I have similar feelings and experiences as you, but have learnt while doing… uhh internet research, that micropeens do in fact have a pretty extensive and well-developed fanbase.

The acronym ‘sph’ is not very affirming, but there’s a hole other side to the genre that’s really quite supportive.

Some guys have all the luck, it seems.

Indeed, it’s a factoid that I heard/learnt somewhere…

Possibly from one of those “Astonishing Facts You Didn’t Know” toilet-tank books from the 1980s, before we had electronic poopy-time entertainment machines

Or rather, a Democratic majority Congress could USE that power to fix some things, and then shelve it.

Would they actually do that? X•doubt

No.

Remember their names for the PRIMARIES

Learn who’s challenging the incumbents, and throw a few bucks their way. Or help with their campaign

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_Democratic_Party_primaries,_2026

Most the Losers List above don’t expect to keep their seats or are otherwise election-proof to a degree, but it’s still important to pay attention in the primary.

Instead of ending up with a DNC-approved corpo-Dem, we need better candidates to win the PRIMARY

Mike Johnson won’t call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat

If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva’s vote and then it will be ‘safe’ for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.

When she wins… Who knows.

The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.

Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money

https://www.aftynforcongress.com/

Also, she has a substack for posting about issues

https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/

Falling for what?

Voting for the most progressive/left/whatever-label candidate that has any reasonable chance in the election? Is that falling for something?

Obviously the elections are over, with excellent results (nationwide), so all of this bleating is moot

But

Does anyone here sincerely believe that Cuomo would be a better Mayor? How many folks really wished Eric Adams the 2nd?

For sure, if Mamdani falls down and knocks his head and gets Fettermanized, that’s not gonna be cool.

But to criticize him for doing his best to become a good and capable leader for ALL OF NYC is silly. He’s not suddenly become Bibi’s best friend and I doubt seriously that he’s secretly wearing IDF panties to bed.

He IS however going to have to work with all of the constituencies in NYC which includes like a literal million Jews. That demographic isn’t going to be uniform in its outlook on the Palestinian genocide, and maybe 10% of them are going to be Hasidic or similar. There is really no benefit to gratuitously pissing any of them off before he even gets started.

This is just more purity test bullshit

What is the purpose of masses of tripwires?

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Who even is this guy.

Is he of any consequence. Sincerely I have no idea because I don’t consume any form of ‘talking head’ media.

I realize that my refusal to participate in ‘podcast’ or whatever doesn’t mean they are irrelevant. But this guy seems like he should be wholly irrelevant, after listening for ~90 seconds

Changing the law to require Digital ID is as as simple as changing the word “never” to “will”

Many men would LOVE a reliable, non-condom, male-controlled birth control method

Currently for men there are two options — condoms, which are problematic and difficult in several ways, or vasectomy, which is essentially permanent or at least difficult and uncertain to be reversed.

The third method is to take WAY too many TOO HOT baths, but that also has uncertainty and is a real hassle.

As it stands, really for men they either need to use a condom, or trust that your female partner is reliable.

Are you required (currently) to use that digital ID to access some types of websites?

Can you browse porn without submitting a selfie? Or your digital ID?

The general concern is that once online digital ID is required, people will be forced to use if for ALL internet activity.

To be fair I don’t know the exact situation in various places, but it looks like UK is heading that way rapidly. China is already there for some time now (?)

Eventually, it will be required to log into any form of social media and “Droggelbecher” could (will) be associated with your real name.

Erika Kirk, surely

Thank you for linking this.

Hahah you mean like Lemmy itself?

• replace ‘fascist’ with ‘tankie’

Well, you certainly are allowed to be mad about the unfairness of it all

‘Fair’ is a figment of human imagination unfortunately, but it’s one of our best dreams and I too wish all the things were fair.

My dearest wish would be a version of RiF for Lemmy

But the dev of that near-perfect app is focused on Tildes, which is a very good community, but a very different one than lemmy

I think that you’re onto something with the dumbass White Guy™ thing here, and while it’s pretty reductive and I do believe that people can (and often do) grow and change (for better or worse) over the course of their lived experiences.

So, perhaps today he is still a dumbass. I know that I am in some ways. We’re all dumbasses in our way and it’s the people who believe that they (or anyone) are infallible that are the true idiots.

Maine could do a LOT worse than the dumbass lefty-leaning former Marine that you describe. Maine is composed of roughly 92.82% dumbass White Guy™ (and gals)

So yeah, maybe someone better will rise up. Or maybe, this guy, who just recently pointed out on his own, in an extemporous exchange at a town hall, that he has a lot of privilege based on his cis-white-maleness and personal experiences, is a good fit for Maine.

We will see.

Yea it’s pretty clear.

Capitalism and religion, with maybe a little bit of ‘public health’ thrown in

There’s strong bias against contraception in general from some religious groups, and it is strongest against the “easier” forms. For example, among Catholics technically ALL contraception is forbidden, but condoms are more acceptable than an IUD, both of which are considered by some sects to be ‘abortifacient’ — on the theory that it merely prevents a fertilized egg from implanting on the uterine wall.

So condoms are ‘better’ because it is a barrier method.

The only Catholic-approved BC is abstinence of course.

Public Health also has a strong bias towards condoms, because of their protection against STIs. Of course, actual proper condom use is… inconsistent at best for most people.

Anyhow, the easiest and least intrusive methods of BC are usually viewed with the most suspicion and disapproval from all sides, and Vasagel/RISUG is like… the most extreme example of that.

It is:

• relatively inexpensive
• extremely effective
• one-time clinic visit
• fully reversible, with no recovery period
• impossible to forget or accidentally nullify

Unfortunately none of these factors endear it to the capitalists, the puritans, or the public-health hand-wringers*

*To be clear, i support public health goals, but the AIDS crisis has put a strong and lasting emphasis/insistence that condoms are the only way

Bullshit. A group of drunk Marines in a tattoo shop on shore leave is EXACTLY the sort of idiots that would point a a fat-looking pirate skull-crossbones on a sketchy tattoo shop wall and all get tattooed together.

This and eating the red crayons are a core activity for ignorant young devil-dogs.