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Sounds like a libertarian utopia!

I've always heard fastmail as the go-to for personal domain email hosting. They're the go-to for almost everyone I know who doesn't just setup forwarding to Gmail.

Our legislature passed RCV here in CA and our Dem governor vetoed it. Can't be electing progressives over more big money neoliberal Dems, gotta keep that voting power bloc intact

I don't think he'll care. GameStop has become a pawn shop for children these days, that's where they make their money.

And yet with all of that being true his response to covid was objectively better than Biden's for the reasons that were already written down when you decided to reply to this post and not that one

You realize that the entire reason COVID spread so fast and sickened so many is that Trump gutted the CDC (and more specifically gutted the CDC's pandemic task force) then aggressively pushed misinformation during the opening phase of the pandemic right? The few folks remaining at the CDC were under politically motivated orders to play down the pandemic the entire time Trump was in office so that Trump could try and pretend his economy (which he inherited from Obama) wasn't shitting the bed while he ran for reelection.

Remember the bit where Trump thought a big pandemic would be good for his voting numbers because it was supposed to hit the blue cities harder than his red state supporters? Remember how we needed freezer trucks as temporary morgues for a year as a result?

Were you not following the court's impact on public health policy at all? Every sane state passed a mask mandate and other public health measures to combat COVID spread, then the courts (appointed by Republicans no less) crushed those efforts

Remember 8+y of "Thanks Obama" when the dude passed a healthcare act that got tens of millions affordable coverage?

"business man like me, he say it like it is"

Business man: word salad - slur - word salad

Yeah 34 was essentially a hit on one particular AIDS foundation in LA that's politically active. Landlord associations took offense and went after them with 34

Check this shit out: https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/prop-34-patient-spending/

As usual voters fell for the packaging rather than actually reading about the effects.

I think that was a huge part of Trump's appeal. It's hard to be happy about watching the wealthy drain the country for 35y while you're stuck working at Wal-Mart or a gig job and effectively treading water while waiting for a medical emergency to bankrupt you or for prices on everyday goods to outpace you. It's a choice between getting fucked over while a certain class of person gets richer or fucking everybody over and that appealed to a whole lot of people.

It doesn't work, they ran plenty of ads on P2025 and people responded that "Trump won't really do that, Dems are just trying to scare us."

Most Americans have never had critical thinking as part of their educational curricula. If you're very lucky you'll cover critical thinking skills as part of AP English in highschool, otherwise that's a second semester course your freshman year of college. Most Americans can't look at a particular piece of media and unpack what it's saying and why it's saying it. Americans are ridiculously easy to manipulate as a result.

Hard to pull that off when the entire core of the DNC is permanently latched onto the corporate teat.

We have a lot of work ahead of us if we want to break the core of the party and force even a smidgen of compromise out of them that costs their corporate donors profits.

Meritocracy was always a myth spread to allow capital to operate freely. If you failed then it was your fault, nevermind that the deck was stacked heavily against you.

Because the top 10% of the country is hoovering up 90-95% of the profits of everyone's labor.

Next question.

Dems fucked around are in the process of finding out that you can't run as the pro labor party when you haven't done much to improve labor's material conditions in like 35-40y.

It's the working class economy, stupid

The Dems kept making big proclamations about how the economy has rebounded under the Biden administration. But no one except the wealthy has benefited from that.

And that's just a microcosm of Dem policy for the last ~35y. We get it, Democrats are better at government, we all fucking know it. What everyone has been waiting for is a Democrat who'll come along and say "the top 15% of the country has taken 90% of the wealth over the last 35y, it's time for everyone to share in the prosperity."

People are sick of neoliberal business as usual, this is why Hillary lost, this is why Kamala lost. This is why every single Dem candidate from here on out is going to be viewed with skepticism and voters will continue to stay home. People would rather hand the country to a narcissistic kleptocrat and hope for the best than accept four more years of neoliberal business as usual while they try to eke out a meagre existence with ever increasing costs of rent, food, healthcare, energy, insurance and corporate profits.

We've had like 25y of limp dick Dem moral high road at this point and it should be clear that this approach doesn't sell to anyone except the educated minority. Guess what? The educated are a minority and you need a majority to win elections.