No.
Remember their names for the PRIMARIES
Learn who’s challenging the incumbents, and throw a few bucks their way. Or help with their campaign
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_Democratic_Party_primaries,_2026
Most the Losers List above don’t expect to keep their seats or are otherwise election-proof to a degree, but it’s still important to pay attention in the primary.
Instead of ending up with a DNC-approved corpo-Dem, we need better candidates to win the PRIMARY
Mike Johnson won’t call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat
If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva’s vote and then it will be ‘safe’ for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.
When she wins… Who knows.
The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.
Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money
https://www.aftynforcongress.com/
Also, she has a substack for posting about issues
Thank you for linking this.
Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?
I think that you’re onto something with the dumbass White Guy™ thing here, and while it’s pretty reductive and I do believe that people can (and often do) grow and change (for better or worse) over the course of their lived experiences.
So, perhaps today he is still a dumbass. I know that I am in some ways. We’re all dumbasses in our way and it’s the people who believe that they (or anyone) are infallible that are the true idiots.
Maine could do a LOT worse than the dumbass lefty-leaning former Marine that you describe. Maine is composed of roughly 92.82% dumbass White Guy™ (and gals)
So yeah, maybe someone better will rise up. Or maybe, this guy, who just recently pointed out on his own, in an extemporous exchange at a town hall, that he has a lot of privilege based on his cis-white-maleness and personal experiences, is a good fit for Maine.
We will see.
Bullshit. A group of drunk Marines in a tattoo shop on shore leave is EXACTLY the sort of idiots that would point a a fat-looking pirate skull-crossbones on a sketchy tattoo shop wall and all get tattooed together.
This and eating the red crayons are a core activity for ignorant young devil-dogs.
I am not a Mainer but I’ve donated to Platner’s campaign because I believe we need voices like his. Susan Collins and Janet Mills are two sides of the same coin, in the same way that all the old ‘establishment’ Democrats are similar to their ‘moderate’ Republican counterparts
Graham Platner is the right choice amongst the candidates in this race.
We need to elect candidates like Kat Abu and Abigail Spanberger and Zach Dembo and Darren McAuly and Maura Sullivan and Maggie Goodlander and Deb Halland and many other good, earnest, qualified candidates.
None of them are perfect candidates. None of them are perfect people.
But they are better, and we have to hope we can all get better, be better and do better together over time.
(disclaimer: unfortunately my real opinion is that we’re actually totally fucking cooked as a country, and there’s a solid chance that authoritarian fascism will be with us for a while — longer than my lifetime. I will continue to participate in the ways I’m capable and willing, but it’s probably futile)
Can/Should you just mark the entire instance NSFW then?
Blur every image so that no vulnerable community members are ever confronted with an image or a word unconsenting.
The folks who stay here can click to see each post, thereby ensuing that noone gets in trouble at work because their boss or over-sensitive colleague is shoulder-surfing whilst naughty words are unconsentingly forced into the minds of innocent bystanders, thereby causing NSFW visualizations.
Interesting. Apparently the Geddit app has been abandoned/unmaintained since 2 years … Huh
Until reddit shut off the RSS feeds, Geddit (Android app RSS reader for reddit) was very useful to me.
Allowed following of niche/particular subs without drama
Unfortunately, many of those closely focused, well moderated and useful communities continue to exist only on reddit
But just* as extremist…
I’ve missed your point, if there was one
Or rather, a Democratic majority Congress could USE that power to fix some things, and then shelve it.
Would they actually do that? X•doubt