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Cake day: December 21st, 2024

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  • A better choice was to vote no on cloture. They needed 60 votes, so they needed Democrats to pass the bill.

    Then there would be two options:

    • Democrats and Republicans would pass a clean CR keeping government open while negotiating actual bill (this is how normally things would do)
    • government would shut down, it would hurt US, but also would push Americans on the streets protesting, which is we need. What’s happening right now is not normal, it won’t be fixed at the voting booth, we will need something similar to Orange Revolution to unfuck this.

    Schumer and others voting with him were most likely bribed and are actually ok with what’s happening.



  • Looking at the disinformation on social media I don’t think they could do much.

    I saw people being convinced that Harris had positions that were compete opposite of her actual stances.

    I even saw people have complete opposing view. For example about situation in Gaza, I saw:

    • pro Israel people being encouraged to vote for trump, because Harris was supporting “Hamas terrorists”
    • pro Palestinians being encouraged to not vote or vote for trump in protest, because Harris was strong supporter of Israel and it won’t make any difference

    When narrative is already controlled by social media that already is biased toward specific candidate, it is impossible to win.

    I don’t think Harris, Walz or even Biden could do anything when everything was attack against them.

    We either need to make sure that non far right is also represented in social media.

    Alternatively Democrats would have to use a celebrity, for example somebody like Jon Stewart of whose popularity could cut through the disinformation.

    Progressives like Bernie and AOC, they are after what we actually need, but they are not immune from this disinformation, only people who actually pay attention to politics know them the rest of population can be easily persuaded that they are just “commies that want to kill America”