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My most generous reading of democrat inaction is that right now their only power at the federal level is obstruction in Congress. This obstruction may eventually lead to government shutdown and this would be the greatest gift you could give a dictator.

Let's just say that some ICE agents and DOGE maniacs will keep working because they are in it for things beyond money, so to speak.

Libs stop thinking in electoralist terms challenge [back-breakingly toilsome]

Democrat politicians abandoned you decades ago and don't have your interest in mind, please please PLEASE stop defending them/putting your hopes on them (and the electoral Kabuki theater in general) and do something about your situation yourselves. Organize, build community, help people in need, use your privilege where it matters.

It's too late for elections, even more if that's the one and only thing you're willing to do politically. You might "win" a presidential term for a democrat president next time but the damage is already done and everything is rotting around you.

All this dumb bickering about "voting for the lesser evil" is incredibly frustrating for people from countries who endured dictatorships. So if anything, listen to them and act before it's too late.

"Now that everyone's dead, the market is finally free."

Most people think the propaganda has some content they want you to believe, but in reality the propaganda has to just keep us arguing and fighting all day instead of using the magic of the internet for cooperation and personal growth by learning about all kinds of stuff and liberating our minds.

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Yeah, it's really great journalistic work. The authors talked to a lot of people to get their side of what happened.

He's really just that brain damaged. A couple of weeks ago I read a book about his takeover of Twitter and even his day-to-day behaviors are completely unhinged. He is surrounded by sycophants and weirdos and has lost touch with reality years ago.

The book is "Character Limit" by Conger and Mac.

These guys don't get it, maybe on purpose. What makes one "working class" is having to work to live, not being poor. Or, in this case, being just an injury away from losing it all.

The middle class is a myth.

He's also the only appointee who's sharing his power with someone else. Ramaswamy and Musk will not work well together.

I said basically the same the article says a couple of days ago and was pelted with a gazillion negative votes. Centrists are averse to learning from mistakes, otherwise they wouldn't be centrists.

Yes, thank you for putting it better than me.

Especially Re: podcast hosts, I follow a couple of "progressive" podcasts and they showed their true colors very clearly when one day they were strongly shilling for Biden and admonishing any differing opinion. Then magically they changed tunes when the situation was inescapable. They came off as strongly disingenuous and spineless.

As I said in another comment, I don't even think the Palestinian genocide is something the American people cares enough about. I can't see how this single issue in isolation could have cost Harris the election, especially by such a margin. BUT, it informs how they think. And it shows. The Dems apparently thought that they could win the election by being as far right as they could get away with. It's their failure for campaigning cowardly and saying always the safe thing that does well in focus groups. Every election they lose is a chance for the Overton Window to move to the right. They tried to capture votes from people from the right of them MUCH harder than from the left of them on almost every issue.

If a voter is already right leaning, especially in the USA, they won't vote for Fascism Light, they will vote for Fascism Plus.

you’re under the belief that reaction to a single issue should matter

This is certainly not true. I understand the need for compromise but I also understand that there's stuff one should not compromise about. Otherwise, what makes us different from the fascists if we're willing to help kill an entire nation "on the other side of the globe" (as if distance makes their lives less valuable) if it serves us here?

I agree with you that voters have not engaged in the process and many failed to do the most basic of civil duties. But when it happens at such a scale something else is afoot. It was Harris' election to lose and she did.

You seem to have made many false assumptions about me but still, genuinely, thanks for the reply.