Trump is a suppurating piece of shit.

However, fuck the mindset that says “I don’t need to be good enough to vote for, so long as the other guy is worse”.

And extra-splintery-fuck the mindset that blames the voters for ‘getting it wrong’. Mmmnope, that’s rejecting the entire premise of democracy.

If you don’t get the votes, it means you suck.

If you want to win, stop sucking.

If you want to keep sucking, you don’t get to complain when you lose.

Maybe - and this is a pretty radical, bleeding-edge out there kind of idea - maybe Biden should stop fucking supporting Israel, then.

For one, it’s a genetic disorder that’s linked to ancestry.

For another, there’s a huge social-justice issue around race in the US. Black people are hugely overrepresented in prisons, and there are vast, ingrained and systemic prejudices and barriers to equality everywhere you look.

This is why ferinstance efforts to enforce photo-ID requirements for voting would significantly disenfranchise Black voters (which is the real reason conservatives keep trying to push for it), because a disproportionate percentage of Black people simply don’t have the means to obtain such ID - vastly more than the number of white people in a similar position.

Take centuries of explicitly racist law and policy directly excluding and oppressing Black people. Wind back the explicit racism over the last handful of decades, but quietly replace it with exclusion and oppression based on the socieconomic disparity thus created. Now you can claim to have a colourblind legal/etc system, yet continue to preserve and promote disadvantage that ends up depending on race.

And because social mobility is an absolute joke over there (as it is in most places, tbh), then the opportunities and resources available to you will depend heavily and primarily on the opportunities and resources available to your family and community for many generations back. There’s not just generational wealth to deal with, but generational influence and networking; you can’t be in with the Right People unless your parents were, and neither could they, rinse and repeat. And when the Right People instantly dismiss you on sight, or even just by seeing your name, then you’re fucked.

So when someone says that a hundred thousand people in the US have a crippling and debilitating disease, and the great majority are Black - yeah, it means something. It means that a chunk of the population are getting a raw deal on top of the shit sandwich they’ve been handed just by being born, and that this is just one more thing that, for the most part, white people don’t have to care about. And because the fucked up healthcare system in the US is so profit-driven, that means there’s going to be vastly less done about it than if it were equally spread across demographics.

Oh no.

Will he do better about continuing to fund and supply the genocide?

Well, there’s the niche for human artists in the future: drawing things the AIs refuse to generate.

as if you couldn’t tell by the screed above…

who the hell is Satya Nadella, and why do we care?

“but hey, the rich people are doing fabulously” is pretty fucking cold comfort for the people that they’re unable to help. Read the goddamn room.

Or you know maybe we could raise the bar just a teeny little bit above ‘at least he isn’t as bad as trump’.

Yeah, neither is a shit sandwich and a rubdown with a cheese grater, but that doesn’t mean you have to want it.

High stock prices don’t get people food, housing or healthcare.

It’s great news if you own a hedge fund, but completely fucking worthless if you can’t feed your kids.

Any time someone talks about “the economy”, you can freely substitute “rich people’s yacht money”.

Yeah, the epic launcher is terribad in just about every respect. It’s so offputting I barely play any of the games on there.