janisf

janisf, 1 day ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad

Well, not entirely. You can't just own a gun and make the rules. You have to be more organized and have more better guns.

Let it be said, it's better to be on the side of the people with the more better guns and the organization to back it. There are ways. I encourage people to run for City Council.

janisf, 1 day ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad I just had a conversation with a guy who had a deep understanding of what happened with India, and it sounds like Ghandi had "help."

That's not to say there aren't cleverer ways to push progress. For starters, nearly nobody's sleeping with cops, and I'm party convinced it's part of why they're so touchy.

Now we work on the Private Equity market?

janisf, 1 day ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad We can keep spiraling, or we can improve the systems people put in place to join the fight against violence, en masse. There really isn't a middle ground.

I'm committed to non-violence, and thinking of smarter ways to leave a better, safer world for my kid, and all the other kids.

janisf, 1 day ago

@B_Whitewind @maddad @Jon_Kramer It didn't do anything to mitigate violence, though. The fight I'm fighting is bigger than just letting men keep shooting men and leaving kids in the crossfire.

janisf, 1 day ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad Yeah, seek out WHY that peace is happening. Emulate that.

janisf, 1 day ago

@Jon_Kramer @B_Whitewind @maddad Do you know what I say to people who say, "That's just the way it is?"

Yeah, don't make me say that.

janisf, 1 day ago

@B_Whitewind @Jon_Kramer @maddad

You make it harder to be a piece of shit, and you make it easier for mothers to raise sons who aren't pieces of shit, and you make it so women don't have to fuck those pieces of shit so more shit doesn't come out the chute.

janisf, 1 day ago

@RickiTarr Sorry it's rough. I'm a mom, and though things are great with my kiddo, they're not with my mom.

Thank you!

Yeah, we all got 'em, and they're all different.

janisf, 1 day ago

@RickiTarr

I need to fix that. There are people with parents who used science to make it happen, and plenty of people who've lost their moms. I want and need to acknowledge those people. I apologize for the potentially painful exclusion.

You are loved. if you need a mom for a while, DM me.

janisf, 1 day ago

@VeroniqueB99 It gets worse than that, but yeah, that hits.

janisf, 1 day ago

@VeroniqueB99 The people without sure think they know what they're talkin' about, tho....

janisf, 1 day ago

@StillIRise1963 It's up to us to see though it, and if they don't let us, support the people who run and the publications that speak accurately.

Yes, it runs thick. That's how the game is played.

janisf, 3 days ago

@Uair @pathfinder @actuallyautistic With a relatively tiny brain. We can work together, though, and all get smarter. We just have to be nicer to each other, and to other folks, to get that going.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/csail-ceti-explores-sperm-whale-alphabet-0507

janisf, 3 days ago

@Uair @actuallyautistic I haven't had a member of another species really dislike me except twice, a neighbors small mutt who was terrifying, and an orange tabby at a camp I really wanted to be friends with who taught me, in no uncertain terms, how cats operate.

The ants in my house and I are enemies. Trespassing is a captal offense. I will also kill-on-sight centepedes (d* video games corrupting my mind....)

janisf, 4 days ago

@lolgop I'm poor as a church mouse, given my church wouldn't even hire me when I begged. That means I have friends like me. Multiple people are saying (quoting directly), "Democrats could end poverty with the donations they collect."

I know many small donations looks better on paper, but I'm going to ask everyone who asks for cash donations for a campaign to carefully target the ask. Those blanket asks are going to people who need actual blankets. This really, really isn't OK.

janisf, 4 days ago

@joeinwynnewood @lolgop

I'm not saying people feel bad. I'm saying they're getting angry about the incessant asks while they still have no money to give. Saying "no" is work.

It's not me. I'm not here to defend them. I'm here to flag the Democratic campaigns I know need their tenuous votes. Please pass the word on.

janisf, 3 days ago

@joeinwynnewood @lolgop I'm not sure what datasets are allowed, but you could look at neighborhood of residence, medicaid status and/or coverage info, or maybe use AI to look at SM feeeds to get an idea of who not to target. The legislators, though, should have an idea.

If you need an SQL person, don't hesitate to holler.

janisf, 3 days ago

@joeinwynnewood @lolgop

Maybe what candidates need are connections not to money, but the people in the corporations who own the big data. Monetary donations might satisfy whatever need, but maybe going after what's needed directly might be more effective.

Granted, this is what the left faces. American conservatism is built of donors, thinking The Church should be the primary social services provider.

Rumor has it we know how to schmooze....

janisf, 3 days ago

@joeinwynnewood @lolgop It's not a small segment--it's most voters. They're the taxpayers.

It's not a bit of hassle I'm talking about. If you want the entire government to shift, you're going to have to convince the taxpayers and as it stands, get their votes.

It's a political reality. Too many people's expectations have been set.

Best of luck to you, though. Don't forget to take care of yourself enough to stay healthy.

janisf, 4 days ago

@lawas @Radical_EgoCom I'm not really an economist, or a political philosopher. I'm a dabbler, at most. My feeling is that we need innovative solutions that drive hope (HF do we need that). We need something to respond to the massive clog that happened in the "trickle down" fuck up that doesn't leave middle-income investors feeling sucker-punched.

That system doesn't yet exist.

janisf, 4 days ago

@lawas @Radical_EgoCom Those small-time investors are all retirement accounts, and maybe a few small-to-mid-sized business owners. They are also the bulk of Americans. If you don't care about them, you'll just have their police, with the support of the big investors, shut you down.

With all due respect, you're talking about at least 100 million people, probably a third to a half who own guns themselves.

I'm not the one who's stuck in ranchville, but they are.

janisf, 4 days ago

@lawas @Radical_EgoCom Then out yourself in their shoes. They negotiated some pretty hard deals, most of them, for those wages they painfully stashed, and now they've just retired, or their on there way there, inside the system. The fact is, most people work, have worked, and have tidy-but-tiny retirement nest eggs. They have literally spent their lives at it.

How are you going to make it an easy blow to them when they find out that was for nothing? Think they'll cave?

janisf, 3 days ago

@TessRants @lawas @Radical_EgoCom I know, I'm one of them. Unfortunately, the way things are set up, there are enough voters who poured themselves into the system for whom that worked. I'm not fighting on their behalf. I'm articulating what I see as the biggest obstacle folks like us face. Neither one of us has figured out how to tackle that.

janisf, 3 days ago

@Radical_EgoCom @antics @lawas @TessRants The blueprint we need is for conversion. I was just contemplating how communism is an economic model more than it is a political one. Capitalism appeals to our basest nature, there isn't even a parenting book that's got tips on how to talk people into leveling up.

janisf, 3 days ago

@Radical_EgoCom @antics @lawas @TessRants right, which involves legislation to limit corporate interference with unionizing employees, which is what Democrats do, not in small part because unions are a democratic organization.