I love that Bernie meme lol

Both sides are bad. And by that I mean Democrats never represent the Left while routinely allowing the Right to exert their selfishness and greed. They are controlled opposition to frame American politics as a binary, when in reality an entire half of the political spectrum could be represented to widespread approval

If it’s a straight line from Nixon to Trump as you say, then why claim Republicans are environmentalists with Nixon as your example?

He said straight line THROUGH Nixon and Trump, not straight line TO Nixon and Trump.

The former implies distinct and self-evident political differences, whereas the latter implies political evolution from one into the other where both politicians have a common set of political similarities.

I can’t help but think at this point that we’re reaching comprehension issues…

You say “it’s too long ago when Republicans were different” isn’t a valid argument.

He didn’t say that. You did.

He pointed out your hypocrisy when you said that stating the fact that Nixon created the EPA must mean he’s a Republican (and a MAGAt one at that), but then turned heel and said that any politicians from 50 years ago don’t matter (likely because the political landscape then is not the same as the political landscape now, which is reasonably true - he makes this same point by saying 1860 Republicans are not the same as 1960 Republicans or 2025 Republicans).

You stated he’s a Republican, then dissolved your own claim by saying support for past Republicans doesn’t matter. You’ve closed your own logic loop.

Why can’t stating facts just be that: stating facts.

Instead, people have to insert imaginations of their interlocutor’s position so they can try to dish an “own” before asking them for clarification first.

And we wonder why discourse is broken in today’s age

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’re not offering any solutions. Makes you look like a troll that acts in bad faith.

If you care enough to want people to listen to you, perhaps change your approach.

He rolled over and let the DNC fuck him

How so?

I mean, you’re right that Republicans taking away people’s rights should be news. It should be the topmost article on a newspaper.

Right under that though should be the news about how the supposed opposition party caved in to the Republicans by agreeing and voting in favor, thereby increasing the Republicans’ effective party size in the House.

Democratic representatives not representing their constituents should be news, but of course that news is as old as printing itself, much longer.

The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.

Irrelevant to this conversation.

Persons faced with an unconstitutional licensing law which purports to require a license as a prerequisite to exercise of right… may ignore the law and engage with impunity in exercise of such right.

By this logic, voter registration isn’t in the constitution, so you might be able to make the argument that it violates the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments. Again, by this logic, regardless of if people have proper voting registration or any voting registration at all, they should still be able to vote anyways. The 4 Democrats mentioned in the above article pass a law against the above.

The state cannot diminish the rights of the people.

Tell that to the Republicans that introduced the above bill.

there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of constitutional rights

What about the right to protest of UCLA students last April being violated because of false claims of anti-semitism, or the right to protest of Columbia students last March because of similar false claims? Did the US care about imposing sanctions or penalties on those people, or did they just detain and deport them instead?

a person cannot be compelled “to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.”

Again, tell that to Republicans that introduced the above bill.

The majority of the population has departed from reality.

According to Ballotpedia, ~63.9% of the eligible US voting population (older than 18) turned out to vote, or ~155 mn people. This means ~36.1% didn’t turn out, or ~88 mn people out of the ~243 mn total population. In 2020, the turnout rate was ~66.6% or ~158 mn, meaning ~33.4% or ~79 mn didn’t vote out of the ~238 mn total population.

According again to Ballotpedia, ~77 mn voted R in 2024 (~49.8% of the voting population or ~31.8% of the total population), ~75 mn voted D (~48.3% of the voting population or ~30.8% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (~1.9% of the voting population or 1.2% of the total population).

In 2020, ~81 mn voted D (~51.3% of the voting population or ~34.2% of the total population), ~74 mn voted R (~46.9% of the voting population or ~31.2% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (1.8% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total population).

You say majority, but clearly less than a third of adults in 2024 voted R.

