Cross validation: “What am I a joke to you?”

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Put it in the pile?

We’ve got a massive stack of evidence showing that progressive policies and candidates are popular and win elections; that centrists and moderates lose elections; and that the main reason why Democrats fail to perform is when they try to get RW’ing voters instead of activating their base, trying to get LW’ing voters. We’ve got like 2.5 decades of consistent data showing this. The two problems we have are 1) we have a media and Democratic consultant class for whom maintaining control of the party is a higher priority than maintaining control of government as a party, and that 2) these people and the voters have very different interests that don’t align and are basically exclusive to one another.

The biggest opposition to Democrats winning elections isn’t Republicans, it’s Democrats who are wrong about where the country is at, who are wrong about how elections work, and who can’t be removed from any office because at its core, the Democratic Party is a fundamentally undemocratic institution (like, we’ve had supreme court rulings on the matter).

So stack it up. The evidence is clear that Democratic socialist policies win Democrats elections. But with apologists always willing to come out and make apologies for business as usual, well never be able to to break the blood brain barrier within the DNC.

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the one time we wanted a Republican to lean a little more to the right

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The establishment politicians of the Democratic party are why they are polling at historic lows, but I’m also concerned that too much has been placed on Mamdani’s shoulders in regards to the future of the party. Its one race, in a state with a Democratic party that is very different than Democratic parties in the rest of the country, with a voting system that while better, is more subject to uncertainty than we’re used to. A lot of fuckery can happen between now and then.

Mamdani isn’t a super hero and a lot can happen between here and there. Its a good thing that he’s doing well, but its not clear whatsoever that there is a political path towards defeating fascism in the US, even if Mamdani pulls this out. If they do, its a largely aesthetic win; its not like a senate seat or the house is in play from this.

We need to fully digest the fact that politics have failed us and recognize that we may need to move on with regards to the fight against fascism. Ideally, there is both a political path to fighting fascism and a boots on the ground path, but I’m concerned about over investing in political paths which have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be a waste of resources, effort, and mind share.

Gonna need some well balanced centrifuges for that.

[Time traveling back to summer of 2024 to coddle the sensibilities of “centrists” when pointing out that there was no anti-genocide option on the ballot, and telling them that anti-genocide voters weren’t going to show up for genocide-lite]

Incompetence is a core virtue of fascism.

As far as what I understand you are saying…

these are free solar panels and cameras?

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Trump was never in control of this situation and had his hand called in by Israel. Say Israel agrees to this ceasefire being test ballooned or claimed; who trusts Israel to their word?

No one. No one trusts Israel because they’ve broken that trust so many times before.

I mean if she’s doing something to splinter the MAGA movement, its a good thing. Like, calling whatever this is progressive, is like calling TYT progressive. And if that lane works for them and they can peal off any percent of the MAGA movement, its a good thing.

But they aren’t progressives. Neither of them. No reason to engage that.

I think PopOS is a good “it just works” experience that is more polished and more modern feeling than mint. Mint feels like an OS from 15-20 years ago. PopOS feels like a genuine improvement to windows.

There was a grant that I was tangentially associated with being led by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to effectively quantify address this. Trump and his lackey musk cancelled it. We were seeing an almost immediate reduction in emissions switching from cattle to buffalo.