Allen Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐

this is probably a conservative opinion on here but basically markets are great, and you should intervene on them mostly with taxes and subsidies, occasionally by trustbusting

You are one member of a larger coalition. That coalition has a process through which it decides who will lead it. “If you don’t decide to support my guy, I will leave the coalition” is behavior that will destroy the coalition, weaken yourself, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes than participating

I can tell you what *my* theory of victory is. The fascists--and the low-info resentful voters who enable them--are getting tired of this shit, too.

Small-d democrats are not the only ones who succumb to moral and emotional exhaustion. MAGAs are getting sick of the sacrifices *they're* making.

That's cool and all, but no Democrat is going to win a Democratic primary decided by Democratic voters by holding Trump's views on three of the core issues that almost literally every single Democrat more or less agrees on

This site is an absolute loony bin and I can see it cooking the brains of people I know IRL

I think AOC is pretty unlikely to win the primary and would be throwing away what is otherwise an all-but-guaranteed spot in the Senate

(A job which has, fwiw, a better track record of future president conversion, even when including "the first guy resigned, died, or got assassinated")

The word "president" being in "vice president" makes a lot of people think the office is something other than what it is

VP is a bit of a shit job and its track record of producing presidents is - barring their boss's untimely demise - kind of abysmal

And they say moderate compromise never works

No it has a lot more to do with dwarves being stereotypically low class and likeable (drink beer, kinda dumb but lovable rascals) while elves are usually high class and often explicitly elitist

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

Look, if you think threatening to beat them in the primary won't work, then the threat you're *actually* making is to not vote in the general

In which case your threat is either actionable, meaning you would prefer a Republican to win over the Wrong Kind Of Democrat; or it is not

As a Democrat who actually thinks defeating Trumpism is genuinely more important than my own personal political preferences I fully intend to vote for whomever the Democratic nominee ends up being in 2028

“We should keep doing the thing that doesn’t work, because accurately describing the problem feels uncomfortable”

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

People mentally cannot accept or grapple with a world where progressive economic policies do not magically make everyone love you

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.

And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

He went off the deep end in recent years but this honestly an incredible bit

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

this is objectively true and this discourse here will never acknowledge it

I avoid this by having the stuff that matters set on autopilot+calibrating my internal "yeah whatever buy that shit" threshold to be in line with my current financial situation, and I still do dumb shit occasionally

Also well worth noting that in fact quite a lot of Americans have died to defend a multicultural economic zone.

What do you think Irish immigrants mustered into the US army in the Civil War were doing? What do you think the members of 442 Regimental Combat Team - mostly Nisei - were doing?

There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

I do have to wonder what this guy’s current opinion on trans people and ICE is though

There's just such a massive preponderance of evidence that nuclear weapons aren't the table-flip so many people seem to think they are and yet the idea remains, because everything would be so much cheaper and easier if they were

How do you stop China from just preemptively attacking? How do you maintain such a deterrence against a first strike with a <1 min response time? How do you ensure China doesn't just... build enough BMD to counter it? How do you pay for such an arsenal? Ensure others dont proliferate? Etc etc

Can one of the mil writers on here write out an essay pointing out all the myriad ways this doesn't work that we can just link to every time this idea comes up