Neoliberals will never voluntarily give up power, and they're fine being the minority party because that doesn't slow down any of the bribes totally legal donations from: foreign governments, billionaires, and giant corporations.
But as long as AIPAC is bribing party leadership, they'll never do anything to stop Israel from interfering with our primary elections.
It's fucking infuriating listening to these "moderates" talk about how big of a problem Russia's relationship with trump is (it is a huge problem).
But they won't even admit that Israel isn't just doing it with trump, they're buying both parties, and it just resulted in their favorite pick winning.
It doesn't matter how much money Israel gives to a Dem, whatever the amount is, it won't get back all the votes they lost taking the bribe to support an ongoing genocide.
That's kind of a huge deal breaker for voters.
And likely the reason all the other Dems who take Israels bribes just voted for Jeffries to be party leader again.
I legitimately don't understand how anyone can see all this happening, right in front of our eyes...
And they're just sitting at the kitchen table while everything burns down saying "this is fine".
America can not afford to let this shit happen again in 2028.
Because the moderates running the DNC would rather keep control of the party with a republican president than let a progressive into the general.
If a progressive wins the general, they get to nominate DNC leadership, and if the DNC fights it, that's four years for the Dem president to start a new party in retaliation.
08 Obama was a wake up call for the DNC. Unfortunately what they learned wasn't how to win an election, it was what they need to do to keep their position as leaders for the only other viable option besides fascism.
And unfortunately for everyone living in America, for them to hold party control, it means every four years a fascist gets elected, and when a moderate Dem does win, they don't actually fix anything.
But when the DNC lets foreign governments, billionaires, and corporations throw millions into primary campaigns supporting both a D and R to guarantee they always win regardless of general results...
Why the fuck are you still blaming voters?
When push comes to shove every democrat falls in line for the center right candidate.
"Democrats" aren't enough to win. We need the people who normally aren't engaged, and the most common reason they give is "both parties only care about the rich'.
Dems continually moving to the right just depresses turnout and allows Republicans to win
Including the ‘progressives’.
Buddy, progressives hold their noses and show up to vote for the least worse option. Personally I've been doing it for decades.
Progressives aren't the problem, they're some of the most politically engaged people in America.
They just get blamed by the neo liberals everytime a neoliberal loses.
Because:
We need the people who normally aren't engaged, and the most common reason they give is "both parties only care about the rich'.
Dems continually moving to the right just depresses turnout and allows Republicans to win
If the DNC wants wins elections, they need to start giving Dem voters what they want, not aiming for "slightly more than trump would do".
Doesn't matter that they should still vote D, the politically disengaged won't vote unless they want the candidate to win or the incumbent out of office.
When a moderate Dem is in office, that means Republicans win the election
It's very very important we finally learn this lesson. So I'm willing to put some time in to help you understand, even if it's incredibly frustrating explaining this for the millionth time.
I'm willing to put the time in help.
...
That's how progress works...
When someone is talking about a progressive from literally 80 fucking years ago, hopefully there's some stuff they did almost a century ago that modern society finds distasteful
If there isn't, that likely just means society hasn't made any progress in the almost century that's gone by.
I truly hope that makes sense, if not please let me know what's still causing confusion. This is an important point that comes up regularly, so I'm willing to put some time in to clear this up for you
Not waste four years so this could happen...
Not appoint fucking Garland as AG...
Like, you're acting like it's been "too late" since Biden took office, which makes no sense to me.
He wasted four years, held zero people accountable, then said it's too late to do anything.
It's not this one topic, that's how"moderates" always govern. Fear monger and then refuse to fix anything.
It's literally the same playbook Republicans used for decades. Do you honestly not remember what happened when Republicans went down this path?
Weird, here is says drivers.
The headline for the article posted says drivers.
It has a screenshot of the article it's complaining about, and says right there in black and white the danger is from cyclists to pedestrians.
I thought since this wasn't a community specifically for cyclists that people would be able to see what is happening....
But apparently you all will just keep finding this days later and letting me know you only read the headline and comments
We don't need a new party.
We need to get the neo liberals out of leadership positions at the DNC.
We're the party of FDR, not billionaires and fossil fuel corporations.
Never forget the blame for trump ever becoming president in the first place was the DNC let Hillary take over while the primaries were still happening in 2015.
Her campaign literally had approval for anything the DNC said or did.
Shoving neo liberals down America's throats is just letting Republicans win. But the people running the party care more about keeping wealthy donors happy than winning elections.
We can't keep going down this path.
Good to see in the run up to what the Dems said would be the end of democracy in America, Biden's priorities are...
Giving billions to a foreign corporation?
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
But it's sad to see someone act like this on a mod account. You're setting a horrible example for other users.
The moderate wing feels entitled to those votes.
And for whatever reason they keep doubling down on refusing to do voter outreach and listening to what Dem voters want. Current leadership will never back away from the strategy of:
What are ya gonna do, vote R?
Because it's obviously not working. As long as we allow the DNC to prioritize rewarding donor bundlers with leadership positions, it'll never change.
The only metric is bringing money in, so whoever pays the most gets to determine the party platform.
Which wouldn't suck so much if the DNC was the furthest right option. When that's how the furtherest left option acts, turnout will always be abysmal and even when we "win" we still lose and billionaires always win.
Gee...
I wonder why starving victims of an ongoing genocide who gets a fraction of the aid they need to feed everyone is panicking...
I can't imagine the complete lack of empathy required to write a headline where you call those poor souls "looters".
Like, I get why the favor the wealthy, the largest shareholder of the Times is the world's second richest person.
But I don't know why they have such a vested interest in using loaded language to always make people view Palestinians negatively and ignore Israel has caused the vast majority of international incidents in the Middle East since England created it.
