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  • Getting through Leviticus or Numbers is such a slog. There's some juicy stuff in there, but the record-keeping parts get real old, real fast.

  • No, we're here because the Democratic leadership couldn't be fucking bothered.

  • Even more horrendous.

    Trump having a bad economy doesn't exclude Biden from having a bad economy.

    • Vetos a bill to cap insulin prices.
    • Vetos bills to build social and LGBTQ+ teen housing
    • Vetos a bill to provide hearing-aids to kids
    • Vetos a bill to make the rich pay taxes
    • Ran on a single-payer healthcare system, then immediately backes down
    • Vetos a bill to let striking workers keep their insurance
    • Vetos a bill that banned employers from retalliating against picketers
    • Proudly does a photo-op while destroying peoples homes

    BUT AT LEAST WE CAN BE SMUG THAT WE DIDN'T SETTLE FOR LESS THAN PERFECT.

    I'm not sure you understand what the word "Perfect" means. We're not asking for an angel, we're only asking for a candidate that isn't a monster. But the Democrats refuse to let us have that as an option.

  • I'm not sure you understand my position. I'm against the Democrats and the Republicans. I don't think voting will be our solution. I'm pretty sure that I never said we can reform it, and I think we're gonna have to tear it all down and start over.

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  • It's always been amazing to me to watch the Democratic leadership complain about their "messaging problem", instead of trying to fix their "policy problem".

  • Have they tried just doing what would help the general public?

    They've made it pretty clear that they'd rather keep losing, as long as it keeps their rich donors happy.

  • You mean the organization that Obama and Biden supported, and used to disappear people?

  • I don't think "sucks so much more" is all that accurate though. Both candidates do want to fuck the world.

    Where were the checks and balances when the Democrats were Drone-Striking kids? Where were the checks and balances when the Democrats were mass-deporting people? Where were the Checks and balances for torture programs, killing americans, giving our tax money to their rich friends, building out surveillance programs, backing a genocide, etc?

    Yes, one side is worse, but the supposed "opposition" is doing everything they can to get as close to the worse side as they can.

  • Hillary won the popular vote, and Obama was one of our most popular presidents. While yes, sexism and racism played a role in Harris' failure, it wasn't the main problem. Her being a terrible politician, running a terrible campaign, on the coat-tails of a terrible president was the main problem.

  • Do you mean Subverse? Searching for Subspace is just redirecting me to Subverse, but maybe I'm missing it

  • And yet you'll bang your head against the wall of third parties that have failed to achieve anything whatsoever in over 150 years.

    Yes. I still think that is going to be faster than the Democratic leadership changing their core values.

    I don't know of any who were targeted merely for speech...

    This happened during the anti-genocide college protests. He also arrested people who protested his speeches.

  • The democracy where dissidents get arrested and disappeared to foreign prisons or the one where they don't. Where autocratic leaders can get peacefully deposed or the one where they don't.

    Considering that these things happened both under the Democrats and the Republicans, you are going to have to be more specific.

    My argument is you create a situation where democratic leadership either gets removed by intra-party politics and replaced by allies, or existing has no choice but to concede due to pressure from a large organized movement.

    Once again, they've already signaled that they'd rather lose than do this. Fight for it if you want, but I'm not going to waste my time banging my head against the same wall.

  • Then maybe the Dems should stop building the bombs, and handing them to the Republicans.