Starmer is going to single handedly destroy the Labour party. He’s such a typical neolib thief. What exactly is the point of even voting for his Labour over the Tories? Their policy positions and tendency to corruptly profit off power has reached full parity now that Starker has purged every real Labour candidate from Labour.

A DNC congressional majority passed every shitty thing he did except the Iran Contra stuff. There’s a great classic SNL from the late 80’s where Al Franken talks on Weekend Update about how it used to be someone who got old and rich like him would have to become a republican, but thanks to the DNC becoming a neoliberal anti-tax party, he doesn’t need to swap parties.

We’re on the brink of another Trump term --Justice Judy may well happen in the next year or two…

The post-Nader Green Party is a joke, but the DNC is the party of Reagan and Cheney, so… Those in glass political parties that serve only to undermine the left electorate’s political power shouldn’t throw stones

At least it was underground, limiting how many people were in the line of fire, every few years they open fire at someone on a major avenue in Manhattan in a crowd. Good times. I’m so glad the democratic party destroyed Scott Stringer by bribing his ex-gf to falsely accuse him of being a sex pest to ensure the DNC’s man, Eric Adams, the biggest shithead to ever come out of the NYPD, could become mayor-king of NYC, guaranteeing Guiliani-level daily police misconduct with impunity.

I would argue all of these things were possible sans “AI” (although it would have been sold as AI in the 90’s) via existing heuristics adequately developed if people knew that was the desired application

I think at this point it’s clear that when the CIA doesn’t do it, ala JFK, you get Hinckley or worse losers, as demonstrated by all post-Lincoln attempts on republicans

The backlash to this is going to be fun. Having lived through the .com boom/bust, which wasn’t a scam, the web was actually the future and was undersold if anything, no one with the stink of computer on them outside of a tiny elite could get decent fulltime work for like 5 years. AI is a scam, full stop. It has virtually no non-fraud real world applications that don’t reflect the underlying uselessness of the activity it can do. People are going to go full Butlerian Jihad from Dune when this blows up the economy, and it’s going to suck so much more for everyone in tech, scammer or no…

But the hundreds of constituents who called him to report their dog being eaten by Haitians but not the cops are real, right?

The DNC is now the party of the neocons. Maybe Trump is so bad it’s “necessary” but arguably in a two party duopoly that’s effectively a sealed system, you’re just swapping voters with the GOP to wind up still relatively 50/50, and I’m skeptical there’s a geographical advantage to upper-crust, legitimately evil former republicans, who don’t care for Trump’s uncouth antics, as presumably most of those voters live in districts that are already blue-ish. You’re literally giving up pro-peace voters in random districts across the country, potentially in tightly contested congressional districts, to run up your VA margin of victory.

I’d argue that’s more archeoconservatism, what Trump represents and what has reinvigorated the right is more a regressive progressivism – forging a sort of Dune/Handmaiden’s Tale future that resembles an idealized past but is more a SciFi future reimagining of it, and government has an active role in producing that just as in normal progressive progressivism because you need the government to drive the change.

The idea that actual swing voters, who are largely tuned out of 99% of available information, actually care about specific policies is overstated on all but a tiiiny subset of issues (which trans rights are not one of). Virtually no specific policy actually impacts electoral success on non-base turnout voting on its merits, it’s all campaign organization and media vibes, so I’d argue this is a false choice, largely. Nobody who isn’t already on a side cares about your platform, they care if you’re visibly embarrassed about your own platform (as democrats usually are about the 1% deviation from the GOP free market absolutism they dare in most cycles).

Trump’s political instincts aren’t what they used to be. Giving ground on an issue, no matter how unpopular your position is, only helps your opponent because it tells low information voters “actually the other side was right about this all along and I’m bad on this issue.” Unlike the DNC, which has never seen a position it would defend, the GOP usually has the political savvy to barge through, polling be damned, since the only thing the american electorate respects is strength. Glad to see them screwing the pooch, especially on this issue, but VERY odd for both Trump or the GOP overall to make this kind of DNC-flavored error of spinelessness that only helps the other party both structurally on the issue and during the election at hand.

We need to break out the Liz Truss lettuce. I give this less than a week before they walk it back.

I guess this is the one Tory policy they aren’t onboard with

Objectively hot

At some point you assume the dam must break with US healthcare profiteering, but they always find another way (which is why I wanted Obama to follow up on his 2008 primary promise to do Card Check for unions and not less than Hillarycare Romneycare bullshit he ran against the premise of, literally saying “if you could solve healthcare by mandating buying coverage you could solve homelessness by criminalizing it”)

But they won’t because Biden’s sole God is Netanyahu. He’s like one of these Elon cultists, but for a specifically off-putting foreign war criminal from a foreign state who should rightfully be executed at The Hague alongside the Nazis if the international legal regime – or Israel plans on existing later this century

I remember a time like six weeks ago when blue MAGA would have given this concept 100000 down votes. Funny how times change in two months with people who basically a human botfarm