“I just need help finding my puppy, then you can play with him!”

Really, that would better outcome than most of the alternatives.

Oh yeah, I saw that one. It must have been a real tight thong!

No, my friend shared this with me. He did give me two panels that give it some context, but I don’t know the issue. Apparently, the real backstory here is Batman got in a fight with the JLA:

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Honestly, I feel bad for Robin. People forget that Batman can get a bit stiff, and when he does, he can be a hard on the Boy Wonder. Plus, he’s just a kid, so he doesn’t have as much stamina as Batman; whenever they’re going at it with a bunch of big, tough guys, Robin’s usually the first one to wind up face down after getting licked. Don’t get me wrong, everyone knows the two of them are bosom buddy’s, but there’s no denying that somtimes, Bruce’s little dick gets ridden hard and put away wet.

It was entirely innocent. The writers were just having a gay time talking about Penguin’s Boobies and Joker’s Boners, but no one thought there was anything queer about it. They were all just trying to create amazing stories to top each other.

Honestly, my friend sent me this panel alone and I assumed it was from one of those 60s soap opera comics.

Why not? The post is more likely to drive leftists away from the Democrats than towards them. Maybe these Russians have stopped posing leftists who are trying to convince other leftists not to vote Democrat and instead are posing as centrists in order to alienate leftists. There’s just as much evidence for that theory as there is for any of the other baseless accusations of Russian trolling I’ve seen here.

Well, it’s based on that assumption if you’re a leftist. Harris has spent the last two months tailoring her message to center-right Republicans, but if they vote for Trump or the Libertarian candidate, the centrist Dems aren’t going to blame them. However, if the leftists that her campaign has been deliberately ignoring vote third-party, then they’re entirely to blame.

Anyway, if you live in a swing state, you should vote for Harris, harm reduction, etc., etc. But if the Democrats are going to exclusively target centrists, it would be nice if they blamed the centrists for not voting for them.

Do they think your odds get better if you’re get thrown down a metal tube on impact?

Their demand has always been one thing: “Can you stop using my tax money to bankroll the funding of my family/friends/friends’ families”.

Actually, their demands were much smaller than that. They wanted the DNC to allow a Palestinian to speak at the DNC in order to bring attention to the destruction in Gaza and call for a ceasefire (which is totally in line with Harris’ position). The DNC refused, so the Uncommitted movement next asked for Harris to just have a meeting with them to discuss Gaza, and gave her a month to do so. Harris ignored them, so they refused to endorse her. The whole movement was basically, “just make any gesture towards the Palestinian community,” and the Harris campaign refused. It really was a massive unforced error on their part.

Who is this for? They’re acting like getting endorsements from the families of Bush and Cheney is like getting an endorsement from Ronald Regan, but Bush and Cheney were not popular at the end of their administration; they started two interminable wars and ended with the largest recession in recent history. Trump cut his teeth in 2016 by trashing George Bush and curb-stomping his brother in the primary. Conservatives who are still open to Trump probably aren’t huge fans of the Bush family! All this is doing is demoralizing the progressive base and showing conservatives that the kind of Republicans they rejected in 2016 support Harris.

The original commenter did give an example. They referenced the DNC not allowing a Palestinian to speak (which, again, is cited the article that we all presumably read before we started commenting). That example was met with, “citation needed.”

Anyway, I’m not familiar with the quote you gave, I feel no obligation to look it up, but I do feel entitled to your time and energy. Provide me with a hyperlink proving it’s real or it never happened.

Yup. We gotta vote for them this election, but replace them in the next. Otherwise, we’re just hitting snooze on fascism for another 4 years.

What about my original comment led you to believe I thought they were equivalent? As I said, Republicans are vile, hateful, and exploiting our political divisions for power. But the Democrats are just as responsible for the material conditions that have allowed facism to flourish, and demanding accountability and change for that isn’t nitpicking. If the Democrats don’t stop being corporate stooges, this doesn’t end if Trump is defeated; it ends when another fascist finally wins.

Where’s that quote from? Citation needed.

History didn’t start in 2016. The Democrats were happy to cozy up to the Silicone Valley tech giants, even as they developed into monopolies whose products gave users the very brain-poisoning that delivered Trump. They were happy to prioritize Wall Street bailouts over homeowners’ bailouts after the subprime mortgage crises, even if meant their constituents lost their homes. They’ve been happy to sideline or undermine anyone who dares run to their left, from Bernie Sanders to Rashida Tlaib.

The Democrats are not well-meaning, helpless progressives that just can’t get anything done because of America’s byzantine political structure. They have actively stopped any significant changes to the status quo in order to keep their donors happy. They’ve spent decades deluding themselves into thinking they could somehow improve conditions for the working class without demanding concessions from the billionaire class, even as the largest wealth transfer in history, from the lowest income Americans to the highest income Americans, was taking place. They may not be as vile or hateful as the Republicans, but they are just as responsible for America’s decay.

Oh, that’s easy; we don’t! Every four years, the fabric of our society frays and tears a little more, while our politicians either exploit our divisions or attempt to repair them without making any changes to the material conditions or systemic problems that create these fractures, because fixing these underlying issues would upset the handful of billionaires that actually control our government! But there’s a new Fast & Furious movie every two or three years, so it balances out.

And I think there’s a difference between asking people to back up a fact or statistic and asking people to read the news for you. If someone is going to do the latter, then they should at least start with a polite (or at least neutral) inquiry before jumping to skeptical demands for sources.