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Happy belated 4/20, happy belated Easter, happy belated Pope Death day, and happy Earth Day

I've been stuck in a drug rut for the past few months. Hope everyone else has been doing well

Speak up! 

Disco Suu demands to know what you are listening to!

I don't listen to music anymore because I'm possibly a sociopath, but here's some stuff me and the bois made over the past two decades. Excuse the shameless self-promotion and poor recording quality. https://theparaplegics2001.bandcamp.com/

I like the dumb garage band vibes, would put on again if I'm in the mood for the genre

He is somehao also a counterpart to Blessed St.Gulik the Stoned (who is a mystical cockroach who shares the title of Discordian Apostle of Confusion)

It says in the Principia "NOTE: Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed St. Gulik the Stoned, who is not the same person but is the same Apostle" and I'm wondering how this relationship works metaphysically. It specifies not the same person meaning they are divided flesh wise, so is it similar to Jesus, Yahweh, and the Holy Ghost where they're all merely facets of the actual "God"? Is St. Gulik an extension of Sri Syadasti's will or is it vice versa? Or did our sweet holy Lady of Chaos give them both the same title to adhere to the Rule of 5? Maybe St. Gulik begged Eris for the title of Apostle after being her little messenger and she gave Sri's title to him either out of pity or wanting to fuck with the two of them. Do they like each other? Much to consider.

I admit, I'm not even vaguely familiar with Destiny. The only podcaster, or streamer you've mentioned who I've ever watched is Cenk Uygur. I've heard David Pakman's name, but I don't recall ever watching him.

So, I've got some serious catching up to do.

I envy you. I wish I could not be as terminally online as I am.

I realize Tiedrich's style may not be for everyone, but what's your opinion about Bluesky as an "alternative media space online?"

I have a Bluesky account myself and it's a much better version of Twitter. It was dead before, but the platform's userbase has increased massively due to a multitude of factors (Trump winning the election, artists involuntarily having their content used as data to train Twitter's shitty "Grok" AI, Musk ruining the block function to spy on his ex-wife and daughter's posts, and so on). It resembles Twitter before Musk utterly butchered it and for some people, that's good enough. For me, the best part is leaving behind the god forsaken reactionaries and bots that have plagued the site for years. It's a breath of fresh air not seeing mouthbreathers with checkmarks on the top of the reply list for every single post.

But, all in all, I don't care for the website that much, nor do I wish to suck it off. I dislike social media as a concept and the main reason I've looked at either is because that's where a majority of artists migrated to ever since Tumblr banned porn. But I do appreciate Bluesky for what it does. One of its official accounts said it won't use art to train any generative AIs and honestly, that's good enough for me.

I sincerely hope the Democrats filibuster like mad, it's not their style, but it could happen.

It's their only option at this point until the midterms. I'll be surprised if they don't, but we'll have to wait and see. I'll hold off on dooming.

I disagree about not running Democrats at all in red states. I think the Democratic Party must continue to make its presence known in all fifty states. But, I do agree that being selective, and allowing acceptable independent candidates to run unopposed by the Democratic Party in some red states, is probably the best solution to the problem of having no real way of keeping some of these extreme MAGAt candidates from reaching elected office. (This idea is something I had never really thought about before now.)

I wrote that block of text while still emotionally charged about the election two weeks ago, but thinking more clearly, yeah we shouldn't go full scorched earth over it.

And so, I think I've now responded to all of your talking points from your original post. But, I may still come back to some of them, from time to time, to preach some more.

I hope you've enjoyed this extended discussion of ours as much as I have.

I have, don't worry. It's nice to make a contribution to this niche little corner of the internet.

Sound off nerds, who's not dead yet?

Do you think I was born yesterday? Wrong, I was born today.

I like your idea. And, I especially like the idea of possibly creating a Countercult™ to the Republicult™.

So, who, what, or where do you think is the best starting point(s) for getting this off the ground?

The Resistance 2.0...

