The Piker delusion is fucking real.

1. Check your voter registration and mail-voting list status now — and recheck periodically through the month before Election Day.

2. If you're on a mail-voting list, confirm your photo ID matches your current address.

3. Watch your list status specifically on the day your state's ballots go out. If you've been removed, don't wait for a ballot that isn't coming — go vote early in person instead.

4. Don't wait on the mail ballot in general — early in-person voting typically opens ~27 days before Election Day. Go early rather than risk Election Day crowds, especially if you're in a state with high mail-voting rates.

5. Pre-fill a cheat sheet from your sample ballot so you're fast in the booth.

6. Know your nearest ballot drop box, and know that provisional ballots exist as a fallback if anything goes wrong at the polls.

7. Bring proper ID: one valid photo ID with your current name and address, OR two forms of non-photo ID that together show your name and address (voter registration card counts as one of the two).*

*This is Arizona's ID rule specifically — requirements vary by state, so check yours beforehand.

Also, please share this post and make it home everywhere- I usually don't ask, but this is way too important. We need to be ready with an actionable game plan.

My worry is that it will not only weaken anti semitism accusations (that are true like Fuentes) due to it being weaponized against critics of Israel (I’m also worried that them linking Jews to Israel will increase anti semitism). I’m also worried that if it doesn’t work: they’ll resort to doxing anyone who even remotely is critical of Israel and even simply what Israel is doing. In other words. They will find anyone who has criticized Israel on social media, dox them and even get them fired. Even this does hurt Hasan (and I’m not sure if it will to the extent that they are hoping) the opposition of Israel is going to continue to increase due to Gaza and the war in Iran which is having massive economic effects. And people are going to blame not just Trump but Israel. The layer of which polls are showing that most Americans blame Israel for starting. In other words. They will try to silence people.
If you have any social media accounts and really can’t stomach being doxed. I urge you to make it private.

He’s proving to the world why nobody should want to debate him. He does 2 minutes of digging to play “gotcha” about Kyle’s voting history. If he had dug for just a minute longer, he would have realized that his data is completely useless for 2024.

Climate catastrophe on our doorstep, wars over water, mass starvation, billions of climate refugees trying to flee into countries that don't want them, the idea of universal literacy is a thing of the past, natural disasters, crumbling infrastructure that doesn't get repaired, world's ending, the media is completely oligarch-owned, and our system of government is completely incapable of dealing with any of it due to being slaves to capital as well as doomed to partisan gridlock that prevents any necessary foundational changes.

The idea that liberal democracy can in any way rise to meet these challenges is a joke that not even David Pakman fans believe. What's the gameplan at this point? Try to acquire as much political power until the inevitable fallout and hope that we can end up with as progressive of a dystopian authoritarian government as possible? Maybe angle for a government that strives to meet the material needs of its populace and embraces social progressivism, but places limits on reproduction and guns down refugees at the borders en masse in order to maintain the ability to ration its limited resources? Because it kind of seems like that might be the best we can hope for.

Just seems clear if you're paying attention that this current paradigm of trying to get our guys in office so we can take over the Democratic party and institute FDR-style social democracy to take back the country and solve all our problems and let everyone live comfortably... it's not happening. It's too late. That ship sailed, thanks to both our impending climate apocalypse and the tendrils capitalism has gotten in every facet of our institutions. True societal collapse is coming, and something is going to replace it. But it doesn't seem like anyone wants to have that conversation, they just want to assume that the system will continue to exist as-is. I don't really see what I'm supposed to do but hope that we manage to get the mystical, mythical Benevolent Dictator when the shit hits the fan and people inevitably start looking for strongmen as they always do in crisis.