look, ettingermentum is a douche and I don't want to give too much attention to someone still on twitter. but I do think it's worth commenting on how blinkered it is to be talking about politics in terms of electoral strategy while trump has troops in the streets and is openly plotting fascism
This Noah whoever clown with his “billionaires aren’t all bad let’s vote for Pritzker” bullshit is amusing as hell.
Open Borders Now!
One important thing that won Lincoln reelection was the fall of Atlanta
maybe some of us have concerns that extend past "winning the next election!" maybe our problem is precisely with "always chasing the next election by over-correcting to the last one" as not just an electoral strategy but a governing philosophy! idk maybe we have substantive goals we want pursued!
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The sooner that we accept that current national politics have no recent analog, and should be considered in that context, the better off we will be.
the dem party is run by the same ethos of a CEO who will destroy a company long term in perpetual pursuit of good quarterly earnings, and they don't even deliver regularly good quarterly earnings
Start of this thread, I was thinking “Good luck making the establishment Dems see this.” And you got there. So 👍😀
He feels like a leftist who somehow simultaneously views politics like the technocrats leftists hate.
They feel like a startup trying to desperately get acquired while churning customers at an unsustainable rate.
All the customers are saying "the product is bad" and the startup's solution is to put all their capital into duping new customers into signing contracts to make them look more profitable than they actually are while doing nothing to actually improve the product.
It would be nice if Democratic officials had substantive goals they want pursued. I was just thinking the other day I still have NO idea what the Democrats’ vision is for the future, and I follow this shit!
I'm curious how it is that you go about following it?
isn't he like 19
I thought people stopped paying attention to him after he whiffed on like every aspect of 2024