Dems could have had Bernie, Warren, Buttigieg, even Klobuchar, but Biden won pretty handily. That’s on people people.

Is it though? The media confusing people by claiming Biden is more electable because his policies are closer to what republicans want isn’t on people, nor is every conservative candidate dropping out at once to endorse Biden, while Warren remained in to keep Bernie’s share divided (ensuring that none of the popular policies the former Reagan campaigner ran on were actually implemented), nor is the DNC giving Biden debate questions before hand.

I have been saying this since Obama.

In 2020, people believed they were voting for healthcare, defunding the police, emptying the migrant concentration camps, protecting Roe v Wade, etc.

When you fail to do the things that brought people to the polls, and do the things the opposition wants instead, the opposition’s voters still won’t vote for you and your own voters just don’t vote.

Trying to appeal to moderate republicans just lowers your own voter turnout. The republicans will always vote for fascism over diet-fascism.

But no, pointing out these very obvious mechanisms just gets me labeled as an evil conservative Chinese Putin-bot trying to disrupt the election.

dropping out of the race at the convention

The face of the party is infinitely less important than the impact the policies have on people’s lives. It doesn’t matter if it’s Biden or Pete Buttigeig at the front, the dems only shot in hell is to use every power at their disposal short of drone striking Trump and the SCOTUS (maybe) to demonstrate to voters that 1. They want the same thing the voters want (eg, not genocide) and 2. They will actually do those things (no blaming the parliamentarian or norms or some rules you set or fear the SCOTUS might ask you to stop).

Yeah no, armed dudes going around looking for women all alone to “rescue” is a massive red flag. 100% with the bears on this one.

OK, but the same is true of random dudes you meet all alone.

Dude just train your dog not to bite.

You were implying Trump was good because the US is bad, but Trump’s foreign policy was as destructive as every other presidents.

Wtf? The guy who blew up the general who beat ISIS while he was on a peace mission in a third country? The guy who escalated the drone warfare across Iraq and Syria? Who escalated the trade war with China?

No, America did not stop being an evil empire or start being good for global stability under Trump.

The guys who fund terrorists and dictatorships all over the world are important to global stability, but not in the way you think.

That wasn’t it, Cloudflare didn’t like the way the casino was using Cloudflare’s IPs, since they were getting banned in multiple countries.

Cloudflare only offers byoIP as part of a business package, and that comes with extortionate pricing.

Still better than when he slayed the dragon that was hoarding friendship.

Or just a roll that’s uncomfortably close to the toilet, such as mounted on a sink right next to you, such that you have to pull it 90 degrees from the roll.

*salmon

People who don’t understand why she would pick the bear don’t deserve bears.

Even if it’s not on the menu, it’s not like you can’t get X neat or on the rocks.

The fact that they’re putting forum results ahead of web seems like they’re just throwing in the towel on having useful web results that aren’t just searching thing+reddit/stackoverflow.

IDK, setting up a monkey village with different means of production to see what organization emerges around them would be a really cool experiment.

OK yeah, but don’t think a group of 6 monkeys is gonna invent financialization.

That’s not capitalism, that’s just a market.

It’s only capitalism when one monkey owns the means of production and starts paying another money a wage while taking the wealth they produce.

It would be really interesting if the scientists gave all of the monkeys a huge supply of walnuts, and one of the monkeys a tool to open walnuts. Would the monkey share the tool when it was finished opening walnuts? Charge the other monkeys to use the tool? Would the other monkeys beat the shit out of them and share it?

Oh yeah, when it’s privatized. Here the only former toll road was owned by the county. They removed the toll once the road paid for its construction.

Are toll roads less of a scam than free roads though? At least toll road construction and maintenance is funded by drivers.

It’s a regressive tax, but so are state taxes.