I don’t think we can say why the other ~88 million didn’t vote. Sure, maybe some of them share a reality that diverges from the rest of the world. But we can speculate some other reasons too: maybe they were too apathetic because their party ran on issues not necessarily aligned to the views of their own, maybe they had to go to work to earn a paycheck, maybe they were turned away from the ballot box, maybe Joe Biden’s approval ratings tanked and upon dropping out of the race, many people on election day still thought he was running, maybe Kamala didn’t diverge enough away from Biden (or Republicans) to make a meaningful difference in voters’ eyes, and maybe some of them didn’t think women should be in office, with gender inequality still a prescient issue.

I liked Tim Walz’s analogy in response to the Democrats’ performance in 2024:

If a teacher teaches a subject, quizzes their class afterwards, and finds that less 100% of the class pass, the fault for that performance doesn’t lie with the kids. The fault lies with the teacher. The teacher needs to teach concepts in multiple ways using different pedagogical methods to activate as many kids as possible.

Politicians are the same for me. If people aren’t voting for you, a politician needs to speak to (and sometimes educate) the public in more ways than just one - and do so effectively.

Democrats dropped the ball this year. It still seems like they’re dropping the ball in Congress. We’ll see what the party does. I’d recommend they look to the progressive caucus with Bernie Sanders and AOC for the answer.

Ew AI slop

Before you recycle your Windows 10 PC (or just switch to Linux and avoid wasting resources), keep in mind while Windows 10 22H2 is ending in 7 months, 21H2 LTSC Enterprise is still good for 1 year 10 months:

https://endoflife.date/windows

To download the 21H2 LTSC, go here:

https://archive.org/details/en-us_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_202301

Then generate a free license key using the Ohook or KMS38 methods via PowerShell as explained here:

https://massgrave.dev/

Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this myself so there may be some bugs/issues along the way. For my next laptop, I’m thinking about switching to Linux and specifically Ubuntu or Fedora, so this won’t really impact me

As a reader btw, I appreciate your point of view. Don’t get discouraged when your interlocutors put in less work than you. I think snuffing out the liberal fervor for capitalism by using examples where different systems are successful is vitally important. I’m just not very educated on it as I could be. People like you help with that!

Neil deGrasse Tyson and literally anything other than astrophysics

Nah, it’s the Democratic parties fault. They could have prevented this. It’s their job to do so!

Tim Walz explained it the other day at SXSW.

Politicians are like teachers. If it’s Tim Walz’s job to teach kids about geography, and then test them to check if he taught well, if the outcomes of that test show that half the class passes and half fails, then the blame for that is on the teacher. The teacher could have taught differently, teaching in different styles to adequately reach out to students where they’re at in life and according to their specific learning styles. He might teach the same topic 5-6 different ways to capture as many people as possible.

The Harris-Walz campaign didn’t do that. They had terrible messaging as soon as the DNC hit. When Harris brought Walz on, there was actual progressive momentum. But then Harris bent the knee to establishment Democrats, and they lost the election.

I will not believe that it’s the voters’ fault for the election outcome. If Democrats were sober enough to realize Trump’s threat and wanted to really fire people up, they would have may the necessary changes to do so.

I’d want the old posts kept for historical reference, but otherwise I’m fine with this.

Definitely a Brutalist structure. A building designed by an architect like Paul Rudolph would have done that style justice

Oh, don’t worry. We hate them too

He has gone to protests! And rallies!

In recent memory, he’s attended pro Palestinian protests in Chicago, showcased nonprofits trying to help those in squalor in Skid Row, Los Angeles, and marched/striked in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA workers. More recently, he’s done real world journalism by speaking to imprisoned peoples that populate firefighting forces in California. That story was especially potent because of the fires that happened recently in Los Angeles.

In all instances, he’s brought his 30,000-strong Twitch audience and casted the spotlight on local leaders that can speaker better to the issues at hand. I think him bringing awareness to these things, in addition to him covering the news, definitely gets overlooked by many people that already have a preconception of him.