Notices by John (johnzajac@dice.camp)

Pundits are all like "actually, many establishment Dems *agree* with Mamdani" after he wins, like Dems didn't just shovel $10 million and four dozen Cuomo endorsements and several defamatory shadow campaigns against him.

Mamdani won because the Dems have finally alienated enough liberals and enraged enough young people that they're becoming a marginal party in their own "strongholds".

That, to them, this means they have to go "hard right" is totally nuts.

Watching the West and Israel gin up fervor to indiscriminately kill Iranians in the first post-Geneva Convention war really helps anyone paying attention to understand why Iran wants a nuke so badly.

Israelis freaking out about a missile hitting a hospital, after spending the last year and a half carpet bombing neo-natal units in Gaza, has got to be one of the most grimly funny things I've seen in a while.

I'm a little despairing that despite their negligence, idiocy, cowardice, mendacity, and arrogance the Democrats are the only other choice we have, assuming our rickety democracy lurches into another election.

Like, I guess I'll "vote" for them, but it only confirms that we don't actually live in a democracy; just a simulation of one controlled by two unpopular (even hated) political parties that are so deeply entrenched there's no escaping them absent an apocalypse.

Like, their approval rating is something like 30% - and it's *10%* lower than the Maga approval rating.

DEM POL 1:

"Hmm, our approval rating has plummeted 20 points since we started collaborating with the President on his fascist initiatives...wonder what that means."

DEM POL 2:

"It means we've got to go hard right like the Republicans, but friendly."

DEM STRATEGIST:

"Obviously, Americans don't like how woke we've become. DEATH TO TRANS PEOPLE! IGNORE ICE!"

DEM POL 1:

"Smart!"

File under: what not to do if you want to have a durable military dictatorship

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/army-sergeant-thought-his-family-was-safe-then-ice-deported-his-wife-shirly-guardado/

This is what I mean when I say that Trump will not become a military dictator.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

On COVID, Biden is *significantly worse* when it comes to policy. He basically took a vaccine that was developed (started by Trump), half-assedly "mandated" it, did nothing as 300k people died in Jan-Feb of 2022, most of them vaccinated, then shut down all the free NPIs, tests, sick leave, debt pauses, rental protections, free healthcare and surveillance of the pandemic. His CDC spread disinformation. His HICPAC wouldn't mandate masks.

Later, he bragged about "commercializing" it.

On Biden's watch, btw 40-50 million people developed Long COVID. It took him two years to acknowledge that it even existed, making their lives pure hell. He never, for example, fixed SSD benefits so that Long COVID sufferers has expedited benefits. Now most of the tens of millions of people with *persistent* Long COVID ~can't get disability~. Most of them struggle to live, because they struggle to work, and are routinely denied SSD benefits.

*MILLIONS* of children have Long COVID *right now*.

If you were wondering which is causing so much trouble for educators - one year of remote learning or four years of brain damage and chronic illness - I can help you: IT'S THE BRAIN DAMAGE.

Thanks Biden, for all that brain damage in our kids.

Long COVID, because of Joe Biden, is now the 2nd most common chronic illness in u18s, sandwiched between short-sightedness and asthma.

Joe Biden was an incompetent monster, and the centrist consultants that surrounded him were Wormtongues.

I'm sorry you spent the four years under Biden damaging your body and brain because you trusted him to be competent and science-based, not sell your future up the river so the economy would grow, grow, grow.

Joe Biden was a miserable piece of shit *his entire career*.

I'm done venting so try to, I don't know, READ something before you show up in my replies next time.

I am very tired.

I...know more about the pandemic and its history than probably 99% of people. I know more about it's etiology and its method of spread and its virulence and its post-acute sequelae and its variants and the efficacy of the vaccines than 99% of people.

I will tell you it is an incontrovertible fact that Joe Biden murdered more than a million people with his pandemic policies and set up the United States to be literally fucked for generations.

I won't argue about it because *it is a fact*.

I used to engage with people who got on my case and were like "arn't you thinking of DRUMPF dumbass?"

🙄

Listen: both political parties are evil AF. You may live in a blue-tinged fantasy where all the bad things go away whenever a Democrat is in power, and suddenly reappear as if they never left (THEY NEVER LEFT) when they are thrown out for being incompetent and disconnected. But some of us are fucked constantly by *both of them*.

You should listen to us.

I want to you think about how *urgency* is now a sign of *unseriousness*, and about the broader impact of that utterly feckless, totally batshit position.

Try to remember how many times you've been shamed by "respectable" people for expressing a sense of urgency over legitimately terrifying things happening to us as a people and as a planet.

Now think about how that shaming altered the power dynamic between you and them in their favor.

"Respectable" people are anything but.

OMFG they're "cancelling" the protests in MN. Like someone shooting someone suddenly made the protest less important or urgent.

One fuckface right winger shooting a couple of pols should double the protest numbers, not cancel it.

This is why I don't trust those motherfuckers at Indivisible. They're just establishment Democrats building honeypots.

Ugh. It's so gross.

It's wild how correct all the people are that fascism is when a colonial power colonizes itself.

The media's compulsive use of scare quotes on things that are *transparently obviously true* just because some fuckbag right winger screamed at them 20 years ago about being "biased" is so fucking annoying.

Sending marines and National Guard to a major city because of protests, then doubling down on that, is, indeed, *authoritarian*. Literally.

None of you need the scare quotes. Stop using them. Instead, do your fucking job.

The reason people like Bernie Sanders think that the "violence" of protesters is "making them look bad" is because even to him - the progressive elder statesman! - *State violence isn't violence*.

Something that has always seemed completely fucked to my contrary brain is that even if an enforcement officer is *literally* breaking the law and/or violating your rights, you *cannot* defend yourself.

It simply makes no sense. Nobody can explain it to me. Nobody can defend it.

cont.

I am begging people to understand that *the vast majority of our pharmaceuticals were researched and formulated by government agencies or universities with government grants, or at the very least relied on research from the same sources*.

Understand that Trump driving scientists out of the US - please tell me, scientists, that you're emigrated somewhere else - will also end up eviscerating our pharmaceutical industry, because they *rely* on free discoveries to make anything at all.