btaf45 @ btaf45 @lemmy.world

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The DNC needs a socially conservative but economically progressive candidate

Well they are 100% dependent on the voters for that.

I disagree a lot that Dems need a "socially conservative" candidate. What they do need is a candidate who does NOT focus on identity politics and does focus on wealth inequality and all directly and indirectly related issues.

If they were concerned with improving people’s lives they’d have implemented progressive economic policy

The DNC has no power to implement any policies. The House Democratic Caucus (HDC) and Senate Democratic Caucus (SDC) are the organizations with that power. The HDC/SDC are way more powerful than the DNC.

It’s the leftist-progressive economic policy exemplified by FDR’s New Deal.

Exactly. It's not like we don't already have a road map and historical examples of how to get it right.

the established academic and technocratic paradigm is fucking stupid.

Its insane to be against science and intelligence and knowledge.

[You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science]

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/

One of the characteristics of populism is being anti-establishment, even against the established academic and technocratic paradigm.

Hell no. FDR was a populist. You do NOT need to be against expertise and intelligence to oppose the billionaire elites. Rather the opposite. We need smart and competent people to beat the billionaires.

What they did was court Republican voters instead of Democrat voters

She "courted Republicans" with the most liberal platform since LBJ? Taking a picture with Liz Cheney, WITHOUT CHANGING ANY POLICIES, was a good thing not a bad thing. Because far right republicans supporting Democrats is objective confirmation of the threat of Fascism. It proves that Dems weren't making exaggerating the threat to democracy.

This is pretty much all true. Except for...

One problem the DNC has is that they keep throwing boring ass lawyers into a game that isn’t about law

The DNC wasn't making the decisions. The Harris campaign was.

Kerry? Never stood a chance. Hilary? No chance. Kamala? As much as we needed her to win, she was unappealing to stupid people.

Somewhat true. But Hillary could have won if she had simply mixed in a few bearded Biker types in the background crowd as prominently as all the Muslim women. But these candidates were the mistakes of the voters, not the DNC.

To win an election, you have to excite people. Trump, despite his rhetoric clearly being terrifying, was, unfortunately, exciting.

I change the channel whenever Traitorapist Trump talks so that he never gets a full sentence out. Still do. I don't want to hear one more lie.

It’s a matter of self sufficiency and that, at some point,

You are thinking in terms of pre-nuclear weapons geopolitics. Nuclear weapons completely changes everything. The 80 year old US nuclear umbrella is the only reason we do not yet have dozens of countries with nuclear weapons. Now because of Trump’s New World Disorder, we can expect a mad scramble of dozens of countries getting nukes.

It has ALREADY started. Poland says it is going to get its own nukes now. It’s a very wise move for Poland but the beginning of a terrible disaster for planet Earth.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-tusk-plan-train-poland-men-military-service-russia/

each place should be baseline strong enough

The world could very easily have 23 new countries becoming "baseline strong" very cheaply in a matter of years simply by building nukes. There are 32 countries that have nuclear power stations now. That is the core technology. And the rest of the world can easily acquire the technology from those 32.

Does any sane person think that humanity will become MORE SAFE having 32+ nuclear weapons countries instead of 9? Country A would only need 20 nuclear weapons to wipe out Country B's 20 biggest cities in one day. Even if Country B is the top military power in the world and Country A is a small relatively poor country. And all the suicide bombers and terrorist attacks in the last quarter century prove that Mutual Assured Destruction has major limitations. There is no way that Americans will benefit from this. Trump's New World Disorder WILL gravely weaken our national security and world security.

My general rule of thumb is that any software update has a 50% chance of making the software worse. So I don't update anything without a good reason. That includes not just device updates but things like phone apps.

Urgent security fixes are gonna go unpatched

I don't understand why a printer would ever need an "urgent security fix". Or a software update for that matter.

Dotard Musk comes from a South African Afrikaner background. Those same people literally ran a white supremist government and jailed Nelson Mandela for decades.

Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.

I just got a new electric Kia and I don't give the slightest shit about updates. In fact I would prefer no updates for fear it would make the great car I have worse. And no way in hell will I ever give Dotard Musk any of my money,

Because the man has charisma

He has the opposite of charisma. I change the channel immediately when Trump is on TV before he can get a full sentence out. Because you just know that it is the voice of a pedophile. Seriously, I can very easily picture Trump's voice telling a pedophile victim not to talk or else.

Trump had a reason for doing what he did. The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service said 40-year-old Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-new-allegations-that-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/

The French and UK nuclear arsenal is the only thing standing between humanity and disaster. Sad to say this but you guys need to be pumping those things out fast.

Because of Traitorapist Trump, every country in the world will rightly want to have their own nuclear weapons now. You just know that today is going to be mentioned in the history books as the beginning of widespread nuclear proliferation and the dire consequences that follow.

Why does Treason Trump hate the Free World? Why does he hate freedom and democracy? We does Trump hate America and American values?

Congratulations, we’ve witnessed history as global American influence effectively ended. Mark this day.

I wasn't shocked today. I was shocked on election day that this day was going to come.

EU citizen and i’d like to say your apologies are empty and hollow to us. Do something. This isn’t a joke, this isn’t hyperbole or a leftist talking point, you’re under constitutional crisis. Do something.

Sorry to tell you this but at the moment Europe's nuclear arsenal is the only thing standing between humanity and disaster.

Whether the people at Google who did this knows they are evil or thinks they are not evil doesn't really even matter. Having a phone app that automatically scans all your photos should scare the shit out of you. At the very least it wastes your battery and slows down your phone.