something between a viola and a cello

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_violin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_viola

I’m betting he wants to charge fees for ships traversing the northwest passage, and he wants that revenue to go to the US, not Canada or Greenland/Denmark.

Which are the 11?

Do you not understand that there’s an absolute, fundamental difference between:

“Harris needs to change her position on Gaza to win more support”

vs.

“Don’t vote for Harris; she supports genocide”

?

The former is legitimate criticism of Democrats. The latter is pro-fascist, pro-even-more-genocide concern trolling.

And before you try to say “but threatening to withhold our vote was our leverage”–NO. You DID NOT HAVE that leverage, not after the primaries were over and not with Trump as the only alternative! The stakes – the continuation of American democracy itself, on top of even more brutal destruction of Gaza – were too high for that threat to be credible, and everyone knew it. (In other words, anybody who would actually follow through on that threat was deliberately choosing more harm for Gaza and thus was never on their side to begin with.)

29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza

That means 71% of non-Harris voters rejected her for reasons other than Gaza. Your citation doesn’t prove what you think it proves.

The Democratic Party needs to be burned down I am afraid.

I’m not even disagreeing with you! But permanently destroying your ability to ever replace it with anything better by plunging the US into fascist dictatorship was not the way to do it!

https://dragonconeternalmembers.com/marriott-carpet-pattern/

It is legitimately a significant thing. At last year’s con, I’m sure I saw at least hundreds of people doing carpet-patterned cosplay.

Also, here’s a video of a recent Dragon-Con parade. The carpet cult section starts at about 24 minutes in: https://youtu.be/_ft9AEq5GuA?t=1440

(There’s one Deadpool/Marriott Carpet/inflatable T-Rex cosplayer who decided to march with the preceding Deadpool group, LOL.)

Hey now, be careful about what heresy you speak; the Dragon-Con Cult of the Marriott Carpet doesn’t fuck around!

Great, now study how it affects humans.

I’m particularly interested in what sort of double-whammy compounding effect it might have on Boomers who are already brain-damaged from lead poisoning.

we were telling Kamala what she needed to do to win

No, you weren’t. Gaza was not the reason she lost.

And there was exactly 0% chance of screeching “don’t vote for Kamala” in October accomplishing that, and everyone knew it. The only motivation for continuing to screech at that point was to concern troll in favor of Trump.

No, in terms of proximate causes, failure to perform harm reduction did that.

If you wanted to actually fix the Democrats’ neoliberal bullshit, the time for that was in 2021-early 2024, not fucking October! Screeching about third-parties in October was purely pro-fascist concern trolling.

Okay, let me spell it out, yet again, since people still apparently don’t get it: making a tactical decision to avoid expressing criticism during an election is not the same thing as being perfectly happy with what the party is doing. It’s harm reduction, not agreement.

No offense, but that’s kind of to be expected since right-wing Cubans would’ve been disproportionately likely to flee communism.