We can't do anything about that, wagging your finger at voters will not accomplish anything. But we CAN do something about the party itself, the candidate, and the campaign strategy.
Fixating on things we can't change is a way to deflect from having actual productive conversations about things that we can change. It's a way for the DNC to avoid taking responsibility.
Did the DNC's strategy work? No? Then the Democrats were wrong.
It's their job to convince voters to vote for them. And if they won't take responsibility for failing at their job, then they're on course to do the exact same thing in 2028 and get the exact same results.
You said you had this conversation about Elon years ago, but obviously a lot has changed since then.
Try asking some deeper questions about why he still supports Musk now. Is he just trying to plug his head in the sand because he just likes Tesla/has a financial stake, or does he genuinely align with Musk's fascist leanings? Did he vote for Trump?
I'd say Opus Magnum is the best entry point for beginners, no programming knowledge needed.
Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.
Do you have a source for this claim?
Everything involving this Blahaj slapfight has been BPR, and anyone continuing to rehash it over here is just BPR^2
Like, seriously, this should've ended the minute the obvious troll provoking everyone got banned. Nothing productive will ever come of continuing to talk about it now, all sides need to let it go.
Canceled? Literally 1984.
F-Zero GX, hands down. Nothing else is even close.
The point is that blaming voters isn't actionable or useful. It isn't a lesson we can learn for 2028. And when that's what people keep deflecting the conversation to, it sure seems like a way for the DNC to avoid taking responsibility.
When you ask the question "what are Democrats supposed to do?", the answer is not "nothing".
Well the voters did pick the fascist fuckwit, and if we don't want that to happen again then we have to have a deeper conversation, rather than terminating that conversation with the unhelpful observation "voters bad."
Because the point here should be to ask real questions about what we're gonna do differently next time. Deflecting away from our candidates' failures is an attitude that leads to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
It is a candidate's job to convince voters to vote for them. That is what campaigning is. Sitting here and wagging your finger, on the other hand, is not campaigning.
We cannot tie the entire US electorate down and force them to "be more responsible". That is not a useful or productive way to look at the problem. If that is all you fixate on, you have no actionable solution out of it.
But what we can do is run better candidates with a better campaign, that will inspire voters to want to vote for them. That is how it works, that has always been how it works, and if we ignore that, we will lose in 2028.
The point I am making here is that we need to talk about things we can actually do something about, instead of shutting down the conversation by deflecting to things we cannot do anything about.