do x now, get y later.

Best part about the Democrats is that Y never gets done. They just fool AOC and others to fall in line and promise that they’ll get their reward later

Morons

. If he just drops out of the race, then the DNC can pick someone else

See, but there’s very strong arguments to be made that if Biden were to do this, Kamala becomes the nominee.

I don’t get it though. Because if Biden were to step aside, Kamala is next in line.

Like this is just cynical and in bad faith.

That’s just MSNBC. Most of the time.

A more serious answer would be maybe Daily Kos (is that still a thing?)

It’s been a long time coming. I know that Scahill has been very unhappy with the Intercept 's capture by the beltway and democratic party, for years.

Ubuntu has good documentation, lots of people use it. Fedora is the other choice. They’re both good.

Rare DSA W

https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

U4 is real unemployment, and it is UP by 1% compared to last year. Everything below U4 is just cooked numbers

Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its objectives are met

So then, it’s not a ceasefire. We’re done here.

Clown. Not serious.

I didn’t know who she was but why am I not surprised

@2:03 Wu: I got into the progressive movement over a decade ago

Jesus christ. This pisses me off because this person has done nothing but shit all over everything and hasn’t even been in this movement for very long. Like, I think I am only a little younger than Wu and I have been kicking around since 2004.

Like, I’m not trying to gatekeep here. It’s just that this person smells like a grifter to me.

@2:27

Charges of the left being anti-semetic, man fuck off.

5:00 Konst talking about bots

5:30 Konst is mad about people calling her NATO

6:15 Wu jumps in and agrees that Konst was treated unfairly by people online.

Ugh. Kill me

7:40

okay finally De La Cruz gets a chance to talk and finally talks some sense about how the Democratic party is the one who silences leftists and progressives. Excellent stuff.

12:17 Wu basically accuses the anti-zionist stances as being a smokescreen, or a way to hide their anti-semitism

honestly I think I’m just going to skip the parts where Konst or Wu talk and just focus on De La Cruz

And honestly it’s fuckin great. I hate driving to Florida

So, I’m willing to step on this landmine here.

If you were a US soldier in Vietnam, you absolutely were fighting for a nation that did war crimes in Vietnam and was the bad guy.

But I feel like the war criminal label has to actually be reserved for the people that actually did the killing of civilians, and specific acts, like the solders that did the Mai Lai massacre.

Like if you harmed civilians, yeah war criminal.

But if somehow you managed to fight just armed combatants (bear with me here), even if you were fighting for a colonial aggressor (France or the US in Vietnam) that doesn’t rise to the level of war crime. That’s just you being part of an imperialist aggressor (which is STILL BAD) and for some reason it just feels like calling every US soldier a war criminal just dilutes the label and makes the idea of war crimes less serious and prosecuting those people who did them less likely to happen.

Like, to put it another way: every war crime is immoral, reprehensible, and evil, but not every immoral, reprehensible and evil thing rises to the level of a war crime?

I sort of forget the Vietnam scenes of Forrest Gump. I sort of only remember him pulling the one soldier out who was wounded (legs?), nothing beyond that. So I dunno?

I mean it’s basically the same as real life McNamara’s morons. So maybe? Kinda depends on what they did.

That’s one hell of a diff

I think the aspect of this whole fuckery that gives me a deep existential grief, is the Palestinian Genocide. If it was just a “normal” year, or election; I wouldn’t care so much. But the man’s brain is Swiss cheese, and the deep state the swirling mass of bloodsucking bureaucrats continue to grease the wheels of America with blood and tears.

Okay but this is always how it’s been. Like the only thing people are taking issue with is that Biden doesn’t have the mental acuity to continue these genocide competently.

Like, they only care about the competence of the people committing the genocides. Trump is not considered competent enough to drive the death machine (America), and now it’s looking like Joe isn’t either.

That is true. I still need to watch Secret Honor that Matt recommended

At least they toned it down on the second go around.