The worst part about this is that I think Destiny is the best bet at this going forward, because Destiny is one thing above all else right now: a blind partisan to the Democratic Party and that's what is needed. No wishy-washy carpetbagging principled leftists like Hasan or Vaush who spend months relentlessly shitting on the Democrats and their candidates up until one week before the election where they go "umm yeah well like it's best to vote for them but yeah they suck, don't they? " It needs to be actual propaganda. Extremism sells. And it can't be guys like Pod Save America, they're just too establishment.

Ideally, you find some relatively apolitical streamer or YouTuber and start to make them your next Rogan (apolitical, but will platform your guys in interviews, videos, streams, ect.) like Rogan or Adin Ross while having a separate network of propagandists like Destiny, Cenk Uygur, David Pakman, and so on. The "Hot Ones" guy refuses to have politicians on like an asshole, but he's like the perfect example. Have him be "apolitical" and build up an audience of millions and then shove your guys in front of there for basically free advertising and PR to normies while you have your propaganda network building up a base of loyal, devout voters and donors. As for actual examples, I don't know if Binging with Babish is big enough, but they should be trying to do stuff like that too, or gaming with xQc, Kai Cenat, IShowSpeed, ect. But you can't reward disloyal people like Hasan. They've already extended to Twitch so they're in the right mindset. Tim Walz livestreamed himself playing Crazy Taxi on the Sega Dreamcast with AOC, and hell I believe Bernie has a Twitch account himself. They just need to go further with their efforts in a more discreet way.

I'll be pro-union until I die but man it sucks that the working class in America is the perfect example you'll find of the "lumpenproletariat." And it doesn't feel like we'll ever escape that reality unless serious reforms are made in the education system.

Can we get a "Down with Drumpf!" in the chat!? Lemme hear a "Down with Drumpf!" from everyone reading!

DOOOOOOOOOOWN WITH DRUMPF!

DOOOOOOOOOOWN WITH DRUMPF!

Feel better now?

Yes, thank you my brother in glands

Re: Bernie Comment
Not to stroke Sleepy Joe off, but hasn't he been one of the most pro union presidents in a while? In fact, I remember the Dems spending around 30 billion dollars bailing out pension funds for the teamster union, only for them to not give any endorsements for either candidate. [AVGN voice] What were they thinking?

Either one coming out on top sounds like a nightmare. I'm unsure which would be best in terms of harm reduction. I'd definitely be surprised if Elon genuinely challenges Trump though. He seems like the kind of person to grovel for forgiveness for stepping out of line.

Maybe it's because I've been warming up to electoral politics the past few months, but I think this is the one time where the democrats didn't really do anything wrong. Her campaign policies on immigration and Gaza were questionable but a lot of exit polls show that Americans didn't give a shit about the border or foreign policy when voting. I genuinely think a lot of them are just too uneducated to know what the fuck they're voting for.

Well, if I had to blame one person for this, it would be Biden. He should've never reran for office in the first place and a primary should've been held. If people didn't want to vote for Kamala, it would've shown there. What's done is done, all that's left to do is to observe what happens next. Personally, I hope it's just another age of filibustering again. The republicans do have everything but it's not by a supermajority so I wouldn't be surprised if we get a government shutdown or two in the next couple of years. But I don't want to imply we're in for smooth sailing, at the very least the government is going to get way more corrupt and fucked up with whoever Drumpf fires and replaces.

Okay ...

I thought Kamala Harris, and the Democratic National Committee were running a pretty damn good campaign. I was wrong.

I'm not happy that, at his age, Joe Biden thought he was indispensable. But, that kind of thinking is not all that uncommon in elderly people who are in positions of power. The public figure who I think is the "poster girl" for that kind of thinking was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.   

Still, the Democratic Party did hold a primary election, and Joe Biden won it easily. I have no idea what, if anything, might have been happening behind the scenes. But, I'm unaware of any of the "heavy hitters" in the Democratic Party challenging Biden for the candidacy, or even trying to talk him out of it. However, after this debacle, if any of them did, it will eventually be made public.

