strugglingoptimist.bsky.social
Struggling in general to be honest.
Finishing the second season of Severance is the only thing sustaining me at the moment.
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Nah they said less than three years, I’ll see you in 2 years and 11 months!
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Haha no problem, an effect of constantly switching between Bluesky and Reddit for severance banter
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I definitely thought the cabin was going to be where they fully reintegrate Mark (which could still happen!) but I definitely wasn’t thinking about iMark and oMark finally having a conversation with one another.
Excited for it nonetheless!
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Devour feculence!
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They’d rather throw trans people under the bus than change any of their wildly unpopular policies.
Guess it’s easier to cling to power when you villainize the marginalized instead of taking a risk and doing what most voters actually want: for politicians to abandon their corporate overlords
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Democrats will continue to lose if they don’t pivot to more fiscally progressive reforms and focus on them while also getting better at outreach.
Look at all the polls you want, keep watching Pete on Fox all you want. But also enjoy continuing to lose because low-income voters see us as the elite.
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Pete campaigns for the Democratic Party. That’s why he was on Colbert. That’s why he did the campaign circuit for Harris. Yet she lost. In that regard, his messaging failed. Wasn’t just him but he failed.
Union protections, healthcare campaign finance reform, fiscally progressive reforms.
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If you don’t think any policy change is necessary we’re at an impasse.
Otherwise, I agree messaging was also terrible! Yet the Colbert interview sounded like the same messaging last year. Conservatives change your mind! Trump is repulsive!
They don’t care. Didn’t work in November won’t work now.
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Sticking to a message that didn’t result in the win you desired also won’t help. If people don’t vote for you, ultimately you have done SOMETHING wrong.
I don’t claim to know the solution but I don’t find it arrogant to say that the policies and strategies used to pushed them failed electorally.
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Mostly I’m just frustrated because his talking points didn’t feel dissimilar from when he was campaigning for Harris. Which didn’t work.
I just feel like it’s Groundhogs Day and Dems aren’t changing their strategies or policies at all despite failing as hard as they did.
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While I understand that, Buttigieg absolutely has influence in the party. He is being floated as a candidate for the Senate in ‘26 or the presidency in ‘28. He has sway. Disappointed he praised the IMO fangless response from Sen. Slotkin. Colbert should’ve questioned this if he thinks Dems failed.
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It might not be Friday but Severance comes out tomorrow and that’s all I need to keep going
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Adding to that, voters don’t give a fuck about decorum or tradition anymore. Be loud, disruptive, and groundbreaking when you fight for the rights of your constituents.
Don’t just sit there quietly while a madman bulldozes through an antiquated system that doesn’t hold him accountable.
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Had to piggyback off Helly’s hard-earned work to get some.
That first bone session has multiple asterisks next to it!
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To be precise, fuck them kids (I know it was you, Miss Huang)
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We’re supposed to wait?
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Dog-walked with a single question, Mark can’t catch a break
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Kendall could praise Kier but Helena could never L to the OG.
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Destroyed Mark too 😭
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Dr. Strangelove’s wet dream
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IT SOLD OUT AGAIN.
I’ll just have to settle for my lumon lapel pin 💔
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The best (or worst) part is when their dumbasses get fact checked and then they somehow disappear into the internet abyss.
You just know they learned nothing from the interaction.
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People don’t even do bare minimum fact-checking before they start spouting nonsense likes it’s gospel, we are so cooked
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Whom among us doesn’t want to march towards an Orwellian existence while the masses are distracted by meaningless bullshit designed to distract?
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Don’t threaten me with a good time
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Nope, incredibly healthy. Ignore any and all reputable studies promoting the opposite.
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We’ll smug our way to political relevancy, I just know it
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Whoever told him to start dressing like a member of faze clan needs to be fired. At least when he had the bad haircut and looked perpetually sweaty it was authentic.
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Just a typical week of agony as a Bengals fan
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Throw in the factor of it being written by someone from a completely different culture than yours and you end up googling something every fifth page.
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Lina Khan’s FTC made this happen for hotels and live entertainment events! It’ll really kick in next year but let’s not allow the new administration to take credit for her work. Khan and her team deserve endless praise for their dedication to bettering the lives of US citizens.
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A healthy amount of skepticism good. But I have faith in the woman who authored the article on Baldoni’s misconduct, she helped break the Weinstein scandal. Lively is tone deaf but that narrative was woven into one that painted Baldoni as a hero. It’s time to shift the microscope to him.
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Cannot wait to watch The Last Showgirl but I fear it will wreck me emotionally!
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What’s terrifying is he almost got away with it. The general consensus on this drama was that Lively was difficult and tone-deaf and Baldoni was a champion of women. The majority of us are more easily led than we’d care to believe and need to wait for the full story before making conclusions…