American asylums weren’t exactly shining beacons of human rights during that period either. JFK’s sister had her frontal lobe scraped until she could no longer repeat the lyrics of a song because she said problematic things as a woman.

Louis DeJoy (born 1956 or 1957[citation needed]) is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior to the appointment, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump.[1] DeJoy is the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in the USPS and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity.[2] His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.[3]

That is why neither party would ever permit electoral reform. What next, are you going to suggest we get rid of gerrymandering? Lobbying? Insider Trading for congress members?

republican voters put the fear of the primary in their elected representatives

Not just that, they don’t expect blind loyalty like the democrats. I have never seen a republican tell their base after the primary “Eat shit. You’re gonna vote for me anyway, otherwise you’re a democrat” and then get indignant when nobody shows up to vote for them.

Blaming foreigners for the actions of capitalists prevents you from recognizing the actual power structure, and which side of it you are on and have always been on.

Was Putin also calling the shots when Europe’s deal required Ukraine sell off its ports and power grid?

Ukraine was always going to get stripped for parts, that’s why the west invested billions in making it happen.

Instance admins can tell your IP and presumably browser info if they bother to collect that data.

The democrats get beat the fuck out every time they run conservative. They plummet in popularity if they get elected and then betray their constituents by doing what the republicans want. Republicans will never elect a republican-lite when the real thing is right there.

Meanwhile left policy polls overwhelmingly well among everyone, especially people who actually might vote democrat, and it’s even more popular once people start feeling its effects, as you can observe in any country that has free or near-free healthcare and public housing.

The argument that the Butcher of Libya would have run the machinery of empire much more competently than Trump isn’t an argument in her favor. I still wouldn’t be able to bring myself to vote for Trump for harm reduction, but calling her qualified to hold a position which every holder in modern history has done things we hanged nazis for isn’t the argument you think it is.

4 years from now, when democrats are running on building the wall, mass deportations, getting tough on crime, banning trans people from public spaces, and continuing whatever war Trump starts, you will be telling anyone telling the democrats that this is unpopular “shut up, this really is super popular and the democrats really can win by adopting the republican platform from 4 years ago”.

People knew that these protests would suppress democratic voters

The notion that the reason the genocide was unpopular because of the protestors is absurd. The protesters were responding to an incredibly unpopular thing, not causing it to be incredibly unpopular.

would be unlikely to sway the current administration

The previous administration stopped running and put Kamala in when they saw they had no pathway to victory, so they’re capable of making changes when they know they have no alternative. It was only the “vote blue no matter who” crowd who allowed them to live under the delusion they could win while trying to be republicans.

I voted PSL, I don’t live in a swingstate.

If anti-genocide voters are powerful enough to sway the election, you should listen to us.

Even weeks after October 7th, I had libs demanding I pledge to vote blue whether they stop the genocide or not, even though the election was a year and a half away, instead of standing with us and demanding they stop the wildly unpopular thing they’re doing.

I think deep down, you all understood that the democrats will never do what the people want, even if they know it will cost them the election.

Protestors made a poor decision

How else were they supposed to get the democrats to stop driving the bus off the cliff?

This was not an unforeseen consequence, everyone with a brain was screaming it from the rooftop, and now here we are.

If it was unforeseen, why do I keep seeing liberals blaming the people who spent 4 years screaming what would happen from the rooftop, while the democrats spent 4 years either trying to be republicans or whining about how powerless they were instead using every measure at their disposal to do what the people whose votes they need are telling them to do?

It took trump all of a day to enact hundreds of life-changing policies. Don’t give me some horseshit about how the president of the united states was powerless.

Yes, it was definitely the fault of the people protesting genocide and telling the democrats the things they’re doing are incredibly unpopular, stop trying to be republicans, and not the democrats who told us to fuck off.

Really, if nobody protested, genocide would have been super popular and Kamala definitely would have won.

Sure are lot of liberals feeling smug about the most marginalized people in society being harmed these days. Something about scratch a liberal?

Can’t forget that they sent John Fetterman instead of Tim Walz or literally anyone more likeable to do Rogan.

But we can’t ask what the democrats did wrong, then they might have to do something other than move to the right every election and complain that rightwing policy and messaging is unpopular.

Why would Venezuelans protest the interim president of the United States, Juan Guaidó?

Good point, I have updated the title to be more precise.

I was sticking with rednote anyway.

Or or or, hear me out: Trump knows that 170 million Americans use tiktok and banning it is unpopular. It also helps that his billionaire buddy owns 15% of bytedance and tiktok’s CEO has been sucking up to Trump.

You don’t need conspiracies to explain a politician doing something that helps their public perception.

lmao if I didn’t need enough reason to stick with rednote.