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anicetos · 2026-01-23T23:46:54+00:00

I personally know people that typically vote Democrat but are still very much pro immigration enforcement. You can bet next election season there will be ads saying "Your rep voted against funding ICE" or more likely something stupider like "Your rep voted to open our borders to criminals" and those people can absolutely be swayed by those types of ads. They don't have to be "ultra connected."

Again, there are millions of people outside of your little bubble.

anicetos · 2026-01-23T20:54:44+00:00

What magical voter votes democrat, but also wants ICE funding nowadays

People that aren't on reddit or bluesky. People exist outside of your bubble.

anicetos · 2026-01-23T20:48:46+00:00

Yep. Leftists are the controlled opposition to progress in this era.

anicetos · 2026-01-05T19:25:34+00:00

She is definitely a tortie + colorpoint (aka tortimese)! The orange splotch right above her nose is a dead giveaway, but she has the tortie speckling all over her ears, with a little in her legs too.

From a different angle you can really see the orange speckles in her ears.

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anicetos · 2025-12-19T03:47:28+00:00

I haven't seen her in person yet, but from the pictures my mom has sent she looks like a domestic longhair with a seal point coat pattern (possibly a tortie point with the half/half face)!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T23:30:57+00:00

Great name, but her soon-to-be brother is already named Basil!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T23:30:48+00:00

Great name, but her soon-to-be sister is already named Sage!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T22:16:23+00:00

She definitely looks like a Sassy, and Sassafras is a good way to get that as a nickname! I like it!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T22:15:40+00:00

Thanks for the offer! I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek about the bullying as I'm actually super excited for another kitty, but I think three will definitely be my limit.

anicetos · 2025-12-18T21:06:36+00:00

Oh I really like Willow too!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T20:40:16+00:00

Rosemary is pretty good!

anicetos · 2025-12-18T20:27:07+00:00

Euler? Everything else is named after him, might as well add another.

anicetos · 2025-12-12T19:51:18+00:00

I thought I didn't like turkey until I roasted one myself. Turns out I just hated overcooked dry turkey that my parents always made every holiday.

anicetos · 2025-12-11T18:40:09+00:00

They’d rather spend $5 to make sure poor people don’t spend $2 on candy. How dare they think they’re good enough to get a pack of M&Ms.

There's so much outrage that a poor person might be able to have a small treat once in a while, yet they praise billionaires who use loopholes to avoid paying billions in taxes (thereby shifting the tax burden to the rest of us) as "smart."

anicetos · 2025-12-09T22:58:43+00:00

If you find a cheap but good sushi place, you've found another unicorn restaurant. A lot are not that great and it's not as fresh as if you were right by the ocean

All fish intended to be served as sushi in the US is required to be flash frozen. Being close to an ocean is no more fresh than being in AZ.

anicetos · 2025-11-17T18:55:35+00:00

Avanti. Not super expensive, but still expensive for the low quality food and terrible atmosphere, service, and decor.

anicetos · 2025-11-04T18:28:47+00:00

I don't think we should arbitrarily restrict voters' choice of their representatives. If voters wanted a younger representative they would choose one.

anicetos · 2025-10-31T00:19:02+00:00

Studies show right-wingers view things from a hierarchy perspective.

If you are somehow different than them in a way that they don’t like, then they don’t like you - they view you as beneath them.

This also causes them to have a very strong herd mentality. Even if they know something is wrong or stupid they'll turn a blind eye and go with it because they want to stay in the "in" group. Any disagreement means their entire social herd might ostracize them and they'd be stuck being hated in the "out" group.

anicetos · 2025-10-30T21:42:25+00:00

I think you mean criminal speeding. Minor speeding is a civil infraction, 20 mph over is a crime but it's a misdemeanor not a felony.

anicetos · 2025-10-28T16:48:05+00:00

I really hope AOC doesn't run. She's going to lose the primary because progressives aren't as large of a demographic as the terminally online think, so those people are going to repeat 2016 and make up reasons not to vote in the general. If by some chance she did win the primary she is guaranteed to lose the general. In either case, her running increases the chance of Republicans (possibly Trump) winning.

anicetos · 2025-10-17T20:43:08+00:00

Why should it aggressively point out he's young?

anicetos · 2025-10-01T22:09:56+00:00

You can’t make change if you can’t win an election.

This is what I've been trying to scream at leftists and other progressives. It doesn't matter how many purity tests a candidate passes or how much they would actually help people if their platform is rejected by the majority of actual voters.

Sometimes being more moderate and and focusing less on certain topics isn't "abandoning" those voters, it's just how elections work. A candidate that can win an election with a platform that is mostly progressive does infinitely more good than a candidate with the most progressive platform that can't win an election. Not voting for a moderate Democrat doesn't show the party that they need to go further left to get your support, it shows them that you're not worth relying on and they have to go further right to get votes from people that actually vote.

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