normal in some places. And maybe soon, oh my god, in New York City, socialism seems like it could be normal. For many, they will hope it's an irreversible tide, and get complacent.

And for other important sectors in the democracy game, the demos of democracy, socialism is not normal.

Also, only weird people have the power to control fate. That's literally what weird means.

Unfortunately, we don't just need democratic socialism. We need militant labor. We need a mass movement, and to put aside the rivalries of small differences. We need employed labor to support reserve & reproductive labor.

But atomized labor, who tend to be invisible, no 401k, migrants, reproductive workers, reserve, disabled people, all types of un(der)paid backed into corners, are going quickly by attrition.

Everyone else too, just a bit slower.

As to the political performance... I'm arguably not credible enough, definitely not normal enough. I must probably get weirder for min/max reasons.

you are an American peasant in the 1800s.

you lay railroad tracks, or work in mines. your jobs were never glorious or satisfying, but in your youth you longed romantically to do work that is meaningful and not so tedious. now you only yearn for comfort and safety. jobs get harder, you get more injuries, you can't think anymore, your lungs and your joints and your eyeballs are all busted. you know it's taking a toll. more of your co-workers younger and stronger than you are dying, and you know you're kinda lucky, there's been so much death and turnover your new “coworkers” are slaves imported from overseas.

you cannot work as quickly nor as desperately as them. they distribute drugs to deal with the pain and everyone is being super racist about it. you're weighing the risks of racist stigma vs your need to waste yourself more rapidly for bosses and what these drugs can offer to help you do it. despite pushing yourself as hard as you can with all the desperation you do have, it's not enough. instead of trying the drugs, you get nomadic. new geography, slightly different jobs with slightly better conditions, but they always get worse and you must always move on.

your life is on the road now. you are going west.

you realize you are outrunning something, whatever it is, it's evil. it's invisible, but it causes the bosses to turn greedy, your friends to betray one another, the water and air to smell foul, and then brings disease and desperate strangers from far away lands, cramped conditions and death. and, worst of all, declining compensation for your deadly work. strange new currencies attempt to tie you down and prevent you from running to the slightly better jobs, but it hasn't caught you, not yet. you're bartering your way out when you find your currency is no good, but sometime luck will run out, you won't have the right commodity at the right time to get out and a scrip will trap you with that company until it kills you.

this is now an unmistakable pattern. you know now you're outrunning something following you, and you're getting slower. something that drives all bosses to escalate their waste of human capital. something that is also moving west, not far behind.

what could possibly be coming for you that is making it so hard to earn a living, that has pushed you to camping outside, always following the rumor of an opportunity somewhere else? is there some beast, some curse, some plague? what great spirit could so powerfully foul water and air and turn people selfish and sadistic without itself being seen? you start thinking, you've been had, you've been betrayed, your mind reeling- by who? by this wild goose chase of false opportunities? by all these gossipers? someone is taking advantage, but these leads were given to you by patsies, who also got injured and died in the same pursuit. you cannot blame them, you feel lucky to not be them, lucky to still live and keep running. but you must find out, what has caused this? who is to blame?

of course, the newspapers. everywhere you go, they are soon after opening up a newspaper.

Rumors and opportunity were your guiding stars; however, the newspapers, rife with falsehoods, always follow... you've never paid them much heed. Now you're doubting that disinterest. lies in print don't just vanish into thin air— others devour them whole! and before long, you succumb to their belief, yourself. of course, the newspapers, patsies repeat lies and now you believe it too. It's as if the newspapers are poisoning society with their words, a subtle yet pervasive corruption, fleeing it is now your one and only goal in life.

words carry great spirits of death that cannot be seen. your mind races against this current of thought. paper is poison, skepticism is salvation, drunkenness is preferable to opium. resentment surges: why do kids pour over newspapers instead of exercising their own minds? Those broadsheets have brought ruin upon our houses.

unfortunately, it isn't actually the newspaper you're fleeing. A veritable beast, a malevolent name that SHOULD strike fear into the very core of your being, it's George fucking Hearst. capitalism is the monster.

