When they haven’t had a Democratic Primary apply Democracy since at least as far back as 2008?

The D in DPRK is also “Democratic”. But when they have nothing but “Kims” leading ever, and for life? I have to question if that word is applied in the same way we understand it.

I got news about that… Rent caps and socialized housing is on the platform too.

CNN did enough free advertising for Trump in 2016 to help him win the primary.

Never underestimate the power of “freak factor” news becoming free ads.

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no larping fanfiction necessary

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairness-deportation-under-obama

I’d rather larp on the internet than enable fash to larp at court until they can drop the facade.

This blood is on Democrats’ hands too, and I’m tired of your Team Sports mentality pretending otherwise.

if we have another election

And if we don’t? Or if its such a farce that its Russian-style ballot-stuffing?

Tell me the plan. Lemme guess… Brunch?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48128843

And when these are the people your party will FIGHT to put on the ballot? I’m sorry, even when I do vote, I vote alone. I dont get to bring a group of almost non-voters into the line with me.

Or your party could try to… Vote Blue No Matter Who in NYC. Back the party candidate. Offer support. Embrace a platform that starts to work.

No? No real Democratic presidential primary since 2008, and we’re supposed to trust that name? Thanks Kim Jong Un.

Then again, we wouldn’t be in this mess if Trump’s 6th Amendment Right to a swift trial were respected, so his name could have been taken off the ballots in time for a real election. Thanks Obama appointed judges!

Way to unpack your slurs, maaan.

Anarchist here to tell you Obama turned deportation hearings into drive-thru ceremonies instead of actual justice:

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairness-deportation-under-obama

The problem with Trump isn’t the deportation but his illegal methods.

To a Liberal? Sure. One minute court hearings under Obama were technically “due process”. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairness-deportation-under-obama

I care about my neighbors, not some piece of paper.

For a long time, Democrats have been polite Republicans, and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

No thought comment?

I can do that too.

(Voted for her too, btw, I’m mad her rhetoric didn’t let me bring friends)

100% real. I had the same reasoning. I’m just mad she didn’t let me bring more people with me.

Thank you for the well reasoned response.

Here is my Issue:

When the Harris campaign did nothing to add teeth to the promise of a ceasefire (such as cutting off the weapons for the genocide would have done)? It comes off as just another empty gesture.

“Ben, stop the fighting! <reloads his guns> I mean it! <cocks a gun for him> we really need this to stop! <unloads missiles off a truck> I mean it!”

Only in the final final week before the election did I find any hope of cutting off weapons shipments. I had to dig, I had to scrounge, I had to be plugged in all day, every day, and trust political tabloids to maybe have it right this time, even as they referenced hints and leaked memos that the reader just had to trust existed.

Evidence was sparse, hard to find, and hard to trust.

Meanwhile, the sale of Palestinian Land https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/activists-infiltrate-israeli-events-selling-palestinian-land-in-us/ Continues unabated. We see the incentive even beyond the “manifest destiny” style ideology, we see material gain for Israel to continue as long as ammo will last.

And rather than break from Joe, she wanted to be seen as AIPAC as honoring his commitments. She had a long history of supporting Israel. Publicly. Loudly. Even as that foreign-state’s lobby backed people far to her right in both parties. https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/

This information was widely available. Easily accessible. Why would I trust someone who wants AIPAC campaign money to share my values when I don’t even see her articulating them in any meaningful way?

Okay. Got anything other than time travel as a solution? If not, I need you to get the fuck off the internet, go talk to some neighbors, and do a moral-action to save some neighbors lives.

Is that moral action a crime? Depends on who you ask, which state you’re in, and how you choose to do it.

I recommend dragging a full-sized cross in front of an immigrant’s door as ICE tries to raid. On camera. In Los Angeles. With bible verses burned into the wood about “love your neighbor” from KJV. Even if you have to make the cross yourself.

Maybe you’ll get a good photo op for the movement, maybe you’ll psychologically break a gestapo or four.

I’m sure you have other ideas.

I was ready to demand my Lefty comrades go vote for Kamala: after all, one Genocide is better than two genocides.

