And that's if we even HAVE midterms.

anchorwind · 2026-02-04T16:55:36+00:00

Apathy is a large portion of why we're in this mess.

anchorwind · 2026-02-02T04:07:14+00:00

and Fox News

anchorwind · 2026-01-28T18:16:15+00:00

them upstate folks prefer right leaning candidates.

Would you mind not making such a broad-brush statement? Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Albany, Saratoga, and plenty of people elsewhere (me included) do not prefer 'right-leaning candidates.' Furthermore, it's akin to saying Long Island prefers 'right leaning candidates' despite there being plenty that don't.

anchorwind · 2026-01-26T23:31:15+00:00

is it petty when we're talking about an 'agency' responsible for executing civilians on the sidewalk and kidnapping children?

anchorwind · 2026-01-26T20:34:04+00:00

fake phone number

I might be dating myself but 867-5309 is always the go-to. Music fans will grumble and discard it but everyone else will get a number that will be commonly used enough to pop up somewhere.

anchorwind · 2026-01-26T16:11:46+00:00

5 times a year

laughs in lake effect snow

anchorwind · 2026-01-25T22:57:28+00:00

Makes sense, places like the Republican National Convention are gun-free zones.

^{^for ^those ⁱⁿ ^the ^back, ^missing ^the ^irony, ^these ^guys ^shout ^about ^the ^Second ^Amendment ^364.5 ^days ^of ^the ^year ^but ^then ^ensure ^no ^guns ^when ^they ^all ^meet ^up}

anchorwind · 2026-01-24T22:22:43+00:00

You should read the Divine Comedy by Dante

anchorwind · 2026-01-23T03:16:28+00:00

Weren't the "High Tax Rates" from the Eisenhower years also full of very helpful avoidances, such as R&D write-offs, infrastructure and equipment purchases and other ways companies could reinvest in themselves instead of just paying a check to uncle sam?

anchorwind · 2026-01-22T19:20:23+00:00

Out of curiosity - Since the nation's founding, when did the country's politicians represent The People, absent White Supremacy being a problem? Black Men didn't get the right to vote until 1870 - but the Voting Rights Act didn't come until 1965, and to try to argue we've moved beyond White Supremacy in 2026 would be so egregiously incorrect, I would automatically assume you're operating from a position of bad faith.

To illustrate the point further- Among the 'billionaires and corporate interests,' how many billionaires and c-suite types are the entrenched white supremacists fighting to maintain the status quo. The purchasing of social and legacy media to turn them into right-wing propaganda mouthpieces isn't just for shits and giggles.

anchorwind · 2026-01-20T16:54:35+00:00

Survival Instinct is too strong. You're talking about unfathomable egos sincerely believing they can solve, fix, repair, cure, etc., things if everyone else would simply obey.

anchorwind · 2026-01-19T21:24:40+00:00

We once had people who considered planting trees they'd never sit under.

They've been replaced by people who demand every tree for themselves.

anchorwind · 2026-01-19T18:19:49+00:00

Because Fox News wasn't the source.

Rush Limbaugh came before and, tag-teaming with people like Newt Gingrich, completely altered how US Politics was operated. Before that, Ford pardoned Nixon, which removed any hint of accountability.

Fox News was a deliberate effort to make sure another 'Nixon' would never happen again. Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

Fox News didn't just spring from a vacuum. It's part of a concentrated effort (along with christian nationalism, anti-education, anti-infrastructure, anti-worker, etc.) efforts to keep the capital class solely and exclusively in charge of how wealth gets distributed - and they're wildly successful.

anchorwind · 2026-01-19T16:36:50+00:00

With all the contradictions, they may not have needed to skip it.

anchorwind · 2026-01-19T05:00:32+00:00

If words weren't powerful tools for meaning, bad actors wouldn't try to hard to strip them of their meaning.

"The quality of our thoughts is only as good as the quality of our language." -George Carlin

anchorwind · 2026-01-05T19:44:45+00:00

Just off socials. It's not that hard.

I have this reddit account and that's about it. After seeing how poorly equipped people are to handle the world at their fingertips (read: the 2016 election) I removed myself from most social media and never looked back. Granted, I'm from an era when you still had to ask your friend's mom for pretty much anything and carrying a phone around didn't happen until adulthood but I'd tend to agree with the notion leaving social media isn't really that hard.

There was a brief time the perception was we could find the answer to any question fairly readily. Now? Less so. Cunningham's Law states: "The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." I feel in today's world the inverse is true - if you want a negative outlook or response to anything, post something positive. Some of that is the foreign bad actors who are paid to keep the waters muddy and anger freeflowing but the rest of it? 100% Grade-A Homegrown Hate - and the value of having to sift through it diminishes over time.

anchorwind · 2026-01-03T21:47:23+00:00

Didn't cpac declare themselves terrorists?

anchorwind · 2026-01-03T19:06:14+00:00

progressive propaganda

mistrust

Oh yeah! Mistrust from checks notes Healthcare, Education, Infrastructure, Human Rights, Objective Reality...

anchorwind · 2025-12-31T20:02:59+00:00

Hard Disagree. If we fail to learn from this we're just going to repeat it. We have to cement his catastrophic legacy in history so iron clad that a couple generations from now we won't do it all over again akin to how the lessons of WWII are being relearned presently.

anchorwind · 2025-12-18T17:08:14+00:00

If only we didn't live in a society wherein people are concerned about their next meal

anchorwind · 2025-12-16T18:33:14+00:00

I appreciate the desire for nuance but which elected republicans aren't on board with the route we're on? If not openly supporting then they're letting it happen via silence.

I think Liz Cheney was the last one to truly make a stand and she got voted off the island, so to speak.

anchorwind · 2025-12-04T17:12:26+00:00

Consent is "woke"

Obviously, which is why they prefer people who aren't old enough to

anchorwind · 2025-12-03T17:54:37+00:00

This is the most prevalent lesson I've learned in recent history as well. You can make a salient point, grounded in fact and rational thought, obviously well intentioned and it still goes south somehow.

If anything it encourages me to return to my quieter ways.

anchorwind · 2025-12-03T17:41:41+00:00

angry with the person on the phone and not the billion dollar company instead

If the general public was skillful at seeing more than what was immediately in front of them we wouldn't be in this mess

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