It’s ridiculous that these things even need to be pointed out. The DNC is packed full of highly educated high income people who have no fucking idea what the average person’s life is like and it shows in their priorities.

They need to drop their focus on identity pandering and neoliberal corporate blood sucking if they want any hope in hell of an EC win. All slick consultants in the world won’t convince middle America to vote for more business as usual.

Middle America is about 20y behind the rest of us, this is the 90s gay marriage situation all over again. If the DNC actually wants to win elections they need to stop putting narrow identity groups front and center and run on their track record of positive economic policy for everyone or they’re going to lose every election for the next 20y (barring those won by voter backlash over catastrophic Republican admin fuck-ups.)

The DNC went too far down the identity politics rabbit hole and hasn’t quite realized that people in the identity demographics they want to Jenga together into 270 EC votes are willing to vote for the other side because they’re not happy with the DNC’s corporate profit economy.

The critical flaw in the DNC’s 20y old identity politics strategy is the assumption that these identity groups are monolithic. It’s a prejudiced as hell position to take that “these are the interests of all women” or “these are the interests of all black people” and yet that’s what the DNC has tried to do for the last three elections running. It should be painfully obvious at this point that this doesn’t work: women, PoC and Muslims voted for Trump in droves despite the front and center spending to bring them on side this election. Everyone’s tired of performative pandering and wants real economic and policy reform to help recover some of what was lost during the last couple of economic crashes and to inflation.

The meme is already stale but JFC they’ve learned nothing from the last two election losses - the Harris campaign was the 2016 Clinton campaign minus the fundraising dinners on Wall St.

So uh, why is there an NY representative in the CA seat again? So much for local representation I guess.

That’s exactly what this is. It’s easier to loot the country when everything is burning and your corruption isn’t the biggest problem.

The compile times are abusive on older hardware for sure

Cable news making outraged noises was never about saving you, it was about attracting your attention to monetize it

That’s almost as good as this one I got months back

Ah, right. Quoting the candidate and discussing his behavior is election interference now 🤦‍♂️

We needed a place for the people too belligerent for twatter

It’s the GAO but with more corruption, blackjack and hookers. Oh and it’s not actually part of the government.

It’s not that hard, just read the install guides and instructions. My first Arch install was like 8y ago and I expected it to be difficult - it wasn’t.

Friends don’t let friends use Manjaro

Use EndeavourOS or another Arch derivative instead.

Teach your kid how the world works so they’re prepared for it and don’t go through the same thing. Most of us didn’t have parents that cared enough to bother and it’s a huge advantage to know in advance that everything in this country is predatory and precarious.

You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

It’s possible that there’s more than one problem that needs addressing. We’re on the same page w.r.t. the Democratic party being an absolute policy failure for decades.

Ah, I’m wrong then. In CA we have to study and pass this in 8th grade: https://www.ixl.com/standards/california/social-studies/grade-8

That should be a national requirement.

Or maybe actually give them a civics education? I’m behind a free online basic civics class every 2y that gets you a $250 credit on your taxes or something. There has to be a reason to actually take it and pay attention.

Just like last time

I want to say he’s always tilted in that direction, he was equally unloved as SF’s mayor. He’s old money, he’s always looked out for his caste’s interests.

Fair enough. IIRC there’s a mandatory civics test to complete 8th grade nationwide which was, ostensibly, intended to prevent electoral problems like this