It’s a bit of a selection bias. The self-sacrificing, hard working boomers have died out.

Only the greedy lazy bigots are still standing.

Very hard to justify bringing more people into the world when the folks already here feel so miserable.

Currently working my way through domestic adoption. If you’re in a state that’s criminalized abortion, you’re in luck. The maternity ward is filling up with people who make a lot worse money than many.

So Canada fucked up

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Canada loves Eastern European fascists.

Temu is selling direct what you’ll find at a dozen other retailers sold for some 10-100x markup. These products are all coming from the same factories and warehouses, just labeled with different brands.

It’s so fucking like the GOP to fixate on Emhoff’s for being Jewish and completely ignore how he’s the brother of a senior Uber executive and tied into all sorts of Silicon Valley money.

God forbid we get any actual socialism around here. It’s always got to be the socialism of fools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal

On 22 September 2023, Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian Canadian who fought in the SS Division Galicia of the military wing of the Nazi Party, the Waffen-SS, was invited to the House of Commons of Canada to be recognized by Speaker Anthony Rota, the Member of Parliament for Hunka’s district. Hunka received two standing ovations from all house members, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, other party leaders, and visiting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Hunka’s membership in the Waffen-SS was reported initially by The Forward, which quoted a tweet by the academic Ivan Katchanovsk. The story was picked up by the Canadian media, receiving international attention.

The incident, seen as a political blunder and a scandal, such that it drew comparisons to the most embarrassing moments in Canada’s history, was leveraged by the Russian establishment to further its justifications for waging war in Ukraine, which had been started under a pretext of “denazification”, among other stated reasons. Rota resigned as speaker five days later, and the House unanimously adopted a motion to condemn Nazism and withdraw its recognition of Hunka. Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian government officials apologized to the worldwide Jewish community. The handling of suspected World War II war criminals in Canada became a renewed matter of public interest.

here come dat boi

Never Forget

Great theory until you get removed from your home trying to make a point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_strike

When you get the whole building involve, it can be surprisingly effective.

the family of 3 with nowhere else to go doesn’t have the luxury of caring about things like this

You don’t think a family of 3 cares when their rents double over five years while their wages barely budge?

Who forecloses on the tenant? The landlord

Who forecloses on the landlord? The bank

Who actually performs the eviction? The sheriff’s office

Who therefore truly controls the property?

A non-zero amount of 3rd party voters always say they’ll move toward Trump or Harris depending which 3rd party option falls off the pick list.

The biggest 3rd party margins are in states with firm single party majorities. Kicking RFK Jr has a very different consequence in California or Texas than Pennsylvania or Michigan.

And when races are tight enough to be decided by a few hundred or a few thousand votes

It’s easier to simply kick ideologically adjacent rivals off the ballot than broaden your base or improve your voter outreach.

The real problem democrats are having is that Jill Stein leads Kamala Harris with Muslims in these three battleground states. And the assumption is that if Stein simply surrenders to Harris and walks away from the campaign, those Muslim voters will collapse into the Democratic Party.

But the assumption fails to address why these communities are polling at historic numbers for an out-layer candidate. Was Stein a rhetorical mastermind who could rally hundreds or thousands of votes to her quixotic campaign? Or is there something about the current Dem administration that Muslims have a problem with?

democrats worry about losing to the Republicans due the green party taking votes because the Republican party is weakening.

Ah, my mistake. I thought they were saying the Green party is weakening. Greens have been steadily losing vote share since Nader’s defeat in 2000.

Well, that is like saying “in a perfect world…”

No. It’s like saying “cumulative return on investment”. If you pass laws that enable more people to vote, and those voters vote for you, then you win more elections and can pass more new laws that allow more people to vote.

A $500k/plate dinner for a guy with $1B feels a bit like a $500/plate dinner for a guy with $1M.

This is election fraud.

When will the DOJ begin prosecuting?

Because that would lead to fair elections. And if elections were fair republicans would never win any.

Why would Democrats not simply extend and expand the Voting Rights Act when they have a Congressional majority? Dems had this in 2021 when Biden took office - both branches, plus the White House. They had it back in 2009 as well, when the House had two dozen votes to spare and the Senate enjoyed a 60 vote supermajority.

Why not send down more financial and legal aid, as Howard Dean championed back in 2008 when he was head of the DNC and delivered one of the largest landslide majorities in the party’s history? Why not use federal money and manpower to amp up Mississippi state election offices?

Don’t Democrats want to win in Mississippi?

Get the fuck out of my face telling me both parties are the same

glances at Merrick Garland’s DOJ and Kristen Clarke, the Assistant AG at the Civil Rights Division

You… uh… you gonna do anything about this?

There are 10x more non-voters than Green voters in any given election. If you abolish the Green Party, all you’re doing is feeding those Green voters into the non-voting demographic.

Why would any Green vote for a party that believes their organization does not have a right to exist?

They’d have thrown their support behind the centrist, Wilhelm Marx, who lost by about 3%

The Catholic Centre Party was in open - often violent - conflict with the largely atheist-leaning German Communists. The German Catholics were terrified of a repeat of the Spanish Civil War, where Spaniards were revolting against a religious dictatorship and burning down churches.

Von Hindenburg, with the help of the governing coalition formed by the Nazis and DNVP

Wilhelm was aligned with the DNVP as far back as 1923. He was the one who pushed through the Enabling Act of 1923, which the Nazis would ruthlessly exploit a decade later, with their help. And he continued to govern in coalition with the DNVP through 1928, when he was dismissed from the Chancellory by…

Von Hindenburg, with the help of the governing coalition formed by the Nazis and DNVP

So, to answer your question

What point are you trying to make?

My point is that blaming Ernest Thälmann for his minority party position in the German government through 1933 when it would make much more sense to finger Alfred Hugenberg and his DNVP, which abandoned Wilhelm in '28 and aligned with

Von Hindenburg, with the help of the governing coalition formed by the Nazis

If the Greens are an imminent threat to democracy, your democracy is already dead.