They are unreachable. This is the most heavily propagandized country on the planet and most don’t have the education to understand our political situation. Try and explain why corporate campaign financing is a bad idea and half of us start whinging about freedom of speech.

Roughly half of the population has absolutely no clue what’s going on. Kids, old people, non-news-readers/viewers, etc.

A third of the population is vaguely aware that some shit is going down based on vibes but can’t identify the problem.

Half the remaining sixth can identify the problem as political but misattribute the cause. Leaving just a 12th of the population actually aware of our situation.

You’re probably more correct than me, lol~

Yep

Yes you people. Fuck off with the faux outrage.

I’m not outraged, I’m confused. Who is “you people” supposed to be referring to?

She’s a politician that did a stupid politician thing. It’s so fucking stupid to give a single shit about it.

And yet, here you are getting mad because people didn’t give enough of a shit about it.

Clearly it failed. But it’s a really fucking stupid reason to not vote for her. Just completely ignorant of the political reality we were in.

Says the guy trying to blame the voters in a country that science says is not and has never been a democracy.

does the math That’s like 15kg/human. An empty 12-Oz coke bottle weighs about 15 grams, so that’s just about 100 bottles per human per year.

Man you people are a bunch of fucking snowflakes after all aren’t you?

“You people”?

Throw a hissy fit because the only viable candidate that wasn’t going to quite literally destroy our democracy didn’t turn out perfect.

Who are you talking about? Harris destroyed her own campaign by squandering all the momentum gained from dropping Biden off the ticket.

She was never a viable candidate because she chose to fight right-wing populism with mealy-mouthed bipartisanship.

If you haven’t grasped it yet, I’m not sure you’re capable of understanding. You even said yourself that she, “tried to appeal to” those people, which implies that you understand that it was 100% a political move to try to get votes.

I genuinely do not understand what your point is. It sounds like you’ve got your understanding of electoral politics backwards, the onus is on political parties to earn our votes and parties that can’t convince people to vote for them lose elections. Individual choice doesn’t matter, what matters is who has the best propaganda.

He’s too busy encouraging concerned parents in Texas to give their kids liver damage.

Only half? I’d imagine the entire left would be excited to have some left-wing representation. The centrist and right-wing Democrats only need us to make their party relevant.

It died when she tried tried appealing to “moderate republicans” instead of democrats.

Or having a button to refresh RSS feeds.

Pretending that the old rules still apply is how Empires fall.

I think it comes from the right place, though. Anything that’s smart enough to do actual work deserves the same rights to it as anyone else does.

It’s best that we get the legal system out ahead of the inevitable development of sentient software before Big Tech starts simulating scanned human brains for a truly captive workforce. I, for one, do not cherish the thought of any digital afterlife where virtual people do not own themselves.

Why would they let us do that when those same do-nothing centrists get to decide who’s allowed to run in the primary?

Mood.

I can’t blame Americans though, the last mass protest movement fizzled out just like Occupy because billionaire-owned mass media gets to decide which protests are valid.

Why would you deliberately crowdfund national propaganda?

I’ve been burned by too many promises like that to get my hopes up for a political party, but I’ll hear about it if they start acting like they want my support.

The fact that they haven’t started kicking out DINOs and corporate financiers bodes ill for the odds that we’ll see a face-turn.

Sadly, I don’t have your faith that the system will allow us to fix it. It’s not our system, it never was, and the people in power have no reason to abolish themselves and put democracy in charge.

There is no “fixing it”, the real question is how we’ll navigate the interesting times ahead.

Cool. Wake me up when Trump and Elon start caring about behaving lawfully.

I do blame them, though. They could have ridden the coattails of Biden’s withdrawal all the way to victory, but instead Hartis capitulated and palled around on stages with Republicans instead of Walz.

The failure of the Democrat campaign has a lot of causes, but none more so than the failure of leadership.