winterayars

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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

Their job was to demonstrate that they knew what was happening, had a plan to address it, and their plan was being blocked by politicians who had none of that. They didn't even try and i don't think they ever really wanted to. Same with Obama bailing out the banks and leaving the regular people with the bill during the financial crash of 2008. (That was in no small part Bush's fault, but he didn't even try something different.)

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

That is the only lesson they are ever capable of winning. If they win, it's because they were like the Republicans so they should be more like the Republicans. If they lose, ti's because they weren't like the Republicans enough.

The Democratic base, and i say this as someone who willingly voted straight D ticket and has for a long time, keeps trying to kick the football and the Democratic Party keeps yanking it back at the last second. Every time.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 10 points 23 hours ago

When it comes down to it, when they're forced to take a side, the centrists will always side with the fascists over the Left. We've seen that happen consistently.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Walz was great. They put him on a leash, though. Remember when he was going around calling the Republicans "weird" and they were freaking out about it?

(Edit: They're STILL not over this btw, Benny-boy "dry wife" Shapiro made a tweet after the election that went something like "We proved we're the normal ones after all".)

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

The people who voted for Trump do deserve the blame. In some sense, they deserve the biggest share of the blame. After all, they voted for him.

The Democratic Party failed us all, though. They also deserve a significant slice of blame.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A primary would have been a disaster. We would have for sure ended up with a candidate notably worse than Harris. Don't forget the people who pushed Biden wanted Shapiro or fucking Newsom or someone. It wasn't gonna be Bernie Sanders, that's for fucking sure. I am suddenly seeing a lot of people calling for an open primary and i can't imagine what the fuck those people would have thought would happen, there.

We were kinda stuck with Harris. The problem lies with her and with her backers, who failed to provide an attractive alternative to Trump.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is a flaw. Flatpak is great where it works but Flatpak doesn't solve all problems, neither does any one solution except os level modification. It can be a last resort by it should be a last resort that works. The layering system could be put together such that you don't get side effects of installing packages like that. It might be tough to fix but that doesn't make it not a flaw.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Sortition has the same benefit.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

They know what's going on, they know what they're doing. They just don't care, they like Trump they just can't argue their case and don't care to.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Hitler was explicit that he took inspiration from the US. The way the US treated the native tribes, in particular, was an inspiration to him.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Release! The! Tapes!

Come on, do it. It could have a real impact.

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