I’m usually pretty good at being able to follow multiple threads of events at once, and even I’m getting overwhelmed. I’ve had to step away from the news somewhat, simply because I know there’s only so much I can do at this point. Trump, Elon, and their minions are going on their romp around the federal government and the best anyone else can do is throw a few lawsuits at them.

Don’t worry, they’ll still have the West Bank to genocide after the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is complete.

The violent protests didn’t do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it’s against the businesses that the peasants frequent.

I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I’ve heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It’s hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.

You mean like the raft of executive orders that Trump just signed that were directly out of Project 2025?

Sternly worded letter? Ineffective bleating? Or maybe they’ll escalate to expelling a diplomat or two.

No, but people are suggesting giving his murderer a free pass because they don’t like him aka he is unpopular. There’s a good reason that he’s unpopular, just like there’s a good reason that many widely detested people are unpopular. It doesn’t mean we start being a lawless nation.

Even after hearing how much of a total POS shit the CEO is, yes. That’s just a basic part of the rule of law. You murder someone, you get prosecuted. It’s a really dangerous path for a society when it’s open season to outright murder people when they’re unpopular.

I used to be on the ml server until I got fed up with the arbitrary moderation, so I try not to generalize.

The CFPB and the DEA are a wee bit different, though. You can be angry at the latter and still want the protections of the former.

Even Reddit’s /r/conservative was trashing this one. Trump may have actually managed to have gone too far.

I’d like to see Idiocracy cited a lot less often, given that a good chunk of the plot boils down to eugenics from wealth (poor people had lots of kids, rich people stopped having kids).

Sex strikes have been used more recently as well to end gang conflicts, wars, and other violence.

44% children, 26% women, 30% men. Gaza is about half under 18, so that’s nearly randomly killing people. That said, these are only confirmed fatalities, so presumably susceptible to bias.

The report is here

The inflation will be yuge!

A lot of what you’re listing off is more a symptom of Harris entering the race so late. She’s barely had the time to put together a campaign, let alone flesh out a real policy platform. That usually takes a long time, especially given that she has to show some level of independence from Biden while also

no healthcare reform mostly just give aways to insurance companies through tax credits.

What type of healthcare reform are you referring to? I don’t think that anything terribly drastic is really going to happen within the foreseeable future. The Democrats burned a 60-40 majority in the Senate just to get the ACA, a relatively modest reform, through Congress. Something like single payer does poll well… until you remind people that there’s no free lunch.

no minimum wage increase

She supports an increase to $15/hour, but that was pretty recent.

wont commit to keeping kahn the most effective FTC chair in more than 4 decades.

I won’t defend her here, she should have the courage to tell her tech allies that she’s not going to topple Kahn.

wont commit to supporting striking workers.

I’m not exactly sure what this means. The Biden administration has strengthened labor’s hand on the NLRB, which marked a significant difference from the Trump administration. Are you referring to the railroad strike of 2022?

no mandated PTO/Sick leave for workers.

What left wing people are really telling you:

I would be fine if that was what everyone was actually saying, but I hear a lot of people encouraging not voting or voting third party this cycle.

let your reps know that your vote is at risk if the genocide continues post election. and then follow through in the next cycle.

Politicians are trying to paste together a winning coalition. That’s why you’ll see Kamala’s platform roughly representing the center-left, that is a winning platform for a general election. The problem with having a hard line non-mainstream view on something like the Israel-Palestine conflict is that playing hard to get will only get you so far. If your opinion isn’t supported by the majority, it’s very, very hard to get a politician’s support.

There are also some great ways to get written off by the Democratic Party. Frequently not voting or voting third party makes for an unreliable constituency. No politician is going to pay a group that plays hard to get much heed. But for a constituency that turns out and works to turn out others, they’re going to be all ears. There’s a reason causes championed by Black women always feature fairly heavily in the Democratic Party platform. They really punch above their weight.

All politicians meet with lobbyists. It’s hard to get a handle on the needs of the nation (or state, or so on), and lobbying is how people inform their representatives of that need. Now whether those lobbyists are scumbags or saints, that’s a different question.

I’ve heard it’s also fairly easy to do security for.

Yup, can’t get rid of someone like Trump if enough of the population is either willing or eager to go along with him.