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Democrats vote for or against things all the time, whereas modern-day Republicans vote almost invariably in total lock-step (like literally 100% of them.) It's very weird. They have a whole little proto-Russia going on where everyone always agrees with the leader no matter what; it actually is sort of newsworthy at this point when some Republicans cross the aisle.

I mean, honestly? That might be another explanation. Some combination of sanctions, effective counterintelligence, or "Ukraine is getting their weapons so what the hell are we paying you for" blocking the payments.

Russia's not running out of money any time soon (not on the scale of the laughably small amounts that it takes to corrupt people in the US government), but there are other reasons why people might not be getting their checks anymore. And Rand Paul is still going strong, where he's one of the people who's just motivated by some absolutely cockeyed internal compass that gravitates unerringly to the wrong answer on absolutely everything, so that would track, too.

I saw all the Helldivers posts in a constant stream on Reddit, and thought, well very clearly that's someone who's figured out how to promote their product

Then I thought, you know what, maybe I am just cynical. Maybe this is some super high quality game that I'm not aware of because I'm not in the know, so much so that people just organically like talking about it and I'm seeing lots of posts for it in a way that I didn't even for much beloved games like Lethal Company

Nope, it's a microtransaction cash grab. Reddit is shit, what else is new

Probably I am dreaming yes

I have one guess. There’s absolutely 0 evidence for it so maybe I am just fooling myself that it is plausible when it isn’t.

But, a bunch of people have been suddenly turning anti-Russia recently who were previously very cool with it. Something changed. My unfounded theory is, more criminal charges are coming for people who have been agent-ing for Russia, and McConnell and the other lawful evils are trying to just emphasize that they’re nowhere near those charges, no how sir.

How do you do, fellow non traitors

Boy I sure am upset about all the traitoring around here, how dare they, amirite?

I think this is backwards.

Or rather I think you’re right about Bill and Hillary Clinton, but the cause and effect works the opposite of how you said.

In 1992 the democrats had won one presidential election in 24 years.

I think the violent betrayal of the antiwar left by the DNC in 1968 just turned too many politically active people away from the Democratic Party. Anyone who really cared probably had been gassed or beaten, or knew someone who had, in Chicago in 1968, and so decided - pretty understandably - fuck this game, I’m not playing.

And so what happened? Did we get the yellow line? Did the DNC suddenly realize, as OP swears he wants them to, that to attract votes they’d have to move to the left?

Fuck no. Instead we got Wall Street, the resurgence of wealth inequality as a defining characteristic of the American economy, death squads in Central America, Star Wars. Finally, a generation of continuous losing later, Clinton decided he could safely abandon the actual left since they weren’t interested in voting anyway, and just appeal to conservative-but-not-Nazi rich white people, and the new face of the Democratic Party was born. And, it worked.

And for one instant partway through that whole thing, an actually liberal Democratic candidate won, did some affirmatively great things, got a whole bunch of resistance from the right and not much support from the left, and then got beat out of a 2nd term because of lukewarm support from an American left wing that was too jaded to really realize that he wasn’t the same people who had cheated them out of actual progress in a recent primary they were still salty about. And so, when he lost, an idiot with fascist tendencies and no real government experience won, and ruined the fuckin world.

So no I don’t think the lesson of Clinton is “this lack of ideology.” I think the lesson of Clinton is, if you want the government to represent you, you need to work (in whatever way) to make sure it does, otherwise the most powerful military and economic power in the world will just be up for grabs for whoever feels like fighting hard enough to grab the wheel. And when that happens it’ll fuck up your day and many other people’s way way worse than what you were saying wasn’t worth voting for.

* white Twitter person-pretending-to-be-a-leftist

Not using plastic straws or eating meat or whatever may well lead to a happier life for you; I won’t say it’s a bad thing to do that.

It will do fuck-all about the coming apocalypse, because not much of the damage is being done by the end user consumer.

If you live in the US, you have a golden combination of opportunity. The US does a lot of polluting and has a lot of ability to influence other places in the world that do, and with enough effort it’s actually possible for an activist organization to get them to listen and do things differently. It’s not easy, but the return on investment for trying to get the US government to regulate Chevron (to pick a random example) beats by like 10:1 or 100:1 the return from directly lobbying the Chevron corporation or just driving a more fuel-efficient car yourself.

“Failing to ensure” they have food and medicine, like it happened by accident and the Israelis are maybe responsible to try to help them with it, is a malicious lie. Israel is starving an entire ethnicity to death, and killing people who try to bring them food or medicine. Reporting it in the careful way that the Post is is dishonest and on purpose.

I feel like you and I probably see it more or less the same; I was attacking the Post from the leftwards direction.

If only we could get again the guy who moved us from the red line to the blue

Super relevant yes

Like everyone I know on the left, I make sure to follow her Twitter and care about what she posts