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Parentheses, duh.

Extraordinary rendition

Thank you for taking the time to type this out. I wish the people who needed to read and turn it over in their head were willing and able.

Democrats simply have no levers to pull to make wholesale changes. I remember Hillary attempting to engage with healthcare reform during her time as First Lady and being pilloried for it. Obama’s administration couldn’t muster nearly enough votes to enact single-payer healthcare and had to opt for a market based solution that just eked through congress, only to be lambasted by the modern left for it.

Many around these parts act as if Democrats can just enact reforms by fiat and do not answer to a largely centrist, if not conservative, constituency. A cursory examination shows this has never been the case; the center/left has always had to govern via consensus.

Now “leftists” are eating their own to a degree that leaves me often suspecting that many are little more than poorly disguised MAGA adherents bleating accelerationist nonsense. This thread and any other like it is replete with these moans of surrender, and who can be surprised? Organizing takes much more effort than vomiting into a keyboard and these folks are by and large too lazy to suss out an understanding of recent history, instead choosing to repeat the same canards (see: the conspiracy theory of independent Bernie being cheated in lieu of not being able to come close to winning the Democratic primary.)

This is the crux of it, American’s have shown us time and again they are centrist/center left at best. These folks are so trapped in their ideological bubbles that they cannot fathom their extreme outlier position, small wonder that there is so much accelerationist language of late.
Compromise is taboo and so any candidate that has agitated inside the system for change ends up verboten.

Did Bernie not run in the primary? I remember him having his ass handed to him in my state.

This is very refreshing to read.

My problem is it’s on sub-stack. So no.

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Username checks out.

There seems to be people/bots down-voting critical takes up and down this very thread. What chumps.

…at least their shit washes away with the rain.

That’s a neat trick!

Yes, let others suffer en masse. What a fine example of smug selfishness; perfectly adjacent to MAGA.

Once more with this foolish narrative, Hillary lost to Bernie handily throughout the primary, my own vote for the man be damned.

Sorry, I was scrolling through TikTok. What was that?

The article goes much deeper than the mere settings of the browser and points directly at stark duplicity and the extremist nature of the founder. There are much better options for those that don’t care to support a proven liar and bigot.

Thanks a million for this!

Thank you! I’m in a similar boat having picked up a replacement Venu a few months ago and this will absolutely be my last Garmin device. My Strava account was nuked some time ago when I couldn’t fire up the app without “Subscribe!” popups. My body is ready for open health tracking.

proton Brave is just another big tech cryptofash broligarchy company

Borrowed from above. Edit.