I'm starting to think unelected lifetime appointments for god kings is... bad?

No, the DNC leadership chose Trump when they proclaimed that a man who couldn't win without Obama calling the other neoliberals to make them drop out so that Bernie couldn't win. Your part of the party decided it was worse for Bernie to win than Trump in 2020, and now what probably was going to happen in 2020 anyway is coming home to roost because your political "experts" chose a presidential candidate with no constituency to go up against a man who has replaced God to his followers. This is not and has never been on those of us who actually have a conscience beyond us not going this hard out of the gate in 2000 when this loser party showed it doesn't have the balls to defeat the GOP and needs to be replaced with a REAL left party that's willing to fight.

Yes, us enabling the DNC's Price Is Right strategy of always being $1 better than the GOP, and not one iota better, only enables their worst instincts, which doesn't actually electorally serve them to begin with, even.

"Our alliance with Germany is paramount and who's to say anyone has even been genocided?" -- you as an Italian in the 30's

Once you accept the other side's framing at all, right or wrong, nobody wants GOP Lite, they want full calories GOP. The DNC never learns this lesson at the general election level but seems to have it mastered internally. It's almost as though they don't care about beating the republicans, only about suppressing their own alleged base... weird...

I'd argue the people hiring ethno-thugs to beat teens protesting the genocide are the ones on the wrong side of history, but I guess we'll see. Biden isn't going to win, that's what you get when you ordain the guy who came in 5th in the first 3 states the only allowable candidate for two primaries. You "I hate Trump more than anything" Bidencrats are EXACTLY why he's coming back and you don't even see it.

Those of us who mind your support of genocide arguably are more irked by the genocide you support than you are irked by our existence, but I guess everything's relative.

It's a thing and I would argue this is a prime example -- https://hexbear.net/post/99029

W protected a GIANT amount of ocean around Hawaii. Arguably, this is eco-fascism coming from a president who is prosecuting a mass death event, if not genocide in the middle east, while having peace protestors arrested and beaten, like W.

Strategically, this probably isn't the best move from the protestors, but I have no sympathy for someone who hires armed ethno-goons to beat peace activists and think they deserve ANYTHING they get as fallout of that.

It's almost as though parties who pick popular candidates instead of people who finish 5th in the first two primaries because Obama tells them to have an easier time winning elections... weird.

I do find it a truly remarkable take that it's the peace protestors being beaten by storm troopers and hired goons who are the true authoritarians.

Dear neolibs, FYI, you're not going to downvote your way out of the reality that you support a genocide. You are this generation's equivalent of the Germans who not only said nothing, but actively supported the genocide. Sorry.

Nature finds a way. My Fedora 39 box with 32GB rests at like 4-ish and goes to 8-ish with a browser open.

If you're right and Trump is going to successfully end electoral politics, assuming you win 2024 by the skin of your teeth, you're just delaying fate until 2028, when Trump will run again and beat Kamala, who the DNC will ordain as the candidate despite her disastrous 2020 run (or it will be long enough since Hillary lost they'll force her on us again). Either way we lose and Trump wins eventually. If anything, a win in 2024 will leave the DNC with fewer state and legislative seats to prevent literal constitutional amendments (see the 1000+ state-level seats Obama lost during his term and the general trend of losing congressional seats during a presidential term). It's a sad reality, but it's the fruit of the actions of a political party that hasn't really been into winning at electoral politics since 1992. You're probably going to bring up that Biden lost fewer seats than expected in 2022, but that's not the own you think it is. The DNC could have readily kept the house in 2022, but decided to completely fuck the NY map so that the head of the DCCC could keep his seat (which he did not anyway) resulting in the loss of 5 seats that should have gone dem. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it actually care about being the firewall against the GOP's extremism it pretends to be.

Both sides aren't the same. The DNC is run by PR executives who don't care about winning or losing as long as they make a percentage on the ad spend for the election. The GOP, meanwhile, is run by corrupt politicians who need to win in order to quid for a later quo of a do nothing million dollar a year job for a megacorporation. Perhaps it would be most fruitful to reflect on how you try to "persuade" voters and examine if that contributes to the toxicity of the DNC brand and the likelihood of voters unhappy with their performance turning out.

The DNC is only going to become more prone to losing the longer they're propped up by an electorate that doesn't force them to improve. Maybe you can drag Biden over the line this time (you can't imo, the GOP has a structural advantage vs polls and Biden is just dead in the water in polls) but that only rewards the complacency that has led to them being this bad at elections. The GOP stepped in Brexit-level shit when they got Roe v Wade overturned, the fact that the DNC is doing as poorly as it is proves out what polling has shown, the DNC brand itself is deeply toxic in many states. We'll just be here in 2028 with you saying "We need to hold our nose and just vote for Kamala, even though Biden just nuked Laos because Netanyahu asked him to." Had Trump won in 2020, he'd be about to be term limited out and the blowback from Dobbs, his inflationary monetary policy, and Gaza would have fallen in his lap, putting the GOP in a worse position this cycle than they currently are. But they aren't, because you voted blue no matter who. Now he's going to come back, bigger and angrier than ever, and we didn't even hold a primary to try to find someone who can beat him.

Voting blue no matter who is what got us here, with a DNC that runs bad candidates picked in woke filled rooms behind the scenes, and doesn't allow real primaries to pick the strongest candidate. A great example of this is Henry Cuellar, a pro-life conservative who Nancy Pelosi moved heaven and earth for in the primary, literally lying to the dems in that district, saying she knew the FBI had dropped the investigation. Now we'll just lose that seat because the DNC would rather it go red than be occupied by a progressive. The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. The DNC isn't in fighting shape and the longer they're propped up, the worse they'll do against the GOP every cycle, which only emboldens the GOP to do crazy shit because the opposition party isn't a threat to them no matter what they do.

If the left dumped the DNC and made them unable to reliably win elections in 2000, we wouldn't be here right now. Arguing that we can never start the hard but necessary process of making the DNC go the way of the Whigs is like arguing that climate change is too hard to deal with. It's not going to actually ever get any easier and the longer we wait the harder it will be.

In my experience that's only been true if you're letting Google track you post-2020-ish. If you Google via tor or a VPN with no history so Google has no data about you, the results are trash, where Bing/DuckDuckGo (which is just Bing sans non-MS trackers) results are slightly better (although still much worse than Google before it sucked).