I'd say that Lemmy's tankies are doing what they can to get Trump elected, regardless of where on the "spectrum" you might place them. Politics isn't really a simple binary state.
What percentage of "Lemmy" that represents is anybody's guess.
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A leg up on running for president.
Or alternately you vote for Trump, either directly or by wasting votes on third-party candidates because the Democrats were insufficiently compelling.
Yes, I know it's idiotic. But a lot of the American electorate are idiots, or more charitably are not familiar with the game theory behind all this stuff. The Democrats do need to learn how to get the support of those people.
Now taking bets on how long it will be before Cloudflare announces that they're selling AI training datasets based off of the content they're managing...
Especially since whoever's VP in Biden's next term would have a big leg up on running for president in 2028.
I suspect it's probably too late for the Democrats to switch horses now, but I hope that this finally pile-drives some smidgen of a lesson into them that they need to actually try to win elections rather than just assume that since they're not crazy or evil like the Republican candidates people will naturally prefer them. They need to pick candidates that the people like and put in the effort to run those candidates well.
There's still five months until the election, there's plenty that Biden can do between now and then to show people that he's a good choice. And then maybe this time once it's all over the Democratic Party can do a major rethink of what exactly they're doing with all this. Like they should have the last time they ran a candidate against Trump that they thought simply "deserved" to win.
Cloaks are actually quite historical, they're very easy to make and useful in a variety of conditions.
When you delve into the details of what those bullet points actually entailed, they were all far far worse in medieval times.
Would be nice if SCOTUS had defined what "official acts" actually were.
His wrist would break, but it might be worth it.
I suppose Biden could have him officially assassinated. That's legal now.
Centrism is what gets large numbers of votes.
Obviously I hope that they'll do well and make good decisions, but in a choice between a left-wing party that makes a principled stand but fails to secure power and a more centrist one that has more good ideas than bad on balance and does secure power to implement them I think the latter is preferable.