If the candidate is MAGA and 76-million Republicans vote for him, that’s 76-million MAGAs.

If you’re doing it [anything] for an audience more than you’re doing it for yourself, you’ll always be disappointed.

Fair, and changed, thanks.

I prefer thinking of it as a post title that differs from the headline.

Google Doodles have gone so far from cute into annoying that I have them blocked, but today’s sounds like a doozy indeed.

Rounding up endorsements from Dick and Liz Cheney, and Anthony Scaramucci, and Adam Kinzinger, and Alberto fucking Gonzales, while offering platitudes to the left, is not a path to victory for the Democratic Party.

But I don’t think the party hierarchy cares about winning elections. They consistently offer only empty feel-good middle-of-the-road stuff which does not resonate with people who are actually suffering in this society and economy.

Absolutely. Anything worth seeing on such platforms will leak out and be found elsewhere. I certainly didn’t find this on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook.

Yup, beyond scary, it’s terrifying.

Social media presents an array of worrisome problems, with (so far as I can see) only worrisome solutions. Children’s access isn’t even the #1 issue, for me — it’s social media’s Musky ability to flood the world with lies and hate at levels never seen in human history.

And there’s no solution that’s not worrisome, but democracy can’t survive with an intentionally misinformed electorate.

Most people don’t give a shit about politics. They hear some rich fuckwad say “Mexicans are stealing your jobs” and “Haitians are eating chihuahuas” and “The schools are changing Timmys into Tinas,” and it’s oh my god they gotta vote for Trump. It’s not intellectual, it’s reptilian.

How do we get through to them, all the victims who <i>know</i> they’re victims, but never figure out who’s victimizing them? That’s the insolvable riddle-me-this-Batman.

I see the problem, but don’t see a solution in this Aussie strategy. An age-ban probably makes social media more attractive to a 5- 10- or 15-year-old, and anyway, any bright kid can get around it, and share their get-around with all their friends.

There’s no system where doctors have unlimited time for each patient.

It’s fitting, since behind the scenes, the US has always manufactured banana republics.

If you can’t have your way, let the world burn… Gotcha.

That is literally the rationale for lots of people. I’ve heard it spoken verbatim, and heck, when I was young and stupid, I said it myself. It’ll hasten the collapse and move us more quickly toward a glorious new future!

Homeless people are people. When I say that, though, the response is usually, “Yeah, but…”.

Why, thank you, kind stranger!

Le bingo!

Why is this potentially deadly tech even allowed, without NTSB testing?

It was ‘mike’ when I was a kid, and I know it’s ‘mic’ now but I’m old and stubborn and I’ve always resisted it. By the ordinary rules of phonics, ‘mic’ should be the first syllable of that burger place with piss-yellow arches.

Giuliani is clearly mentally gone, and gone further day by day.

The invented crime of ‘jaywalking’ has always been a kickback to automakers.