lennybird @ lennybird @lemmy.world

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OR here's a thought — now hear me out — you don't because those charitable donations are a treatment of a symptomatic issue reflective of failed government policy to begin with. So if you really want to address the root cause and actually reshape the party from a top-down approach, then I encourage you follow my strategy.

Or you know, you can donate to both.

• The more money that goes to AOC, the greater her voice in the Democratic party.
• The greater her voice, the greater the progressive shift in the Democratic party.
• The greater the progressive shift in progressive economic populism, the better outcomes for Women's and LGBTQ+ rights.

I am only donating to AOC until she and her fellow progressives gain a larger voice in the direction of the party. I've unsubbed from a lot of Democratic lists, too.

I advise all to do the same (as she can allocate these money to elsewhere if she wishes), while also contacting the DNC at https://democrats.org/

It's easy to volunteer other people, but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.

I hope they can do what they can to resist, but I also don't believe this is on them either. If the former President in a position of power couldn't put the brakes on this shit; if we as a society couldn't put the brakes on this on November 5th... Well, my expectations are very low. Things will have to come crashing down hard until the apathetic and ignorant wake up, I suspect.

• He walks into his office late January, 2021.
• They immediately begin what is literally the largest criminal investigation and prosecution in the DOJ's history, going after Jan 6th insurrectionists.
• They continue getting confessions, plea deals, and building a bottom-up investigation that builds corroborating evidence

These under the constraints of:

• Federal judges including SCOTUS stacked with Trump-appointed corrupt judges.
• Garland going up against an organized crime syndicate with an entire party and propaganda apparatus and effectively unlimited money to put up in defense.
• A jury pool almost impossible to be untainted while Defense need only convince 1 idiot on the jury.
• By 2022, the Congressional Jan 6th hearings went all the way through summer and into October. If you're Garland, you observe and gather more evidence because why not? Just keep strengthening the case. You'll need it.
• Garland hands off to Jack Smith literally the day after Trump formally files to run for President again (again, to avoid technicalities on conflict of interest).
• As late as 2023, Smith gets massive testimonies from the likes of Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Valuable enough to grant immunity.

It seems very obvious to me that this was a classic bottom-up case you see similar to RICO cases in white collar or organized crime syndicates. Garland had to ensure his case was extremely tight given the nature of going after a former President and the courts.

Let's instead blame:

• The courts who were ones proven to actually obstruct.
• The voters who many saw what happened and still chose to sit out or still vote for the felon.

I'd rather he have done it right and not get a verdict than rush it and Trump gets vindicated by a technicality or a Not Guilty.

I know a lot of people are frustrated, but using Garland or Smith as the scapegoat makes zero sense. Just because it didn't go as quickly as we as the general public and legal laypersons wished doesn't mean he delayed. There is no actual evidence he delayed anything. In fact I'll go so far as to say Garland did everything perfectly and it was pretty much an impossible feat given the cards stacked against him.

Bullshit. He didn't delay jack shit.

I don't know why this myth gets perpetuated by people who clearly were not paying attention.

I'm only donating to progressives, notably AOC.

I've unsubbed from most Democratic lists.

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

"The LAW? Hahaha! What did 'the law' do for Felix. Fuckin. Finch!?"

"Joe Rogan presents both sides of the vaccine debate!"

Joe Rogan may have brought two different opinions; he did not bring on a proportional number representing the actual consensus.

Which would be like 99 vaccine scientists and infectious disease specialists for every loony.

Don't Look Up is a documentary.

lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.

Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can't "force" generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they're tagged as political to begin with.

Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people's minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

Beggars can't be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

Alternatively, don't shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn't happen.

I've noticed:

• r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.
• r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.
• r/conservative feels like it's being artificially amplified.

The mosquito likely evolved to try, but the body evolves to defend just the same. Your irritation is your own body's immune response after all.

DOGE is literally an example of government waste and inefficiency through needless duplication.

The GAO already exists.

"Federation"? Wtf is this, star trek!?

I'd genuinely be interested in having a neuroscientist analyze his brain via mri / eeg.

An interesting study of self-identifying conservatives and liberals revealed conservatives had larger amygdalae and shrunken anterior cingulate cortices. This translated to greater fear and disgust responses and reduced empathy and pattern recognition.

He definitely had this no BS progressive streak he amplified ahead of his election. He had a massive stroke, then turned increasingly conservative -- seems to track. Alas, the cause doesn't matter. He revealed his true colors.

Seems we were double-crossed yet again akin to Sinema.

Reminder that the former CEO of CBS doing the bidding of shareholders said following Trump's first election, "Trump may not be good for America, but he's good for CBS. Keep going, Donald."

They may have changed executives but the sentiment is 100% the same because all these media outlets are profit above all.