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The playground Mafia, you stop cutting into my business or your going to have an extra long nap time. Capiche?

2001, Dre’s album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre’s new album five bucks right here.

He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.

Any government business should be conducted solely on government equipment, classified or unclassified. What the poster is saying is that the two don’t compare, what Hillary did was conduct government business on a private server, what the trump administration officials did was share sensitive compartmented information (SCI) on a private app.

Both actions were wrong, it’s just that revealing SCI information is far far worse.

And this is why I stopped dating, after a series of emotionally abusive relationships I decided to take some time off to figure out why I keep being attracted to toxic women. I’ve been single for just over 10 years and I don’t have an answer but I have found comfort in being single.

All very true, it would probably take a lot of new blood coming in who would be willing to not only fight dirty but also rely on public small dollar donations.

Reject the corporate bribery, build a true grass roots machine, and ultimately reject and actively fight against the current party leadership.

And this is coming from the same guy who claims Biden’s pardons are invalid because he used an auto pen instead of physically signing each one.

The Dems don’t just need “brawlers” but they also need people willing to get dirty. If you know pro wrestling, Eddie Guerrero at one time had a gimmick that included the slogan “I lie, I cheat, I steal” that is the mindset democratic operatives have to get into and party members have to at least accept, if they want any chance of beating the GOP.

The Dems don’t seem to understand that there is no bottom for how low the GOP will go, and that means they are going to have to get dirty and do and say things that will haunt them, but it will be for the good of the entire country and if they truly care about democracy and this country they will fall on that sword and dive head first into that mud pit.

*Sorry for the run on’s and ranting… ADHD stream of consciousness.

Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Not a trump supporter in any way, but this could backfire on him (it probably won’t but why risk it?) by giving the Dems ammunition against him and the Republicans. The Dems are destroying themselves just fine.

“Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake” - Sun Tzu.

Eggcelent meme.

This is like a one in a million chance, but…

Same here, just got the message earlier this morning. I feel blessed…to have the ability to block accounts.

I know a ton of people died, and countless more where hurt, and it hurt the economy, but as an introvert hermit, GOD DO I MISS LOCKDOWN.

I do my best to keep up the life style, but I’m still expected to go into the office every once in a while for my wasted day as we all call it.

I guess I’m just too pessimistic to be able to allow my brain to accept that your way can happen. Maybe it’s because I’m a lefty living in deep red country and I see the crazy all around me still flying the trump flags and loving what he’s doing.

I hope your vision comes true, I genuinely do. And if it starts to pick up momentum I’ll join in, but I just don’t see it working on ultra maga people I interact with on a daily basis, at least not yet.

Well in my defense I was a young kid and I was left unattended so I could be indoctrinated by the media to believe cooperation was happening.

I just want to try and find a peaceful way to bring about change, because I fear the only way to make things better will be us having to suffer though a bloody civil war and decades of domestic terrorism from the losers.

That is a totally viable method, it’s just not the one I want to pursue.

Also, yeah I don’t even want to think about the taxes…

I honestly don’t think even bold leadership would work at this point. Washington has spent so much time brainwashing the public to fear socialism that any bold leader on the left who suggests a plan like that without first kneecapping it would be killed in the polls because someone on the right would scream socialist and enough of the population would turn on them. And no amount of reminding the public about public roads, police, firefighters, libraries, ect. would change their minds. In my option it will take generational change to get past that mindset.

I guess I’m just stuck in the 90’s mindset of trying to find compromise. I know that idea was on the decline then, but I still, maybe foolishly, hold on to it.

I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to put my Disney VHS tapes in the VCR, of course then my older cousin brought over her Master of Puppets album and I fell in love with thrash. As she still likes to remind me, “I turned you into a metal head before you were out of diapers”. I still love the classics too BTW.

I have been approaching this from a middle of the ground standpoint. Basically I know that a large enough percentage of Americans would reject this as “evil socialism” so putting caps on the government industry at first would be a Trojan horse to get a footing and get society comfortable with the idea.

Ultimately I would like to see companies have to compete with government offered products and services, but I just don’t see it being feasible in our current political climate. Sadly I think it will either take generational change to get it done, or a more kinetic change that would harm the country and take far longer to recover from.