One of the ways US fossil fuel use is down but production is record breaking is it's US coal being burnt in India.
This particulate pollution from small scale coal use is obviously horrible locally, but it doesn't just stay there
I remember an article a while ago that said a lot of the particulate is landing on icebergs all the way at the poles. Because soot is dark, it warms up even faster than the iceberg and increases the speed it melts. So even when it's out of the atmosphere, it's still causing damage.
I wish we could do something about it, but regardless of party, every incoming admin keeps breaking the prior admin's fossil fuel production limits.
Yep.
It's been a busy couple years, but the Panama Papers never really led to anything.
We know "they" are doing this, it's not even an ambiguous "they" because of that story, we have names and evidence of the wealthy breaking laws to dodge taxes. But we just didn't do anything because those people also tend to give a shit ton of money to both parties.
A single unimportant person got four years in the US and two lawyers got four months in Brazil.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/panama-papers.asp
But none of the wealthy dodging taxes was held accountable. Hell, the leaks named dozens of former and current world leaders.... Why would they hold themselves accountable?
As much as I care about politics, we need to start coming to the hard realization that it's just a distraction so the wealthy can stall till they can just buy robots instead of paying people.
That's the clock for taxing the wealthy. The need for human soldiers and manufacturing.
If we don't beat that clock, then humanity as we know it is fucked.
Everytime we talk about taxing them, we hear "they'll leave if we tax them!"
But they fucking won't, and even if they do, it's as simple as a "tax dodger law" when the wealthy enter the country.
There's not many billionaires. If first world countries said if you have a billion in net worth, it now costs 100k/day in taxes to be in their country...
It's not like the billionaires will really live in isolation. Hell, they won't even really go thru with moving legal residence out of the country that made them a billionaire.
Either they move the permanent residence where they'll actually spend their time, or they can pay the 100k/day to be there and not pay the taxes they should be.
Edit:
For America specifically, we have the "exit tax" already...
https://1040abroad.com/blog/exit-tax-explained-a-us-expats-guide-to-expatriation-tax/
It's not the best, and it doesn't stop millionaires from leaving, but it's a big reason US Billionaires never renounce US citizenship, even tho we're like the only country who taxes income from foreign countries.
Requesting /fantheories
Can I mod /fantheories?
The only mod created it a year ago, made a single post there, and hasn't made a comment/post anywhere in over four months.
They mod about 50 communities, all of them seem to be ghost towns the account was just squatting on.
So not sure if you just want to delete those so when someone wants to create it they can.
It's a pro cycling article that's complaining about another article, which they have a screenshot of.
The article they're complaining about explicitly says the cyclists are a danger to pedestrians in the headline
So yes.
What an absolute shit rag.
I agree OPs link is fucking horrible and not based on reality
They just know a lot of road cyclists are rage addicted and won't bother reading. They'll get mad and share the story to other cyclists who won't read it but still get mad.
14.6 mph is pretty fast when you don't obey stop signs, stop lights, or any other traffic law, and refuse to wear any high vis safety equipment....
Also, the original headline says theyale it unsafe for pedestrians.
But then, the biking website you link just flat out fucking lied about that, even tho they have a screenshot that shows that they lied about it...
Both parties might as well have the campaign slogan:
Drill baby, drill
Pretty sure GW broke Clinton's fossil fuel production records, Obama broke GW's, I know trump broke Obama's, and Biden broke Trump's...
And the DNC wonders why they lose environmentalists every election.
Even in states where fracking is big, no one wants it by them, roughly half want it banned, and everyone agrees it's not a good thing the corps are in charge of it and they need reigned in.
It just sucks the only candidate even paying them lip service is always Jill fucking Stein.
Bruh, it's FIFA...
Literally one of the most corrupt international organizations on the planet.
The only way they're banning Israel is if they get enough bribes, it's the only way they do anything.
trump's been legally found to be a rapist...
Are you ok with people reducing him to that and only referring to him as an "illegal fornicater"?
If someone crosses the border illegally, that has nothing to do with immigration which is a legal process.
Reducing it to "illegal immigrants" makes people question any immigration
And if you think "illegal fornicater" sounds stupid, yeah, that's what the point is. "Illegal immigrants" doesn't make any logical sense if you know what both words mean.
Unfortunately, that's not the strong suit of most of the people who use it. And since the only other group is outright racists...
Well, I was about to say someone who uses that label should be able to understand why people have trouble figuring out which group they're in.
But that would require a shred of empathy and understanding how others think...
Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was also arrested on suspicion of leaving white powder on political signs in Ahwatukee, according to Tempe police.
The reason it fits this sub, is they already knew this guy was an extremist committing crimes 2 years, long before he started shooting up Dem offices.
The cops just felt it wasnt in the interest of their personal safety to stop him, which lead to him escalating his crimes over the years.
>Despite evidence pointing to Kelly as the perpetrator, Weich said law enforcement did not move to arrest him. Weich said that Phoenix police feared that approaching Kelly would pose a threat to their safety. A prosecutor out of the Phoenix City Attorney’s Office declined to pursue charges, Weich said.
Which lead to this:
>Kelly was arrested about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday during a traffic stop. Kelly's attorney Squires said his vehicle was stopped using a grappler that hooked the car from behind. "That is quite shocking to a person who's never had any previous allegations at all," Squires said in court.
>Squires said in court the car was then surrounded by more than a dozen law enforcement personnel.
>The prosecutor said Kelly had numerous guns in his car, including a machine gun. He did not have his cellphone. Similarly, no cellphone was tracked behind during the shootings at the Democratic office, the prosecutor said. That led authorities to believe he was on his way to "potentially do something," the prosecutor said.
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