"Must" in a headline means "won't."

I'm just not seeing how any of that moves the needle on honest primaries.

centrists and maga are aligned in their support for genocide. maga just has other policies in addition to genocide support.

Organizing and acting is how you accomplish goals.

We're talking about a specific goal here, or at least I am. How do we get from mutual aid community gardens and goin' to the gun range, to reliable primaries?

Nope, you demanded concrete steps from me. I want them from you. "Talk to people in your community and become a prepper" isn't a solution, it's a dismissal. It does nothing to restore trust in the party, but that's not the idea. The idea is silence.

Now that’s actual real question that contributes to the conversation.

It's core to everything I've been saying so far. So what's your solution? I don't have one, which means I must be silent about the problem. But you surely have a solution, right? You need solutions to talk about problems, or you're a whiny little crybaby who isn't contributing shit, in your words.

I pointed out a problem. I admit I don't know a solution for it, but I consider the party's lack of credibility to be the most immediate problem it needs to overcome in order to pose a serious threat to republicans.

So, I asked what your solution was, and you were like "I organize! Be a prepper! Mutual aid!" None of which actually address the problem we were talking about.

How do we restore trust in democratic primaries? I mean, besides telling anyone who notices the problem to shut up?

OK then, I think I’ve discovered the problem.

Yeah, I'm not willing to pretend that untrustworthy primaries are trustworthy, and you consider that a problem.

Ok, and how will becoming a prepper get the party to start holding trustworthy primaries?

But again, why do you think I don’t want “that problem” solved. It would benefit me for it to be solved.

So where are your solutions? You have to have a perfect solution for everything before you admit anything is a problem, or you must shut up because reasons.

Sure, if we ignore the historical data, a woman at the top of the Democratic ticket 100% has a real shot at winning the White House.

During the past two times that a woman has run for president, it has been in a time in which people want change. In both cases, we've had a centrist candidate who represents the untenable status quo.

All the "a woman can't win" line does is hold back all women because democrats don't want a particular woman to be able to run.

There isn't anything more to it.

If he was actually a progressive, the party would have cut his funding during the campaign.

Torn on this. I see Schumer’s point that shutdown could be riskier

If a shutdown poses a greater risk of republicans getting what they want, why did republicans vote for cloture?

I'm pointing out the first significant hurdle that needs to be overcome if we want to change anything.

You're just mad because you don't want that problem solved.

"Women can't win" is just an excuse to shut out AOC.

No party has a vested interest in bleeding political power to another.

And yet democrats keep capitulating to republicans.

I think you may be underestimating the number of cybertrucks in regions in which a truck is the current preferred medium for male nazi peacocking.

And I'm pointing out how time works. If you're a cybertruck owner, you couldn't have bought one before it became obvious what elon was.

Then don't get mad when people talk about how it's a problem when democrats don't run honest primaries, when they deign to run them at all.

I was told that protest voting would save Gaza

Nothing was going to save Gaza. That didn't mean we needed to continue being complicit. But at least centrists didn't have to consider abandoning netanyahu.