Another big difference is that the right wing Tea Party movement was astroturfed by assholes like the Koch Brothers while the progressive movement is grassroots fueled by people power. The Tea Party movement was out to trick people while the progressive movement is out to build a better future. The Tea Party was fake as shit while the progressive movement is genuine.
Yeah, that's Borough Park, famous for the Orthodox Jewish community doing stuff like diverting public education funds towards private religious schools or having a private bus system that used to require women to sit in the back until an investigation in 2011.
The small red area just northeast is Crown Heights, famous for the hilarious synagogue tunnel story back in 2024. Basically, that area has some very pro-Zionist areas.
here's a map from a few weeks ago of Mamdani's approval ratings. All the wealthy areas have red dissapproval ratings. Something I like to note is the red rectangle just off Central Park is Epstein Alley, the area where the richest assholes own property.
I think Bernie would trade himself to get rid of the rest of the fossils. That's why he's been focusing on uplifting the next generation of progressives instead of clinging to power like Mitch McConnell.
People forget very quickly. Trump's COVID policies killed over a million people in this country and people straight up forgot about those terrible times and elected him into office a second time. I agree that it's super annoying to see the news basically go, "Idiot president says idiot things" everyday, but I genuinely think that if the news stopped reporting Trump's stupid shit, people would forget he's stupid.
I agree with the sentiment that voting is very important, so it's vital to come up with ways increase voter turnout. In an ideal society, everyone would make informed voting decisions, but we don't live in that world. We've seen from recent races that people are coming out in droves to vote for candidates with progressive policies with primary races having higher turnout than even general presidential elections. The key takeaway from this summer seems to be that progressive policies fuel voter turnout, especially amongst younger voters, so the Democratic Party should lean further in that direction.
Democrats have an incredibly easy opportunity right now, just like in 2020 and 2024. They could simply point to all the bad stuff the Republicans have done and promise to do better things. The Dems should be winning by outstanding margins by promising very simple things, like not shooting immigrants or making groceries cheaper. Instead, the Dems promise nothing and as a result, what should be really easy races become down to the wire nail biters.
The Democrat party simply needs to follow the playbook of the most successful Democrat in history, FDR. Promise progressive policies and then actively work towards those policies and you get elected so often they gotta change the rules to stop you from getting re-elected. We can see this with the most popular modern Dem president Obama. He did half the equation, promise progressive change, and even though he didn't follow through, dude got elected twice and is still a household name in the Dem party. Clinton, Biden, and Kamala weren't even willing to lie about enacting positive changes and Biden only won because Trump's COVID policies killed over a million people. Even then, Biden won by a tiny margin when, again, he should have won by an incredible margin.
Can't be a candidate until you are at least 35, pretty much. Millennials are just now getting to the right amount of experience in politics and age group to run for political positions.
This is such nonsensical bullshit. A tweet Hong made about Thanksgiving 6 years ago is not indicative of her actual policies today. She was never going to use the power of Governor to cancel Thanksgiving or whatever.
David Crowley's policies are far more likely to cancel Thanksgiving, what with him being friendly and open to opening data centers in the state. Data centers are highly unpopular in Wisconsin and Hong was the only Dem candidate willing to promise a moratorium on them like the people want. People making a big stink about "electability" or "Woke 1.0" are shifting attention away from important current day politics to nonsensical culture war distractions.
AI isn't real, but it's gonna ruin society anyway. There is absolutely zero possibility for genAI to develop intelligence because it's just a probablistic chatbot. It doesn't know anything; it's just rolling dice to guess what word to spit out each time. A high school student who copies his friend's calculus homework will eventually learn a little calculus. A chatbot will never learn any calculus. Claiming these genAI models will develop intelligence with better compute technology is like claiming a puppet will develop intelligence with better string technology.
It will only work if the Democrats put up a bad candidate. A good candidate with good policies can defeat billionaire money, like in NY or WI, but a bad candidate with bad policies, like Kamala Harris, can easily waste a billion dollars.
The kind of public speaking Thiel does is not aimed towards regular people. For example, the event highlighted in the article, The Aspen Ideas Festival, costs $3,000 a person for 6 days. He's speaking to the rich and wealthy who take his absurd ideas seriously because their wealth makes them out of touch with the rest of society. These events carry big price tags to exclude people like you and me from knowing what they are talking about, what kind of agendas the Epstein Class is trying to advance. Ignoring him and his ilk does not lessen his power because the source of his power are the rich and wealthy. Theil does not derive his power from people, but from wealth.
This means that the method of removing his power requires actively casting him down from his tower. Regular people need to pool their power together and remove his influence through collective action, like using government to jail him. This is only possible through actively acknowledging the threat people like Thiel present. We cannot safely ignore people like Thiel anymore you could ignore your neighbor building a rocket launcher pointed at your bedroom.
I realize that the idea of using government to punish evil rich people seems unrealistic, what with the myriad examples of Epstein's friends avoiding punishment. But just because it seems impossible right now doesn't actually make it impossible. It will require a lot of people coming together to make decisions about a better future, which first requires people becoming more politically active. Part of that requires education, explaining why people should become more politically active, and I think and important part of that is highlighting how certain people in positions of power need to be actively fought against. You and I do not need further evidence that Peter Thiel is a bad person, but there are people out there who don't know what Thiel is doing in the background so stuff like having multiple news outlets report on his evil and absurdity can help raise awareness. Though I will grant that perhaps it's less useful on a platform like Lemmy in which a majority of the userbase is already more politically aware than the average person.
Also, I don't think that you and I are fighting each other or that we are in hostile opposition in this discussion. We both have the same goal of removing power from people like Thiel, we just disagree about how to enact that goal. I think this kind of discussion is useful amongst allies and doesn't necessarily need to result in a political schism or anything.
I think an article titled, "Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’" is pretty absurd and not supportive or amplifying. Theil is not a social media influencer who gains power from spreading his ideas amongst regular people. He gains power by speaking to rich fail sons and people already in positions of power. The less he is perceived by regular working class people, the better he can spread his message amongst the Epstein Class.
The strategy of deplatforming works on people trying to spread their message to a wide crowd, like Nick Fuentes or Alex Tate. Theil is not someone who wants his message spread widely. He is targeting the already rich and powerful.
Another big difference is that the right wing Tea Party movement was astroturfed by assholes like the Koch Brothers while the progressive movement is grassroots fueled by people power. The Tea Party movement was out to trick people while the progressive movement is out to build a better future. The Tea Party was fake as shit while the progressive movement is genuine.