June 2025

If you live in a red state, try to catch up on your Drs appointments. If you are on the fence, get the screening. Try to get it all done by 2027. May the odds ever be in our favor.

The con result: Still very much a minority, my faction & our block made a big impact, increasing notoriety and power with our strategic positioning and savvy. We are, quite interestingly, considered a center-left block and are expected to be a swing vote. We're also leveraging the support of our youth comrades to expand our base; They play an underappreciated role in advancing our perspectives. Doing our best to prioritize class struggle over NGO-style rules has created inter-org tension, particularly with those who favor more structured, procedural-ist governance.

Personally, I do my best to encourage good faith in our more ultra comrades, (hello everyone, democracy says: I am not ultra) especially of the more anarchistic variety. Although I have made great strides in better connecting to the more USSR apologist type of ultra, as well. Big character development for me.

The fractures within the “center-right” (relatively, so like... Berniecrats, at right-ist) coalition opened up opportunities for us to gain more influence and stronger allies. However, potential general election candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and our mutual distancing could further complicate factional relationships. The major division, rather than left and right entirely, seems to be partyst (increase our independence from, or split, from democrats) and not (stick with democrats, “blue no matter who,” etc).

I am partyst. I have indeed so far been voting and also doing “blue no matter who,” although this can make me unpopular with many socialists who don't. but I am holding out to leverage in a mass exit from the Democrats, who have let us down and need a severe check on their power. I figure, the more consistent my support up to this point, the bigger mass of democratic party voters I bargain with, the more it'll hurt when we threaten to take it away from them.

Extreme times, desperate measures, etc.

For the time being, in my opinion, regardless of your feelings on party vs not, the move is still to vote. Keep voting, especially municipals, off-years, recalls, elections with merely hundreds or thousands of ballots, etc. And start looking into electoral reform. Ballot reform will be very important, RCV is gaining traction. This org likes STV, which is better. Ranked Robin is the best ranked system, however, and STAR & its variants are by far the best overall.

But, while you are voting, make up your mind. This will be the big question. We should leave those motherfuckers behind. they compromised too much and still lost. consequences, MFers. GENOCIDE IS BAD, ITS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER. if only you had won, your compromise might actually be looking kind of good right now, but you didn't and it doesn't. you took a calculated risk, and are bad at math. i hope it ends you.

Why do we say ACAB? It's because policing is a system of oppression. Even the nicest cop with the noblest intentions is part of that system.

ACAB – all Cops are Bastards!

Policing in the US started as a way to catch human trafficking victims (“slaves”) and return them to their abusers: The Origins of Modern Day Policing

There is NO reforming a system that began with such a nefarious purpose. This is why many of us are police abolitionists.

“Who would protect us from harm if there were no police?” Do you really feel that police protect people from harm? According to the US Supreme Court, they have no obligation to do so: Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone via NYTimes

In fact, it's often the person calling for police who ends up dead: When a call to the police for help turns deadly

Police tend to target the most vulnerable folks in our communities: Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability, Report

Police don't even try to protect children, as we saw with the Uvalde school shooting and the Parkland school shooting: Parkland shooting sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson found not guilty on all counts

But school resource officers do harm students regularly.

Police have contributed massively to the “drug war” by enforcing laws that help no one but harm many.

Police in Columbus specifically have a long record of k!lling our community members, mostly Black folks. A few to look up:

  • Andre Hill
  • Casey Goodson Jr
  • Donovan Lewis
  • Henry Green
  • Ma'Khia Bryant
  • Julius Tate
  • Tyre King

And there are so many more. These cops are shooting and killing people roughly once a month or so.

Police in Franklin County shot 13 people in 2024, killing 10. See where those cases stand via dispatch

What the Hell Is Going on at the Columbus Police Department?