So, let me ask you this:

What, if anything, would you recommend that the Democratic Party do differently, to avoid being on the wrong end of a landslide election in the 2026 midterms?

There's a lot of small things they need to do, for both the midterms and presidential election:

-Build fuckloads of housing and apartments in cities. California and New York are set to lose even more electoral votes in the next census in 2030 because of population changes elsewhere. Cities need to become affordable, attract people to come live there, and solidify Democrats' presence in cities to make sure blue states don't lose any more EVs.
-Creating and funding alternative media spaces online. You can't prop up the next Joe Rogan overnight, but you can start to cultivate and develop the next Ben Shapiro, Candance Owens, Tim Pool, ect. The problem right now is that the biggest left-of-center voices online are people like Hasan and Vaush who openly trash Democrats and Democratic candidates; Republican online streamers, podcasters, and posters are basically in a cult that bring in followers that will blindly support, vote for, and donate to your candidates. They need this structure of their own to prevent right wingers from completely dominating the medium.
-De-empathize idpol. Don't throw trans people under the bus, but also recognize you need to focus on more issues that affect as many people as possible as opposed to just grandstanding on your values and morals.
-Controversial, but they have to get tougher on crime, especially in cities. People don't like seeing others smoke crack on subways in NYC or Boston, nor do they like seeing videos of gangs of looters breaking into stores to fence products for a quick buck.
-Appeal to men. I hate to say it as a feminist, but they need to stop the bleeding and bring some back from voting red. Run macho man candidates in the midterms like when the DNC specifically recruited veterans for the 2006 midterms when the Iraq War was starting to become toxic politically. It'd also be smart to recruit Latino men to run in states like Florida, Texas, Arizona, ect.
-Let independents run opposition-free in GOP states. Independent Dan Osborn would have won the Nebraska Senate race if the national environment was like 2020. Don't run Dems in GOP states, it's a toxic brand. Let populist independents run against the GOP without a Dem stealing votes.

Yeah yeah I already know, these are all very moderate liberal positions and actions I'm not a fan of it either, but this is the most pragmatic approach to combatting the trend of reactionaryism in America systemically. The overton window needs to shift back into centrism. Obviously I want our politicians to be 10x more left winged than they are right now too, but it's too idealist to think it can happen overnight by whipping out our cocks right from the get-go. We need to push our populace leftwards with genuine propaganda before pushing politicians leftwards can work. At this point, the only thing I'm worried about is codifying abortion into law and securing the rights of other minorities.

Can we get a "Down with Drumpf!" in the chat!? Lemme hear a "Down with Drumpf!" from everyone reading!

DOOOOOOOOOOWN WITH DRUMPF!

Maybe it's because I've been warming up to electoral politics the past few months, but I think this is the one time where the democrats didn't really do anything wrong. Her campaign policies on immigration and Gaza were questionable but a lot of exit polls show that Americans didn't give a shit about the border or foreign policy when voting. I genuinely think a lot of them are just too uneducated to know what the fuck they're voting for.

Well, if I had to blame one person for this, it would be Biden. He should've never reran for office in the first place and a primary should've been held. If people didn't want to vote for Kamala, it would've shown there. What's done is done, all that's left to do is to observe what happens next. Personally, I hope it's just another age of filibustering again. The republicans do have everything but it's not by a supermajority so I wouldn't be surprised if we get a government shutdown or two in the next couple of years. But I don't want to imply we're in for smooth sailing, at the very least the government is going to get way more corrupt and fucked up with whoever Drumpf fires and replaces.

my word means absolutely nothing as a newbie who has stumbled in and has been skimming through the ancient texts like a burnt down library but... beautiful introspective. i'm glad some of the ultra oldheads here are living their best lives being family guys/gals. if only i were born 20 years earlier... maybe i would feel less guilty partaking in this nostalgia...