I hate this strategy so much. What it says is “Our candidate is so lackluster and uninspiring that they can only beat the most out there fringe lunatic”. Really shows the absolute shameful state of the Democratic party, the lengths they’ll go to to avoid catering to their base.

No need to speak with him, cut off military aid and he’ll come around real quick.

You can’t work within a party that does everything to suppress progressive candidates. Even when progressives win, dems allow groups like AIPAC to unseat them even if it means putting a republican in their place. Or you have people like Nancy Pelosi who made it her personal quest to fuck over any progressive running in a pary, even if it meant propping up anti-choice shit bags like Henry Cuellar.

No, this is an issue of a culture of suppression within the democratic party, not the fault of progressives. The major, sustainable wins that do occur for dems in purple or red districts often come from progressives when they’re not kneecapped in their primaries and are actually supported by their party.

You can’t on one hand claim you want progress and then talk about how progress doesn’t get people to vote. The party itself needs to reform, they have failed to listen to their base time and again, so the only option they’ve left people is withholding their votes. No amount of vote shaming and “long progress” backwards will cut it.

Huh…almost like the lesser of two evils is a losing strategy that produces loser candidates that their own base won’t come out and vote for, huh?

Almost like the insistance of dems on fielding these candidates has shown a repeating pattern of failure.

That set of political beliefs is what has lead us to where we are though.

We’ve voted for the best worst option for 40+ years. None of them have been willing or able to stop us from getting here where we are right now. So what does that say about that strategy?

If only Biden realized that.

You’re talking as if Biden is doing something to stop the genocide in Gaza rather than literally funding it…I think it’s you who needs to re-read what you’re writing. It’s not about their lives being forfeit, it’s that he’s literally as genocidal as any member of the GOP up to and including Trump. The genocide is going to continue as it has weather it’s Biden or Trump, full stop.

All you have to do to understand that is look at Biden’s complete non-response to the uncommitted vote. He wants to “hold a meeting” and “have a dialogue” with Arab american communities when he already knows exactly what they want. People are tired of this run-around nonsense, it’s not selling anymore, especially when it comes to a genocide. There is no negotiate and compromise here.

The more you try to talk down about how we all need to suck it up and support a pro-genocide president, the more I become convinced that your politics are as philosophically bankrupt and hollow as the GOP.

The absolute nerve of trying to wave Palestinian lives around as if that serves as some kind of a defense of the people actively funding their murder at this very moment. Absolutely detatched from reality. To try and guilt people because they won’t vote for that is unconscionable.

You’re politics have failed for 40 years, it’s time for you to introspect and change, not the people doing the only thing they can possibly do to hold Biden and Democrats accountable.

I’m going to repeat it: What about the situation right now makes you think that voting for establishment dems for the past 40 years has worked? This is where we are. This is your gradual change manifested. We’ve been doing exactly what you are claiming works.

Why do you think rural communities are the way they are? People won’t suddenly open their eyes and say golly gee those leftists were right

Again, if I wasn’t clear for some reason – this entire line of thinking that Democrats should be appealing to conservatives is why we’re in this position where you’re literally going to go vote for someone supporting a genocide. That’s *literally *what you are going to be voting for because your politics have put us all in this position.

Fuck gradual change. Where did that get us over the last 40 years? Look around you for christ’s sake, this is the result of your gradual change strategy, we’re living it right this very moment. Does it feel like our country is headed in the right direction?

I will never vote for anyone who supports a genocide. Period.

Both sides are pro-genocide, one can be worked on, one cannot

Which is exactly what detractors are confronting. Biden has shown zero motivation to budge on this issue, why in the hell would I think he’s going to get better about it once he secures his second term? What on earth makes you think he will become more reasonable?

No. The Democratic party cannot be “worked with” on this. Supporting genocide from Dems is a red line for me. The Democrats are not going to reform themselves, they’ve been getting further and further to the right. The only way they are going to change is through pain, as much as it takes to get them to stop. I’m willing to accept the pain myself to make it happen as well. AIPAC money needs to be treated like poison.

Vote shaming doesn’t work anymore. 'The lesser of two evils" doesn’t work any more. “Gradual change” doesn’t work any more. The fucking idiots in this country will need to witness first hand where the GOP and Dems have led us, it’s literally the only way they can grasp it, when it starts to effect them.

I can’t support genocide from the Democratic party. I simply cannot morally vote for Biden, and you cannot demand or shame others into voting for him. That neo-liberal strategy is spent, we’ve reached the breaking point thanks to neo-liberal hubris, greed and tone deaf self-interest.

Only chance the Dems have at reform is to let Biden fail, zionism needs to become toxic. We will never fix our government until the Democratic party is reformed and stops taking money from far right-wing groups like AIPAC.

Ah, so traitors?

Yeah, they pretty much are constantly disrupting gatherings at Al Aqsa. Wasn’t that long ago they went in with flashbangs and were beating old men and women with batons to drive them out.

All because some kids in the area threw rocks at the IDF.

Yeah, the whole study of character is kind of outside the realm of an LLM. They can sort of reguritate, but they don’t think about humans like a humans do, the things we find funny or interesting about eachother, the small nuances that potential reveal a person’s history and internal experience.

An LLM, as sophisticated a piece of technology as it is, cannot really do that like a human writer can. Best it can do is sort of mimic in a limited capacity.

Debt colonialism doesn’t equate to the kind of cross bonding and trust that leads to actual solid alliances.

China’s naked imperial ambition gets in the way of it ever actually establishing meaningful, trust-based ties with other nations.

These countries take advantage of infrastructure loans, but the reality of what China is actually doing (screwing these countries with debt they can’t pay then taking back the infrastructure in order to establish a foothold globally) is sinking in with these countries.

Belt and Road is simply a way of using debt to sieze land that China can’t take through brute force. Has absolutely nothing to do with “western chauvinism”, the CCP is toxic to geopolitical progress, especially if you are actually concerned with helping developing countries grow into independent, stable self-sufficiency.

It’s nice to see at least a few engineers have a moral compass and a spine. There seems to be a culture among engineers that you only build, not ask yourself questions about the morality and ethics of what you’re building.

Being one step removed from the consequences doesn’t absolve a person of their culpability, especially when they are the ones who are necessary to actually make that project into a reality. No one has the power they have regarding tech.

Belt and Road is just debt colonialism. They’re screwing the countries that they push their debt into. No, the CCP is bad for the world and for China and are the reason they are isolated geopolitically.

China isn’t the world though. The CCP has isolated China more than they’ve done anything else. No real allies, no geopolitical trust etc.

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The only thing that could make it more trustworthy is to have a picture of Zuckerbergs empty-eyed alienoid face there trying to approximate a reassuring smile.

Yes…because it did. You’re literally just going to be in denial because it undermines your belief about how long a game should take?