They had 24 years. We’ve objectively needed a clone-independent voting system since 2000.

They basically did the same thing, but without super delegates. If the primaries are so corrupt that we just keep losing anyways, then we have no choice but to vote for a third party.

It’s a repeat of a historical experiment, and he’s fiddling while it burns.

What is your actual point without sarcasm?

It’s not a single man. They have the Supreme Court, the Senate, possibly the House, and your local cops after hours. Vance is praying for his chance to rule.

The loss of our infrastructure before we’ve built up decentralized alternatives will cause senseless deaths.

• it wasn’t close

• police would shoot us

How can hope be both irrational and valid?

How out of touch do you have to be to think the economy is good?

Liberals measure the health of the economy by Gross Domestic Product (which has been going up), and Consumer Price Index (which includes big-screen TVs). You’d have to dismantle everything they paid to learn in college econ.

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Is this not a relatively mainstream belief?

I did this and they stole the bowl too.

The people who give them to you?

It’s going to be glorious when an AI-powered trash truck empties the contents of a cybertruck in back.

changing my user agent to Brave so everyone thinks I lost my money to scams

It satisfies my social media addiction, but will be years before it shows up on many search results.

Big “people who disagree” energy

If it’s bad as you say, then it’s already too late for voting.

Then why didn’t they, back when Trump wore a blue tie?

Then it’s not a single lever pull - it’s a sum of lever pulls over a long time period.

We can’t stop them from using Lemmy either. They’ll come.

But this time we can defederate from servers that tolerate intolerance.