The senate doesn’t actually need a supermajority to end a filibuster; they approve the rules that set how many votes are needed to break a filibuster with a simple majority.
Similarly they can replace the parliamentarian at will, as republicans have done in the past, but chose to keep a parliamentarian that prevented them from using budget reconciliation to fulfill their promises to the voters.
Facilitating genocide and calling all the politically-activated college students who would have been making up the dem’s ground game if not at least phonebanking, antisemites for whom free speech doesn’t apply were just a few of dozens of decisions the dems chose, knowing they would decrease turnout.
The dems lost because they thought they didn’t have to listen to their constituents to win.
Nobody was screeching “don’t vote for Kamala”, we were telling Kamala what she needed to do to win. Instead she listened to the same campaign that killed Biden’s shot and we all lost because of it.
Nothing I could have done would have made genocide popular. Nothing I could have done would have made Kamala pledging to build the wall and get tough on crime look like anything but an admission that Trump was right the whole time.
That “tactical decision” enabled the democrats to sleepwalk into oblivion.
The only way the democrats could have won the last election is if they stopped trying to be “reasonable republicans” and instead used every tool available to accomplish what their constituents want. Like what the republicans are doing, but for good things like women’s healthcare and not drowning migrant children in the Rio.
Americans voted for Biden because the primary system heavily favored Biden and Americans were told Biden was “more electable” than Bernie, even though every one of Bernie’s policies and his messaging polled better.
If the DNC didn’t put their thumbs on the scale, Bernie would have won in 2016 (or 2020), and guaranteed a democratic victory in the next election because nobody receiving free healthcare is going to vote to go back to the current system.
Bernie isn’t radical, he’s a social democrat, he just looks radical because the democrats are right of George W Bush right now.
They in this case being libs in liberal democracies, not democrats specifically.
One way to resolve the contradiction between the capitalist class, which the state represents, and the masses, whom the state requires to maintain power is for the masses to believe their representatives want what’s best for them, but are powerless to implement it due to foreigners or nature or some other group, or are trying and it will happen some indeterminate time in the future.
Leftism is when you don’t have any money.
Rich foreigners can already get an EB-5 greencard if they invest 500K.
Oh, it didn’t work? I guess that just means the dems need to move further to the right. Why would the left do this to us?
And with VP, Eric Trump, the republicans don’t stand a chance! Surely this time the moderate republicans will vote democrat. And the dem base has to vote for the lesser evil, so that means 99% of Americans will vote democrat!
Eh, while they’re part of maintaining the status quo, we’re ruled by capital, and that was true before Kennedy too.
Referring to another nationality as animals is dehumanizing in contexts like this.
Sure, and Russia had their right-wing coup in 1991, and America is currently doing a self-coup.
See, I can’t tell if you’re talking about America, Russia, or Ukraine.
I caught a 7 day ban in microblog memes for “whataboutism” after I pointed out that leftists were not responsible for the democrat’s loss, their actions would have been wildly unpopular whether we told them or not.
Archeologists after looking at literally anything: Looks like a calendar. Or maybe a religious object. Or maybe a calendar of religions significance.
This country is so cooked.
Weaselly little liars.
Deepseek released the model and showed how they made it. You can run it locally. It doesn’t connect to the internet.
The AI was evasive when I asked, using the Q5_K_M distilled model.
They saw “Look at all the cool technology capitalism is going to bring us!” instead of “Holy shit capitalism will use this amazing technology to make everything worse”.