Ahh yes. Oprah Winfrey.

Well known Anarchist theorist.

I just live out of my downloads folder until its time to back up the important stuff to the server and reinstall/ distrohop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

It resulted in the liberation and elevation of an entire segment of society from the darkness of repression.

I think the point of the words inclusion is that you might have a very different perspective of the implications and effectiveness of voting when the state doesn’t explicitly cater to your identity as the default.

No you gotta do it harder.

-idk blue maga probably

I mean a conservative project to do exactly this is what transformed the Cheney era neocons into the modern day fascist party we see. So at least in principle that’s possible. but clearly the neocons were more than happy to go along with fascism. Fascism and conservativism have effectively the same goals.

The neoliberals who faced the same kind of insurrection from within their party at the same time were unwilling to adopt progressivism and are still unwilling to adopt progressivism. The right was able to change their party into a fascist one, the left has failed to move the demo party into being a progressive party

I think we’re showing mixed results on your third bullet. It did seem that way, for a while, as we pushed on social issues. And when it came time to get on with the economic issues, the core management team of the party rallied, and rather than adopt the left flank to win, steps right to hand control to Republicans.

And it’s happened more than once now, to obvious and clear effect: the goal of the Democratic party isn’t to win elections, it’s to keep the country idealogically aligned with a neoliberal ruling class. And if that means handing control of government to Republicans, they’ll do so, then blame the left (even though it’s them moving to the right losing elections).

To the fourth bullet, no, it’s not clear that within the machinations of the party infrastructure it can be overcome. Because if not now, when? Party leadership has never been weaker or more vulnerable nor the times more desperate. Democrats as a party poll worse than Trump, yet progressives can win elections with both the entire Republican and Democratic apparatus gunning to take them down. yet somehow we can’t replace Schumer’s or Jefferies.

Skipping to the 6th point, again, that isn’t actually borne out by the evidence. It’s not something well know in advance and only as an artifact of history. What’s been extremely clearly is that so far, voting has been wildly insufficient to make the kinds of structural changes necessary. Obama is the classic example of this. He runs on healthcare, holding wallstreet accountable, and ending the wars; he delivers corporate “access”, bails out the banks, and continues the wars. The voters did their job and the system didn’t work.

So a relentless optimism that the system will just work as intended doesn’t seem warranted, and it’s clearly not going in a good direction.

Until we recognize that the Democratic party, it at least it’s current and historical structure is at the core of the problem with why we can’t advance political change, its pretty clear that this decent into autocracy, fascism, and a degraded quality of life is inevitable. The Democratic party isn’t just part of the problem: it’s the core element of the problem.

Let F be a geometric object and let C be the set of counterexamples.

F is a True Fractal ⟺ F satisfies all properties P₁, P₂, …, Pₙ

Where for each counterexample c ∈ C that satisfies P₁…Pₙ: Define Pₙ₊₁ := “is not like c”

The definition recurses infinitely as new counterexamples emerge.

Corollary: Coastlines exhibit fractal properties at every scale… except they don’t, because [insert new property], except that’s also not quite right because [insert newer property], except actually [insert even newer property]…

□ (no true scotsman continues fractally)

Some infinites are larger than other infinites.

Bill Clinton:

Pour one spoon of sweet and sour sauce.

Put one more wrapper on the other side, pinch the margins to seal.

Drop the shrimp dumpling in boiling water for 3 minutes or until cooked and remove using a slotted spoon.

You miissed the band leader, Cuck Schumer

I don’t think this is happening but I’ll be on the lookout

Look man don’t tell my supervisor. I need this gig.

Pick your starting pokemon.

Curling tails and extreme docility are signs of inbreeding.

You are just wrong, and it’s not even worth the effort it takes to dismiss the fact that your assumptions are all baseless.

The third party lane has been viable since Obama failed as a progressive populist.

If Bernie would have run as independent in 2016 alone, he would have won. And this would have held for 2020 or 2024. But that’s not who Bernie is. But his personality aside, the lane is and has been open.

The fact is that most voters aren’t loyal to a party but actually despise both major parties. 2024 not Biden and Trump were polling at historic lows for any race in the past 80 years. People are looking for a person to vote for, not a party.

This naive response is actually the biggest barrier, and I’m not saying it wouldn’t have been a multi year project. But if it had started in earnest in 2016; if Bernie would have run as independent. The lane was absolutely open.

That all being said, the US is entering into a period of one party rule due to its persistent unwillingness to have entertained third parties.

Ok. Your opinion has been noted and dismissed. You clearly don’t know fuck about shit.

Yes. And if we had started on this project in the aftermath of 2016, we’d have a viable third party.