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  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • There's a huge difference between an article being mass downvoted by salty users who don't want to face an unpleasant truth and an article being removed by salty moderators who won't let their users even be passingly exposed to that truth. I've experienced that first one on .world but I haven't ever had a problem with the second yet.

  • Jon Stewart on CNN’s Biden book: ‘Selling you a book about news they should have told you’

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  • If they did and the article was posted to this community it would've been buried by downvotes

  • Lawmaker Who Beat AOC for Top Democratic Role Becomes Third Democrat to Die in Office This Term

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  • Yeah, age isn't so much the issue when we have decent older people like Bernie Sanders and younger douchebags like Josh Gottheimer running around, the problem is that newly elected Democratic party members have all been told that they need to vote for the people who have been in DC the longest and one day eventually it will be their turn

    That would be bad enough on its own, but coupled with the destruction of any kind of campaign finance regulations making it a lot easier for moderate Democratic party members to secretly work work with rich donors and Republicans to make sure progressives don't stay in DC for long, we've ended up with a senior group of Democratic lawmakers who have shitty policies their voters hate and only know how to solve their problems through hippie punching

  • Lawmaker Who Beat AOC for Top Democratic Role Becomes Third Democrat to Die in Office This Term

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  • Replaced with someone over 70? You know the party's Democratic

  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • I don't think the problem is as bad on all the .world communities, but it certainly is embarrassingly bad on a few of them. I could speculate as to why but I don't know anything for certain, so I'll just try to keep posting things I think people should be reading.

  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • They weren't, they're still being paid as campaign consultants and think tank writers and pundits and etc., totally different realm of people than the non-partisan public servants Trump has been attacking

  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • I wish it was self destructive but the people at fault here don't get destroyed at all, they've been happily moving from job to job in DC for thirty years or more while the Democratic party and the country has gotten destroyed

  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • 'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'

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  • No they just choose to

  • Malcolm Kenyatta says David Hogg is distorting DNC decision

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  • Huh, I haven't had time to watch that Conover video, but it sounds a bit like arguments I heard on this "Know Your Enemy" podcast episode where they interviewed a couple of political scientists who wrote a book called "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" that sounded interesting enough to at least get on to my reading list, so that might be something you'd dig.

    At any rate, I completely agree the national Democratic party is awful and tone deaf and out of touch, and I do think the centralization doesn't help (like, if I have to hear one more liberal from California or New York tell me that Medicare for All lose us votes in the rust belt and then immediately start pushing gun control policies I'm going to scream (I scream a lot)). And I do like the idea of a political leadership who organizes around local issues and makes things like mutual aid and bail funds part of their political work (which is something the old school hyper local parties would do, though a lot of people called it corruption.

    That all said, I'm not sure if it's centralization or if it's just oligarch money in a world without campaign finance laws steamrolling us, and I'm just as worried about, like, the Democratic party of Louisiana or Montana or New Hampshire or somewhere doing horrible bigoted shit that gets a local majority because redneck shitholes drive out almost everybody who disagrees eventually. Like, this is pretty much exactly how Jim Crow went for the first half of the 20th century and we do not want to go back to that.

    Also, I wonder to what degree the decentralization was just a thing induced by the availability of technology when power structures came into being (like, for example I think we would have had more New York politicians running around Chicago when they were setting up if it didn't take 2 or 3 days to go back and forth at the time) and if it isn't kind of inevitable.

    Either way, I definitely agree whatever the national Democratic party is doing isn't working. Also, I wouldn't exactly call myself a good spokesperson for anarchism because I've got a few state-ish sympathies in my brain (that one time the feds sent the national guard into Little Rock to fuck up some segregationist assholes was tight), but I will say that most hierarchies of authority are bullshit (maybe necessary bullshit, but they are still total bullshit that end up empowering the dumbest assholes), and anybody who says stuff like "we need to respect the office" make me want to light a bong with a burning flag and blow the smoke in their face (yes, that would be a lot of things to juggle and I would probably end up lighting myself on fire, but I guess that sends the right message too).

  • Malcolm Kenyatta says David Hogg is distorting DNC decision

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  • How do you stop them from existing? "Hey, how about the [x+1] of us work together on the things we can agree on so we can outvote the people who don't agree with us" is a winning strategy people are going to pursue if there isn't a rule against it, but it's hard to create effective rules against that sort of thing without blowing up the whole right to free association.

  • Malcolm Kenyatta says David Hogg is distorting DNC decision

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  • I don't think anti-gun candidates have had much trouble winning Democratic party primaries before now or that there wouldn't be the votes for some kind of gun control measure in any Democratic congressional majority

  • DNC panel recommends redo of vote that elevated David Hogg to vice chair after procedural concerns

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  • Ha, the DNC thinks they're helping Hogg out by being associated with him instead of the other way around

  • When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories

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  • Also, it's arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

  • Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through AI video

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  • Not only did he allow it,

    While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video, Pelkey’s family said, noting the judge even referred to the video in his statement.

    It has about as much evidentiary value as a ouija board, but since the victim was a veteran and involved with a church and the judge likes those things we can ignore pesky little things like standards of proof and prejudice

  • Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.

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  • The protest crowds this summer will be massive and MAGA will lose their goddamn minds over it

  • Trump signs executive order to cut funding for public broadcasters

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  • Daniel Tiger gon' use his claws if he has to

  • Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS

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  • Yes, because if they fuck it up we can vote them out of office, unlike Bezos and Murdoch and Zuckerberg and etc.

  • Yes, Public Opinion Still Matters … Even More Than Before

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  • Most of the premium pollsters have fielded a poll to coincide with the 100 days milestone.

    Links to a few,

    https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/abc-news-washington-post-ipsos-april-2025 (arc)

    https://apnorc.org/projects/immigration-remains-one-of-trumps-strongest-issues/ (arc)

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/25/us/elections/times-siena-poll-crosstabs.html (arc)

    Also, I think this is all worth quoting,

    The overarching argument is that public opinion doesn’t matter anymore because we’re no longer in the “normal” political space we’re used to.

    This is categorically false, a basic misunderstanding of what politics even is.

    ... Politics doesn’t stop just because the President says it does or even when he’s in the midst of an attempted authoritarian takeover. Politics continues. Public opinion, if anything, becomes even more important. ...

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    Public opinion matters a lot because public opinion is the ultimate decider, especially when it becomes lopsided against the government. It encourages more people to express their opposition and it makes the would-be autocrat’s supporters doubt he is strong enough to protect them from electoral backlash or even to remain in power.

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    ... The opposers are the majority, in some polls approaching 60% of the population. When people realize this, opposers become more likely to speak out, to take stands, to have confidence that they may in fact be on the winning side.