givesomefucks @ givesomefucks @lemmy.world

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The best part of Ironman was him locked in a cave with junk...

It got boring when every movie he'd pull 10 billion dollar suits out of his ass that we'd never heard of before.

"Ironman but no money" is 100x more interesting than Tony Stark.

The first couple episodes are out, it's decent.

And honestly, any half decent show that pisses off racists gets my "views" even if I'm not really paying attention.

The patriarchy is insane in the USA.

Two of the last three presidential elections have had a woman candidate...

There was a laundry list of valid policy based reasons why the last two women lost, and they barely lost.

How the fuck does that make you think no woman in America could manage a win?

Weird how sexism is only a reason a woman can't run when she's a progressive...

Also weird how the people saying a woman can't run are the ones calling people sexist for saying a woman can be president.

Anything except admitting neoliberalism is dead I guess

Nope

I just understand that while that was going on the current chair was running Minnesota.

And we can look at that track record, that ran all the way up to assuming DNC chair...

And his actions since...

And logically conclude blaming the current DNC for that old shit makes as much sense as boycotting the Cincinnati Reds cuz Pete Rose didn't call your mom back after a date.

The person you're upset with has no affiliation to the current organization you're boycotting.

Sexism run deeeeeeeep in this country.

It's not that big of an issue.

When you run Kamala and Hillary, sexism is an easy excuse. Neoliberals will never blame a loss on their policy, even though everyone is outright saying it's due to policy.

Someone who identified as a trans-racial Martian could win a general if they also had a progressive platform, charisma, and authentic delivery.

Like, if sexism was such an issue, she wouldn't poll so well

Buddy...

This is like if in June 2021 you stared blaming Biden for the shit trump did when he was president...

The DNC is essentially ~400 people that get together to vote for a chair every four years. And if a Dem was elected president they just all vote for who the president suggests. (Note: Obama never nominated one)

So the people who rigged 2016 could have been replaced, and Donna Brazile's brief time gave us valuable insights into how fucked things were.

But the voting members went neoliberals again, there wasn't a good option running.

2020 Biden won, and picked the same type of chair who handed him the primary.

2024 we didn't get a primary, and New Hampshire's delegates were stolen, something I can never forgive as a Democrat.

But in February the voting members (who have slowly been getting replaced, literally not all the same people) choose a state chair who took a purple state, ran fair primaries for a decade, and turned it into a progressive stronghold.

"The DNC" is not a monolith, it's not some great institute of life long beurocrats.

Change is possible.

I've spent literally 30 years bitching about the DNC (and yes, I still held my nose and voted D in generals once I was 18). I understand how it works.

The chair runs the show and is final call on literally everything.

So expect the DNC to be run exactly like the last decade of the Minnesota party was.

Blaming current DNC for the faults of the last is as dumb as blaming 2021 Biden for what 2016-2020 trump did....

Just because they're both at the head of the same office.

Quick edit:

Also, Martin just ran out two of those problematic superdelegates who had been fucking shit up. Not only that, they had been high ranking members of the committee that has been running the sh primaries.

Shit is getting better.

Just don't expect Martin to throw the trash on the front yard and dont expect billionaire owned media to put anything this new DNC does in a good light. If a progressive wins in 2028 we'd see an fdr style movement again.

The billionaires don't want that. And they don't mind lying.

And sorry this is a wall of text, but it's important people understand how optimistic we should be right now.

Only among people who get tattoos for others...

For lots of people something as permanent as a tattoo isn't done to increase other's views, it's for a personal reason.

This DNC won't help any specific candidate in a primary, but they won't work against a specific candidate either.

That's all progressives and specifically AOC need, a fair primary.

We're on a huge inflection point, if we let some shirt bird neoliberals like Cuomo or Newsom win the primary, then they get to name the next DNC chair if they win the election

And we'll be right back where we were in 2020.

We can not afford to roll the dice on neoliberalism again, and AOC has the best shot right now. But a lot can change before the primary starts.

Not even that...

Look at the right wingers who tried to kill trump already, it's not easy because media just fucking dropped it.

There's a lot going on here, but there's no way in hell it's going to be released. With this admin, I wouldn't be surprised if they're straight up destroying records if they don't like what it says.

There won't even be a report years from now to disclose, they just won't retain any information on it and claim incompetence or a computer glitch if anyone ever looks into all these rightwing terror attacks.

6/29/01

Exactly on the day. Which makes me nervous about a few weeks from now...

Firefighters plan to torch Butler's former home and the neo-Nazi sect's former church July 15.

The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be

You see zero irony and n that comment?

Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust...

It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.

And you're legitimately implying:

The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can't judge them for what they're actively doing , which is committing a genocide

For those wondering "why":

HAYDEN, Idaho -- Firefighters burned some of the remaining buildings on the former Aryan Nations compound during training exercises this week.

https://wwrn.org/articles/3963/

That was 24 years ago to the day....

Seems like it's too big of a coincidence, and since it's rightwing we'll probably officially never know with this admin.

Hell, Bernie endorsed him months ago

Being Jewish doesn't mean you're automatically pro-genocide...

Which if you told someone 70 years ago it would need to be said, they'd think you were crazy.

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to say, just that it's not relevant

And… there it is. That statement betrays exactly what you think of progressives and socialists.

Buddy...

I make Vladimir Illynitch Lenin look like Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Someone pointing out the main failing of revolutions is no one plans for after the revolution, in no way means I don't have a pitchfork.

You aren’t the centrist you think you are,

Just fucking wild...

The answer has always been to lean into it, not fight it.

It's like jumping off a bridge cuz someone called you a nerd, even tho the bridge isn't over water.

Can't take the bait.

If you want actual advice just put your stuff out there.

Dont apologize for it or make excuses that you're new.

Just put it out there and see if people like it

That being said, try not to do it a lot or in super general communities because some people may consider it spammy.

Well, you’d think the DNC chair would be involved in discussions of strategy, but WTH do I know?

That's not what the DNC is supposed to do...

For decades they have been. But voters have roundly rejected that, and the DNC voting members listened and went with Martin.

Literally because he would be unbiased.

And now people are complaining that he's unbiased instead of biased in the opposite way?

Have you never read any political history?

Do you not already know what happens when after a regime change the new one decides to do all the fucked up shit the last one did, but to the opposite group of people?

I'm sorry man. You post some funny memes sometimes, but if you really don't get this, you eat up too much of my time.

Quick edit:

Just saw the double reply, sorry bud

What does Cuomo have to do with the DNC?

picking a longtime insider from a purple state

What?

He lead Minnesota's state party for a decade and took it from purple to literally one of our most progressive states and a blue stronghold.

I didn't click your link, but I hovered and know why you hid it now.

Semafor:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semafor_(website)

A neoliberal billionaire's personal project to use AI to tailor "news" to individuals based on their viewing habits to more successfully influence readers...

I've been ringing alarm bells about that site for years, I'm going to take people being less transparent with using it as a sign it's reputation is catching up to it.

Like, you really expect this company:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-is-semafor.html

To not shit on Martin because they wanted a neoliberals?

Stop voting to confirm Trump’s nominations might be a start.

I agree that's a valid criticism of individual Dems. And I agree they should stop.

But what the absolute fuck does that have to do with the DNC?