Even impoverished Americans have a relatively high standard of living, globally speaking. People are struggling, but they generally have a roof over their heads and don’t have to eat their pets. We’re not where we should be by any measure, but we’re also nowhere near the levels of desperation that push people to armed revolt.
Eh, bread and circuses. People are still relatively comfortable and complacent.
I wanted to be a mechanical engineer growing up, I was always playing with Lego and building little mechanisms. Then I had a physics teacher who got into the subject of physics vs engineering. He told the class about his brother who was an engineer for some electric motor company, and how his team would spend 18 months fiddling with the parameters of a motor, and they’d throw a party if they increased efficiency by 0.5%. I couldn’t disagree with his assessment that that sounded boring and soul-draining.
It sounds like the perfect job for a certain kind of person, and I am not that kind of person.
They rest in the boxes they came in.
I think you might be ascribing more popularity and influence to lemmings than is justified. I certainly didn’t nominate Biden in 2020, but I voted for him because the alternative was worse.
Saying Biden was worse than Trump on Gaza is batshit. One of the very first things Trump did after being sworn in was release all the holds Biden placed on arms to Israel. Those were actual holds, objectively not bullshit. Trump was immediately objectively worse. As was predicted. One side told pro-Palestine protesters to wait their turn to talk, the other revoked their degrees and arrested them. Sure, both sides are bad, but one side is unquestionably worse, and no other candidate stood a chance of winning so their positions are entirely irrelevant.
Clever how you conveniently ignored the second part of “3rd party and protest non-voting”. The 3rd party voters have a share of the blame, but most of it falls on the abstainers. Those that showed up to hold their nose and vote Biden over Trump, but didn’t do the same for Harris. But really, that blame actually falls on the people that loudly disparaged the Democrats and declared voting for them to be complicit in genocide.
It’s time for the people to call the establishment to account, but it’s also time for the people to reject fascism and that’s a higher priority. I want the Democrats to be a right wing party; specifically, I want them to be the right wing party. Destroying the far-right is more urgent than building the far-left.
Not voting is stupid. Voting 3rd party right now is stupid. Vote lesser evil and encourage everyone to view less evil. If you want to back a leftist, have them infiltrate one of the parties so they can be part of the binary choice. Mamdani is the poster child of effective progressivism: get experience organizing, run for minor local office, run for major local office. Climb the ladder, don’t just jump onto the presidential ballot with zero government experience.
The people who backed Cuomo are better than the ones who back MAGA. If you have RCV, go ahead and vote your conscience. Everyone else needs to realize that for now it’s a binary choice, and that “everyone else” is the vast majority.
Lemmy is already radicalized. Save your criticisms for the general population.
Why are you telling us? You’re preaching to the choir here bud. Shockingly, lemmings do not determine DNC policy. If you want to complain about that, write DNC leadership. What lemmings can do is vote, and the top comment was directed at those who smugly "both-sides"ed Gaza to discourage voting for Harris. The push for 3rd parties or protest non-voting was an ill-conceived attempt to change the guard.
The Democrats ran their party into the ground, but Republicans are to blame for driving the country into the ground. I cannot conceive of a good faith reason to target the uninspiring neo-liberals before the “populist” fascists.
I’m recognizing that the Democratic establishment is the first enemy that must be defeated before we have a chance to beat the Republicans.
Yeah good luck with that, your logic is backwards. Republicans have to go first, coming to any other conclusion is absolutely batshit. You don’t change the guard in the middle of a siege, that’s how you get fascists in the castle. Oh look, that’s exactly what happened.
And when you spend an entire election cycle smugly both-sidesing to the benefit of a fascist, people are going to call it out when the fascist it helped win does the predictable fascist things everyone said they were going to do. Learn to live with it, or get better electoral strategies. The whining is pathetic.
Broken clock
I suppose there’s Mensa for adults, but again didn’t do that because I’m not a loser, and intelligence is what you do with it not the results of a test. I never bankrupted a casino with my intelligence, much less six times.
It is in the ways that matter here. “Own” here refers to being independent from your parents specifically, not property ownership.
To be fair, geopolitics is complicated. Ever seen The Good Place? I suspect it’s pretty difficult to stay totally uninvolved in war crimes as a major world leader. The Doug Forcetts of geopolitics don’t do much evil, but they don’t do enough good to get peace prizes either.
I’ve aced cognitive tests, the ones to see if you’re a genius, not to test for dementia. But I don’t go around talking about it because I’m not a loser. Bragging about taking dementia tests is wild.
You ever play tag with that kid who called time out right before getting tagged?
Most other cheeses are named after regions that had the specific cultures, climate conditions, and artisinal practices necessary to produce that particular cheese. Cottage cheese is just sorta the base cheese that any old peasant can make in their cottage.
We need thousands of people running, in every single race everywhere. Flood the local offices with leftists, School Board to City Council to County Commissioner. That’s where political careers start.
And would you say that situation has gotten better, or worse under the new administration?
A perfect illustration. Politics is slow. It may seem like things are moving quickly in this administration, but the groundwork to get to this point took generations of propaganda and power concentration. Even if by some miracle, a leftist third party won the White House, they wouldn’t have the foundation necessary to actually do anything. The push to the left is going to be a slow process, and the first several election cycles are going to look a lot like milquetoast liberalism.