who was in secret communication with Putin the whole time

uhhhhh what?

but she seemed like she'd at least attempt to listen to us

No, she didn't. Her own internal polling showed that her support for the Gaza genocide could lose her the election. . . .and she continued it.

The people involved basically asked her just to lie to them . . . not even to change policy, but pretend she would. That was too much. The only response was "I'm speaking"

And if the public put the same effort and pressure on her

How do you propose to put "effort and pressue" on elected officials if you're not even willing to deny them your vote?

Remember how everyone was talking about how they were going to push Biden left after 2020? It's nonsense - your leverage is greatest BEFORE someone is elected, not after.

But we need to make the best short term option

This has been the argument for literally 30 years.

Yes, you're not fixing this in a single election. So giving up all power by agreeing to vote for a supposed "lesser evil" is giving up the future elections as well as this one - because the centrists don't even win.

The reason to vote socialist when you lose the primary is not that third parties will win - the system does give a massive advantage to D or R candidates. It's to record that the centrist Democrats left votes on the table, and exactly how many they did.

Then vote socialist.

No, it's that liberals don't or refuse to realize that "conservatives" are liberals.

It's socialism or barbarism, and putting a rainbow flag on your barbarism doesn't change that.

Yup. We even know when it's going to hit - 2027-8.

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom?subscribe_prompt=free

But hoarding shit and accumulation is what capitalism does.

"we're literally creating the need for a communist revolution, but the stockholders demand it!"

I mean, OK, we're all accelerationists now I guess, ducky!

while completely forgetting the actual history of Italians in America

Yeah buddy, I lived long enough around Italian-American reactionaries who were the most dependable enforcers of white privilege to find that laughable. My Black friends honestly had to look up some of the slurs the old men in Brooklyn would use for them without hestitation.

Italians were made white in America quite a while ago. Reminding people that want to enforce white supremacy that they were often not considered white isn't racism, it's pointing out that racism is bad to the people that most need to understand that.

But meanwhile, you're all . . .

Yeah, call me when American Eyeties are being incarcerated and killed by police at numbers far outside anywhere near representative to their population percentage.

oh fuck - you made me just realize that maybe AI did already take over, and this is its weird fetish, so it's driving us to it.

The right wingers are right, global warming IS made up, but it's made up by AI which is doing it to get rid of cars so it can do its equivalent of masturbating while watching us fix bikes.