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Did he say that? I remember him saying the opposite: “Nothing would fundamentally change”

I’ve heard it’s where all of the Reddit exiles signed up. I have no idea if it’s true or not, but it sounds plausible. I remember when people pointed out factually inconvenient things about Biden on Reddit, they’d get downvote-bombed.

Remember when they got mad after Trump said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters”? They said it was cult-like behavior by his followers.

But when Biden bombs children, or backs a genocide, it’s somehow not cult-like behavior to keep supporting him.

awesome, I’ll check that out

https://archive.is/VBn5c

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/live/guidelines-iud-insertion-pain-management.html

It’s insane to me that this just now came out

Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven’t learned anything

The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

I couldn’t find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it’s a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45

eh, it’s fine. They are allowed to disagree. I just wish they’d do it in a constructive way rather than yelling at people. It’s obviously not something for you to be sorry about.

I forget where I heard the quote, but:

Stack Overflow is a great place to find answers. Stack Overflow is a terrible place to ask questions.

Yeah, Biden won after the DNC rigged the election in favor of their candidates. Prior to that, Sanders was doing pretty good. Polling also had Sanders doing pretty good in red states.

Yes, the south is super racist, I know first hand. And I agree that the south would have been an uphill battle for Bernie, but I think he could have won despite having the south against him. Now it’s too late, and it’s just speculation.

But none of that takes away from the fact that the Democrats keep putting up terrible candidates that nobody wants. Look at the polling and votes for Harris, Biden, and Hillary. They did terrible, and it wasn’t a surprise to anyone. The Dems need to pick better, or they are gonna keep losing.

Or… It could be placed on the supposedly opposition party, who ran unpopular candidates on unpopular platforms. Maybe they should have tried to fight against Trump, instead of trying to co-opt his policies.

The math also doesn’t lie about 3rd parties: If we had all voted for Harris (and that’s a big if), the Dems still wouldn’t have won. The math also doesn’t lie about the Dems: They ran two terrible campaigns, that even Democratic voters stayed home on, rather than support. A bunch of people who voted for Biden ended up voting for Trump in this election. That’s on the Dem leadership.

I completely own up to my vote, and it’s consequences. I wish the Dems would do the same.

Yes, Sanders is a great example. The guy that the DNC literally had to put their finger on the scale to overcome. The guy that polled better than Trump in red states.

I have lived all over the country: The coasts, the middle, the south. I know plenty of people in red states that don’t like Trump, but don’t see the Democrats putting out a candidate that they like. Maybe if the Democrats tried to differentiate themselves from Trump, instead of chasing his policies, they’d do better.

Yeah, and I don’t support Trump. In fact, I voted against him. I’m not sure what your point is.

…chose to squabble over a party not being perfect…

Looking at the party for the last few years, I see: Choosing a rapist, child-killing, genocide supporter as the candidate. Gaslighting everyone on the cognitive abilities of said candidate. Continuously screwing over the working class. Gaslighting everyone on the state of the economy. Bailing out their rich friends, while telling the poor and homeless that they need to suck it up. Propping up the fascist that beat them as their opponent. Bombing innocent people. Saying that they would be harder on immigrants than the fascist. Helping build a stupid border wall. Increasing funding to violent assholes that attack the working class. Picking unpopular candidates and running on right-wing values.

I feel like that is a far cry from “not being perfect”

That’s the opposite of what I saw. I’m not saying that you are wrong, just that I saw differently. I saw Democrats spend most of their time saying that it’s not OK to attack the current Democratic president. I wonder how much of that difference is based on the circles we run in, or the news sites that we visit.

Well, maybe the Democratic leadership should have fought against all of that, instead of helping it along.

Well, I didn’t help it along, and I didn’t stay home, I voted against them. So I did fight against it. And the Democrats low approval because of their bad president, bad governance, bad campaigns, and bad candidates were probably the reason that a part of that third stayed home. I’ve also never said there is no difference between both sides.

You keep saying untrue things, and they still aren’t true. Maybe you should start saying true things.

They did tho. Trump is one of, if not the least popular president we’ve ever had. Are you telling me that the Democrat’s really tried their best, and couldn’t find anyone that was more likeable than him?

I did vote against Trump, but I also voted against Harris. I did that because, unlike you, I didn’t want genocide or fascism.

Well, I don’t fight against fascism and genocide because I think I’m going to win. I fight against fascism and genocide because I think they are evil.

Speaking of not understanding math: If every 3rd party voter changed and voted for the Democrats, they still wouldn’t have won. They gave up the election when they could have easily won it. But feel free to keep leaving sarcastic remarks here against those that hate fascism and genocide, instead of trying to fix your low approval-rated party.