TBF the last time 7 dems agreed to continue we got John Oliver to spend an entire episode roasting Chuck Schumer about his imaginary friends.

I hope I never do anything so horrible to warrant that treatment, I might never recover.

It is, though. It’s one thing for some random artist to condemn the current admin, a totally different thing for a massive military contractor to. That is a different standard.

If Trump made himself an AI Trump Mickey Mouse video and somebody specifically asked reanimated Walt Disney for comment, that would be shocking. If a similar circumstance happened to Boeing or Northrop Grumman, then… No shit no comment.

Yes my entire point is that what they’re doing makes sense. It would actually be strange if the did anything differently given their position.

We do have to hold Microsoft to a very slightly different standard, because they’re a Military Contractor. They’re not going to risk hundreds of billions of dollars to take a stance and make a statement. In that sense, this should not surprise anybody.

Not watching Israel bombing Gaza was never on the table but the USA definitely had a choice between more death and less death, and it chose more.

Okay, good, it’s just that certain crowds are in here advocating we don’t vote for the DNC and I wanted to make sure we were on the same page.

It takes 60 to pass a budget resolution.

It takes 41 to keep a budget from passing (government shutdown).

Lawyers, city councilmen, police officers, bankers, judges, manufacturers, shippers and movers, producers, and millions of all manner of people think they don’t have a dog in this fight, that this is all normalcy and basic political divide. But when hundreds of thousands of people walk down mainstreet, they realize two things: 1. this is not normal 2. they need to reassess their own position.

I’ve got something to add: in every practical application AI have increased liabilities and created vastly inferior product, so they’re not more than just a tool that allows workers to further abstract because they are less than that. This in addition to the fact that AI companies can’t turn a profit, so it’s not better, not faster, not cheaper, but but it is certainly easier (to do a shit job).

Why do people still listen to this grifter piece of shit? I really don’t get it.

Don’t forget relevant information, don’t delete context and nuance. That’s just ignorance.

Vote whoever you want in the primary, but come midterms its time to lock tf in.

But the only way to get Republicans out is voting for the DNC. Otherwise you’re splitting the progressive vote because the DNC are progressive, despite claims otherwise.

In favor of a Republican?

They shut down the government for you, asshole. That is literally the full extent of their power with a pitiful 45:53 ratio in the senate.

There is a non-negligeable number of people convinced that all of the Democrat Platform are policies they don’t stand for. They think Obamacare was just Romneycare. Ideological puritans who would rather everyone abstain from participating elections than pick harm minimalization option.

This ideology gets furtherd and promoted by foreign psyops who frequently post on DB0 and Lemmy ML, much in the same vein that Russian operations promoted Bernie Sanders on FaceBook after he had already lost the primary and asked people to vote for Hillary in the general.

Basically everything is burning and some people think adding fuel is better than water.

Look, the most third party senators the USA has ever had was 11 in 1899. Even when the parties dissolved or rearranged it was always Demcoratic Republicans v Federalists, Jacksonians v AntiJacksonions, Democrats v Whigs, Democrats v Opposition, Democrats v Republicans.

Last congress there were 4 Independents and it lead to Republicans sweeping the 2024 election.

This is a two party system. One of them wants a King and the other does not. Democrats are the only way to progress. The only way. Singular.

Even with house and senate, he has the SCOTUS behind him and a military at his fingertips.

Most congress can do is starve his branch for funding and even then only with 60 senators.

I’m pretty doubtful, a month or two ago there was a poll saying faith in the DNC was at an all time low. People aren’t just going to wake up en mass because things are bad: this whole admin is just a replay of 2016-2020 but with a little extra shark jumping, and they STILL reelected Trump’s ass and put GOP in a 53 senate majority.

Then, even if a blue wave sweeps the midterms? So what? Only 20 GOP senators are up for reelection, the DNC currently have 45 seats and 2 Independents, they can’t remove trump without replacing every single GOP an that is beyond improbable.

The vague details I remember are that she frequently met with and invited to events an actual russian agent.

That seems to track with the fact that Elena Branson donated to her in 2020 and Gabbard hired someone who worked with one of the Kremlin’s lawyers in retaliation to Magnitsky Act. Russian news outlets have been favoring her for a very very long time.

More than 8 years ago she claimed to have met directly with Assad of Syria before introducing H.R. 608.

I suspect she was already compromised during her tour with the military.

Tulsi Gabbard was outed as a russian asset really early in her career. I can’t find some of the older articles but the allegations have been around for almost a decade now.

She was never Bernie Adjacent. Maybe Jill Stein adjacent. She’s the congresswoman version of a Tankie, pretend to be left to make the USA look bad, dive head first into authoritarianism at the first opportunity.