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On October 01 2026 23:12 LightSpectra wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2026 23:01 PoulsenB wrote:
Just need to vote for the Democrats so that they can bring back decorum and ornamental trappings of democracy back, while at the same time quietly preserving most if not all of the harmful republican laws and policies. A centrist Democrat became governor of Virginia with a majority in both houses of the legislature and within 100 days, passed paid family and sick leave, raised minimum wage, reduced prescription prices, passed an affordable housing measure, guaranteed contraception access, passed free tax filing, made wage theft a felony, and ended tax breaks for Confederacy apologia/propaganda organizations. Democrats are wrong about a lot of things but acting like they don't get things done when voters turn out for them is stupid and counter-productive.
Kudos to them for actually doing something and putting in things that should've been there all along. Let me know when they dismantle/reform the whole US political system which keeps putting people like Trump in power and repeatedly destabilises the Middle East with pointless wars every 10 years or so. While they're at it, they should also rein in the crazy rich people like Thiel or Musk so that they stop making things worse for everyone everywhere.
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On October 01 2026 23:39 PoulsenB wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2026 23:12 LightSpectra wrote:On October 01 2026 23:01 PoulsenB wrote:
Just need to vote for the Democrats so that they can bring back decorum and ornamental trappings of democracy back, while at the same time quietly preserving most if not all of the harmful republican laws and policies. A centrist Democrat became governor of Virginia with a majority in both houses of the legislature and within 100 days, passed paid family and sick leave, raised minimum wage, reduced prescription prices, passed an affordable housing measure, guaranteed contraception access, passed free tax filing, made wage theft a felony, and ended tax breaks for Confederacy apologia/propaganda organizations. Democrats are wrong about a lot of things but acting like they don't get things done when voters turn out for them is stupid and counter-productive. Kudos to them for actually doing something and putting in things that should've been there all along. Let me know when they dismantle/reform the whole US political system which keeps putting people like Trump in power and repeatedly destabilises the Middle East with pointless wars every 10 years or so. While they're at it, they should also rein in the crazy rich people like Thiel or Musk so that they stop making things worse for everyone everywhere. That isn't on Democrats, stupid Americans keep electing, obvious wildly incompetent people time and time again.
The obvious solution to the problems of Democracy is to end Democracy. To bad we also know where that boat leads...
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On October 01 2026 23:39 PoulsenB wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2026 23:12 LightSpectra wrote:On October 01 2026 23:01 PoulsenB wrote:
Just need to vote for the Democrats so that they can bring back decorum and ornamental trappings of democracy back, while at the same time quietly preserving most if not all of the harmful republican laws and policies. A centrist Democrat became governor of Virginia with a majority in both houses of the legislature and within 100 days, passed paid family and sick leave, raised minimum wage, reduced prescription prices, passed an affordable housing measure, guaranteed contraception access, passed free tax filing, made wage theft a felony, and ended tax breaks for Confederacy apologia/propaganda organizations. Democrats are wrong about a lot of things but acting like they don't get things done when voters turn out for them is stupid and counter-productive. Kudos to them for actually doing something and putting in things that should've been there all along. Let me know when they dismantle/reform the whole US political system which keeps putting people like Trump in power and repeatedly destabilises the Middle East with pointless wars every 10 years or so. While they're at it, they should also rein in the crazy rich people like Thiel or Musk so that they stop making things worse for everyone everywhere.
They have to win elections to do that, so if you want those things to happen, my first suggestion would be to stop spreading apathy on social media that would discourage people from voting for them and giving them the power to do those things.
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On October 01 2026 23:44 Gorsameth wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2026 23:39 PoulsenB wrote:On October 01 2026 23:12 LightSpectra wrote:On October 01 2026 23:01 PoulsenB wrote:
Just need to vote for the Democrats so that they can bring back decorum and ornamental trappings of democracy back, while at the same time quietly preserving most if not all of the harmful republican laws and policies. A centrist Democrat became governor of Virginia with a majority in both houses of the legislature and within 100 days, passed paid family and sick leave, raised minimum wage, reduced prescription prices, passed an affordable housing measure, guaranteed contraception access, passed free tax filing, made wage theft a felony, and ended tax breaks for Confederacy apologia/propaganda organizations. Democrats are wrong about a lot of things but acting like they don't get things done when voters turn out for them is stupid and counter-productive. Kudos to them for actually doing something and putting in things that should've been there all along. Let me know when they dismantle/reform the whole US political system which keeps putting people like Trump in power and repeatedly destabilises the Middle East with pointless wars every 10 years or so. While they're at it, they should also rein in the crazy rich people like Thiel or Musk so that they stop making things worse for everyone everywhere. That isn't on Democrats, stupid Americans keep electing, obvious wildly incompetent people time and time again. The obvious solution to the problems of Democracy is to end Democracy. To bad we also know where that boat leads...
Yep. The job of the Democratic Party is to put forward a decent policy platform and to use whatever powers the electorate and the constitution give them to implement it. The job of the Americans is to vote for it.
Biden delivered a world beating economy and post COVID recovery, the lowest inflation of any developed nation, student debt relief, leadership in the face of a major land war in Europe, investment in domestic renewable energy production and a hundred other things. It's not the fault of the Democrats that Americans don't want that stuff.
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On October 01 2026 22:34 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote:
So with Hegseth purging military leadership (again) and bringing in partisan civilians to leadership positions...
Are you guys fucked?
Was the last election the last real one you are going to get.
Because if you want to set up a coup this is how it's done.
Flag officers are inherently political positions. Colonel and the equivalent in other branches is the highest that's "pure" military. Generals and admirals are appointments.
As to these partisan civilians, whoever they may be, the US enjoys beautiful civilian control of the military. People have political registrations but they're not going to start issuing GOP-branded M16s. The politics comes from the fact people disagree how to do things. Not that there's an uncontroversial thing everybody agrees on that the evil partisans are ignoring. Like some people are pro and anti A-10. Partisan-ness here would not be being on either side of that, but going so far as to say like "The A-10 is good but it's made in a Democrat state so let's kill it."
The people who constantly ask "What is this program actually doing? What is this for? What are we doing here? Do we need this? How does this help us win wars?" are going to be closer to the mark than the previous strategy of "Let's appoint this Raytheon guy and nobody rock the boat so we can all keep our cushy jobs. Just keep doing whatever everyone else says. Don't insert any initiative."
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Oblade going with "who could be against shaking things up and reducing the influence of well connected industry insiders who seek only to line their own pockets". You oblade. You.
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On October 02 2026 00:56 KwarK wrote:
Oblade going with "who could be against shaking things up and reducing the influence of well connected industry insiders who seek only to line their own pockets". You oblade. You.
I doubt they’re for it, their positions seem to only exist to create argument fuel with others.
If we all flipped to being hardcore Republicans he’d probably be doubling up with GH to attack from the left, although at least GH has their convictions long-established
It’s all nonsense really
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On October 02 2026 02:35 WombaT wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2026 00:56 KwarK wrote:
Oblade going with "who could be against shaking things up and reducing the influence of well connected industry insiders who seek only to line their own pockets". You oblade. You. I doubt they’re for it, their positions seem to only exist to create argument fuel with others. If we all flipped to being hardcore Republicans he’d probably be doubling up with GH to attack from the left, although at least GH has their convictions long-established It’s all nonsense really
Have they though? It seems as though they change depending on whether it is done by a “socialist” country or not. Like when China has way more cameras than the US , that’s not an issue, or Chinas genocide and so on.
I guess the Dems bad is consistent, but that is true of Oblade too.
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