you might be correct, but that would be a very long term game, 10-20 years.

Yeah, well, my weirdness continues. I’ve got that ADHD time-blindness pretty damn hard, so future events which are inevitable might as well have already occurred in my perspective.

i think we’re going to see a “new left” in the coming election cycles

That’s my prediction as well. Now that the Democrats are the new right-wing, the obvious competition would be a new left-wing party. It probably won’t be one of the existing “left” parties though, as they are almost all thoroughly captured by either foreign interests, state security agencies, or both.

Not when you’re a government.

Mandate that payment processors have to support the state debit network and you’ll be on half the terminals in the country in under a year.

I’m trans, and I’m not the only one in my family.

My Dad claims he votes Republican for tax purposes.

If you’re aware of what a back-of-card network is then you should understand how transformative a state-backed zero-fee interchange would be.

yeah, that’s just politics, idk what you really expect it to do lol.

Right? I guess I’m just a cynical old anarcho-commie but American politics has always felt like one step forward and two steps back.

What’s different this time is how many “moderate” Republicans are endorsing the Democrats.

they are moderate btw. That the reason they’re supporting dems.

They were never moderate, that’s why they were Republicans in the first place. The only reason they’re supporting Dems now is because the Dems have stopped pretending to be left-wing and openly embraced their status as America’s non-wingnut Capitalist party.

i don’t think the democratic party is over, i think you’re just either being wildly over dramatic here, or simply wrong about how the democratic party works.

Dramatic, sure, but I don’t think it’s overly so. The party no longer needs to appeal to the interests of us small folks now that business interests are starting to abandon the Republican project. Working within the system to enact meaningful change was already nigh-impossible, but now that the Democrats have an unassailable electoral position there’s no reason for them not to become complacent and allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists even more than before.

I feel like bernie probably just wasn’t popular enough to win, certainly a beloved candidate, but idk if people would’ve genuinely voted him in. Maybe if he was the primary candidate, but they obviously didn’t pick him, to whatever consequence that had.

If the Democrats had put their weight behind Bernie then 2016 wouldn’t even have been a contest. He was literally the single most popular politician in America at the time and Clinton was close to the opposite, but the DNC decided it was “Her Turn” and arranged the rest of the competition to drop out and endorse Clinton ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries. Between that and the superdelegates there was no way for the best candidate to win.

They also promoted Trump under the assumption that he’d be an easy opponent for her. XD

And credit unions offer accounts with lower fees and higher interest rates than commercial banks, whose only advantages are having more branch offices, ATMs, and a bigger marketing budget.

Postal banking solves this deficit by making every post office a branch of the national credit union.

What service? Debit cards for postal banking accounts?

It absolutely would be because for-profit banks would have to compete with non-profit government services…

Petite bourgeoise, the managerial class who wield structural control over the labor power of others but lack sufficient capital to simply hire someone else to maintain that structure for them. Same as gang members, small business owners, corporate middle-managers, etc.

Cultivate a fascination for neologism and you can be the old person that correctly and unironically uses modern slang to the horror of young people everywhere~

Become the reason that kids have to find new words for things all over again and you’ll never run out of new material~

No need for crypto, there are plans on deck for a postal banking system that already include debit card service (and a government union for the workers who have to maintain the infrastructure). That’s pretty much the end of the credit card mafia if it comes to pass.

*with or without

FTFY

There can be more than two categories.

Doesn’t matter, the Democrats are killing the Republican party by absorbing its “moderates” and becoming the new right-wing.

They don’t need lefties anymore.

Cops aren’t workers, they’re the enforcers of Capital.

The only surprising thing here is that this person thought they could exercise copfriend privileges against an actual cop without getting some kind of blowback. XD

you are going to be deeply disappointed

I have been nothing but deeply disappointed with American politics for the entirety of my adult life.

there is already work being done to potentially subvert the will of the voters

That’s nothing new. More like par for the course with American elections.

What’s different this time is how many “moderate” Republicans are endorsing the Democrats.

The Democratic Party is over, they’re giving up on their left wing to chase anti-trump Republicans. After this election they might as well be the Democratic-Republicans ressurrected. One big neoliberal party with no real competition from the right or left.

Unfortunately for you, polling is never perfectly accurate.

1. Polling is accurate enough, everyone who was surprised that Trump took the presidency in 2016 was just insufficiently cynical about American politics.

2. I don’t need polling to see which way the wind is blowing, this election has been a done deal since Pelosi convinced Biden to drop out of the race. That itself being an event I predicted as the longshot that the Democrats would need all the way back in 2015 when the DNC started openly conspiring against Bernie.

I like your root instance though.

fistbump

Didn’t they fall into Crypto BS?

I’m not a Democrat either, but I am so familiar with their machinations that I correctly predicted the last 9 years of national politics based on how Dems did Bernie dirty in the 2016 primary, all the way down to knowing Biden would have to drop out to give Harris a chance this year.

I’m autistic, which doesn’t make me immune to propaganda but does makes it very easy to recognize when someone is trying to manipulate public opinion. The truth has almost nothing to do with politics, ours is an entirely vibes-based government.

The noise is especially important, because political machines are colonial superorganisms. Their leadership likes to pretend otherwise, but they don’t speak with one voice, they are more like beehives where each individual has to coordinate their activities with the rest of the swarm. It’s important to know the range of acceptable opinions within the in-group and those that are tolerated outside it, and the noise is where human political organisms do their bee-dancing.

It’s not new technology, for one. We’ve been using injection wells like landfills since the 1930’s because it’s cheaper than treating and disposing of wastewater safely.

I don’t understand why they’re bothering with this. Isn’t the Moba shooter genre already played-out? It felt like it was losing steam over 10 years ago when they dropped a sequel to Monday Night Combat that nobody asked for.

Yeah, obviously I’d much rather that R&D budgets got spent on things that might actually make a difference rather than new ways of kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.

You’re weirdly defensive about this idea. What’s up with that? Daddy got some investments in the fossil fuel industry?