Wait, is ground need owned by the zuck?

It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out that this was referencing checkers instead of chess

That’s funny, but I don’t think it’s quite right.

Establishment parties across the EU and OECD countries (mostly liberal democracies) all had their incumbent parties lose ground in 2024, for the first time in history.

Graph of EU/OECD election changes

People know they want something to change, but right now it’s only the fascists promising to do so.

A significant portion of Trump’s base were supporters of Bernie in 2016. These people know they want something different, and know they will never get that from Democrats.

Don’t get me wrong, I think they significantly underestimate the harm Trump will cause, and don’t mean to excuse them, but this dynamic really needs to be understood.

I wish the Democrats understood that

DSA isn’t running a presidential candidate, and nowhere in this message is a call to vote for one

Too bad he’s bad at doing even that

Element 0 is the first element of the list

I feel like I’ve had the opposite experience in the gui (maybe a KDE issue?) closing gui windows frequently lock up, and I find I frequently have to drop to the command line in order to properly kill some programs

Not anymore

I saw signs like this all over Japan; I laughed at every one

English is three other languages in a trench coat

Tbh I’m skeptical that this is a demographic that exists in any meaningful capacity.

I hope I’m wrong on this…

Yes, I have family this deep in the cult

To Trump supporters, this sound like “The deep state doesn’t want Trump to be president”. Messaging like this reinforces their narratives

While i think that’s true to an extent, I’m not convinced that the pressure within a state to encourage campaigning will overcome the establishment party’s desire for power.

I would love to be proven wrong on this though

For context, I say this as a citizen of a very, very GOP dominated state. I really can’t see us joining the compact and then maintaining that in any hypothetical near-future political environment where any non-republucian wins the popular vote, and gains our electors through the compact.

Too little, too late, buddy.

Maybe if your administration has made that a priority sometime in the last 4 years we might have something, but calling for it now that he’s ahead in the election is completely meaningless

Let’s say it gets passed in enough states to matter and there’s an election where it changes the result. In every state where the loser would have gotten the votes of that state, but didn’t, there will be an immediate campaign to withdrawal from the pact, and it will get popular support within that state.

I don’t think it’s possible for the napovointerco to ever effect more than one election.

My fucking Governor is in on it

Only if you’re the fool who’s listening to what’s actually being said. If you understand that politics is about projecting confidence and steadfastness to your positions, no matter how contradictory they seem, then that’s what success looks like, and a lot of people will just accept that.

Really though, the interview highlighted serious flaws in Harris’ campaign, interview was 100% correct to call her out for using “a new path forward” as her campaign slogan while fully toeing the line when it comes to Biden’s administration so far.