aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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Community in America means viewing the same website, buying items from the same company, or having a similar personal attribute to someone else at this point.

I think we use the word community so much in this country because it doesn't really exist.

enabling those same oligarchs to undermine our democracy.

Oh you didn't hear? You can't say oligarchs because American simpletons need to hear "king" instead because we have a long history of fighting kings and definitely not because the term oligarch applies to more than just Trump but instead better describes the cozy relationship between money and power in this country and illustrates that the rich have captured the government.

This dude looks like a disembodied testicle

Drowsy Donnie is what many people are calling him

Definitely make every political move you do based upon focus groups and polling, because people definitely love sock-in-the-wind, flip-flopping political creeps with no actual values!

👍 the headline ain't that misleading either but you do you

Maybe you could just make like a tree and leave?

It really feels like you’re just looking for a reason to be angry, and it doesn’t actually matter if it’s here or not, since you already have a notion of what you’re angry about.

This really feels like projection, bud. I'm with Democrats that want to do shit. To the point where I just donated to hoggs cause and skipped kamala's.

Sure, politicians mostly talk, but some also put their skin in the game while others sit on the sidelines and say what they're doing wrong.

Maybe the focus groups say it would be 10% more effective for AOC to use the word King rather than oligarch, but you know what matters more? The movement showing the fuck up in the first place.

This is why it's imperative to fight his fucking ass. You can win. Don't comply in advance.

You're not really even in the same category as the idle rich. Like sure, you can sell your house and get a profit but you have to live somewhere. If you bought again a similar house in the same area you'd break even.

I've got a quarter million dollars in appreciated wealth from my home in five years, but that's only useful to me if I want to take out a HELOC (with shitty ass rates) or move to someplace that sucks a lot worse.

Every other option would require me to become a landlord, in which case I would be part of the problem.

I'm looking to buy a better place and sure my place went up in value, but unless I want to also change locales I'm gonna have to fork over another wad of bills to get one.

It's definitely not as bad as being a new market entrant with no capital and no existing investment, but it certainly isn't the lighting up cigars with hundreds type of wealth you're pretending it is.

Buy borrow die

It does have a notable Achilles heel though, which is that the underlying portfolio has to keep appreciating in value.

Clearly you think it’s a perception problem, since all you’re doing is talking about perception. Why haven’t you been talking about policy this entire time?

Um because that's what the lady in the article talked about the whole time.

Making a statement about messaging isn’t the same as saying the only thing that matters is messaging.

Again:

Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – argued that the Democratic Party needed to lose its “weak and woke” reputation and “fucking retake the flag,” adopting a “goddamn Alpha energy” inspired by Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell.

It's not just a statement... it's the "plan". A messaging adjustment is the plan.

They're perceived as all talk because that's all most of them do. Their plans are to talk some more. I'd rather them get caught trying to do something...basically anything at all at this point.

That's why I'm pro AOC, pro Corey Booker, pro David Hogg primarying safe district Blue dogs, and pro Van Hollen. Talking head centrist Democrats can get fucked as far as I'm concerned.

There's some statement or another from one of them every time a Democrat attempts anything. With friends like these you don't even need enemies.

One of the main talking heads of the DNC was saying that Democrats should roll over and play dead, and on the CR they did exactly that.

You literally criticized her for saying the democratic party needs to work on being seen as weak, and then a paragraph later criticized them for being weak.

That's because she's more worried about messaging and optics than doing the actual work required to stand up to Trump. It's not about perception. It's not about messaging. They look weak and are perceived as weak because they are weak, and act weakly in opposition. She thinks (as you seem to) that it's primarily (or entirely) a perception problem. It isn't.

This is definitely the way for configuration files that you shouldn't change permissions or ownership on but only want to modify a few times.

However, I find chmod easier to use without reference by using the ugoa (+/-) rwxXst syntax rather than the numbers.

So, I’m honestly asking: how is this republican lite?

Sure:

Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – argued that the Democratic Party needed to lose its “weak and woke” reputation and “fucking retake the flag,” adopting a “goddamn Alpha energy” inspired by Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell.

So, we need to wave flags, stop being "weak and woke", and be alphas.

This shit is something you'd hear at a fucking Trump rally.

Edit: BTW, notice how we're not talking about any actual issue here, just optics and messaging. That's because the policy agenda is still the same weak sauce, tried and failed neoliberal policy playbook that has taken the country far enough off of the rails to make the people easily lured in by right-wing populism, demagoguery, and fascism.

“She said Democrats should stop using the term ‘oligarchy,’ a phrase she said doesn’t resonate beyond coastal institutions, and just say that the party opposes ‘kings,'”

Doesn't resonate beyond the coastal institutions such as.... Iowa? and Montana? Where Bernie and AOC did giant rallies?

This milquetoast Republican-lite act doesn't really resonate anywhere including coastal institutions. Look at the results of the last election cycle. The difference is that on the coasts there are enough people with money that'll vote to keep the status quo going. Life is good enough here that the people here can still -- and just barely -- imagine a future.

In the middle of the country where everyone's broke and things are thoroughly hopeless, they see little difference between keeping the status quo going and burning it all to the ground.

That's exactly where and why Trump's "take the country back" rhetoric works. The country is screwed up and pretty obviously not going to be made dramatically better by silly little neoliberal plans such as a tax break for opening a new small business or whatever.

who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”

Alright, why are you less than an AOC then?

I understand all of the "we can't just be activists, we have to be effective and use our power" arguments if (a) you have power -- which they're split-minded about, sometimes it's "well, you know we are the minority party" and sometimes it's bullshit like this -- and (b) you use it to do something more than an activist does. The minority party in the Senate has done less than be activists. They caved and gave Trump the continuing resolution he needed to continue dismantling the government and wiping his ass with the Constitution. Slotkin isn't even doing as much as Corey Booker.

They had leverage and they refused to use it, because despite all of the rhetoric, deep down they still believe this is the time for politics as usual.

We're well along the path where we could be post-political in a real sense, where political enemies are sent to the gulag in CECOT or "suicided" by shooting themselves in the back of the head. As a former CIA person ought to know, changes in rhetoric aren't going to save you from that.

Remotes exist

To turn off and on light bulbs

He's like a walking uncanny valley.

He's the uncle in the zombie flick that swore he wasn't bitten and is starting to turn.