Yep, it’s kind of the wild west out there eh.

There is no mandatory certification system for midwives. So you might get lucky and get a former emergency room nurse, or you might get unlucky and get someone who believes crystals will stop the bleeding or turn the baby around.

That would be a reduction in the service quality, which is the other thing that always happens when utility services are privatised. So you get to pay more money for less service. The company has no incentive to provide a good service, because what else are you going to do?

Batteries.

Batteries plus solar is still cheaper than all other power systems. It’s remarkable but true.

If it was private, you would pay more for the same service, because the private company has all the same costs as now, but also needs to make a profit. So if you keep it public, it will cost less.

It’s a popular opinion. She looks WAY better. Hotter, too, which shows how dumb Berman is.

It’s not a bubble though.

Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?

That is something that people only understand at their own pace. Being shouted at, shamed by others, tends to reinforce the problem. It makes them defensive.

I get that venting can make the people who were right feel better, but that’s usually all it does.

For a good example, the left have been right about the problems in the DNC since 2015, and it has not helped whenever we point this out. Shouting at conservative Democrats has only made them more defensive, and alienated both sides from each other.

As usual, the solution is hard. Work towards building power and organisation from the bottom up, and don’t waste time hoping that the people who benefit from this mess will magically decide to do the right thing. I wish I hadn’t wasted so much time doing that.

Focus on what people need, pick three or four straightforward policies, and do everything you can to push those forward and promote your sincere effort to do so.

Don’t accept any funding from groups who want things you do not want, because that funding will be a chain holding you back.

Don’t lie.

Don’t. Lie.

People, the ones you want support from, aren’t fucking stupid. Don’t lie.

2 days? My friend, you are not making soup properly. 😄

Ah, I see. You need to do research here, man. There’s a specific situation you’re not aware of.

These roast chooks are cheaper than fresh raw ones because they make them from fresh ones that are about to pass their use-by date. So, even though it seems like it makes no sense, it is actually true that a cooked chicken from the deli costs less than one you have to cook yourself.

La di da, we got a sausage prince over heah boys, not good enough for our offcut tubes /s

You’re a troll. Go away.

Nah, if I handle yours like an oldschool mouseball, you get all screamy. Really ruins the mood.

Gaza would have been worse, because Netanyahu would have kept up the bombing.

However, Kamala would never have defunded USAID, so those million and a half people who are dying right now from starvation and disease would be alive.

So, honestly, not voting for Kamala was a bad idea.

But it’s still because of the DNC corporate donors that Trump is in office right now, because they refuse to allow the people a progressive alternative.

Blame is pointless. I am talking about what needs to change. Shouting at reluctant third party voters will do nothing but raise your blood pressure.

Campaigning for the downfall of Chuck Schumer, there’s a worthy cause.

Oh yeah, mate, that’s gonna fix it.

Well, you can live on rice and beans pretty well, and simple salad is cheap. But yes, I agree. Vegans pay more than vegetarians, because milk and eggs are cheap.

Honestly the illegal cab company has been the most useful for me. Sometimes my car breaks down.

Mind you, the best illegal service I ever used was Dream market. Very convenient for buying acid and weed.

I appreciate that you believe you are right and have good intentions, but I think I can cheer you up. Look at the kerfuffle over Bad Bunny. The guy is seriously, overwhelmingly popular. The show was watched and enjoyed by the majority. And he’s not white, by your definition.

Also, think about Barack Obama for a second. If he ran again, he’d win easily, even with all the flaws we saw in his government. Sheer fucking charisma. A lot of Trump voters formerly voted for Obama.

AOC is young, progressive, and genuinely popular. She can talk like a normal person, unlike Trump or Hillary or Kamala. You watch her, and she seems cool, and she seems smart, and she believes in something, and she’s not a hundred years old.

A lot of people respond well to these simple, positive qualities in a politician. Look at Zohran Mamdani. He had all those qualities, and good policy promises in his campaign, and very little bullshit. If she can add those two things, and stay consistent in her message, she’s going to win the primary.

Her ethnicity is kind of irrelevant to all that. She is the best candidate for the Dems in 28.

And then me and all the other lefties can complain every time she compromises with the corpo bastards who actually run the country, while she hopefully manages to make the place even a little bit better than it has been. Just achieving small positive change would be a beautiful thing in these times.

And the DNC will still install Gavin Newsom.