Always remember, when Margarine Taylor-Greene attempted to oust Mike Johnson, it was Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats who came to his rescue.
The wing doesn’t matter if the eagle is a nazi tbf.
Liberalism has always been right from center. You can put neo in front of it all you’d like.
It was left in the context of a world dominated by feudalism, but we no longer live in that age.
Neo-it.
All I want is the freedom to vote how I want and still count my vote if my first choice didn’t win. Democrats should be free to run their political party how they want. Just like how everyone else should be free to participate in our elections. Free of a spoiler effect.
There should be no monopoly on the future of our nation. Republican, or Democrat.
Surely the freedom to vote how people want is not to high a bar for the democrats to clear right? Self proclaimed democracy advocates surely want the people to be represented fully… right?
I would never force a liberal to vote for my preference in a election, why is it okay for them to do that to me?
And it is a conscious decision to force me to vote a certain way. Every election democrats mercilessly rage at 3rd party voters. The Democratic party and their voters understand that First-past-the-post voting is flawed. Yet in blue states, fully in control of the Democratic party, FPTP voting shackles the people.
Democrats understand FPTP voting does a bad job of representing the nation. They ignore this festering gaping mortal wound… all for safe states and easy elections against a complete clown show. One that has defeated them in every way possible.
The monopoly is over democrats. You never deserved it, and you most certainly do not deserve it now in our darkest hours. Get out of the way, we have to move forward as a nation.
The Democratic party is not more important then the United States of America.
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I think actually a party guilty of genocide should not be free to run in elections, or even free to remain outside of prison
I don’t think chsnging the voting system will fix this. There is still a 2 party system in australia despite a democracy with preferential voting for over 100 years.
Bingo. Class dynamics take priority over voting mechanisms.
“I am angry the overton window has moved so far to the right, I’m going to blame the folks trying to move it leftward”
What hasn’t happened is an IRL movement around a new party or leader. What has happened is lots of “divide the left” memes and posts. I do wonder who that sentiment serves the most.
Left wing starts are anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism. The democrats are complicit in genocide and take money from AIPAC and only care about pleasing their business owners. Also the DNC is a private corporation
The Democratic National Committee is many things but democratic
https://www.drmikekatz.com/the_dnc_and_rnc_are_private_corporations
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf
Moving it leftward is when you support two separate groups of genocidal fascists in Israel and Ukraine and whine at leftists for not tactically supporting the fascists enough
Divide the left
You are not on the left. But I do keep seeing a bunch of “How do you do, fellow leftists? We sure do love voting for the 𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵, amirite? By the way fuck communists” memes and posts. I wonder who that sentiment serves the most?
And still miles better than the GOP, your point?
Which is their entire platform, which is why the whole thing keeps going further right.
Except the Democratic party doesn’t just block leftward movement. It turns the crank in the same direction, just slower.
Dems as a whole are more left wing today than they were 20 years ago, but cool graphic
This is about the party, not the party’s constituency.
Yeah, that’s what im talking about
The current Democratic party is actively genocidal
That’s your standard?
Election time already?
Leftists are always anti-DNC and focus on organizing over electoralism, so I don’t see why you think this is related to any election coming up.
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The Whig party died because it failed to address the whig voters’ concerns over slave states. The Whigs in charge were too busy trying to find a moderate choice between traditional whig and democratic policies since the Whigs consisted of both northern and southern slave states and were too spineless to pick a side. Zachary Taylor (W), who had never voted or voiced his political opinion prior to running, won the nomination because whig voters in the convention thought being a middle ground candidate was enough to win. And he did win, but…
After Zachary Taylor was president, Winfield Scott (W), who was running a diet-democratic campaign seeing how it worked with Taylor, was running against Franklin Pierce (D), a dark horse candidate who wasn’t even in the running until the 35th ballot at a stalled democratic convention. Scott, having lost the anti-slavery voters of the northern states, had an enthusiasm issue so big that people of the time regard this is one of the least exciting campaigns in presidential history. After Pierce won the election 254 electoral votes to 42, Free Soil and ex-Whig voters coalesced into the republican party. The whig party had been killed.
If your party isn’t giving what people are pleading for or isn’t a real opposition party, it’s easier killing the party and starting fresh with something better than trying to lure the lost party back to your own values. And if we’re already putting forth all that effort to build up a new party when one dies, why not be cool and make a revolutionary vanguard party instead of filling the vacuum in bourgeois elections?