But then she came out “tough on the border” and took that from me. She promised to be every bit as hard as Trump.

https://theweek.com/politics/kamala-harris-immigration-policy-mexico-border

But she worked HARD to alienate the Left. She took every piece of rhetoric I had and shat on it.

So we have Kamala caving on Gaza with rhetoric (and walking it back)

https://forward.com/fast-forward/666427/kamala-harris-does-not-agree-with-protester-who-shouted-genocide-her-campaign-says/

But flatly refusing to do anything:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/crocodile-tears-and-genocide-how-the-gaza-war-is-threatening-kamala-harris-s-white-house-chances/ar-AA1tnGVg

Just like the Liberal Party. Promise almost nothing, make a symbolic gesture, do actually nothing.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-gaza

So when she gets no support, why are Clinton Neoliberal, Reaganomics-poisoned-but-polite Liberals surprised? This is the Country they designed, on purpose.

She wasn’t a zionist and wanted to end the war

Citation? Because any time I saw anything indicating that, she IMMEDIATELY walked it back. And I’ve cited (shitty) sources.

Is there a broadcom firmware package you need to install? I have NEVER gotten away with neglecting that step on a broadcom card.

Which problem are we talking about?

Trump? Yeah…

The “Democratic” Party hasn’t had a real Primary for POTUS since 2008, maybe earlier.

2012? Obama was still in.

2016? “Superdelegates” were just party insiders explicitly allowed to put their thumb on the scale in the name of party loyalty. They used this to favor Hillary Clinton, a Goldwater-Girl who addressed the Senate in the mid 1990s and push for gun control by calling Black Children in Chicago “super-predators”.

2020? That primary was operation unite-against-the-popular-candidate.

2024? No Primary. Joe Biden would go on to have cancer, Kamala had a joke of a campaign, and both of those candidates cosigned a deeply unpopular genocide so hard that it was bipartisan.

We saw astroturfed “no kings” protests come and go.

Now, with Mamdani looming large over the political scene, I see Democrats rushing to pretend their party name isn’t just as ironic as another Conservative bill.

They will teach an entire Generation of their prospective political base that electoral political change is impossible.

When your “left” is just Diet-Republicans that are less hateful on social issues? Your perspective makes total sense.

And to be fair? That is what the Democrats have served you. And I hate them harder then Republicans hate them. For this reason.

I would like to invite you to a Solution-Oriented American Left in Zohran Memdani, Eugene Debbs, or Bernie Sanders.

This is not the End of what the Left is. This is only where it Starts. we have entire books about the rich American history the Democrats-since-Clinton have entirely abandoned.

To pin this all on one man is supremely America-brained - I trust you’re not trying to do that. This is a movement for our moment within our electoral space.

Yes, he is the candidate. No, he is not alone. His campaign and platform are both rooted in a different conception of how to do politics. And that is a story Americans need to hear. He offers us the chance to actually offer that to a majority of Americans, person to person. From a depth of Change in machinery that makes Bernie look like Biden. And it is about investing in Americans - all Americans.

It is not perfect, it is still limited largely to fit within the imagination of Liberals in the US. But we can finally shift the overton window so that the US has an actual Left party. And we might get to explore what that means!

I hope we can have a Leftist as “America’s Mayor” for this moment that needs an antidote to Fascism.

flashes back to OpenSSL 1.0 days, sees same headlines with that library

What year is it?!

Oh my. Thank you, I missed this story.

I would love a source on the Uyghurs that isn’t Adrain Zenz. He is the* Fash behind the “Victims of Communism Memorial Fund”.

All sources eventually point back to him in our Western Media, and its fucking disgusting.

(Edit: he is one of the Fash behind actual Nazi Propaganda Smuggling)

Fair point. AI is a tool.

In the hands of Anarchists, we could use AI to make Salvador Allende’s CyberSyn dream come true, even without a State.

And in the hands of Capitalists, it is a tool for mass murder. That doesn’t absolve the murderers. It condemns them all the more for their lack of imagination, their inability to see beyond their quarterly profits.