Delusional half-truths from lemmy.ml, and no one was surprised.

The Democrats are doing whatever they can to win elections. If you don’t want them appealing to billionaires, stop fucking letting billionaires influence you and people you know. Get off of Twitter. Get your family off of Twitter and Facebook. Find ways to reach out to people.

This both sides bullshit is sabotage to prevent people from useful voting. Vote for whoever you want in the primaries, but in the general, vote for whichever isn’t a fascist. Yeah, if you’re a neolib and you’re scared of communism, whatever, vote for Mamdani anyway. Have this stupid fight in the primaries. The general is against fascism.

0.6ish% fatality rate in a population of ~350 million, with obviously a much higher hospitalization rate sounds about right.

More than one million is “millions” in English.

Slightly?

The “status quo” is partly that way because Democrats don’t provide instant gratification. The changes tend to be significant, but slow. In the next ten years, if the plans don’t get demolished, I’m going to be able to take passenger rail to Chicago.

The problem is progress is slow, but destruction is fast. Every few years people get frustrated with how slowly the Dems are building the house of cards and they bring Republicans in to knock it down.

And then people look back over the past decade and wonder why the house of cards is in the same state.

It already happened there 90 years ago. AND they get to see our results within this decade. They think afd is different from Trump somehow? Not significantly.

21 days? What the hell.

like the US did with Iraq back in 2003

No. I’m not excusing anything that did happen there, but it absolutely wasn’t a genocide.

I’m sure the Epstein files vote is a coincidence. She’s just suddenly changed her mind for no reason.

Have you looked at those Israelis lately?

And yet not much of a surprise.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

Absurd. I get that you want everything to be black and white. It’s certainly easier to just rage indiscriminately. But it’s not productive.

My theory is that he traded the release of these files. Still questionable at best.

Fine. Whatever it takes.

The 600k number is dumb. We don’t need to make shit up to make this bad.

Maybe, yeah. To some extent though, I think perception is reality.

I think if the overwhelming reaction is “nothing will come of it”, it makes it more likely that nothing will come of it. But the media is certainly acting like it could be more.

At least my friend’s reaction, “he’ll never be held accountable for his crimes” still acknowledges that he’s a criminal that should be behind bars.

I think billionaires are realizing he’s actually not good for the economy or their money after all. So they’re going to rightly use the truth to get this stuff to the right media this time and force him out.

He’s out by Valentine’s Day was my call. Of all the stuff he’s done, it may have been screwing with JPow and Lisa Cook that does him in.

You think it’s ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they’ll topple the emperor.

Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?