The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    Of course the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you–if you don’t play, you can’t win.

    -Robert Heinlein

    The only option is to beat them at their own game. There’s no reason not to try.

      • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        He said lots of stuff.

        He went from a staunchly conservative military officer to being one of the biggest opponents of the military industrial system and fascism and wrote what was known at the height of the hippie movement as “the hippie bible”.

        Dudes thinking evolved like neoliberals pretend Biden’s have…

          • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            Stranger in a Strange Land

            It’s a fucking trip and is basically about while an older person may not understand progress, that’s no reason to stand in the way.

            Now keep in mind tho, this shit was written over 60 years ago. Pelosi was in her early 20s, so even really progressive things at the time seem a little outdated.

            But it’s pretty much one of the most influential pieces of Science Fiction

    • PorkRoll
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      -11 year ago

      No, stop playing the game. The world is on fucking fire and we’re playing games. We need to take a material approach to this whole thing.