FlashMobOfOne

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Welp, there you have it.

AOC has absolutely, 100% betrayed the principles that got her elected in the first place. It’s not surprising. Most people who stay in Washington long-term end up falling in line, but still, kind of disappointing to see.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

It would be nice to have a strong challenger

Under Biden, we’ve seen no meaningful action as the right to abortion was lost, housing scarcity has become a crisis for most Americans, another 100 billion unbudgeted was sent to another country’s war, and there was zero meaningful progression on education, health care, militarizing police, or stopping the resurgence of fascism.

Voting for Biden is voting for team color and little else. The man is a shitty president more concerned with stringing together a coherent sentence and running cover for his son than doing anything for the people who got him elected. And the extent to which he is a shitty president is going to usher in an overt fascist when he tries to sell himself on his record in a year.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

PACT Act

A good thing, but also a reminder that 100 billion sent for another country’s war is 100 billion that isn’t being spent to keep our veterans in good care. (Among other things)

American Rescue Plan

Biden himself made excuses for how lackluster this was, despite it’s super-cool name, and even more fun, his administration withheld $600 of the promised $2000 in aid that he’d assured voters they’d get before they delivered Georgia.

Impressive job growth and low unemployment

Sounds pretty awesome until you realize everyone’s working 2-3 jobs to survive. See my point above about housing scarcity. I think we’d all be way more impressed if he’d passed a living wage back when he had the majority.

Bi-partisan Infrastructure

Another bill Biden made excuses for, which is funny, because he had the majority when it was passed. As much as he, and his partisan ideologues want to let him cosplay as a cut-rate FDR, we deserve way better than a corporate shill.

Helping defeat Russia

This isn’t our war. We should not be sending a hundred billion of our dollars in order to fund it, especially when we have wildfires, hurricanes, failing power grids, and other crises being ignored here at home. (In addition to, what, wars in eight countries we’re already involved in.)

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While I agree he’s not a complete failure, that’s kind of like the 600 points a person gets just for signing their name correctly on an SAT testing form. It was a particular kick in the balls when Dems got Georgia and his messaging switched from “2000 checks” to “finish the job” and they sent $1400 instead, considering that was our money he was withholding from us in a time of crisis.

And in a nation of 330,000,000 people, “better than Trump” isn’t good enough. That we gave Biden a Democratic majority and he did nothing meaningful with it is why we’ll likely have an outspoken and overt fascist elected as our president in a year.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

People like AOC are why I’m generally convinced my vote really doesn’t matter. We elected a Democratic president with a congressional majority last time, and in return most of the country is working multiple jobs to survive AND you no longer have the right to abortion.

When we get conservative outcomes regardless, what does my Democratic vote really matter for?

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

If only people could eat excuses, every table in this country would be full.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

No, Hillary is why Trump won.

Just on my tiny street in America, three families lost their homes to Obama’s foreclosure crisis. Multiply that by every street in this country and you have a lot of people who won’t see the appeal of Hillary being a continuation of Obama’s policies.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

As a former UMC, it’s nice to see such a large chunk of them willing to break off rather than adopt pro-hatred policies.

I still think religion is generally pretty silly, but it’s slightly less silly when it becomes a tool for enriching people’s lives instead of making them hate themselves and others.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

I’m glad all of you silly geese are sampling it so I don’t have to.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Same. It’s also hard for me to imagine the monumental stupidity required to go after that particular ex-president. I’d wager Obama has the most robust security of them all.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

A shitty front page that perpetually showed me content that was two days old.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

The choice is between a perpetrator and a collaborator.

Personally, it doesn’t matter much to me how palatable a politician is when the end result is the same.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

A money market account, and then I’d live off the interest.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

I'm on Mastodon (love it) and lemmy.world. It took a while for Beehaw to send approval, so I started off my Lemmy time there, and it's okay, though it does have the more aggressive tint to its comments section that I"m used to from Reddit.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Yes, to get started. You can turn on advanced view and add a column with multiple hashtags you like to follow too. I follow 250 people, which is plenty to keep my feed interesting and active.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

A few to add in:

Solasta: Crown of the Magister - Old school D&D and tactics RPG. It's indie so has rough edges here and there, but it's so fun, and there aren't a ton of games that fill the void.

Dungeon of the Endless - It's a tower defense / tactical game with great pixel art and one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar - Excellent RPG that will remind you of old school Final Fantasy.

Tower of Time - Excellent tactical RPG

Detroit: Become Human - Cinematic narrative game about androids becoming self aware.

The Dark Anthology: Man of Medan - Cinematic narrative horror game, the first in a series of several, therefore if you enjoy there's a lot more where that came from. (Made by the same studio that created Until Dawn.)

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Weird.

Some kind of bug.

I was replying to a thread about the Steam Sale.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

A few to add in:

Solasta: Crown of the Magister - Old school D&D and tactics RPG. It’s indie so has rough edges here and there, but it’s so fun, and there aren’t a ton of games that fill the void.

Dungeon of the Endless - It’s a tower defense / tactical game with great pixel art and one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar - Excellent RPG that will remind you of old school Final Fantasy.

Tower of Time - Excellent tactical RPG

Detroit: Become Human - Cinematic narrative game about androids becoming self aware.

The Dark Anthology: Man of Medan - Cinematic narrative horror game, the first in a series of several, therefore if you enjoy there’s a lot more where that came from. (Made by the same studio that created Until Dawn.)

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Weird. Looks like they just discounted the Endless bundle.

My mistake. (Still a great game, though.)

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

That's a pretty kickass statement.

Walking away from a 7,000,000 user subreddit is a BFD.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

My two dogs love taking turns standing guard, and looking up at me like: "See what a good guard dog I am?"

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

They need to embrace the dark side.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

I appreciate your opinion. I've outlined why I feel that way further up in the thread.

FlashMobOfOne, 10 months ago

Respectfully, you just watched women lose the right to abortion a year ago when Democrats had the presidency and control of Congress. Their response was to use it to raise money, not act in any way to stop it or create positive change.

There are so many more examples of this too.

You voted for deterioration, and so did I. That's not a matter of opinion, but of historical record.