Just complete and total dedication to death and destruction, and profiting off of them.

It is not the job of the party to appeal to the people. But the job of the people to subjugate themselves to the party.

I wonder what would happen if Harris wanted to win against Trump more than she wanted to support genocide?

As someone that tries to be a bit of a generalist. Neoclassical economics is the one field of study where I have less respect for the field the more I learn about it and the problems that it tries to tackle.

All these metal-phobes around here

The problem with capitalism is eventually you run out of other peoples labor and assets to steal. But I think this stats in this comparison is juiced by the Norwegian oil.

Since Gnome 49 and the switch to wayland, all of the dynamic workspace things have not been working. Primarily, can’t move a window to a new workspace in between or before an existing one and connecting/disconnecting monitors completely shuffle around windows/workspaces. And various other oddities like moving a window to workspace 3 makes it show up on workspace 4 in the shell overview.

Hell, I think 3 or 4 things can be true at once. I just remembered that bunnies have two ears. That is another thing that can be true, so 4 or 5.

Imagine making totalitarian arguments about surveillance and repression of US enemies in the era of Palantir and ICE.

Yes Bud, that’s hella correct. Assuming you accept the Canadian definition of where its territory ends. Glad you don’t accept the FLQ’s tankie claims that Montreal is a “Quebec” city.

She has repeatedly supported the Ukrainian far-right including Right Sector, a Ukrainian neo-nazi group. She made many statements about her Grandfather Mikhail Chomiak being her hero and inspiring her current political viewpoints.

This was, in my opinion, the most egregious and disingenuous use of Russiagate hysteria, in that her often praise of her Nazi supporting grandfather Mikhail Chomiak became broader knowledge outside of the Ukrainian-Canadian far-right, but that even though it is true that her positions and decision to get into politics were inspired by her Nazi grandfather. The fact that you know about it is part of “Putin’s desinformatsiya” and if you let the knowledge that her positions were inspired by her agreeing with her Nazi grandfather cause you to like her less, you are falling prey to Putin. Because it is Russian disinformation that you know about this true thing that she is not willing to dispute.

Additionally, her mother and brother were working with the Ukrainian right-wing in their privatization during shock-therapy and the suppression of the left wing. Even though that is not exclusive to being Nazi, given her unwillingness to disavow or critique her grandfather’s pro-Nazi stances and the Mother and Brother’s position within the family, it is more than suggestive.

She’s probably moving on to some other powerful role, but it is nice for a Nazi to leave Canadian government. I wish I loved anything as much as Canadian government loved supporting and whitewashing Nazis.

That is their entire point. Two party system means that they can take up all space for opposition to Republicans while making their policies bipartisan.

The Democratic party is entirely built to fight any leftward movement, it isn’t just that the progressives didn’t try. They have been trying for 80 years. It is that the entire party is structured and designed to fight that. That is the actual reason Trump could come from the outside and completely reshape the Republicans, but the Dems can form rank and resist Bernie and the progressives.

The Democrats have shown overwhelmingly and repeatedly that they would rather lose to Republicans than move at all to the left.

better than landing in fascist, neo-reddit instances like .world.

Anti-leftism is an all consuming, load-bearing pillar of fascism. Since .ml is tangentially leftist aligned…

Obama ran on closing Guantanamo and black sites but closed very few and maintained Guantanamo and its torture program. He expanded the war on terror resolutions, including allowing extrajudicial executions of US citizens in his expansion of the drone program. The expansion of deportations is not a right-wing meme, it is true. Obama has been the deporter-in-chief, with only Trumps second term probably finally topping Obama’s record there. NSA surveillance expanded under Obama, he was an expansion not just “Didn’t completely end everything and bring it to 0”. Sure, maybe Romney or McCain might have expanded it even more, but that is the only justification for Democrats, that they didn’t maximize the evil as much as possible, so should have uncritical support for that reason.

All the analogies of people to lobsters was projection.

https://www.amazon.com/Apprentices-Sorcerer-Tradition-Critical-Sciences/dp/1608462021

It isn’t that they didn’t “Completely remove law enforcement” or whatever. But that even when they run on these expansions of state violence and repression being bad, they immediately walk that back, make it bipartisan and even expand this very authoritarian repression apparatuses, like Obama running on opposition of Bush era anti-terrorism and opposition to ICE, but then expanding and empowering both once in power.

Liberals are more ideological aligned with Trump than leftists. Both Biden and Harris’ campaigns were supporting genocide and making Trump term 1 bipartisan (“Actually, we fill out the paperwork and are more competent. So if you hate immigrants, you should vote Democrat because we will build the Wall faster and have ICE working more efficiently”). The centrists equivocation of the Left and fascists is just the equivalent of saying “Both the left and the right got mad at me shitting my pants in the middle of the room. So they must both be the same!”

This has really been the obvious problem with the Democrats and their voice-pieces. “We just need a liberal Joe Rogan” or “We just need to get as good at messaging as Mamdani”. All of the Democratic consultants and proponents think that what you believe or stand for doesn’t matter, as long as you focus group the exact phrasing or pitch right or find a more convincing mouthpiece.

Maybe the problem is that the Democrats believe in nothing, will fight for nothing, nor want to accomplish anything. They just think that they can be vacuous empty suites and as long as they can accurately focus group their phrasing they will be able to win. And actually having beliefs and principles hurt you, because maybe not 100% of people would agree with them.