In 2020 CPD “ran amok” and had a blast beating the crap out of protesters: Federal Judge Bans Tear Gas on Nonviolent Protesters in Columbus (archive)

Police also tend to have white nationalist views. This is what these protests are against, are they not?: Prevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement demands drastic change

So hopefully y'all can see how it's about much more than just protest safety, it's about recognizing the oppressive nature of policing and knowing that not only are they unsafe to be at protests, but they are unsafe to be anywhere. ACAB.

written by my friend & comrade and re-posted, thank you

It is my hope for 50501 to ally with local organizations and all working people to become a fighting mass movement against all oligarchs. For this aim I sought opinions & feedback on the 50501 event from protesters and organizers in Columbus. Here's my honest report, analysis, and suggestions.

Most frequently, I got questions about your identity, motives, specific goals and political demands. In attempt to answer their questions or at least provide some context and speculation, I have shown them debrief threads from the reddit community, and described my impressions of ohio discord discussions.* But this has not been a satisfactory answer.

*: I understand 50501 discord is meant to be a public forum. I apologize if yall regret I have reported on 50501 ohio discord discussions to my own protester affinity groups. I will respect your boundaries and stop if asked for that.

Ultimately my friends & comrades generally feel quite suspicious, which I know is quite apparent to yall. However, many attended your protest, and that participation shows some openness, albeit reluctant.

On cops

I'm worried by 50501's overall neutrality and individual receptiveness to interactions with Columbus cops. (Yall may be aware of a tiktok video of the POV individual conversing with the CPD “dialogue officers”.) Some individuals in 50501 Ohio discord engaging in internal critiques feel similarly. I urge yall to listen to them, and do not trust Columbus or any police.

Our cops fraternize with known MAGA hate groups. Remember the neo-nazis in Cinci?

neonazi banner dropped on overpass near Cincinnati, Ohio: America for the white man

LOCKLAND, Ohio (WKRC) - A new video released by the Lockland School District appears to show an Evendale police officer and a U-Haul of neo-Nazi demonstrators right next to a Lockland school, minutes before dismissal.

Also:

protestor (Hana) speaking at McKinley statue draped in banner: Columbus is not safe for black people.

I sympathize with not wanting to antagonize cops. You can still do this and also discourage your people from assuming the better of cops... or even speaking to them at all. I understand that most yall are probably new to abolitionist ideas. This may seem strange, impractical, or extreme. I worry this request won't be very convincing or won't go smoothly. But I must try.

On confronting MAGA extremists and white supremacist ideologies: These hate groups have infiltrated the cops, which is part of why it is important not to trust cops. If 50501 continues to protest, they will meet counter-protesters. I encourage you to seek guidance from experienced organizers on this. MAGA, neonazis, and supremacists are insidious and dangerous.

Yall have made peacefulness a high priority of your protests. But MAGA and neonazis will inevitably make that commitment a challenge. They'll be crybullies, provoking you then acting a victim. Even if you respond with restraint yall are vulnerable to looking bad. In my opinion, mindfully preparing for violence in self defense when necessary is preferable. Not everyone can bring themselves to do that, but some can and will— planning is better than not. Self defense is an American value and yall are meant to be entitled to it.

Otherwise, I got many suggestions for possible political demands of the 50501 movement:

Restore & protect the human rights of transgender individuals. Restore and ensure medical care, including reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy for all. End the attacks on public health by Trump administration and MAGA. Robustly fund mitigations of harm of airborne illness, particularly bird flu.

End the genocide in Palestine, FOR REAL, FOREVER, give the land back to the Palestinians. End colonization and imperialism. End all the genocides everywhere we cannot possibly recall, Congo, Sudan, far too many. End Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Fund human lives instead of wars!

End deportations of immigrants and abolish ICE. End police brutality, de-fund the police, better yet, abolish them. No more bigoted assault from MAGA extremists, neonazis, paramilitaries & everything-ist, creepy prejudiced trolls. End assaults, sweeps, criminalizing and bulldozing the homeless. House them!

