NoneOfUrBusiness

I'll take painfully obvious things for eleven.

I wonder how many never trusted them in the first place.

Definitely worse than Biden, but the systems they're running are better than the one in America so it about evens out. Which, given how the American situation went, is really fucking bad.

I just fact checked myself and apparently you're right. Edited.

I'm trying to train a NI model that will create DND campaigns, clear cut fair use case if I do say so myself.

even i see that we need a "non ethnic", "non woman" for a majority.

The people for whom this is a deal breaker were never going to vote for a progressive. If Ilhan Omar can do it, AOC can too.

Seems like sabotage.

It is, that's the whole point of the term "Bernie bro." ~~The Daily Beast is a rightwing rag too so it's par for the course.~~

Edit: I'm wrong on the rightwing rag thing.

Sure, you're not contradicting me.

It's not a relevant point except that exciting candidates get a certain amount of people excited regardless of what side they are on.

No, it's relevant because it means that progressive politics can mobilize current or future GOP supporters rather than just progressives.

But I will say this: NYC tends to be very Jewish and Jewish friendly. And people are stupid. Explaining "I am opposed to anti-semitism but I am not opposed to anti-zionism. Okay, let me explain to you what the difference is" isn't going to fly.

That is literally what Mamdani did. And it, in fact, flew.

Stuff like "from the river to the sea" is really hard to support in a good faith reading of the conflict in the region.

You seem to be well-meaning, but that's Zionist propaganda. The full phrase is "Palestine will be free, trom the river to the sea," and there is literally nothing objectionable about this. It's not like Palestinians within Israel aren't also living under apartheid, so the phrase is very appropriate. Also I see no evidence at all that rhetoric around Palestine has gotten less radical as time went on.

Which is why most politicians have stopped using phrases like that while arguing for Palestinian survival.

Except the most progressive of them—you knowz the crowd to which AOC supposedly belongs. There are people who will he tricked by this sort of Zionist propaganda, but usually those tend to not support progressive politics in general, so this is a problem that solves itself.

There wasn't really a Bernie-Trump pipeline in the first place.

There was. Now this isn't a massive election-deciding group, but it's an interesting phenomenon that tells us a lot about the audience for progressive politics.

Blue wave is a possible (and frankly, terrible) day-after plan. There will be no midterms in any real sense of the word unless fascism is stopped.