Dude has been a joke for a very long time. Like his illegal campaign for the Dem nomination that was only ever meant to be attention seeking, that subsequently got zero attention for the most recent example.

You think Bernie Sanders doesn’t want all of that, too? You should read his latest book.

He was just being pragmatic when he mostly only talked about the most easily achievable and popular of his possible reforms.

Bernie fucking Sanders was a centrist according to the rest of the world.

Just utterly and completely wrong, Bernie would be firmly within the populist/socialist left of Europe, and probably the rest of the world too.

Oh I completely agree, just wanted to point out that AIPAC is homegrown interventionism, not foreign like people tend to think.

How is this not foreign interference?

Because AIPAC doesn’t take any foreign money, it’s funded entirely from within the U.S.

I lived in a very rural area back then, I know a friend whose family was all watching that debate together in their living room, all hard-core Trump supporters of course. That debate literally made them so sad they turned off the TV mid debate, it broke my friend free from being a MAGA diehard.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Biden campaign saw something like that reflected in polling, even marginally, and is trying to recreate it.

Can vouch for Viture being much more open source friendly, there’s a redditor making a plugin for the steamdeck to make it work far better with the Viture’s, and Viture has apparently given them access to some things that Xreal has refused.

Their openness is what won me over for them over other AR glasses. Not only are the willing to help what’s effectively a competing software developer, it’s also incredibly helpful when the product is so niche, don’t have to worry about a company going out of business and your device suddenly becoming a paper weight.

There’s this thing called social democracy,
and almost every nation in the world has a social democratic party. The left wing of these social democratic parties tend to be full on democratic socialists.

There’s a good chance that the welfare system in whatever country you live in was built by these social democratic parties and influenced by its left wing of democratic socialists.

Even in the U.S. FDR’s Liberalism has been called “bootleg social democracy” by some historians, and his policies were influenced (though often more as concessions than willing adoption) of the more socialist leaning unions of his time. Even today, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party could be described as social democratic, with its leftmost members (Bernie Sanders and AOC) being democratic socialists.

Idk man democratic socialists seem to have been succeeding in doing it almost globally for a century now.

Look at the left of any social democratic party and you’re bound to find some.

But you see that small socialist elite proclaims it’s doing it for the working class, therefore it’s okay now.

Don’t look at those prisons full of attempted trade unionists pls.

It’s called second campism, and it’s been happening for a long time, it just used to make more sense when it could actually seem like there was two hegemonic camps during the cold war (still an oversimplistic view).

Now they just support any regime that’s anti-US/the original capitalist camp because they have no hegemonic camp of their own to support, just a broad smattering of authoritarian regimes with completely different ideologies.

It’s important to note this was a minority of congressional democrats, only about a quarter, still a quarter of the party too much.

Did any other congresspeople do that? I’m genuinely surprised if not, few things really invoked how that moment felt better than the pictures I saw of him solemnly cleaning the capitol floors.

There’s a massive massive difference between how Biden’s administration has uses the security state vs how Trump tried to use it last time and will use it next time.

There’s literally no point to draw an equivalence between Trump and Biden than to diminish Trump’s fascism.

No he’s being pushed from the other side too.

Specifically his more centre-right coalition partners (Gantz, Gallant) are in favor of the ceasefire, and seem willing to pull coalition support if Netanyahu doesn’t agree to the ceasefire.

He’s not wrong. Someone enabling fascism is just as guilty as the fascist

Except no that’s now how culpability works under any system, there’s a reason every country on earth views being an accessory to a crime as lesser than committing it yourself.

I can see how timeliness was his priority, but our unhoused numbers and housing market would look very different had mortgage relief passed.

Oh yeah in hindsight most people would say they’d prefer the mortgage bailout rather than the bank bailout. But when you’re a young president in your first days of office and people with economics degrees are screaming about how it’s all burning down…

I understand why he did what he did, should’ve definitely still tried to of gotten way more mortgage relief afterwards though.

I just wanted to note that it wasn’t exactly the sneering “Yes let me fuck over the working class as much as possible for my neoliberal values” as some people claim.

Obama addressed the housing market bubble by bailing out the banks when he could’ve issued the same relief to those who were exploited.

I’ve read his autobiography focusing on this period, iirc according to him his advisors said there were basically only three options.

1. Bail out the banks who had a part in causing the issue and subsequently failed. (His least favorite but what he ultimately picked)

2. Bail out the mortgages of the people who were at risk of foreclosure. (His favorite option)

3. Complete nationalization of failed banks with extra actions like forgiving all at risk mortgages (He was tepid on this)

The problem was that those solutions are in order of increasing expense and decreasing likelihood of Congress’s will to pass. Meanwhile the economy was burning down and his advisors were saying we could have another great depression if action wasn’t taken immediately.

And the party establishment can and has changed over time, the Democratic Party of 1890, or 1910, or 1930, or 1970, were massively different parties.

The party has generally trended more progressive over time on everything except economics, and that’s starting to change with the tepid integration of democratic socialists.

But a government that potentially is nefariously attempting to block a candidate shouldn’t be able to bar someone from being elected.

No conviction short of insurrection would disqualify him from running for office and being elected.

Many candidates have won election for president while never even leaving their house to campaign. Trump would unfortunately be in a better position than anybody to win the election from inside a prison cell.