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  • Its misinformation at best. So what if SA victims didn’t testify directly in the grand jury proceedings? This would be like reporting “No murder victims testified in Ted Bundy grand jury proceedings - only investigators”

    A grand jury’s only purpose is to see if there’s enough evidence to proceed with charges and an actual trial. Their headline and byline are worded as if they were charged based on manufactured claims made by government employees. As if some egregious violation occurred here rather than standard procedure.

    They’re lending credence to these conspiracy theories by reporting on them as if theyre real news and not just bullshit made up by a certain guilty party that happens to currently be president of the United States.





  • You knew it was going there because the Democratic party refuses to listen to reason and continues to drift further and further rightto the point that we just had two candidates promoting genocide, attacking immigrants, attacking the poor, and palling around with Dick Cheney. It’s funny that you’d rather attack the critics than dare speak out against the actual perpetrators of this abhorrent behavior. Attack the victim not the victimizer.

    Democratic sycophants are becoming almost indistinguishable from their MAGA counterparts these days. You guys are all using the exact same language.

    Get.Yourshit.Together. If you can’t bring yourself to vote for the DNC, and you can’t get anything else going, you’re wasting your own time and sinking the rest of us.

    And what will you be doing in the meantime other than attacking those who actually want things to improve?


  • My whole point was about primaries, but even still he’s polling well in the lead. If he wins will you admit that it can be done?

    Winning a primary doesn’t mean much if the party crushes you in the general. I hope he wins and I would be happy to admit I was wrong if he makes it and actually lives up to his word once in office.

    Okay, what’s your point? That the same population that’s too apathetic to vote in a primary are going to what, pick up arms and take to the streets? Organize behind and promote a minority party? How do you plan to build a coalition behind an objectively more difficult and unlikely strategy? You don’t.

    Mamdani, and several other leftist candidates have been running exceptionally successful grassroots campaigns through social media and hitting the streets. We live in the information age, viral community-driven campaigns have the potential to reach more people than legacy media. And again, what alternative do you propose that will face less corporate opposition? You think the DNC is going to stay silent on third party candidates competing for their votes? You think corporate media is going to stay silent on any attempt at actual revolution? If the machine is so powerful, what action are you suggesting that can actually overcome it?

    My point is that you’re advocating for people to try and fix the system from within the broken system itself. Democratic and Republican primaries are completely controlled by these two private organizations not some overarching organization, people, or law. It’s naive to think that you can somehow outplay the DNC (or RNC) leadership at a game they crafted and rigged themselves. It’s like thinking you can outplay the house at a casino if you just use the right strategy. Even if you do somehow find a winning strategy, they’ll just refuse to pay you, take you into the backroom, beat your ass, and then have police come haul you out for trespassing because the house always wins. You won’t get better candidates by picking from the handful of predetermined candidates that the DNC offers you in their primary race whether 15% vote or 100% vote.

    I don’t know what the ‘correct’ approach is but I know it isn’t this. Perhaps some actual grassroots organizations can put something together or an existing third party can take their placr, but regardless of what it is, it’s not going to be something internal to these organizations, it has to come from the outside.

    No I dont think the DNC or corporate media will ignore these events, they’ll come out swinging like they did in 2008 with the Occupy Wall Street protests. They’ll paint these outsiders as kooks and extremists and make them look like a joke on TV and the internet. You speak about the information age as if everyone is somehow more enlightened than generations past, yet we see people as a whole getting dumber and less informed as time goes on. We see the powerful using social media to spread a bunch of lies and disinformation. We see the truth being cast aside or drowned in a bunch of noise.

    So long as elections in this country are FPTP, and leftists don’t show up to primaries, and Republicans keep pushing Christo-fascism, then they are correct that it is the best option.

    How are these people “the best option” in hindsight when we know for a fact that they lost the election? I find statements like this so utterly insane. You’re referring to the very people that we unquestionably know weren’t the best option by virtue of them losing these elections to a buffoon. This party of “the best options” were so ‘good’ that the Republicans control the entire government now.

    Splitting the anti-Republican vote just helps the Republicans, and by extension the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. Personally, I’d rather have a Neo-Liberal government than a Christian Nationalist one, and there aren’t any other options right now.

    This is just the “vote blue no matter who” mentality i previously referred to phrased another way. Neo-Liberal governments have driven us to this point alongside the Christian Nationalists. They’re both responsible for this and they’re the ones determining the options we have. I legitimately cannot understand how someone like yourself can agree that we have terrible options while simultaneously arguing that we need to support the people determining said options. It’d be like going to a grocery store filled with rancid food and telling yourself that you need to choose something off the shelf because that particular store left you no other options. Why would you do that? Why reward that store with your hard earned money? It’s such incredibly closed-minded behavior that harms your own self interests and not only are you advocating that you should shop there personally, but everyone else should too.

    No disagreement here, but where’s the incinerator and the power to throw them in it? If I had a magic wand that I could wave to erase both parties, I would. But I don’t have that kind of magic wand, and neither do you. We have to operate in the environment we actually exist in. Idealism doesn’t get us any closer to material change. Voting against the worst option is the best choice we have at the polls, until we can get seriously organized. Serious organization takes a lot of time and effort. Ignoring the material present for a vague idealist future is a massive strategic blunder.

    The incinerator is your vote and what you decide to do with it. The environment we exist in isn’t limited to these two private parties. That’s just what they want you to believe. Sacrificing your ideals just to be disappointed and have things get worse because neo-liberals don’t serve the American people isnt going to bring material change either. Doing the same thing every election isnt going to bring about change. Constantly “voting against the worst option” just means the next worse option can safely ignore you and refuse to improve things because they have you convinced that they’re your only choice and therefore have no accountability to anyone. I’d argue that someone in your position is “ignoring the material present for some vague idealistic future.” You think if the Dems can just win this next election they’ll turn things around and eventually the Republicans will scurry off somewhere, but we’ve seen numerous times that even with a Democratic supermajority, they have no interest in fixing things and Republicans aren’t going anywhere because they’re doing the exact same thing to their base.

    It’s a lot harder to organize as a political prisoner in a concentration camp.

    And regardless of which party wins any given election, we’ve been steadily approaching that reality with each passing day. Seems like a great wakeup call that some actual change is needed, no?