An ad. I’ve seen them on reddit and I think I speak for everyone here when I say I don’t want them here.

This is a fucking advertisement.

Single payer, ending the Palestinian genocide, election integrity, dissolving the DNC and GOP, the entire government firing themselves and not running for re-election.

Yup.

yes it is…

The Democrats, with their supposedly undemocratic super-delegates, are at this point America’s only genuine political party.

Elsewhere:

My point is that this system is not necessarily undemocratic, and indeed that it can even be too democratic. It all depends on the internal setup of the two parties.

✊🏼 The situation we are in today was influenced and pushed so hard by the Clintons that I’m tempted to start a tour where we drive by the Clinton mansion and show people the family that did the most damage to the working class in the United States. To me, it’s almost unfathomable how much better a country we’d have been without rampant neoliberalism. Manufacturing would still be here, Temu/SHEIN/Amazon/Alibaba/WalMart wouldn’t exist as the behemoths we know them to be, global warming wouldn’t be even remotely as bad as it is since we had a whole government intent on shipping everything from China for the past 30 years, unions would still exist, college would be covered by taxes, we’d have Single Payer, etc.

If you haven’t heard about it, look into the DLC. They were formed with the purpose of pushing the DNC (the de-facto “left wing” of the FPTP US political system) to the right.

It’s no coincidence that their archives were purchased by the Clinton Foundation and locked into their archives in 2011. The DLC had served its purpose: to transform the DNC the into the Republican party of the 80’s.

Funny how you put on the victim hat here once someone had the gall to call you out on your actual fascist rhetoric.

Go ahead. Block me. What discussion?

You said that election fraud is a feature not a bug.

You literally asserted that. That was the base point of ALL of your “discussion”….oh and the stupid point about making people who don’t vote have to hold the office themselves. Sounded like something Ted Nugent might suggest.

I don’t like Fascists that are happy about the corrupt state of the country I have to live in. I don’t consider people who actively fight FOR my worst interest (not to mention the untold deaths of millions worldwide that are a direct result of two right wing parties) to be friends worthy of a discussion (in much the same way that I don’t think I should hear Nazis and bigots out on their utterly genocidal rhetoric).

The Democrats, with their supposedly undemocratic super-delegates, are at this point America’s only genuine political party. It’s not a bug that the DNC leadership can assert a direction as you suggest, it’s a feature.

My point is that this system is not necessarily undemocratic, and indeed that it can even be too democratic. It all depends on the internal setup of the two parties.

You literally said these things. Stop trolling.

These aren’t arguments. They’re facts.

You’re the one that is loudly cheering for election fraud and calling it “too democratic”.

Telling me (a leftist that watched both parties get taken over by corporatists/fascists BECAUSE the DNC literally stepped in to artificially subvert the will of the voters in 2016, which allowed Trump to win easily) that the crimes that they committed were “too democratic” is enough to stoke the fires of rage against you for the rest of my life.

This person is such a fascist that they’re pretending anti-democratic cheating is a “feature of democracy”.

They’re both sham parties you strangely disingenuous fascist

The internal setup of the two parties is that

THEY ARE PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS AND THEREFORE THEIR PRIMARIES ARE ACTUALLY LITERALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SHAMS THAT PRETEND TO BE UNBIASED WHILE ADMITTING TO BEING BIASED IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHERE THEIR INTEGRITY WAS CALLED INTO QUESTION.

Some of us are being dragged kicking and screaming into fascism. Some of us refuse to vote for the perpetuators of a genocide and therefore have no voice. Some of us will be fired from our jobs (or banned from various communities across the web including Lemmy) for speaking up about the genocide.

You’re not mentioning the biggest reason for this: First Past the Post.

We have two corrupt parties in the US. A literal sham of a democracy. The UK has FPTP too and it shows. They’ll lose NHS pretty soon because of it.

I’m actually a programmer. There are ways to compensate us that doesn’t force people to pay rent for our work.

Vote with your wallet. Boycott rent seeking companies that lock away their IP and charge money for access to it.

For example, FOR ADOBE TO DESERVE MY MONEY EVERY MONTH, 100% OF THEIR TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE.

The only rent I happily pay for is a good VPN.

It is. The machine learning algorithm has maxed out its parameters because Elon decided to get rid of redundancy. The machine learning algorithm had to invent new algorithms to do what redundancy would have easily done in far fewer lines of code. They are out of compute power BECAUSE they decided to cheap out and removed redundancy.