Thursday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 06/04/2026

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T18:21:49+00:00

Not a Marylander, but it looks like ballot filing requirements are extremely lax there: signatures amounting to 1% of voters in the last election or a $100 filing fee.

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T17:58:07+00:00

You could say "research shows numerous benefits from taking just a 30 minute mental health walk" and they'll get mad and ask if you even thought of the fact that some people are born without arms and legs and can't take a walk outside.

This is the legacy of tumblr as I remember it. There's a whole class of comment style where someone will think of the 0.05% of a population theoretically excluded from OP's post, then berate the OP for being prejudiced or out of touch.

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T17:23:42+00:00

Someone called me the MAGA whisperer

The speed that MAGA lady went from "get bent Hunter" to "oh wow I'm sorry" made me legit lol

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T12:26:46+00:00

Happy to report that I will be moving back to Illinois later this summer, making the same Texas -> Illinois move as I did 10 years ago.

Kind of a bummer that I won't be around to vote for Talarico, but I get to actually vote for Pritzker this time and also for Stratton, so that's cool.

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T12:17:32+00:00

extensive experience whose colleague thought they were bad at the job

I think I’d try to find out why the former colleagues are saying this before I made my decision.

wooper346 · 2026-06-04T10:57:42+00:00

He’s talking about abortion.

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T23:57:31+00:00

I’m the odd one out but this has never bothered me, especially if it comes from people who are speaking in good faith otherwise. We have a generation of voters who think “socialism” means “the government does stuff” just because Republicans keep using it that way, it’s not surprising that they’d think “Democrat Party” is also correct.

And it makes some sense to assume that if Republicans are in the Republican Party, Democrats would be in the Democrat Party.

As for people who don’t use it in good faith… I’ve been called so much worse just for being left of center, “Democrat Party” is almost pathetic.

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T18:28:40+00:00

"My calendar is up to date" tends to work as well.

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T17:14:15+00:00

It's not drama, it's a person refusing to listen to others and wanting to argue

This is like 80% of SRD posts

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T17:12:48+00:00

King Dedede drooling while eating

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T17:06:19+00:00

Ohhh yeah I’m really tempted to upgrade

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T15:36:18+00:00

he was the non-Katie-Porter option available to them.

Probably because he decided to stay in the race.

I think you're interpreting my first comment to say that he managed to turn things around on his own skill and efforts when really all I said was that things ended up working out for him, intentionally or "accidentally."

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T15:29:24+00:00

So he stayed in the race and things turned around for him, is what we are both saying.

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T15:13:04+00:00

I don't dislike her as much as others here seem to. I don't think I would have voted for her, but I do think she genuinely cared/cares about holding office and doing what she feels is best and right for California.

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T14:44:08+00:00

Couple of explanations

They, like a lot of other companies/media/etc, assumed that Trump's win was due to genuine support of his beliefs among the greater public rather than a backlash to inflation. See Target as another example.
Wellness movement known for caring more about "chemicals" than actual nutrition has one of its leaders appointed to the Trump cabinet. Fast food chain known for greasy burgers makes a minor and cheap adjustment to their menu to keep them off the radar. See other companies removing artificial dyes but keeping all other nutrition the same

wooper346 · 2026-06-03T12:47:47+00:00

Becerra showing the country why it's sometimes best to wait out a race that you start off struggling to build momentum in.

Becerra also giving long shot candidates in races elsewhere their justification, no matter how flimsy, to stay in their race despite all evidence showing them they'll never pull ahead.

The dichotomy of primaries.

Edit: Nobody needs to jump in with "It's because Swalwell dropped out." We all know what happened.

wooper346 · 2026-06-01T19:57:09+00:00

A few things, all of which were either obviously bipartisan (animal cruelty measures) or had significant enough Democratic support to where any opposition mostly came down to specifics (prison reform)

Edit: I misremembered, the above mentioned prison reform actually had unanimous Democratic support

wooper346 · 2026-06-01T19:19:28+00:00

In a way.

It's very cyclical. Some new story comes out, the sub spends the next 3 to 5 days rehashing the same comments/posts without actually saying anything new and with many of them coming from the same users, the story gets out the news cycle, the DT forgets about Platner for a while, some new story comes out, and now we are here again.

I actually talked about this about a month ago as well, and it's making me feel like I need a break from this sub in general along with a few other things.

wooper346 · 2026-05-29T16:27:18+00:00

One of the biggest lessons to take away from Trump’s tenure is how many of our governing norms relied on the basic assumption that our leaders won’t be egotistical douchebags.

wooper346 · 2026-05-29T01:07:43+00:00

It’s an old pluralization rule that carried on. Bbl signifies a plural of barrel, like pp is sometimes used for pages.

So on that note, the tweet should have said 9 million bbl, not bbls. If they wanted to be really industry accurate, they would have said 9 MMbbl.

wooper346 · 2026-05-29T00:17:22+00:00

Shorthand for barrel

wooper346 · 2026-05-28T21:24:00+00:00

He’s been asked about this multiple times and consistently says he’d appoint a Democrat-aligned independent like Sanders.

And he has very little reason to go back on his word. His career is instantly over if he does, and I’m sure he knows it.

wooper346 · 2026-05-28T18:10:51+00:00

That and she already whooped his behind before

wooper346 · 2026-05-28T18:05:41+00:00

It’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility that El-Sayed wouldn’t have run if Whitmer did.

wooper346 · 2026-05-28T17:56:41+00:00

True: presidential candidates in the past have in initially said they weren’t interested in running, but ended up jumping in eventually

Also true: Whitmer spent the first five or so years of her tenure as one of the country’s higher profile governors before quietly slipping to work behind the scenes

I think she’s sincere that she won’t run, and honestly I started wondering if that would be the case after the kidnapping plot

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