Stop SB1 and expand initiates against other bad bills. Here are a few bad bills updated in the past 30 days, via cDSA's bad bill tracker:

  • SB56: cannabis restrictions, diverts harm reduction funding
  • SB63: Prohibit use of RCV
  • SB104: Bathroom Ban
  • HR238: proposal AI/machine learning models qualify as practitioner eligible to prescribe medications
  • HB26: assistance for LEO targeting immigrants
  • HB 21: GOP Reproductive healthcare surveillance
  • HB 28: ban transgender athletes from school sports
  • HB 6: coal plant funding, connection to corrupt FirstEnergy scandal
  • HB 8: forced outing, “Parents Bill of Rights”

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TLDR: Don’t be blue MAGA, don’t go looking to get offended by random ~woke~ words like houseless.

There’s a meme going around about the terms “houseless” and “unhoused”. Yall clearly don’t know what this means so I gotta explain. Unhoused/houseless is NOT a nicer, less offensive replacement for “homeless”. We still use the word homeless, it is not offensive. It’s not just jargon of the left either, liberal and less partisan NGOs use it too.

An unhoused person is sleeping in the street or outside often. They have little to no access to running water, electricity, nor any privacy, no doors to shut.

A homeless person has some options. maybe a couch to sleep on, a non-YMCA place to shower, change or do laundry, etc. They are at risk of becoming unhoused. but typically under a roof before dark that isn’t a shelter. Homeless is not offensive. Homeless is not offensive. I have been homeless. I have not ever been houseless.

You can be housed but have no home. This happens often in LGBTQ+ youth rejected by their families. They are likely to be able to (almost literally) reside in the closet of their family’s home. They’re housed but vulnerable to losing their housing for being who they are. Some shelters will attempt to return the runaway teen “home,” return them to their housing, with their abusers. It’s a similar situation in domestic abuse. They are homeless, not houseless (yet?) and the places for them to flee could be so bad, maybe they should stay housed.

It’s also possible for the unhoused to have a home but no house. This is a helpful concept when describing abuses of government and NGO shelters. EG: the government criminalizes sleeping outside and separates families in gender segregated housing. Or they refuse to abandon their pets they cannot bring into housing. Shelters might abuse and try to convert the unhoused to religions. Or try to get them out of town so they’re less visible to rich bitches and tourists when they depend on infrastructure, table scraps, personal connections, etc in that area.

In these cases we explain the unhoused have a home they won’t leave for housing. Perhaps the home is a community or camp where they can be with their family. or a parking lot with benevolent private security who won’t summon cops. These places can be safer than shelters.

YMMV from place to place on exactly the qualities of homelessness and houselessness. This is effected by variations and local factors like weather. Regardless, houseless & homeless reflect differences in material conditions.

Again, homeless is not offensive, we are not policing language with this jargon. We don’t expect normies to know the difference between homeless and houseless. If someone does that to you rudely they are just a pedantic asshole. Or, maybe they are not an asshole, they’re somebody who made a mistake when they thought you’d care. Shitty liberal gossip about the left just loves to do this– decide some random thing they don’t understand is virtue signaling… especially when that call to virtue signal is coming from inside their house.

The irony is (in my experience): one of the few matters when liberals might actually listen somewhat, are suggestions for respectful language. Not like instead of “homeless” but more like don’t call your sportsball team the Redskins.

We could have a whole conversation where I have many suggestions on actions to take, books to read, serious working meetings, socials for less pressure than meetings, protests, research to do, serves to hand the unhoused a plate, local government interventions like public testimony…

…and please come to the meeting but don’t keep calling it a powwow. I know you mean well but that’s not cute. Just change one tiny little word, please…

That last thing is the only thing they will remember or give one shit about.

