Totally understand the point you are trying to make, but help me understand why it makes sense for someone left of the DNC to compromise their political beliefs to fight fascism but not for the DNC to do the same? Doesn’t that logic apply equally?
Also the greater good logic is why we are where we are. Why does more of the same = change?
Edit: for clarification…why isn’t the focus on the right leaning DNCers that would defect to MAGA if the DNC shifted left?
Guess without any evidence based on the sparse information available…
federal plea + motion to dismiss state case on double jeopardy grounds. If successful, keeps his time federal and makes a possible future pardon less complicated?
I could see pardoning him grabbing a large number of votes based on his popularity?
Just guessing though
Be well comrade
*Edit: fitting
“Actual leftists are taking over the dem party” -is that because progressives backed dems no matter what or is it because they held out? -currently taking over the party… are you a goldfish? How long is your memory? Whether these short term recent wins translate into a takeover remains to be seen. -if you want the take over to continue continue taking every DNC candidate to the mat and when they try to use the DNC machine to manipulate outcomes punish them for it.
I do not agree that putting a DNC dem in power moves the system left. You need that assumption to make your position make sense. If that’s not true your argument falls apart. I believe it’s not true.
My final thought… I am clearly not part of your party. The two party system forces people who think other than red or blue to crawl into the husk of one of those positions to participate in the system. If we ever get to a point where we break the two party system it is likely that DEMs and the GOP are both the opposition for the left.
What history? Be specific.
Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in what battle? I am not in your far right vs center right fight.
I obviously can distinguish between the GOP and DNC (my comment said if things changed it would appear to be an improvement).
The reality of arguing that the left needs to compromise and embrace the “lesser evils” of the DNC in the face of the evils of the GOP is that it hands the GOP a cudgel. Don’t propose ideas that are too left or the right will lash out. Meanwhile, the right has been orchestrating a conservative backslide for decades.
I do enjoy a good personal attack when one side can’t formulate anything of substance to say. If it makes you feel better to call me morally bankrupt, you can have it.
The thing is, what passes for the left in America has been compromising its values for decades. That is the constant drum beat. And here we are. Explain, why more of the same will change course.
How’d that primary strategy work out in 2024?
You are voting 3rd party in the primary but somehow fail to realize GOP and DNC are owned by the same interest. The illusion in the cave is that you think the DNC is left. (You call the DNC left of center above).
Voting to center right (DNC) when you want to be left of center will never shift American politics left. Trump is the boogeyman that gets you to abandon what you claim to stand for (progressivism).
MAGA co-opted the GOP by refusing to compromise. This shifted the GOP even further right. When progressives compromise the entire American political spectrum bell curve just shifts further right.
I understand that you think your approach will produce an immediate harm reduction. I am sure it will look that way, but the steady march to the right won’t stop if the left side of the spectrum caves while the right does not
Have you ever considered the reason we are here is because you haven’t learned yet?
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory is earthquake for Democratic Party old guard
KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
AUG 05, 2026
Not sure but but there seems to be multiple images google image search
For context… do you have kids?
Isn’t it? I heard this quote as a child (middle school) when listening to this book on tape during school commutes.
I suppose it is seared into my mind because hearing it was akin to watching a movie with your parents and there is an unexpected sex scene.
Quote feels out of context with the rest of the book, which tried to paint a picture of America during the time the author worked on the show “On The Road”
I agree no one should be obligated to entertain fascists. I disagree that one ever stops having the responsibility of being a parent and I prioritize that above all else in this context.
(There is no universal truth, your right for you and my right for me can diverge)
“When you get to be my age, sonny, all you ever think about are the women you could have gone to bed with and didn’t.” - A Life On The Road. Charles Kuralt. p.250
Edit: not assuming any genders…Just preserving the quote.
I think this depends on the relationship.
My father is the one that slid fascist. My approach with him is similar to what you describe.
If it were my child I would feel a responsibility to try to help them find the right path.
Exactly. None of this is incompatible with having children. Children are incompatible with you.
Good decision not having kids.
Ah. It’s a you thing. Not a kids thing. Got it.
That is awesome. But how is this incompatible with kids?
A police officer testified Tuesday that Tony Moreno said he needed to kill his infant son, Aaden, so the child would not be raised by his ex-girlfriend’s family. . . “I asked him directly if he had dropped Aaden from the bridge,” Semper said during his testimony. “He nodded yes.” Semper said he asked Moreno if he threw Aaden like a half-court shot, three-point distance, free throw or layup. “He said free-throw distance. He said ‘free throw,'” Semper said.
Moreno Said He ‘Needed’ To Kill Infant Son – Hartford Courant
Sounds awesome. What do you do?
It’s what models people have access to and how they use it. If you are not specific and overly broad it a search engine. If you move to the other end of the spectrum it can be incredibly powerful.
I tend to build projects with very limited sources for it to draw answers from and use complex instructions to guide how it interacts with the source material. It’s a tool. If you learn how to use it you can become extremely proficient/productive with it.
For example, stacks of PDFs may make sense to you and I as repositories of information. But is that the best format for AI to interact with the data? Probably not unless the actual formatting of the information on the page is relevant. I have been converting large groups of sources into databases containing page, line, and text data for groups of references for a given topic. Then you feed it the database and ask it to review and cross reference related lines of text. That serves as your “brain” for questions on a given topic.