What? Really? Your country is insane.

Bernie, I get. Clinton was anything but likeable.

And failed to drop out when Bernie was still in with a chance to ensure there was a progressive candidate. She had no real chance in the primaries.

I don’t think so. Clinton was dislikably arrogant and put very little policy forward. Kamala didn’t have the arrogant of Clinton but still in classic Democratic fashion did very little in the way of policy put forward to earn people’s votes.

The problem isn’t women. It’s shire campaigns and I think people let the DNC off the hook too much. They’re only effective when taking out decent people like Sanders.

Glad you’re feeling better today. Hopefully it stays that way.

Post-exertional malaise is the worst.

If I push myself in any way, I get a flare up of symptoms so I don’t feel I’ll ever get better. Back ache and fatigue (physical or mental)are a constant. Live by hot water bottles or heated pads.

Had it worse in first year with brain fog, chest pain etc. Can walk now fine but anything more and I’ll get a reaction. Need to constantly watch myself and rest frequently.

In summary, it sucks, but I’m used to it now.

Hope you fully recover. I had mild covid in 2020 and never did. Long covid is a bitch.

Want to tell me the playbook for how FPTP goes while avoiding one of the main parties.

Primary them by all means but not supporting an alternative against the current gov is supporting the fascist status quo.

Need to support AOC and Bernie to overall that party while the stupid FPTP system exists.

Whatever, the point was even Vance couldn’t do that. Started questioning Biden’s health before.

I was not defending Trump, I was criticising how Vance limbo’d under Trump’s response…

He is a vile PoS. Even when Biden announced cancer, Trump demonstrated more humanity than Vance did. Vance has no chill and no human decency.

Delayed response, but I was pleasantly surprised by your pragmatism. The vibe I got from your previous posts was very different. Many on Lemmy could not demonstrate the same level of pragmatism when it really counts and sometimes it’s easy to conclude that here.

I will say, anyone that believes the Democratic party is supposed to represent the working class is probably being a little naive in that instance. It’s been captured by corporate interests for a long time. It’s just less shit version of corporate interests. I’m not even from the US, but I’d still vote for them if I was. Of course, primaries are a good way to apply pressure.

Things could have been very different on many things if Bernie won.

Thanks for the detailed response.

Source?

You’ve side stepped my key points, so I’ll ask them directly.

Do you prefer Trump or the Dems?

Do you see any realistic alternative to the Dems and Trump?

By all means, send Biden to the ICC later, but the current situation cannot continue. No aid is getting in. This is about as bad as it gets. There are millions of Gazans at risk right now. Are you happy with this situation right now?

When Israel went too hard on siege he did try to step in. Not enough, but the attempted but failed aid pier was far more than Trump has done or would do.

Also, he pressured and got a crossing reopened “Within hours of Mr Biden’s call, Israel said it would open the Erez crossing in northern Gaza and the port of Ashdod in southern Israel to aid, and pledged to drastically improve security co-ordination with groups delivering assistance to Palestinians.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68773400

As I made clear, I’m not defending Biden or claiming he’s good. Thousands have died and I fear if the situation doesn’t change soon, I fear it could be a magnitude of 10 higher. Trump is showing zero signs of any pressure. If anything, he cheers Israel on. It absolutely disturbs me, that through resentment of Biden folks would rather see Trump stay in and have hundreds of thousands of more Gazans die through starvation.

I will say, those that keep propping Trump up are complicit in this. If starvation is happening and you don’t want change, you want this situation.

Well this is 5 people. You cannot really compare these 5 with AOC for example.

The only way Trump goes is through Democrats right now. It’s unfortunate, but unfortunately a fact.

I’m not defending Dems or think they are good, but it is the only realistic play right now.

Maybe, but when they went too hard, he applied pressure. Trump offered to take over and help in the genocide (Middle East Riviera plan).

Democrats are not good, but unfortunately, those idiots are temporarily needed to dump out the fascists.

Politics in FPTP is a bit like a bus, and if you cannot get a bus where you need to go, get one in roughly the right direction.

The amount of “Genocide Joe” Lemmyers who helped cement genocide Trump are complicit in what is effectively a mass starvation. At least Biden tried to step in with supplies when Israel stopped last time.

Dear lord. Why are Dems getting involved in pushing fascism?

YMMV. I’ve seen issues in migration from Gitea to Codeberg. Always test first.

And they were trying to embarrass him on live TV and admit they are weak. Zelenksky cannot do this for morale reasons.

They were trying to get him to kiss his ass publicly and thank him for being manipulated for a minerals deal.

It was really ugly viewing.

Fuck that worm, Vance and fuck fragile Trump.

Flashbacks of Black Hawk Down