Changing some words we use, like avoiding slurs, is a bare minimum. When we do this (when we actually do it and aren’t being lied about as in the term houseless) it’s an ask to be just a bit nicer. I’m not trying to hand them unrealistic expectations to change the entire world overnight through vocabulary alone. These people themselves bring in strange expectations for small and symbolic gestures. They come in trying to manifest change, they’re only interested in making trivial changes, and make their unmet expectations our problem. Does lying and believing anything you hear about the left make you feel better about liberal impotence in the election?

The democratic party can’t turn out voters in part because their allyship is superficial. Their leadership in culture wars resembles MAGA more every day. Getting mad at random words is peak MAGA shit, STFU. For many reasons, mostly not our doing, leftists cast a bigger shadow then we are. So you might not be aware, but there’s not actually not enough of us to change the course for you! As of now, liberals have to get off their bullshit & actually help. With recruitment, this might change. Hopes and prayers 😜

December 05, 2024

ableists: we should stop drugging ADHD kids & students just for being different

me: ok, you know what's better for me than ADHD drugs actually, zoom meetings & auto captions. also uncomfortable clothing to comply with dress codes are incredibly distracting. you should allow the kids to stim, draw, play with their hands, while they listen, and do not demand they stare at you or put them on the spot with random shit tests. and a lot of research shows that schools start too early which causes too much sleep deprivation, this is harmful not only to grades but to health outcomes over their lifetime. much of the curriculum is built on this “memory bank” idea which is some Victorian shit that has been thoroughly discredited, spending too much time on route memorization for weak subjects hurts actually. there is also a lot of evidence that Bush era's No Child Left Behind is a complete disaster—

ableists: no not like that we meant train the kids with carrots and sticks like a dog

me: you were already doing that to all the kids. that doesn't work on a lot of NDs, and can cause more problems like PDA. I'm not even convinced it's good for the NTs either

ableists: well your parents did it wrong obviously

Dec 30, 2024

I know things about not fucking so people are asking me how I feel about 4B.

Unless South Korean 4B women want to offer guidance, yall interested in sex strike need your own terms. Don’t risk talking over 4B women. You can call it Lysistrata! just because I love greek names, don’t mind me.

There is indeed a causal relationship between toxic and horny men and me not fucking anybody in over 5 years. So people are coming to me with questions.

Fucking has never been very important to me, but I wasn’t repulsed by it at first. I was fine with doing it for someone I loved, or to brag about with my peers. Yet with post-nut clarity my sex partners realized they were pity fucked. And so in spite of having lots of great sex, they continued on their horny insecure complex. It was really tiring so I don’t do it anymore. Yall are beyond hope. Sex will not fix you!

I’d say that isn’t a sex strike, I was doing my loved ones a favor, they didn’t appreciate it, so I stopped. That is the logic of a strike though. The difference between me and you (probably) is I’m asexual. I’m not getting sexually frustrated over it. If you still want the dick on your sex strike, it’ll be difficult. People are asking me how to stop fucking men and I’m just like, if you’re asking me this question, I can’t help you much.

Nevertheless, I will try.

So I would say, things have changed for me when I stopped fucking. Not much has changed for the men attracted to me. I was fucking like 0.00005% of them who wanted it and now I’m fucking 0%.

During my life I have rejected a lot of incels. And kinda shy guys who had incel-like qualities at risk of going full incel on a bad day. Their misogyny seems accelerated by rejection.

I’ve seen men go from:

“I’m such a soft boi uwu, men are so toxic, I can’t stand to make male friends, women are so much better than men, it’s so easy to talk to you” to “all women are bitches who hate nice guys and only want big muscled alpha male Chads with giant dongs who will cheat on her” in about 5 seconds.

I mean, never mind that I’m not a woman, they are incapable of seeing me as anything else, and we’re talking about them.

It might make some intuitive sense we can flip the split by applying more rejection. I’ve seen many larval incels snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to the women in their lives. What if we can help them look at how they sabotage themselves? They want sex, they’d get more if they didn’t act like assholes, this is very logical. Like maybe sex strike will help them reflect on their behavior. There might be a few rare cases of this, but mostly this possibility isn’t real. Most of them are just ticking time bombs.

