The statistics don’t say, but I suspect enough that the dems would have won if they’d either nominated him or adopted his policies instead of ratfucking him in the primary and telling the people suffering who liked his policies they’re doing just fine.

Primary them, but also make it as clear as possible, before, during, and after the primary, that republican-lite is not electable because the DCCC has shown time and time again they will put as much weight as they can on primaries to make sure the left doesn’t win, from blackballing any companies and staffers that support a primary against an incumbent (this is never applied to primarying progressives or companies that help elect republicans) to defunding state party’s funds and quitting if the progressives take control of the state party.

If the left candidate doesn’t win, I am not voting for a republican-lite and giving them further power to the guys we see rolling over for fascism right now.

That is what the tea-party did, and it scared the republican party in line, and the ones who didn’t toe the line, but still managed to win primaries, lost general elections.

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most of his supporters absolutely hate Hillary Clinton so they didn’t vote for her and then Trump won his first election.

6-12% of Sanders supporters voted Trump. ~82-83% of that 6-12% were conservatives. Bernie had broader appeal with everyone except the “vote blue no matter who” crowd because policies that immediately improve people’s material conditions are popular. Telling someone who is struggling to make ends meet “America is already great” is not popular.

For comparison, 15% of Clinton primary voters voted republican in 2008

That’s the thing, left policy is overwhelmingly popular when you don’t attach it to a democrat and you don’t complicate it with means testing or market solutions or anything else.

Even republican voters like the idea of “free healthcare”. But you say “free healthcare, for people who meet X Y Z requirements” and 90% of people will assume that this program won’t apply to them.

You say “tax credits for people with children, after you fill out 5 forms and prove you make more than X but less than Y, applied to this scale”, and even people who meet that criteria children will assume it won’t help them. You just tell them “every working family with a kid under 18 gets a $3,600 check”, they’ll support it.

The democrats are miles to the right of their voters. This situation is further enforced by the media, who push the narrative of the “median voter” or “moderate republican”, who is half way between democrat and republican; who will vote for “up to 40K college loan forgiveness for people with STEM degrees who were born on a prime numbered day and operated a business in an underserved neighborhood for 3 years” (Kamala’s 2020 policy) but thinks that “free college” would be a step too far.

Assembly is a way of writing machine code, but with words and hexideci numbers instead of 1s and 0s and comments/white space, it’s barely a language, from the 40s.

COBOL is a compiled language from the 60s. The compiler turns the somewhat human-readable code into assembly the computer can read.

Also assembly is even older than COBOL.

Lemmy is full of “vote blue no matter who” libs who think the party cannot fail, it can only be failed.

It was failed by its voters in 2010, when it failed to make a meaningful impact in peoples lives despite having the executive, 60 senators, and the house.

And then voters failed it again in 2016 when they didn’t turn out for “America is already great” while paychecks remained stagnant and rent continued to increase.

And again in 2022 after Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden failed to use his power to change anything.

And again in 2024 after Kamala “How would my administration be different from Biden’s? I would have a republican in my cabinet” Harris ate shit.

These people understand at a deep level that the democratic party would rather lose than embrace left policy and cannot be pressured by its voters, so the only lever they feel they have to influence outcome is to silence any criticism.

He (and Biden) didn’t care when the 100% tariffs on Chinese cars kept the average electric car price at like $60K, why would they care when Americans are paying $100,000 for an average car?

they began launching rockets at Israel on October 19th.

Good. Everyone should be launching rockets at the country enacting a genocide.

My point is that they aren’t risking their lives to enforce a blockade at random or because they’re “terrorists”, they are doing this in response to Israel’s genocide, this is why they stopped when Israel stopped, and resumed when Israel resumed, and this is what they’ve been saying the whole time.

To stop the response to Israel, we should stop Israel.

I mean yes, I love airshows, but there’s something about a mass celebration of these machines of death where a crowd gathered for a completely unrelated purpose gets to see the last thing an afghan child at a wedding sees gives ick in a way that normal airshows, even with all the military recruitment and propaganda don’t.

It doesn’t even apply to all flyovers, sometimes it’s like F-14s or Chinooks or WWII era planes where the message isn’t so dark.

Does anyone else also fly bombers and fighter jets over stadiums at the start of a game? Do you take 2-5 minutes to honor some guys in the military during half time?

This is why the leak because people are talking about it which can be covered up and denied by the shitlords and not the actual attack, which is unjustifiable.

Except Biden did the same thing, for months, before packing up because all they were able to do was murder a bunch of civilians while spending millions of dollars to shoot down each 200 dollar drone they launched, and nobody except for the left cared.

They began the blockade weeks after the October 7th

That’s a lie. They hijacked their first ship on November 19th.

They’re enacting the blockade because they’re terrorists

You see, Yemeni culture requires them to be terrorists, block ships of Israel’s allies, and kick puppies. They don’t do it for any particular reason, they’re just born hating your freedom and being mind-controlled by other freedom haters. Tragic really, but the only way to help them is to indiscriminately level entire apartment blocks.

Russia is also Israel’s biggest supplier of oil.

Like America, if they didn’t want their tankers attacked, they shouldn’t be facilitating genocide.

You already know were enacting the blockade because of the genocide, as proven by the fact that they stopped it when Israel agreed to the ceasefire, and resumed it when Israel resumed the genocide.

You already know the US does not bomb only Ansar Allah, the very texts in question mention that they leveled the guy’s girlfriend’s apartment building.

Fuck off with this bad faith horseshit.

The US is not blowing up a bunch of civilians and the occasional member of Ansar Allah to stop slavery, nor will it be a side effect of America’s actions. Do you believe Israel is bombing Gaza to liberate queer Palestinians from Hamas? That America bombed Afghanistan into the stone age to protect woman’s rights? That we need to go to war with China because the US is just so concerned about the plight of the Uhygurs?

I do not believe you give a shit about the welfare of the Yemeni people and think that bombing them is good for them.

Al Ansar Allah enacted the blockade in response to Israel’s genocide due to their own (along with every other signatory of the convention on genocide)'s obligation to stop genocide.

When Israel agreed to the ceasefire, they stopped. When Israel resumed its genocide, they resumed the blockade.

This is very simple, you are either a moron or a pro-genocide moron pretending not to understand.

You’re right, because the sailors might not know any better, everybody should just let them help Israel facilitate genocide.

I propose we stop helping Israel facilitate genocide so they will go back to not attacking us.