in my opinion they’re terrible and their strategy is terrible, they are movement vampires that choke out the grassroots… they assimilate young people by speaking to issues they never seem to address. they have shown time and again they will say anything to remain in their do-nothing stop-gap positions…
i think you’re too kind on the establishment democrats… what is distasteful is their absolute refusal to represent anyone but their donors… biden wouldn’t step down until it was ‘too late’ to have a meaningful democratic process so we got de facto kamala appointment… what kind of party is this? she did not even win her own home state when she actually was involved in a presidential primary. the democrats are terrible and deserved to lose. one could be forgiven for assuming they wanted to lose.
i can see them as a funny inversion as well, for instance: you can’t accuse mtg of faking her passion, crazy as it can get… aoc on the other hand is not convincing to me… maybe she can change my mind, but she was disappointingly late to speak up about the biden backed genocide and seems to be more of a token mouthpiece for a constituency that the democrats (at large) are distancing themselves from.
what i am referring to as typical is the assumption that criticizing x puts you in y camp.
burnt out on aoc’s lipservice and inefficacy…
i can still allow for them to be misinformed and or differently oriented- so not necessarily evil. as for fucking them over, i don’t care so much about that directly- i have more modest ambitions. i want people to see how often there’s a great big elephant in the room that you’re really ‘not supposed to’ talk about. eating 20 downvotes for an innocuous comment is revelatory
sorry in advance for the strays you’ll catch for saying as much… yeah, its heavily brigaded/astroturfed just about everywhere you go, nowadays. we’re to believe this is the common sentiment because by god, look at how many downvotes they can muster… i’m ambivalent, the truth isn’t something they can bully out of my hands
you still talk to democrats, curious.
yeah i wanna know if that bias was before or after apr 24
and op is wrong to implicate only republicans… so i guess we’ve come to some accord
did biden have to sign?? can you at least admit it was bipartisan or does that shake you to your tribalist core?
“On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down.”
“On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down.”
before or after the democrats tried to shut it down?
“and feel offended if I want to concentrate on my duties instead of talking to them” this sounds like projection to me and its hard for me to shake that assessment… keeping to yourself is generally navigable and most people understand and accept others’ social orientation. are you maybe informed by a singular moment that you’re dwelling on? as for being ‘on the spectrum’ that means vastly different things from one point to the next and if it doesn’t complicate the advice people are willing to give to you, it could be a crutch you’re imbuing with more dependence than is necessary.
very simply, i would continue seeking dialogue because we benefit from multiple points of view. if you can’t always find fruitful dialogue, analyze your beliefs and attempt to find patterns and underlying explanations that might come out of your personal experience- and steelman your opponents by assuming they have subjective realities that led them to theirs.
because they’re paid to be.
“paper launch” refers to a shortage of cards available on release-- many who waited in line left with purchase vouchers instead of hardware.
article doesn’t mention who calls it that or who coined the term.
wait til you read marx