Liberals call this “purity testing,” but fundamentally the democrats stand for perpetuating capitalism and imperialism. These two points of contention are irreconcilable with any leftist.
“Waaaah how dare you purity test me, yeah I have right wing economic views but have you considered my social views are also right wing” - average Liberal
Yep, lol
“purity testing” more like them gaslighting people into believing that they are left wing and getting defensive when they are proved not to be
Bingo.
If I’m trying to create anything worth anything you’re goddamn right I’m gonna test my ingredients for purity
I agree, though I’d say there’s a difference between criticism and self-criticism with what we think of as “purity testing,” ie demonizing AES or other movements for their imperfections.
Never forget that the right-left spectrum is a myth
Kinda? The spectrum aspect is a bit iffy and I don’t use it, but there are absolutely socialists on the left and capitalists on the right, and that’s useful for understanding. Trying to argue over which is more or less left or right doesn’t usually matter as much as the left/right distinction outright.
Nothing new, in a profoundly capitalist structure like the US, there are no other options than to choose between conservatism and fascism, substituting reason for “in God we trust” and “Stars and Stripes”, to keep citizens ignorant and obedient to continue functioning.
Their strategy is to give into Trump’s demands in the hopes that it prevents him from destroying their precious institutions. They hope to be able to take over from an unpopular Republican party after Trump dies without really undoing the damage he’s done. The problem with this approach is that it will prevent the system from needing to be properly rebuilt, effectively legalizing most of his abuses of power and prolonging the instability of our country. A big part of this will be institutionalizing the blatant corruption and oligarchy while further rigging elections to make it impossible for popular movements to ever legally gain power.
A Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg presidency will see them ruling as a weaker feudal king than Trump, but only to promote business activity and interests. Relying on the honeymoon period following Trump’s removal, they will position themselves as the saviors of “democracy,” yet they will do little to actually undo a lot of the election rigging that Republicans are installing right now. They will suppress workers rights and throw the most disposable minorities under the bus, deregulating and burning through all the goodwill they have. They’ll parade the corpse of liberalism around as long as fools will believe it, but it will be a cynical gesture.
In order for actual liberal democracy to exist again in this country, the liberals would need to have shown a backbone and resist Trump no matter how much he destroys institutions. They would need to risk temporary jail time and potential assassination to invigorate long term support for a rebuilt American dream. Instead they’re showing that they never cared about liberal ideals, only the goodwill liberalism afforded their power.
Yeh. The strategy seems to be to wait for their “turn” and make it look like the care while they watch everything they claim to stand for be destroyed.
AI Slop
You could’ve made this image using paint in under 5 minutes, did you really need to waste half a liter of water to have AI generate it?
Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.
I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.
I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.
Feel free to share the device type and local AI model capable of producing an image like this. My guess is you won’t though because it’s not possible 😕
Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android
But that’s (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.
As always, it’s the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.
Try Z-Image Turbo it’s super new and runs on any computer with, like, a cpu and 24 GB ram. It can generate way better images than this too.
AI-generating images takes, like, zero resources. Think about it. My computer uses very little energy. It couldn’t even heat my room if I ran it constantly (I accidentally tried by forgetting to turn on the heater). It can create an image in 20 seconds. There is no magic in AI that increases its wattage somehow. Also, I don’t know if you noticed yet, but computers don’t have a water input plug. Using a dishwasher once uses more electricity than generating thousands of images, and more water than infinite images.
OpenAI, and others, lose money on every prompt even with paid subscriptions. The resources will still be wasted by them but to cost them money is priceless.
This is how we ended up with Trump again btw.
Turns out supporting genocide makes you look bad. Someone should’ve told Biden and Copmallah.
It’s almost as if your party duopoly consists of two fascist parties.
Funny, I remember us ending up with Trump because the Democrat party views its own voters with abject contempt and forced an 80yo genocidal madman on the electorate twice without a legitimate primary where Barrack Obama doesn’t order anybody to drop out… but sure, it’s the voters’ fault for not liking that the DNC won’t even deign to pander to its own voters. This is a smart take that is in no way a sign of Stockholm syndrome identifying with your abuser…
