I’m not a Democrat either, but I am so familiar with their machinations that I correctly predicted the last 9 years of national politics based on how Dems did Bernie dirty in the 2016 primary, all the way down to knowing Biden would have to drop out to give Harris a chance this year.

I’m autistic, which doesn’t make me immune to propaganda but does makes it very easy to recognize when someone is trying to manipulate public opinion. The truth has almost nothing to do with politics, ours is an entirely vibes-based government.

The noise is especially important, because political machines are colonial superorganisms. Their leadership likes to pretend otherwise, but they don’t speak with one voice, they are more like beehives where each individual has to coordinate their activities with the rest of the swarm. It’s important to know the range of acceptable opinions within the in-group and those that are tolerated outside it, and the noise is where human political organisms do their bee-dancing.

Yeah. It seems to me that a society that reinvents itself for each new generation would be more dynamic and responsive to the needs of the people it serves than the ten plus generations of stagnation we’ve had in the USA.

It’s not new technology, for one. We’ve been using injection wells like landfills since the 1930’s because it’s cheaper than treating and disposing of wastewater safely.

Yeah, obviously I’d much rather that R&D budgets got spent on things that might actually make a difference rather than new ways of kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.

You’re weirdly defensive about this idea. What’s up with that? Daddy got some investments in the fossil fuel industry?

The root cause is immaterial, because those people don’t like Trump. They like an idea of who Trump is, an idea that is informed almost exclusively by PR teams and marketing campaigns.

The appropriate way to “deal with” people who are trapped in a media filter bubble is to ignore them. They are of no consequence until they try to leave their bubble and interact with those outside it, at which point they are forced to either come to terms with their deception or else double-down and retreat even deeper into it.

Human nature has nothing to do with it, and whoever gave you that theory was selling something.

“Progressives” are a form of liberal that seek to preserve the status quo by allowing minor alterations to relieve the pressure of the system’s internal contradictions. “Conservatives”, in contrast, are liberals who want to preserve the status quo by enforcing its hierarchies against whoever they perceive as being an outside influence.

Classical Liberals, the whole lot of them.

Because that would explain why you can’t smell the fascism in genocide…

Because that would explain why you can’t smell the fascism in genocide…

Because this “one trial” was the literal best-case scenario, and it still sprung a leak that would cost more to fix than they could gain by banking carbon sequestration credits.

This isn’t just one leak, this is a leak that got so bad the EPA got involved.

Do you have Covid?

And it’s backfiring, which is part of why the Democrats are going to win the presidency in this election.

We know the Democrats aren’t going to do anything to stop Israel, so the only real question left is whether or not the Republican party will fracture after Trump loses again.

I’m a single-issue anti-genocide voter. My political ideal is a mashup of Library Socialism and Anarchism. The election can’t be subverted, it’s already been decided that Harris is winning.

Palestine.

PBS SpaceTime has a video on that this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtbzhpI4Js

I might as well have been quoting the wikipedia article:

I only have one vote for the Presidential seat and it is entirely symbolic because I don’t live in a swing state.

You say we need to capture the party, but I’m watching it be captured by “moderate” Republicans who suddenly seem very eager to endorse Harris.

This election didn’t have a primary, so it sounds like there never was a chance for a “real push”.

If we’re not allowed to be realistic about our expectations, then yes it very much is toxic positivity.

Discussing such activities is illegal in the USA.

“Those guys” are part of the problem, voting for them before they stop helping genocide the Palestinians does not incentivize them to stop being part of the problem.