Different zones on the same spectrum.

to me, the more principled stance would be to stay and resist until they are forced to fire you, which makes them look bad. I would have no qualms about telling my kids I made the right choice in that scenario. But others have pointed out that doing this might lead to a career civil servant losing their retirement benefits, and I can understand that that is a lot to throw away for resistance actions that will ultimately change very little.

this makes a lot of sense to me. I can understand choosing to resign if this is the case.

i don’t really agree that “one could say the same” because these are totally different situations. A voter is not a civil servant. A voter does not get paid to vote. Most voters did not swear an oath to defend the constitution (unless they are a naturalized citizen). A single voter also has no power to block an insurgent force from taking over key government systems, unlike a civil servant.

why are these people leaving? they should force the government to fire them and make a big stink about it.

thx Bard, we’re still allies to my mind even if we have strategy disagreements <3

yeah don’t worry, just the woke mob exaggerating things again

i know you won’t respond. but my perspective is that at this point, a seat held by the Dems is not a seat at the table. It is a seat held by a Republican that has decided to pander to non-whites for as long as it is politically advantageous for them. They don’t care about us. As income inequality has grown (under the careful care of the Dems), the politics of this country are no longer left vs. right. It’s billionaires vs. everyone else, and sorry, but the Dems are going to side with the billionaires every time. Continuing to throw in with the Dems is choosing to give more oxygen to this left vs. right farce. The Dems do not care about protecting poor people, or migrants, or queer people. They are throwing them all under the bus right now, as we speak, to maintain their seat of power under Trump’s regime.

And as long as we primarily elect Dems from this demographic, they NEVER will be.

Let me take you one further: as long as we continue supporting the Democratic party at all, we will never have representatives that care for us. The Dems have done some fine work over their long history, but they have outlived their usefulness to the American people. These are the SENIOR LEADERS of the party that are being quoted in this article. The party is sold and bought by the billionaires, full-stop. The billionaires allow the DNC to exist because, on a national stage, the Dems suck up left-leaning votes that might otherwise go to a more progressive third party candidate.

To make my point, let’s look at the actual party leadership: Ken Martin, the DNC chair. Ken has never won an election of voters. He has run campaigns, so he knows strategy. He has won elections among other DNC members, so he knows how to schmooze the elites. These skills allowed him to win an election of other Democratic party elites, without ever having to consider what the average American might want or need. I’m not saying Ken Martin is evil, but he is of the demographic that you are telling us to stop electing. He’s comfortable, so he has no sense of urgency. The DNC chair is always/will always be someone like this, a person who knows how to play the game and is invested in keeping the game going because it is the game that they know how to play. Someone who is comfortable in the current status quo, so they aren’t really that invested in planning for changes unless they need to to win an election.

The DNC will probably always have this leadership structure, because the billionaire donors like it and the Dems are addicted to the billionaires’ funding. This structure allows the billionaires to maintain control over the Democratic party, even if more progressive candidates win in the most progressive pockets of the country.

TL;DR - nothing is going to change until we abandon the Dems and start a real anti-billionaire party.

Although the Heritage Foundation advises using tungsten slugs (i.e., bullets) as interceptors, hypersonic missiles have been opted for instead. To this end, a new organization, the Castelion Company, was established in 2023.

Castelion is a SpaceX cutout; six of the seven members of its leadership team and two of its four senior advisors are ex-senior SpaceX employees.

Of course this is about Musk lining his own pockets. I guess that’s what the US government is for now, enriching billionaires at the expense of all other citizen.

thx Pete <3

Are you out there being the change in the Democratic party? Are you out there forcing change with your actions? Are you actually doing something to have a choice between something other than two parties?

Are you? I’ve been voicing my dissatisfaction with the party since 2016. As of this past election, I’ve been voicing that I think it’s time for us to leave Dems in the dust and start a new anti-billionaire party. I’ve voted in every election that i’ve been able to, and besides 2016, the Dems have had my vote every single time. I am guilty of replacing direct action with online posting, and I will openly acknowledge that. But I don’t think “vote Blue no matter who” is the “wake up” message you think it is.

right, but i’m saying the Dems allowed this to happen by spending four decades compromising with Republicans and allowing them to shift the Overton window rightward more and more. They spent all that time making decisions based on what was feasible, rather than doing the hard thing and making decisions based on what was right. Reagan set the trap, Clinton walked right into it, and the Dems have done little but accept their lot in all the years since.

i think the genocide joe libs were a strawman. everyone I know who was basing their decisions on the gaza genocide understood that Trump would be worse, and all of them decided to vote for Harris in the end anyway. If you personally know anyone who did actually abstain their vote over this issue, feel free to prove me wrong.

But to this point, you have to ask yourself: if Dems are doing almost all of the same evil shit as Republicans, but in a friendlier package, what is the point of voting for the Dems? If the billionaires have bought everyone on either side of the aisle, how can I trust any candidate to make votes that are in my best interest? Why should I be forced to vote for one of two candidates that are both bought and paid for by shitty corporate evil America? Trump isn’t an abberation - we got here because Dems refuse to stop playing the SuperPAC game. By refusing to take any action that might scare off donors, they set the stage for our current crisis. They aren’t the ones dismantling our government as we speak, but they ignored all the signs and continued governing as if we are still in the 90s, because none of the heinous shit they vote for actually affects them.

is it just me, or is every resource like “stop being lazy and organize! but don’t work with the legacy orgs, they are feckless! Organize!”. I want to to do more action but i have no clue where to begin and this message does not help me. i have social anxiety, i’m not going to go stand on a corner by myself protesting and hoping strangers join me.

don’t be ridiculous, it was obviously immigrants that did it. All of them. They all went to one big Zoom call to coordinate it.

MN here. “Minnesota Nice” is a term used here to refer to passive-aggressive niceness and our collective inability to face conflict head on. Many MN Nice moms might bake cookies for a friend after a cancer diagnosis, but then still vote for the Republicans that are slashing funding for cancer research. The disconnect between pretty manners and ugly politics is very stark. Huge political divide between the Twin Cites/Duluth and the rest of the state.

Turns out it wasn’t ICE. It was Secret Service agents trying to find an 11-year-old that posted an anti-Trump video. Source

This is fascism, folx.

Omg finally a positive piece of news. happy for all the thai couples! they deserve to be happy!!

always good to have the real cheddar