The dramatic split from love to hate that seems so real is just manipulative. They explode to punish you for saying no. It’s not a real change of heart towards you or women. In the case of exceptions, no telling if you have any effect on their internal experience.

Real strikes don’t cause any reflection on the part of the bosses. It’s a power struggle and a contract negotiation. Bosses are always better set up for battles of attrition, and so are men. This is because men on average earn more, own more, and have more institutional power. If you earn more, own more, and have more institutional power than the men in your life, and so you are more positioned to make a difference this way… stop looking at 4B and provide your spare room to a victim of domestic violence.

This is no time to worry about a few genuine nice guys falling through the cracks. When you trust a man, you aren’t making this decision for yourself, you are making it for the kids you can’t abort.

For me, there’s a window with some men, I don’t know yet if he’s just awkward or actually bad. When faced with this, I argue a lot with him. The misogynists want control. Disputing any difference of opinion, challenging his plans, refusing to fuck, he’ll get mad over being “led on”… even if you aren’t dating and promised him nothing. At that point, all cards are on the table, and rejection is easy.

But even if he can withhold impulse long enough to have polite interactions with women, she’s still likely to feel offput and unable to explain why. Yall are mostly doing the strike already if you don’t already know.

I’d love to be wrong, but I honestly don’t expect rejections to make a difference at scale. It’s infinitely better for yourself, I’d guess. But it’s different for me, I’m a no-nut life.

Hey everyone, I'm the whitest nerd you know. I've been canvassing, having all kinds of conversations with Americans on matters like: Demanding release of immigrants from prisons and demanding ceasefire and arms embargo in Palestine. I've also talked to a lot of voters in support of politicians like squad members, especially this year.

One of the major reasons I voted for Biden in 2020 was I wanted a better response to COVID. But obviously Trump is such a low bar. And despite holding my nose and continuing to vote democratic ticket— Biden now Kamala and Sherrod, etc— but I'm not happy with Biden administration. I probably won't like Harris either. I'm thinking a lot about how we can put more effective pressure on democrats to oppose genocide and war. Americans vulnerable to economic violence need relief from Green New Deal type policy. If we cannot change them more and faster than they are changing, we need more independence from them. There's a lot of work for us and this movement.

I'm not trying to bring up the ambivalence to the Biden administration and democrats only to complain. I'm just sharing where I'm at with my personal struggle. The cost of racism is so high in Ohio. I can't find a halfway decent job. I spend my time working for a better future with more good jobs. I'm trying to twist my own struggle into some kind of understanding for some reactionary white nationalists in Springfield who are also insecure about their employment opportunities. The people JD Vance are pandering to with lies and xenophobia on a national stage, a world stage. These racists who want to blame climate refugees from Haiti for their personal problems.

And the Democrats are proud of their jobs numbers! I am familiar with how many job seekers are excluded from statistics: including us who must search for a long time. It's not just the democratic administration's problem, and my personal problem, and our racist uncle's personal problem. It's a systemic problem. We can get more good jobs. But instead our leaders are creating problems and evading the truth.

Instead of giving huge handouts and tax breaks to companies like Intel that make war, We can blow the whistle on big tech investing record venture capital in “ai” while also reaching record layoffs.

We could be going after giant job listing sites and the corporations who post “ghost job” listings with no real intention of hiring anyone.

Or maybe we can go after the criminals, scammers and frauds who hack the fucking city government! and/or buy contact information from all kinds of places, every place on the internet including the pointless job applications, and to use our data in every type of way, from advertising to catfishing desperate people.

It makes me so angry that racist people in my state want to blame refugees fleeing the climate crisis. They also deny the fucking climate crisis. They deny the American history of colonialist violence and destabilization of foreign countries. They're denying our responsibility in creating death and refugees in Haiti and around the world.

