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stabby_cicada

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  • Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump.

    Effective how? Has Gavin kept a single innocent person out of jail, funded a single defunded program, protected a single city from Guard occupation?

    What has Gavin created except ChatGPT imitations of Trump tweets and AI image slop? What has Gavin done except promote himself?

    Gavin's not effective opposition. He just paid TikTok enough money to promote his meme shit that he looks viral. And his bullshit is going to last just about as long as "Kamala is brat" or Walz calling people "weird" did.

    Mamdani has shown us an effective strategy, too. Stand for the people. Actually run on the fucking left. Don't just talk shit about Trump - actually oppose his policies. And convince working class Americans you really do stand with them, so they don't turn to right wing populist scumbags out of sheer desperation to be heard.

    But that's not going to happen. Because the dirty Democrat secret is that the DNC leadership agrees with most of Trump's positions. They just want to implement them more politely.

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  • Wow, look at all those corporate buzzwords. The focus on big generic ideas and the lack of implementation discussion or specific examples. And those perfectly spaced em dashes. Chef's kiss. Premium chum right there 😆

    But AI generation aside, this article is counterintuitive in a bad way. Save a Fediverse instance by building a real life community of "handmade goods and creative projects" based around that instance? If users cared about your instance enough to have real in person events your instance wouldn't need saving.

    If anything, it should be the other way around. Real life communities can incorporate a Fediverse instance for online socializing and building community. And those instances will thrive as long as they fill a need for the community. But creating the instance first and building a community - which is several orders of magnitude harder to do - to support the instance? Sheesh.

  • I think there is no proper social media platform to express oneself.

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  • There should be multiple independent steps of verifying if someone should get banned and in what way. And probably integrate a good test for joining the community so that it's more likely for people to be rational from the start (that way you don't even have to look at so many potential flags).

    How much would you pay to join a community with that level of protection for user rights? Like the old subscription based forums, some of which are still floating around the internet?

    Because "multiple independent steps of verifying" is, frankly, going to be a lot of frustrating, thankless, and redundant work for moderators. I mean, we know how to safeguard people's rights through legalistic processes. Courts do it all the time. It's called due process. And due process is frequently a slow, complicated, and expensive pain in the ass for everyone involved. And I think very few people would want to do that work for free.

    (Conveniently, this would also serve as a good test for joining such a community - people are more likely to follow the rules and act like decent human beings if a subscription they paid for is riding on it, and it would price out AI and spambots in the process.)

  • Walz Calls on Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’

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  • This is Trump's strategy too. Make a brutal enough example of a few universities, or law firms, or immigrants, or other countries' economies, and the rest will comply in advance. Like Trump said in his West Point commencement speech recently: "As much as you wanna fight, I'd rather do it without having to fight. I just wanna look at them and have them fold.”

    Reminder: Ender Wiggin is not a fucking hero.

  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • And when Kamala had the entire DNC establishment behind her, what was stopping her from distancing herself from Biden? What was she afraid of?

    My guess? The entire DNC establishment wasn't behind Harris. They were behind Biden, and supported Harris as Biden's successor rather than on her own (nonexistent) merits. She hadn't earned their support, and knew it.

  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • Exactly. And the Democrats made it even worse for themselves by claiming there was no economic crisis - that Biden had beaten inflation, beaten unemployment, and claims of a bad economy were just Republican propaganda. The American people looked at their paychecks and grocery bills and called bullshit. Harris was right that Trump would govern as a fascist dictator with Project 2025 as the roadmap - but the Democrats lied to America's face about the economy and that made everything else they said sound untrustworthy too.

    If the Dems had taken America's economic struggles seriously, Harris would be President now. But Biden refused to admit his economy was bad and Harris didn't have the guts to contradict Biden. And here we are.

  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • Unfortunately not. She's already moving to run for governor of California in 2026, as a platform for another 2028 Presidential run.

  • Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class

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  • Was it really an imaginary rule? I think it was Original Sin that talked about how Biden made his support for Harris contingent on "protecting his legacy" - ie, no criticizing Biden, no claiming she would do things different than Biden.

    Edit: the claim comes from “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House”:

    But the day of the debate Biden called to give Harris an unusual kind of pep talk — and another reminder about the loyalty he demanded. No longer able to defend his own record, he expected Harris to protect his legacy.

    Whether she won or lost the election, he thought, she would only harm him by publicly distancing herself from him — especially during a debate that would be watched by millions of Americans. To the extent that she wanted to forge her own path, Biden had no interest in giving her room to do so. He needed just three words to convey how much all of that mattered to him.

    “No daylight, kid,” Biden said.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5191087-harris-trump-biden-harris/

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  • Yes. Exactly. Harris lost, and it is her fault, and her responsibility.

    The average American is not a political expert. (Duh.) They rely on information, and persuasion, from the actual political experts, to decide whose policies fit their values and who their best choices as political representatives are.

    If a political party has the best policies, but fails to make the case for those policies to the American people, the fault is not with the American people, but with the party that failed to make its case.

    In this case, Trump waged a vicious propaganda campaign based on blatant fucking lies. And the Harris campaign was too incompetent or cowardly to effectively call out those blatant fucking lies - partially because Trump was so much better at social media than Harris, and partially because Harris was afraid to stand up for the trans people and immigrants and other marginalized groups Trump was attacking.

    (Biden shit the bed so badly nobody in his administration could have won by running on his record, of course, but that doesn't absolve Harris for her own failures.)

    Any political party that starts blaming voters for not agreeing with it, instead of accepting its own responsibility to convince voters, is headed to permanent minority party status. And as happy as I'd be to see the Democrats permanently marginalize themselves and make room for an actual progressive party, right now they're the only roadblock in Congress against Project 2025.

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  • I imagine dead trees were flammable, even back then. And oxygen levels were 15% higher. Can you imagine the forest fires?

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    What are "Nihilistic Violent Extremists"? Meet the new internal enemy | Ken Klippenstein

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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  • American living standards are a sacrifice Trump is willing to make

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  • Trump thinks he can trade a few weeks of bad headlines and market hit, for some magically reappearing domestic manufacturing. It doesnt work that way. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't create positive economic conditions on any kind of timeline sufficient to offset the negative effects real consumers are already experiencing.

    A few weeks? Try a few months. Or years. I think Trump is fine with bad headlines for months on end.

    The positive interpretation is: Trump's confident that he's right. He's confident America will be better off under his tariff plan. OR he's confident he can use tariffs to force trade deals that benefit America and exploit the rest of the world. And he knows voters have short memories. As long as the economy is strong in fall 2026 he can take credit for it and give Republicans overwhelming electoral victories at the federal and state level.

    The negative interpretation is: Trump doesn't care about public opinion because he doesn't think elections are going to matter anymore.

    Either way, what the media and the voters think about tariffs now doesn't matter to Trump. Trump does what Trump wants and the rest of the world submits to him. It's everything he's always wanted.