Holy fucking shit, people are dumber than I thought. And I already thought they were pretty fucking dumb.

Time to do Reconstruction right.

Having the backs of labor and the working class amounted for jack shit in actual results for dems.

But I was told that Dems lose because they don’t have the backs of labor and the working class, and that if they just fixed that, they’d win elections???

Sanders is right, and people are right to be.

I know the private version is basically a journal or diary, but I’m not as sure if those were sometimes more publicly shared in the past or not.

Prominent figures often had their journals and diaries and letters published by others, but usually that happened after they were dead.

In ancient Rome, at least, walls! Graffiti was widespread and often involved exchanges between people. This is Rufus!

That too.

The “vibes” campaign by the Dems just failed hard.

Turns out the “Please don’t vote for fascism” vibe isn’t very appealing to the country.

And why is it that only the right should get to move “vibes” by sticking with extreme positions? Especially as things like universal health care, public housing, strong unions or debt free education are just normal in other western countries.

I didn’t say we should give up any of those positions. I was saying policy positions do not consistently translate into votes, and the US electorate is easily spooked by anything they’re told resembles ‘socialism’.

Ah, no, I didn’t. I generally don’t watch videos. I just read what you said about numeracy and moved on to the point about other forms of education being my concern.

Not education in the sense of teaching basic literacy and such, political education. Class consciousness, if one prefers such terms.

The electorate is actually far more progressive on the issues than the corporate media lets on. But the minute the Democratic Party were to embrace Bernie-style positions? You can bet that not only the “liberal media” would declare this sO vErY eXtReMe, but all the big money would be spending against them, and spending against them hard. Think it’s bad now where crypto, Elon, and the Washington Post are tilting against the Democrats? Imagine they actually embraced progressives…

It would be worse than you imagine. Wouldn’t need the liberal media or the big money to move against it. People don’t translate policy positions into support for candidates. They vote on vibes, and any candidate espousing consistently left-wing positions sounds like a dangerous socialist to a good 2/3s of the country.

Not saying I love it, I just don’t know what the answer is.

Education. We just signed over the official apparatus to the fascists, though. So, uh, it’s gonna be much harder than it should have been.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, the Overton window keeps lurching to the right, capitalism scorched the earth and we all get more desperate.

Yes, tell me more about how much more conservative we were during the Biden administration than during the Bush administration. I’m all ears.

Dem leadership are feckless, spineless, and utterly out of touch. But that even left-wing voters slurp up shit propaganda that helps the right-wing because it sounds truthy is probably the most damning indictment of the American electorate.

My favorite is “America is a deeply sexist country!” followed by “But misogyny didn’t contribute to this defeat at all!” by abstainers.

They deserve the distress; unfortunately, the people actually dying will not deserve the consequences in the least.

Don’t know about Germany in general, but captured German nuclear scientists were shocked

Going to new, or staying on hot?

Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.

dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.

.world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.

It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.