• IDF talking about Palestinians probably

The people who believe in the institutions the most are blinded into not acting to save those institutions, believing that it will not succumb to tyranny.

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Translation: we can’t get the billionaires back on our side, they’ve gone all in with the new regime.

Drones

What’s the point of saving a tree whose fruits are unpopular and the nutrition is lacking? It is common to fell trees that are past their fruiting prime to make way for a younger crop.

The executive branch is spending money in ways Congress hasn’t approved, so it would make sense for Congress to make that an issue.

At this point some Democrats need to splinter off with the simple litmus test of opposing the oligarchs.

That hole he is digging is for the dead bodies. We should be shutting stuff down instead of standing by

What the hell are they scared of? Not like they’re actually risking anything.

Or they could be controlling us by rationing healthcare in such a way that we end up posting whatever this is instead of being able to get real help. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

We’re not asking Dems to deliver a utopia, but to have standards that go beyond “normalcy”. Those dumbass Americans have standards, that is why more people didn’t vote for Trump than did.

Success is measured in how many billionaires it makes. I don’t see the USPS making any billionaires. /s

The system is the best representative democracy money can buy. So unless you’re going to pay for votes like Musk, this just doesn’t ring true to the lived experience of the majority of Americans.

We can say a lot of people are cynical like that, but we can also say even more people are turned off by that cynicism.

I want representative democracy, it is just not what most people in America experience. Me criticizing the system is not somehow anti-democratic.

This attitude of telling people they’re wrong about the system is just pathetic. You’re advertising your own weakness to not adapt when the rules get changed.

If the Dems think voters are dumb, then why do they campaign like only smart people would vote for them?

Some Dems are so cynical they do things they don’t believe in because they believe it works.

They could also get money out of the primary process and that would have the largest impacts

Conventional logic also said Trump would loose but here we are.