Indeed. Though I’m not sure we could without finding some way to do this without shooting ourselves in the foot at every turn. No politician in any party incumbent or not should go without a primary challenge. But so many are hyper focused on Purity tests that don’t accomplish anything.
I’m not defending the rot. I literally called you and them both out. But you’ve never been honest so why would you start now. We could do a lot more to take care of it if there was a democrat in office right now and we weren’t having to struggle to keep Ukraine from being steamrolled and our allies betrayed domestic and foreign. All the families now being ripped apart. Simply because Biden was not good enough for you simply because Harris was not good enough for you. You and your useless Purity tests.
Oh and nice selective quoting of Martin Luther King Jr. there. Don’t let yourself think that slipped by. But I’ll tell you one thing. While King was correct to call that out. You know what he didn’t do. He didn’t stop trying to seek alliances where he could to change things when possible. Martin Luther King Jr didn’t rely on Purity tests. Not like you. People are right to have a lot of regret. Things weren’t perfect. But they were better. And hopefully they will learn from all this purity testing. But letting the perfect be the enemy of the achievable is always a bad position.
I’ve never told anyone to accept less from the democrats. In fact I regularly tell people to primary them everywhere and Republicans as well. The simple fact is when it comes to national elections like the presidency. It will either be a Republican or a Democrat that wins. And while neither one is good. One is certainly much much worse. As shameful as it was. Palestine wasn’t on the ballot in the presidential election. But blatant fascism was. And while Democrats I think did the Lions share to hurt themselves. People with purity test like yours did no service either.
But you do you. Tell yourself what you need to to absolve yourself of any role in the problems we’re now facing in america. Build as many straw men as you like. People see you. And they’re not liking what they see.
I really enjoy that you have to put this in code now. Can’t openly state it. And still get largely downvoted for it.
It’s such a shitty, dishonest take. And people are finally waking up to it. Hindsight has always been 2020. And looking back I think plenty of people right now sorely wish we still had a Democrat in the oval office. Regardless of all the problems that we would still have. We wouldn’t have a full-on autocrat on the March in our own country as well. And might actually be able to focus completely on what’s going on over in Palestine instead of having to split our resources now on more fronts. Including local.
I’m not defending Or absolving democrats of their part in this. They’re still not learning. Just like you’re still not learning. And just as much as the Democrats are not an ally of the left or the people in general. Neither is someone like you who actively campaigned against our best interest. Helping to get the worst possible outcome elected. Simply because the other option was not perfect enough.
Yep this really just seems like a tragedy from someone being overzealous. In the end only hurting allies. There’s no good outcome from this. But arguably the worst I think is to demonize an ally in an attempt to deflect blame. By shooting “preemptively” they’re where there blame lays unfortunately.
I don’t necessarily think that there should be imprisonment or jail in this for anyone. It was all completely unintentional. And doesn’t serve any public good. But I think unfortunately a lot of people are going to want someone to crucify or demonize.
Oh I don’t disagree with your take on it on that front. What crypto is being used for and how it is being used is generally impractical. It does have legitimate uses. But as you said it’s generally not the ones that’s being used for.
Spicy take. Blockchain and crypto are tools and not inherently bad.
My biggest issue with them are who currently controls them and what they’re being used for.
Ought, but when someone has a monopoly on violence. Whose going to enforce it against the person with the monopoly?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
Being anti-semitic means being against any of them. Not just the jews. This whole Canard of it being just only against Jews is a Zionist redefinition.
Heh, I’m aware of DT but know nothing of a gun video. But he certainly gave a vibe like the 8 bit guy. So not surprised.
Yeah I think Brody was spot on with his assessment that this is exactly what a fork should be for. And people who want it will be able to use the fork Etc and X work will have its stability for now.
I only have a general perception of what happened with Lunduke. But I don’t know the specifics about what happened etc. Who was 2.0? Lol I wasn’t even aware of that necessarily for there to be a 3.0
Very likely.
Both sides however have behaved badly and both have valid points. Brodie had a decent video on it. Though for me the BS DEI claims are beyond the pale.
The Dev in question was pushing a number of breaking changes. Which yeah, if you’re pulling from git you’re gonna git bugs every once in a while. The problem is releases are so infrequent. People are pulling from the git and trying to use it for daily use. In order to get more up to date features. Some of the free desktop guys got a little too harsh with him. But then he sort of let loose with this whole Dei Etc psychosis. Which did him no favors.
Which is fair. But you have to assess. Who else is likely to get in. Is there anyone else besides the Republican? If there is let’s get behind them and push them. But if there isn’t as sucky as this may be a right-wing Democrat is still better than an outright fascist. Although they shouldn’t be left in for more than one term at most. We should start lining up someone to primary them in the very next election. They don’t get a pass just because they’re not Republican.
Well I don’t think it’s impossible to be a good politician. But I don’t think politician should be a career path. And more that politics should be local and hierarchically flat. Once you start having middle managers etc. Those above them become far too insulated.
You will always have people falling into leadership roles. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But they need to be close to the people they lead and answerable to them.
And I can agree that over the last decade plus Biden has had a good amount of growth as a person. Which is always a good thing. He and most Democrats are unfortunately still highly inadequate for what’s needed to be done. But growth is always good.
Here’s a hint I’m an anarchist so generally not anyone above mayor. But seriously, Biden who dismissed Anita hill, who voted against busing Etc. I think he gets a lot of flack for things he has no control over. And in fact I’m one of the people that’s been voting you up here. But let’s not kid ourselves into pretending he was some really good guy/ politician at that level. That would nearly be an impossibility.
Whatever you need to tell yourself comrade. You are the one that screeched CIA Democrat and then started spouting off useless Solutions.
You may want to get that psychosis checked 🌱
I would get more accomplished if I went to our fascist Governor’s residence and took a shit on his doorstep.
That’s literally privileged blue state leftist talk. Is writing in Joseph Dejacque going to return the rights my SO, my mother, my sister, and my nieces all lost? Is writing someone in going to flip the state legislature to actually get it to implement the ballot initiatives citizens here pass? Is it anything but the definition of empty virtue signaling? It’s like starving, seeing a half eaten hamburger in the trash. Going, I could eat it to relieve my hunger. But no, I will let the fresh imaginary hotdog sustain me.
Don’t get me wrong, under the right circumstances write-ins can get someone like Mukowski elected. But that’s the exception not the rule, and requires someone write-in worthy running to boot. As an anarchist I’d like to see nearly all of them run from office however. Till then I’ll fight the fascists with any effective means at hand. Though it must be nice to be able to be choosy. Unfortunately it rarely coincides with self awareness.
Unopposed. There are no thirds. I will take one less Republican in office over virtue signaling any day anyhow.
And so we’re republicans. The genocide in Palestine literally was not on the ballot. No matter who won it was going to continue.
The only thing that was on the ballot was whether we were going to bring the genocide home and make it worse or not. Spoiler.
Now not only are we not having the minimal to no pushback against Israel that we had before. We have Trump actively enabling Israel and pushing to go to war in Iran. The worst possible option. And the Democrats definitely did plenty to bring it on themselves. But a lot of people were manipulated into turning the genocide in Palestine into an attack issue specifically against democrats. So effectively. That a number of Palestinians voted for Trump thinking he would be better about Palestine.