The general attitude of the people in China disagrees. I guess we can try to tell them we know better as we strip civil society down and burn the rest.

Only a matter of time before someone takes his AI clip of Don taking a shit on a city and turn it into a diaper commercial.

If you’re expecting bad times to educate misinformed voters then you’re going to be sorely disappointed.

… Because China is working to benefit their civilization. When that ceases to be the case their people will stop listening.

Not sure how to feel about this, people were going hungry and planes were being stopped. Yes there is nothing stopping the GOP from doing this again, but it’s mostly a charade already - they could have abolished the filibuster and got what they wanted anyways.

The Dems have this attitude that if the people suffer enough they will learn they were wrong for not voting for them, but it feels like ground hog’s day with that strategy because misinformed people always learn the wrong lesson. At the end of the day it’s more important for our leaders to do good than to prove they were right.

Outwardly sure, they will talk nice. But they aren’t going to do any favors for the man.

He goes on fox news and says he didn’t lie and that the judge lied about his admission. Crazy.

Fair point. I wanted to call out how voters asking for better candidates is not voter apathy. Not that people who are apathetic to democracy don’t need to be challenged.

I’m talking about this bill in particular:

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/school-antisemitism-bill-signed/

Then later he gets asked about the AIPAC money he receives and he responds “well that’s interesting you ask that” as if the question itself is antisemitic. https://youtu.be/SB-C6QeNyHw

listen to him talk about the students that have been protesting the genocide, he casts it as antisemitic.

It’s strange to me that we’re agitating for voters to change and not our leaders. It’s fewer people you have to convince.

If she wins the primary then all bets are off. That would mean she ran enough of a good campaign that big money didn’t matter.

The trans issue shows he’s not up for the challenge. If he can’t stay on message and has to spread disinformation to win then he is only going to sweep MAGA under the rug instead of addressing their lies head on.

Everyone responding “at least he isn’t as bad as that other corporate Democrat” is just sad.

Lots of unresolved daddy issues resulting in “pick-me” men.

Now that you mention it… It’s kind of weird they haven’t “transvestigated” her for turning on Trump.

If there’s a Ranked Choice initiative/group in your area please volunteer. This will give us the most bang for your time to get away from this duopoly. I say if because some states have banned RCV. That’s how scared they are.

Wasn’t trying to argue we should abolish public education but that we can’t rely on reforming education to fix our political system. It flows the other way. Which means we also need to find ways to cultivate independent thought outside of traditional education. This comes in many forms, mutual aide, potlucks, new art, community workshops, etc but the through line is you are offering people more independence to be well.

My “source” on education being a tool of Hegemony is Micheal Foucault, not exactly a right-wing propagandist. The right has a tendency to take arguments from others and twist them to accomplish the opposite.

He’s fucking Grok, isn’t he?