Friendly neighborhood socialist. Perpetually annoyed by Liberal cowardice and inability to imagine a better future than the ones corporate centrist Democrats insist upon. He/him
Friendly neighborhood socialist. Perpetually annoyed by Liberal cowardice and inability to imagine a better future than the ones corporate centrist Democrats insist upon. He/him
More and more things are becoming electrified, such as vehicles, but the biggest culprit right now is data centers putting more demand on the grid. A similar thing happened with crypto mining, which is still going on to a lesser degree than a few years ago. Here's a Hank Green video on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YO-0HBKtA
I know SO MANY PEOPLE with jobs like that who constantly speak to how they WISH the fucking places would burn down or something. I don't think you get how fucking tired people are of shitty bosses, shitty hours, shitty unsafe conditions, shit for benefits, and shit pay. The moment this sort of thing becomes a risk to the owner-class' ability to profit is the moment a lot of those problems get fixed.
Don't worry, Trump will do exactly what Biden did about Israel doing war crimes against civilians... Give them more money and weapons.
They're gonna learn the reason we stopped the draft wasn't because we had SO MANY PEOPLE looking to join the military voluntarily, but because so many people would rather toss a frag into an officer's tent than shoot at or get shot by someone overseas who didn't do nothing to them against their will. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe3okNPmzQ
Are you under the impression that the Epstein Files are her own personal property that she gets to walk away with?
Not just the Republicans. All politicians who support the "free market" of capitalism/ capitalists determining our value as people.
Malcom X was right about you. Fred Hampton was right about you. MLK was right about you. Phil Ochs was right about you. The white moderate who can tolerate genocide over there, but can't tolerate people who want to make shit better for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOHJaCPkLg
I ain't writing shit to an LLM because AI is trash. What I'm saying is what Leftists, ACTUAL ANTIFASCIST LEFTISTS have been saying for ages, while you Liberal COSPLAYERS act like your corporate stooges are the "good guys". You're not. You're cowardly idiots who can't imagine that other people can believe in actual practical solutions to numerous societal problems, rather than sit in the mud and hope it doesn't get worse while voting for pro-police state, pro-war, anti-healthcare losers.
Is a fart even mildly offensive? It's a fart. Everyone farts. Everyone has had a kinda loud fart sneak up on them somewhere. This is nothing. This is less than nothing. As one of the top comments points out, it's the most human thing he's done.
No one ever won or lost to Trump because of what was in their pants. They lost to Trump because they fucking sucked ass. That's not to say there aren't ANY people who didn't change their vote against them over gender, but the margins are too close for that, especially when we KNOW it was Gaza that sank Kamala. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
Biden didn't exactly "sweep" Trump. Trump lost with the most votes any Repub ever got. He lost because everyone fucking hated him in 2020. Anyone could have beat Trump in 2020. A Hillary/ Kamala ticket could have beat Trump in 2020. Hillary lost because she was unpopular, her policies were status quo, and she ignored key states. Kamala lost because her policies were Biden's (Biden was hella unpopular in 24) + more Repubs in her cabinate, and she stuck with a pro-genocide stance everyone hated...
It really, really shoulda been Bernie. It always shoulda been Bernie.
He's now trying to find some focus-group tested imaginary "middle ground" that blames Netanyahu for ALL of Israel's crimes, conveniently ignoring his own genocide apologia or that even the "Liberal" opposition to Bibi supports genocide and "Greater Israel" expansion.
It's a known fact that Hillary was unpopular for a LOT of reasons that weren't her gender, that she neglected to campaign in SEVERAL KEY STATES THAT SHE LOST, and Kamala threw the election for supporting Israel committing genocide and appealing to fascists over the Dem base, and they still both were close enough that it wasn't anything close to a blowout. They didn't lose because of what's in their paants, that's a sexist idea that sexists want you to believe sexistly.
