First, as someone who voted for Kamala despite the noise of protest, and as someone who shared your same petty sentiment during the initial shock of the loss (the longer you hold it, the more pathetic because of how little it matters now), I wonder if that’s really the best you can come up with in defense of Democrats during 2024? After failing to admit it was their fault and not the voters? Yeah, they got rid of Biden, but not because of their constituency, but because it was threatening their positions of power as career politicians. They squandered the momentum and revitalization of the party when putting in Kamala after they had her mimic Biden’s campaign and failing to admit that the Gaza Genocide was a major proponent for her loss after the fact, to the point that they hid it officially from the public.

Besides blaming it on individual protest voters, and thinking that was enough to really make a difference, especially after knowing this information now (some real dummy shit if you do), you’re going to discount the number of disaffected, cynical part of the population who didn’t vote because they don’t believe in our system anymore? Since the 90’s or 80’s even? How do you explain the record numbers for showing up for someone like Mamdani to vote, who had explicit beliefs and prpgressive, populist policies, who’s approval rating is going up because he’s implementing those policies? Showing the world what he left flank of politics is really capable of?

You fail to understand the real sociological implications of the failure of Democrats, and you’re delusional if you think the voting for the lesser evil is enough of a standard to motivate people to vote.

And those of you who speak this way about individuals who protested their votes seem incapable of seeing the bigger picture; that the reality is that people want to vote for a principled leader who believes in something, and the Democratic leadership failed us in 2024, just like they failed us in 2016. And even after winning in 2020, they still a managed to fail us by failing to uphold international law and failing to jail an insurrectionist pig that’s now in the white house.

They failed us because they believe in nothing, and that’s why people protested their vote. Wake the fuck up and focus on primaries in 2026, then the general, and so on, and prevent this from happening again.

Exactly, without question. Bitterness against non voters really is as simple as barking up the wrong tree.

I’ve heard from some journalists I follow that them criticizing this chump feels like punching down; I felt validated by that because I felt exactly the same way lmao.

They all seemed pretty chummy with him to me. Embarrassing.

https://loops.video/v/e1xKPcZbN_

Iran has negotiated, repeatedly. The JCPOA was negotiated and ratified by the UN Security Council. Even after Iran engaged in renewed negotiations last summer, it faced large scale air strikes on its territory.

About fucking time a media publication like this contradicts the bullshit lies of the Trump admin this way by stating something as benign as just the fucking truth.

For anyone who doesn’t get this reference, do yourself a favor and listen to the album Joy As An Act of Resistance by Idles immediately.

Resist with a resurgence of live music where people witness live talent and skill of their instruments, that write incredible pieces and songs. Get involved with your local music scene. Share music you love with people who appreciate the artistry.

Besides the massive hegemons of the music industry, the vast, vast, vast majority of incredible music that are available on streaming platforms from artists, bigger and smaller, barely made them an income from streaming to begin with; they used it as a marketing tool for people to access their art, and otherwise monetize their brand by selling LIVE SHOWS! Selling merch! This is how they really made money off their work. And even then, many of them still have day jobs to make ends meet. They do it because it’s their passion man.

The Taylor Swifts and Bad Bunnys of the world will do fine; their labels will find a way to profiteer off AI with their brand and image. Yes this screws over smaller artists again, but what more is a lost fraction of a fraction of a penny going to do for them if they already struggle to begin with? Resist. Go to a live show.

Edit: also note, be mindful of how live music venues are in cahoots with stealing profits from artists and smaller venues. Support your local music scene.

It’s exactly why she lost; neo-liberalism failed all of us and made way for the further delegitimization of international law and gave rise to fascism.

I either got ratioed because people don’t understand that this is exactly what I’m saying (you certainly do)

Or they need to wake the fuck up or get out of the way.

Lmao I mean, that’s pretty much exactly what Democrats ran on in 2024.

All Trump bad. We not Trump. We same party since 2008. You vote us because we not Trump.

I hope this only helps push Talarico’s campaign further. His persona and voice doesn’t speak much to me personally, but he’s carrying such a well spoken populist campaign, discussing real issues, and responding accordingly with the nation’s outrage with ICE, and the Gaza genocide.

Crockett’s only campaign tool is reflecting on how much she’s spoken up against the regime, and how many times Trump’s insulted her personally; other than that, really nothing. She’s had no problem voting in pro Israel policy, and taking Israel lobby money by the way.

Republicans can never win without ever bending some of the rules in their favor

Democrats legitimately would have a supermajority every time if Republicans had to play by fair rules

I’m highly critical of Apple, their philosophy for proprietary hardware with an aggressive stance against right to repair, and some particular design flaws on specific models of their machines that are unacceptable for the price point they sell their products at. Not to mention their ball coddling of the fascist fuck in the white house.

But MacOS is definitely superior to Windows, game developers not focusing on MacOS be damned. The bloat on Windows is beyond overkill, and MacOS’s Unix based build for ultra specific hardware runs so much more efficiently. I used to play around with a hackintosh back when Mac OS X Lion was around.

More difficult for me these days unfortunately, just like anyone else. But yes absolutely, phenomenal advice for anyone and everyone 🙏

I need to get more sleep; my brain is not mathing and I’m getting my facts crossed.

And then BOOM!
Four to five years later America was introduced to something known as The Great Depression

Edit: Just a bumbling idiot here, don’t mind me lmao

Was just thinking that! Call it a ban from society.

Wielding postmodernism as a weapon; the only truth to them is their truth. Fucking psychopaths.

Turns out Stanley Kubrick was actually filming a docudrama