How ELSE will they be able to BOMB CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN while feeling Good about Themselves?

Censor enough people and keep the focus on “We have to beat Hamas”. Eventually you’ll get a public as rabidly genocidal as the Israelis themselves.

Then move from Palestinians to Muslims, generally. And on to Latinos and East Asians. And anyone who is non-White.

Well do not stop there, you should explain why the other side doesn’t get more votes.

Listen, we can’t upset the conservatives. If Republicans say they’re going to round up and deport all the migrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador, we need to say we’re going to only to it to half the migrants. If Trump wants to bomb China, we have to settle on bombing North Korea (again). If the Heritage Foundation has a plan to turn every public school into a Catholic Church, we need to sell people on turning them into Unitarian Churches.

We are doomed

Only because you didn’t vote harder! Nobody would be complaining right now if Kamala Harris had won. Everything would be happy and fine and good. But you people had to ruin her campaign by talking about medical debts and foreign wars. Damn you to hell! We could have had the a Neoliberal Utopia!

This game gets played every election cycle. Popular legislation is proposed. Corporate media is inundated with “Actually this legislation is terrible and everyone who supports it is a Satanist”. Popular opinion turns on the idea. Candidates run on a platform of “You didn’t ask for this! It was an evil trick by the Far Left Antifa Terrorists!” Lather, rinse, repeat.

At some point, popular opinion isn’t going to compete with a deluge of aggressive propaganda. Well-financed marketing teams can scream in your ear longer and louder than random conglomerates of local activists can fight back.

Add in widespread, strategic voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and roll purging. You end up with a state of 6.2M residents of which 4.6M are eligible voters. Of that 4.6M, only 3.7M are registered. And only 3.2M cast a ballot. This allowed a 1.7M voting majority to control the state’s elected offices. A meager 26% of the public has a super-majority of representation across the state.

Liberal Democracy, folks!

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You such an idiot.

Impossible. I always support the person who is slightly to the left of the most far-right candidate on the ballot. Ergo, I am always a genius and it is you who are the idiot.

Posting this makes you singularly responsible for the Presidency of Donald Trump. Everything is now all your fault.

Israel crossing red lines like a cat going at a laser pointer.

But… your requirement is to make one good faith effort to cancel

Sure. But when you’re starting the process you think “maybe I just did it wrong”. By the end, you can see the pattern and conclude “these people are just scammers”.

Wife used to subscribe to WaPo and my local Houston Chronicle. Both make unsubscribing deliberately aggravating. Unsubscribing via the website didn’t work. Phone calls resulted in long hold times and automated loops, where they repeatedly demanded authentication and then hung up on you to force a restart. When we did eventually get someone to say the subscription was cancelled at Houston Chronicle, they just… kept billing us even after the account was disabled.

We ultimately had to go through our credit card to stop payment.

He’s got a master’s degree in Getting Cucked by Elon Musk.

This just proves he’s smart. He hasn’t been brainwashed by Marxist Biochemistry

50% so far

What i disageee with is that the Democratic Party cannot be salvaged.

I don’t think you’re wrong here. There’s always some green shoots - your Bernies, your Tailabs, your LA City Councils, your Mamdanis.

But you do have to recognize this as a salvage operation. You’re not just getting behind the wheel and driving away in this thing. You need to gut it and rebuild it if you want to get where you plan to go.

I will not respond to weasel but I will jump into to anyone attempting to engage with them.

Incredibly brave of you.

Easier said than done

Short quippy answer? Unionize your work place.

Long, more difficult, and more controversial answer? Building Dual Power: Where They Retreat, We Must Advance

But the idea that you can just show up at a booth and hit the “No Fascists” button to make fascists go away is American consumerist brainrot.

Fascism is a consequence of prolonged, flagging, imperial expansion. It isn’t limited to a single party. It’s what happens to surplus military personal when they get mobilized by the excess capital in the private sector.

You fight it by building a community in your neighborhood that is self-reliant and resilient to violence from abroad. You can’t contract some third party to politely ask fascists to leave you alone.

How many brown people does your police force have to kill before you qualify as a Nazi? What’s the over/under?

Asking for the LASD.

One side is actively supporting and cheering on all the horrors we’ve seen over the last 7 months, and the other is in the minority

Is Gavin Newsom the minority leader in California? Is Eric Adams the minority mayor of New York? When Rep. Tricia Cotham switched parties in the North Carolina State Senate to guarantee Republicans a veto-proof majority against the governor, was she a member of the minority or the majority?

Liberals seem to want to forget the last twenty-five years of Democratic misrule. Every blue state government gets a pass for failing to implement any of the party’s stated goals. Every majority party spends half their time in office trying to explain why you need 60 votes in the Senate to do anything (and even when Dems have 60 votes it isn’t enough), why the Parliamentarian can prevent a majority Congress from delivering low-cost health care or above poverty wages or even a tiny bit of student debt relief.

Meanwhile, the Dem minority’s powers of obstruction are virtually non-existent. McConnell held up Merrick Garland’s conformation for over a year, while Schumer couldn’t bottle up ACB for two months? Republicans can conduct massive gerrymanders of Texas three different times in the last twenty years. They can win the Wisconsin and North Carolina state senates with a meager 40% of the vote, thanks to the district draws. They have minority-majority governments in dozens of states thanks to disenfranchisement and voter caging. But Californians and New Yorkers and Massholes and Washingtonians just sit on their hands? Hell, back in 2012 Andrew Cuomo Helped the Republicans Keep Control of the State Senate

Dems couldn’t deliver themselves two free US Senators and a fist-full of House Reps by making DC a state. Puerto Rico was also up for grabs, twice, only for them to fumble it. They couldn’t mandate mail-in voting back in 2021 when those enormous mail-in ballot advantages handed Joe Biden a landslide win. They couldn’t reform the judiciary when they were staring down a 6-3 permanent Republican court majority. They couldn’t even prosecute an ex-President with 91 outstanding indictments against him. All they could do was sit back and hand him a second term.

Why do you insist on getting played like this, over and over again? You’re backing a Controlled Opposition. A party more interested in legalizing Bitcoin as legal tender and funneling bunker buster bombs to genocidal ethnostates than keeping the lights on at local health clinics or doing dick-all to house our homeless population.

A party of unchecked white collar criminality and criminalized poverty. A party of the police and the bloated military state and of Silicon Valley corruption. A party of mass murder. But hey, they wear rainbow flag lapel pins during pride month (sometimes).

I mean, on the one hand, this is the nut of why the Senate as an establishment is fucked. You have one guy who is supposed to represent the views of upwards of 38 million people (or, even we’re being a bit cynical, 9M partisan voters). Obviously, he won’t do that. Arguably, this is an impossible task.

Then, on the other hand, it really depends on which Senator and which constituent we’re talking about. Because I’m old enough to remember “Town Hall” events in 2010 and 2016 that had very obvious partisan plants looking to effectively heckle a Congressman in order to “Go Viral” with a clipped and edited response. This was part and parcel with the “Project Veritas” strategy of disinformation and race-baiting.

But then you have a guy like Cochran who has been a piece of shit his entire career (arguably his whole life). A man who had been infesting the Mississippi Senate since 1978, as a Nixonian Southern Strategy candidate. A guy who ranked among sleazeballs like Strom Thurmond, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Rick Scott, and Joe Manchin as a bigot, parasite, and hack. For his replacement, Roger Wicker, to be even more openly reviled by his constituency really says something about the abysmal state of Mississippi politics.

You don’t get rich by paying full freight.