I know that he doesn't see the owners of a platform supporting Nazis as a good enough reason to not use a platform...
Never expected lemmy to be ok with that, but then again, some of the people on here would live to be on Facebook/reddit/twitter too, they're just banned.
The percentage of people who chose to be here keeps seeming to get smaller.
California's move is the next salvo in what has become a nationwide tit-for-tat between Republican- and Democratic-led states in response to a plan to redraw the congressional lines in Texas to pad the GOP's majority in the U.S. House.
I swear reality reminds me of WKUK skits in all the worst ways recently....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8Geyc5VkQ
We can't fight by the rules, we can't go tit-for-tat, because that means they get to pick every battle, and they'll only pick the ones they have a realistic chance of winning.
We need to do the shit that if Republicans match it, we're still at an advantage.
She did that in 2020...
There was only a very very brief window she pretended to be slightly progressive, but it was an act everyone saw thru, and the dumbasses that were running the party till this year just threw her with Biden because they legitimately thought Black woman equals progressive vote.
Everyone held their noses for Biden because he was the only option, so they just tried to double down on it. It's what happens when a party is corrupt, the people who rise to the top are the ones willing to do anything for donations, because that was the sole metric the old guard cared about.
If you could raise money for their shitty candidate, you got promoted. So we ended up with over a billion dollar campaign that was almost certainly a grift and a complete waste of money from state parties that handed trump the House.
Now, all that being said...
The voting members of the DNC did finally wake up and elected a chair who wouldn't fight against the party's own base. Martin ran Minnesota for a decade, made it solid blue, and home to some of our most progressive politicians and highschool football coach Tim Walz as governor.
If he's a neoliberal bought off by billionaires and AIPAC, then he's absolute dog shit at stopping progressives in primaries, and it's completely illogical that he kept supporting them in the general.
We got an equal playing field for the first time since the 90s.
We just need to get people to show up in the primary. We can't fucking waste this chance.
How about starting with one and seeing how it goes?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/dnc-chair-resolution-restrict-corporate-dark-money
There's a lot of accounts lately spending a lot of time turning people away from the next Dem primary already.
I don't waste much time with them tho.