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'The Oligarchy Is the Enemy': Maine Oyster Farmer Launches Senate Bid to Oust Susan Collins
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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We need a LOT more of this kind of political action.
Come on you living beanbag chairs of Lemmy, get out there and either run or help someone like this run. We can STILL save this shit if we all just got off our asses and started exercising basic human emotions again and learned to care about things. Passion for causes doesn't just make you feel accomplished, it makes the ladies and lads-who-wear-cat-ears wanna snuggle up to you. Whatever the fuck ya'll are into nowadays.
Leave your goddamn phone at home. Get an old Nokia or fish one from the river so you can take calls from the campaign staff. Just so you can't scroll.
Heck yeah! I don't care what party they are of, so long as they are true Americans like I think I am I see no issue voting for them if they got something positive to contribute to our country.
We're in a WTF moment. Things like reducing funding for women's health, WTF! Eliminating EPA strength to allow pollution and endangered animal hunting, destroying data about the climate change and vaccines, removing funding from new advanced vaccine technology, removing innocent migrants, etc. Holy fuck, WTF are they doing!!!???!!!
This was brilliantly stated and you've inspired me! Thank you for sharing this with us all. This is just what everyone needs to hear.
It was the cat ear thing wasn't it?