Both times the reason the woman lost was because they fucked up. They weren't popular to begin with, supported unpopular policy, Harris thought she'd win latching herself to Biden's record even though he was as unpopular as Trump at the time, and Hillary didn't bother campaigning in multiple states, and they still almost beat Trump. They lost because they sucked in ways AOC doesn't, not because of their gender.
I'd wager they would fumble against even a MAGA loser like JD Vance who only has to pretend to have been against the Iran war a little bit (which is why he seems to be avoiding the press at the moment, I'd wager) to keep himself just clean enough to get all 10 of the "Nevertrumper" Republicans the Dem consultants and donor class hyper focuses on at everyone else's expense.
Hatred of data centers is one of those rare, genuinely bipartisan issues. They jack up costs of living in their area, pollute like a motherfucker, and the noise genuinely causes health issues in the towns they're in.
That's the one thing keeping us in this completely avoidable situation. The average Democrat has half a brain more than the average Republican, which, unfortunately, still leaves them with only half a brain.
In short, Trump didn't win, Kamala and Hillary lost.
He won because Hillary and Kamala scored owngoals. Hillary ignored several states thinking they'd capitulate like she was owed the win. Kamala supported a genocide and multiple other unpopular polices from the DEEPLY unpopular Biden administration. Both of them were well in reach of beating Trump. Biden himself wasn't going to beat Trump sticking with his own positions by 2024 when his popularity was Deepwater Horizon levels of underwater, but Kamala's dumbass latched herself to him.
A woman absolutely can beat Trump... if they aren't a fuckup. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were fuckups. They scored some hard fucking owngoals and still were in reach of winning their elections. Also, again, AOC is more popular than Trump already. More popular than Newsom. More popular than the entire Democratic fucking party. You're washed. You don't know your shit beyond what talking heads on tv tell you to think.
You're just repeating bullshit you've heard. Yeah there are pricks who wont vote for a woman, but not that many. Hillary (a woman) got more votes than him in 2016. I'll repeat that because you're going to ignore it; HILLARY CLINTON, A WOMAN, GOT MORE VOTES THAN HIM even though she was unpopular to begin with and didn't campaign in key states like an idiot. 2024 was lost because of Harris' support for genocide. It's fact. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
I would say him trying to out-MTG on immigrant crime fearmongering at the SOTU counts as racist rhetoric. Also "stupid son of a bitch" was an insult, even if the stupid son of a bitch deserved it. Also also... you know... supporting the genocide in Gaza. Also also before he was POTUS he was hella racist and even penned one of the most racist crime bills in living memory (which even he owns up to). Y'all seem to think he was a saint because he was better than Trump.
Trump has always polled like shit. He's deeply unpopular, which should tell you something about the pathetic idiots you people shove onto us when we need a progressive the most. Liberals are not up to the task of fighting fascism in thee long term. That's what Leftists do because we believe in collective power.
Maybe if you lot had any real morality, any real intelligence, any real pragmatism, like you claim, we wouldn't be in this mess we find ourselves in. Liberalism is, after all, a center-right ideology, which makes fascism a far more comfortable idea to you than any form of Leftism where valuing people's lives and rights are what drives politics and ideology.
Also my history is consistent in opposition to fascism and rightwing politics. I'm alas consistently supportive of ACTUALLY progressive Leftism. I warned that Biden/ Harris' support for genocide was going to lose 2024, and I was correct. Now regressive Dems are more mad at people like me than they are at the politicians who supported literal genocide, because brown foreigners aren't really fully humans to you all. And no, I never suggested Trump would be better for Palestine or any such thing.
They didn't start it, it's been going on for over 75 years. They just fully supported it, as has every POTUS in that time as part of American/ Western imperialism on behalf of capital, and there's no shortage of receipts on their support of it, or of that support costing the 2024 election.
Do we really think he'd be embarrassed by this? Or that if he was it'd change anything? His boss literally shat himself at a press conference in the oval office.
Not as solid a dynamic as "already stunningly popular AOC vs unpopular establishment favorite Newsom". Also, California kinda really hates Newsom. I'm not sure he could win another term as Governor of California.
Also, you know, the murders and war crimes.