Racism is so ubiquitous so total in its harms. Understanding and recognition of it is the beginning. The follow through is showing up for each other. Like working with mutual aid organizations and black organizers to serve the vulnerable and houseless in our community. and we show up by continuing our canvassing and political efforts.

We have and can make more a difference in our local government. We can pick better people and vote them up to bigger stakes. When we have to vote for politicians who suck, we need to not feel satisfied when they win. Instead we must stay organized and hound them. If they won't do right we will refuse to give up and refuse to be ignored.

Pressure from activists helped get the top of the ticket changed from Biden to Harris. it's a superficial change, but we can get more. We can can have more and get it all from the rich. So please get plugged into the work and do it, thanks.

October 06, 2024

As recently as today, Kamala has reversed her previous position and no longer supports the following:

  • Fracking ban
  • Federal job guarantee (part of Green New Deal)
  • Single-payer health care
  • Mandatory gun buybacks

Which means she resembles Biden even more since I first wrote this.

Joe's never been a great speaker. Of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates Biden is almost the worst and most uninspiring guy on stage. Biden not just unappealing in presentation. In substance he's living embodiment of the default setting for the DNC machine.

That's why Biden was on the Obama ticket. Thanks for Obamacare and gay marriage, but on many issues Obama and Biden are match made in hell. Both show talent at deporting immigrants, civilian surveillance, and waging proxy war. Democrats do much of the same fashy shit Republicans want... but sometimes Democrats are actually better at it.

  • Bush could not get Osama Bin Laden. Obama's method for finding Bin Laden was truly evil.

  • Obama's drones and intelligence are significant military upgrades for Bush's illegal wars.

  • Obama's surveillance was much more technically adept. He used it to persecute more journalists, most famously Snowden.

  • Trump's wall was stupidly conceived and a total failure. Obama was way more successful at deporting and detaining immigrants, as is Biden.

Not only are the dems better at doing war and ejecting immigrants, but few liberals give a shit while they do it. Few liberals will protest kids in cages with a democrat in the whitehouse, but the kids are still in cages. Obama said he'd close Gitmo; Yall forgot it's still around. We continue to outsource colonialism and genocide, most notably in Palestine. New Covid strains are still arriving in waves. Police funding and murder still increasing. Roe is now dead.

But what pisses Democrats off more than any of this?: poor debate performance!

He's probably not all there. But amazingly, Biden is president right fucking now. Look at him go! I have every confidence Biden's administration and whatever combination of handlers would continue to deliver us an Authentic Biden Experience, given the opportunity. They are doing so now, as you are reading. If team Regan could do it, team Biden can.

Now we have Kamala Harris... now everyone's excited. When she's so very similar to Biden politically.

Ugh.

One of their biggest points of similarity is their history of tough-on-crime campaigns. With her prosecutor experience, probably Kamala will be much more effective at helping cops do cop stuff compared to Biden. Her actual cred from working with law enforcement might help her pick up pro-cop swing voters.

“Republicans are weird” is working. I expect more smart moves like this. Congrats yall, I'm sure she will do much better in debates, I know that's what you really want. Democrats are so fucking shallow...

I still don't want Trump to win so, maybe it's just good we have a better chance he'll lose.

My partner agrees Kamala and Biden are overwhelmingly similar. He's slightly less fatalistic about the dems, so more sensitive to them, and made some good points on their potential for differences in actual policy.

Gun control: Biden has shown unambiguous disinterest in this. I do not know if she's had any victories on this front, but Kamala's rhetoric against guns is much stronger.

Abortion: She says all the same things as Biden and other democrats. But since Biden and Obama ignored their codify Roe campaign promises... there's a hope she might follow through when they did not.

That's it! If you have another one, based on their campaign promises and policy decisions, I'd truly like to know.

I was going to analyze how race effects her image, too. Trump's recent comments have made that even more relevant. I'm running out of motivation and it deserves more detailed treatment. But obviously that's a huge part of this. I don't want to deny anybody joy because possibility a black woman will be president. At the very least, this morale boost is a positive prospect.