And here you are saying most again cause you want that to be true. No facts on that. Just pure gut thinking.

You want them to be smart enough to see the grift cause it’s easier to think of then as evil than dumb and malinformed.

You make beliefs based on your own desire. It doesn’t make it true. We have no idea of the split but you are disregarding that stupidity is just as likely because it makes you feel better.

Fine just don’t pretend that’s the truth.

You are assuming other people share your level of intelligence. Don’t.

Literally think of someone of “average” intelligence and now remember that literally more than 50% of the population is below that on the curve. And even more than half are uninterested in issues outside their life and aren’t questioning things in a way for them to care to know if things are factual when told they are by someone they trust.

You are assuming malice where unfortunately, and especially with humans, stupidity is much more likely.

You seem to be implying everyone is you and knows what you know or are as “rational”

Like you reduce other people to animals and also assume they are not being tricked or pushed into more radical beliefs because… Ehh?

Your nuanced take is not a take at all. It’s just you touting superiority.

Oh sure. Just wishful thinking and using the same garbage excuse that I hear whenever a neoliberal doesn’t like what a leftist says and calls them a Russian shill.

That’s really the most obvious sign they are republicans of the past. They keep trying to use a red scare to ignore bases they don’t like.

Its a freaking “shitty” bus without a poor person as a driver.

His innovation is that he hates people. Doesn’t seem that new for rich people actually.

Edit: comparing it to a regular bus is too generous.

Where meme?
This just a political ad I see on CNN

Its a false logic to think you can just add those votes to the person you like because you think if they had their choice taken away they would agree with you.

There are literal people that raged violence against the poll workers and right wing lawyers that managed to convince a state to not do its duties and those people you can and should be mad at.

All Gore even dropped before he should have and was part of the argument used against him trying to get a recount because he wanted to be “respectful”.

This answer is just easier blame cause they are easier to feel like you can win against them in a fight compared to the wider corruption.

Yeah. This is why some Democrats get called Blue MAGA and I don’t think they get it.

They treat lefties like the same kinda scapegoat the Republicans treat anyone not white. It’s an easy “other” group that can be considered outside the main group and fighting them is “the good moral duty of the Democratic Party.”

I sometimes wonder if that division and push for the center-left to be apathetic towards the further left is part of the Russian Psy-op that they are so afraid of cause that’s the only reason I can think of a party like this ignoring their youngest, poorest, or most emotional bases, that courting on the right makes them win.

People protest voting in the primaries is part of why Biden dropped this election. It proved he didn’t have the support.
In 2020 Bernie Sanders won 3 of the 4 primaries that happened and was projected to win more before the DNC forced every other candidate to drop and support Biden for a cabinet position that they didn’t even fulfill for any candidate actually left of Biden (poor Warren). And then they announced an early win for Biden because of it.
And in 2016 the DNC had to say they didn’t have to pick who was voted for because they had literally performed under the table agreements and deals to help Clinton.

I also agree we have to deal with what we gave got. Vote with who we have and suck it up as much as possible.

But, hand waving and blaming it on the primaries where obviously people did go out to vote and there is deeply something wrong and corrupt about it is also disingenious to the people that put the work in but were stopped.

We all want to blame some part of the chain, some specific link for why this is bad, but the answer is that there is corruption and apathy all over the place and we all want to find some answering flaw when it’s clear it’s all broken. It won’t be because of a specific voter or non voter it will be because this setup is nearing its limits of what it can acheive on rolling along as is.

Thanks, Stephen Pastis. I needed that.

So, mythical heaven? Religion made of machines. Spirituality from a piece of tech you hope to one day fix everything because of faith. Something that let’s you ignore now and possible futures so you can have a singular one to believe in.

You do understand the comic. You are just are angry it called your god fiction.

We don’t live in a limitless world. And adding robots will not change the limits. It just changes who does the work.

If we are clutching onto the shreds of democracy through bullshit votes where pointing out the obvious might break moral to the point of slipping fully into fascism… That just feels like the end of an empire. Wasnt a statement on how to end it but a genuine question of;

So you you think this is the last chapters? Cause that sounds bad enough to look at history and see you don’t normally come out the other side of this breakdown unscathed.

Just another simple answer why they think people that should agree with them don’t.

Just don’t look to hard into it. Come up with or be told an easy answer and get on with the day.

People are horribly simple things for being so complicated as a whole.

They have forgotten we grouped up and share for the betterment of our species, not just ourselves.

They have forgotten what it’s like to be without any support cause they have felt unsupported.

Its easy to feel invulnerable and capable when you still haven’t been tested.

I pity them even though I don’t want to give them money either.

Oh sure but this

Vote for the lesser evil and make a scene about whatever you don’t like but don’t pretend the two parties are the same. It kills morale and it’s bullshit to boot.

Doesn’t sound like it has a happy resolution.

Holy damn I just couldn’t stop reading.

Oh for sure. The people most concerned with Trumps policies are the wealthy who think it might hurt their business.

Porn, import, healthcare industries. Lots of rich people who see they won’t get fair treatment either for their wealth alone like they expect from the duopoly they have been benefitting from for decades.

Its why MAGA think its somehow great cause everyone will burn but somehow they will escape the fire because… God?

Its corruption and insanity everywhere you look.

Hahaha yeah man people forget how vitriolic and cruel the Blues were when told their candidate might lose.

Refuse to be told they might need to change tactics and double down on slamming face first into a brick wall for the sake of not having to question their beliefs and having someone else to blame.

But they are coming back now again that the “hope” has worn off and nothing feels different. Got to punch down to keep their self cope up.