Yeah, the smaller arenas for basketball/hockey tend to be better for repurposing, but I wish the people who run the Olympics would just ditch the new stadium/arena bullshit entirely. In most cities it’s just unnecessary.

This is the one issue where I have no sympathy.

Donald lied about everything else, but he was 100% honest about his intentions on immigration.

I saw this headline and my thinking is: “Good”.

It’s always felt really, really stupid that part of landing the Olympics is the promise of building new arenas and stadiums, and those arenas and stadiums seem to sit unused afterward. Just a huge waste when so many countries and cities already have facilities for professional sports.

The Marsha P. Johnson method suggests that a brick is more effective at creating change.

Make fascists scared again.

There was a good choice in the primaries: Marianne Williamson. You guys decided you wanted the brain dead old guy.

She was even opposed to starving Palestinian kids, but I guess that wasn’t a big enough selling point.

That’s not necessarily true.

And Americans too.

Judging by the news coming out of Ukraine, Russia, and now the US, seems like everyone in government is cashing in on Ukraine.

Won’t be long before it’s confirmed Zelensky did too.

but if that’s how you feel about the national level you may as well just not vote, since it’s inevitable anyway.

You’re right, and that’s becoming increasingly clear, which is why millions more skipped Election Day in 2024 rather than miss a badly-needed days pay. That’s not their fault nor mine, but it is reality. There is no reason to vote when both parties do exactly the same shit.

It’s going to become even more clear after the 2026 elections when the major provisions of the BBB kick in and the new international trade deals, rerouting supply chains around the US instead of through it, come into play.

Unless you’re a billionaire, you have no power outside your zip code.

It really doesn’t matter at the federal level how you vote. Both parties have a stranglehold on Washington and they will until there’s a nationwide cataclysm of some sort.

The only power any of us has is local, and you can do a fuckton of good in your neighborhood if you’re just willing to spend a few minutes doing so.

But I’m smart enough to realize that was the best option I had.

No.

You, like them, are just a-okay with swallowing excuses. That or you’re one of the folks fortunate enough that your only concern is making it to brunch. The rest of us pay for our groceries, medical bills, power bills, and rent and know full well just how evil the lesser evil was in this election.

I feel like some of the people here should consider why we all know she would vote the same way if an election was held immediately after making this post.

Because, except for a minute percentage, all of you vote team color, no matter what.

That minute percentage gets to be finger-wagged at for not wanting to vote for a party that is enthusiastically supporting a genocide killing their family and friends abroad, or sitting idly by while fascism takes root here in the US, or ignoring that basic living is becoming unaffordable. Because, totally, why should anyone expect that working full time pays for rent, utilities, health care, AND groceries?

It’s not lying to expect Democrats to fight as hard for doing the things they promise as the Republicans are fighting to drive us to full-on fascism.

And you making excuses for it is absurd after watching what’s happened in the US for the last nine months. Democrats always had all the power they needed. They just didn’t care about anything other than enriching themselves.

You just sat through the last nine months and you honestly believe that?

Everything they could do?

More like they made every excuse they could possibly make.

You are mistaken or lying to yourself.

They were lied to about tariffs, just like you Democrats were lied to about student loan relief and living wages.

Both of you act aghast when you get exactly what you voted for.

Called it a year ago.

Won’t be long before we find out Zelensky was enriching himself off money intended for the war effort, just like the Karzais and Husseins of the world before him.

After Obama, I don’t get excited about any politician until I see the fucking votes.

Words don’t matter. Someone saying the right things does not matter. I’m going to wait to see what happens once the reins of power are in their hands.

Maybe Mamdani’s different. We’ll see.

Carney is an Obama-esque a-hole who says really nice things but, in fact, is going to drive many more Canadians into poverty. (As one would expect from an international banker-turned-politician.)

But he’s not wrong, and what sucks is Americans really don’t know how trade deals work, so in a year-ish when all the post-tariff trade deals go in, and the supply chain has rerouted itself around the US, we’re all going to be poorer for it except for the handful of billionaires who profited handsomely off the economic chaos.

Ah.

“Operations”

Reminds me of when Bill Clinton rebranded his wars as “peacekeeping actions”.

How stupid can you be?

Dude’s already gotten a sweetheart deal after a literal coup attempt.