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I like the literal meaning of the words, but given the history of Abraham Lincoln's assassin famously saying it and my personal experience with people who regularly use Latin phrases (outside of scientists, almost exclusively a bunch of snobby over educated dumbasses who can quote old dead white guys at length but somehow still aren't sure if we're in a constitutional crisis or not), I'd rather come up with something new that essentially means the same thing

I wish it was self destructive but the people at fault here don't get destroyed at all, they've been happily moving from job to job in DC for thirty years or more while the Democratic party and the country has gotten destroyed

"What about"

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-ronny-jackson-drugs-dementia/

No they just choose to

I still think we should vote for them but unless they actually pursue policies that take away the ability of Republican state governments to oppress people were all just going to be some dumb sad assholes in November 2032 because President Buttigieg lost to Elon Musk after four years of getting jack shit done

Huh, I haven't had time to watch that Conover video, but it sounds a bit like arguments I heard on this "Know Your Enemy" podcast episode where they interviewed a couple of political scientists who wrote a book called "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" that sounded interesting enough to at least get on to my reading list, so that might be something you'd dig.

At any rate, I completely agree the national Democratic party is awful and tone deaf and out of touch, and I do think the centralization doesn't help (like, if I have to hear one more liberal from California or New York tell me that Medicare for All lose us votes in the rust belt and then immediately start pushing gun control policies I'm going to scream (I scream a lot)). And I do like the idea of a political leadership who organizes around local issues and makes things like mutual aid and bail funds part of their political work (which is something the old school hyper local parties would do, though a lot of people called it corruption.

That all said, I'm not sure if it's centralization or if it's just oligarch money in a world without campaign finance laws steamrolling us, and I'm just as worried about, like, the Democratic party of Louisiana or Montana or New Hampshire or somewhere doing horrible bigoted shit that gets a local majority because redneck shitholes drive out almost everybody who disagrees eventually. Like, this is pretty much exactly how Jim Crow went for the first half of the 20th century and we do not want to go back to that.

Also, I wonder to what degree the decentralization was just a thing induced by the availability of technology when power structures came into being (like, for example I think we would have had more New York politicians running around Chicago when they were setting up if it didn't take 2 or 3 days to go back and forth at the time) and if it isn't kind of inevitable.

Either way, I definitely agree whatever the national Democratic party is doing isn't working. Also, I wouldn't exactly call myself a good spokesperson for anarchism because I've got a few state-ish sympathies in my brain (that one time the feds sent the national guard into Little Rock to fuck up some segregationist assholes was tight), but I will say that most hierarchies of authority are bullshit (maybe necessary bullshit, but they are still total bullshit that end up empowering the dumbest assholes), and anybody who says stuff like "we need to respect the office" make me want to light a bong with a burning flag and blow the smoke in their face (yes, that would be a lot of things to juggle and I would probably end up lighting myself on fire, but I guess that sends the right message too).

Anonymously, I wouldn't put it above them to find some excuse to mess with you for making their Daddy Trump look bad

If it's not Medicare for All then they're not serious

How do you stop them from existing? "Hey, how about the [x+1] of us work together on the things we can agree on so we can outvote the people who don't agree with us" is a winning strategy people are going to pursue if there isn't a rule against it, but it's hard to create effective rules against that sort of thing without blowing up the whole right to free association.

I don't think anti-gun candidates have had much trouble winning Democratic party primaries before now or that there wouldn't be the votes for some kind of gun control measure in any Democratic congressional majority

Also, for every incident that gets a story written about it, assume there are a half dozen or more that don't

I don't see how this is furthering separation of church and state when they can still just replace this church with another more obedient one

Ha, the DNC thinks they're helping Hogg out by being associated with him instead of the other way around

Paying a billion dollars to the state government of Texas and getting out of being forced to make any changes to their products is just the continuation of mobster shit tho

Soon "Our health supplements are the only ones that have been clinically proven to reduce the reported symptoms of radiation sickness, made from only the finest saw dust and snake oil etc."

Yeah, police have a ton of latitude when they decide who to press which charges on and who they just let go with warnings or whatever, choosing to throw child endangerment at this girl is just straight up trolling

I don't know for sure if they're all anti-vax, but there are definitely some problems with the kinds of medical professionals prisons often hire

(I could swear I saw a ProPublica article within the last month about how state prison systems all across the country hire doctors who got disciplined or lost their licenses in other states but I can't seem to find it now, so here are some slightly older articles or ones that focus on specific states, but this is definitely still a current problem and not one that just happens in one state or another)

"Many state hospital, prison doctors without medical licenses" (arc)

"Disgraced doctors, unlicensed officials: Prisons face criticism over health care" (arc)

"Nearly one-third of doctors working in Wisconsin's prisons have been censured" (arc)

"When Prison Nurses Must Choose Between Guards & Patients: In dozens of cases, medical personnel in NY prisons were accused of covering up beatings — some under pressure — and rarely faced punishment." (arc)

That is the protocol in Utah for firing squads, but not South Carolina

As for why Mahdi's body showed two wounds from the execution rather than three, a doctor noted in the comments section on the autopsy commissioned by the state that "it is believed that" two bullets went through one wound. Whereas in Utah, not all members of the state's firing squad shoot live bullets, in South Carolina, the rifles of all three shooters were supposed to be loaded with ammunition.

The two wounds on Mahdi's body were described in the autopsy as being almost exactly the same size. Pathologists who reviewed the report expressed doubt that two bullets went through precisely the same, small hole.

"I think the odds of that are pretty minuscule," Wigren said

(Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250509155025/https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389846/firing-squad-south-carolina-death-penalty-execution)

Also, it's arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

True, but it only happened after these journalists confronted the DA's office with the results of their investigation. The DA says they had no idea this guy was a nazi, but if that's true then their hiring and vetting process has serious problems, and I doubt those are going to be addressed in a meaningful way.