No, I’m pointing out the concept of sampling bias. There are no doubt valid criticisms of the Iranian government as there are with every government.

When I hear Iranian immigrants on cable news being like “it’s good the U.S. is bombing the homes of people I used to live with” I’m like “that’s a crazy take”. more precisely “why would someone wish something so horrible on their former neighbor”.

Just cause you lived somewhere for a while doesn’t mean you know what is best for the people still living there. It may imply a certain level of knowledge. But those people can still have bad takes --just like Americans can have bad takes about America-- and those bad takes can be biased by the particular experience they have had and that’s worth considering.

That seems like a biased sample set.

You’re telling me all the people who have had problems with the government think the government is bad? I’m shocked!

One of the ways the Soviets lost the cold war was that the USSR was just straight up a smaller country than the US. The US just had more resources to throw at whatever dick measuring contest they decided to engage in.

With the new cold war with China that shoe is on the other foot.

It’s still bad that the most generous interpretation is the DNC is being fleeced by incompetent freelancers.

It also implies that the DNC has little interest in understanding why they lost. No mention of Biden’s age, even if to say it had no effect. No mention of Gaza, even if to say it had no effect.

If they have a better post-mordem, that does explore these topics I’d love to see it.

It makes it seem like they weren’t that serious about beating Trump if they’re still willing to hire incompetent people that avoid tough analysis.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are still the House and Senate leader for the dems. Jefferies is Pelosi’s handpicked successor.

What part of the leadership do you believe has changed? What are their names?

Ignore the 4 Virginians on the Virginia Supreme Court and listen to the 3 million Virginians that voted to defensively gerrymander to start with.

It’s what republicans would do if the shoe were on the other foot.

Conservative democrats go insane when we point out that Harris probably would have won if she would say she would stop funding a genocide and then act like all democrats can do when they have power is lie in their own chalk outline.

Seems like y’all are the ones who actually want republicans to win.

I’m not even US. I was poking fun at “We won’t let Democrats hold office until they apologise for genocide” by wondering whether you’d let Republicans hold office then, or whether they’d need to apologise too.

Oh I understand your confusion now. Let me clarify. We tankies only have the magical powers to control if democrats win office that conservative democrats think we have. We can’t control who actually wins. If a Green, PSL or, Republican candidate got enough votes there’s nothing us tankies could do. Sorry.

And don’t feel bad about your confusion, it’s a common misconception. Especially for someone not from the US, you must be unfamiliar with US politics and culture. Everyone in America knows about this, it’s just like the three shells.

Me not begging you for forgiveness for a party’s policies means I want the other party to win? That’s one hell of a false equivalence.

You not groveling will probably be fine… probably. You’re not from the US as we’ve already established. But if you were a conservative American democrat that wanted democrats to win, the tankies have already decided that if they don’t see groveling they won’t use their democrats winning power. I’m sorry that’s all I can divulge from the tankie meeting at this time. But just know we have greater considerations for our choices.

I personally was an advocate for the democrats winning in the last meeting but I’m just one tankie.

No. Abraham Lincoln was the last republican us tankies voted for. We don’t normally vote republican.

But that doesn’t sound like groveling to me. So I guess you do want republicans to win. Which is a shame, becuase I really wanted democrats to win and was going to vote for them. But since you’re not groveling I can’t.

But it makes sense, Trump is attacking our ‘greatest adversary’ ensuring we have ‘the most lethal fighting force in the world’ and continuing the genocide. So you’re getting what you voted for either way.

But the all powerful tankies have made our decision and there was nothing the poor, powerless, helpless president of the United States, Joe Biden or his VP could have done. They couldn’t have stopped the funding for the genocide, Kamala couldn’t have run on popular polices like Medicare for all or against militarism. The democrats were just poor little guys, helpless to stop the all-powerful tankies. Muahahaha

I’ll never understand why anyone would vote for someone who supports republican/Trump policies… SAD :(

Does this mean the tankies are actually going to vote in the midterms?

No. Since we hold all the cards and the democrats can’t win without us. We’re waiting on every conservative democrat to apologize to us for their support of a genocide before we let the democrats hold office again.

If you really support the democrats you should be groveling for forgiveness in your response. If you refuse, I’ll be bringing that up at the next tankie meeting.

No, he was referring to Zach Braff’s character from Scrubs.

That reminds me, if you want a TV experience on YouTube that can also block shorts; I recently discovered “VacuumeTube” for desktop OSes.

But yes, “Enhancer for YouTube” is the only correct answer for the desktop experience.

“Enhancer for YouTube” add-on lets you block shorts on Firefox and Chrome.

I think the proper tactic is to stand by what we are. Bernie ran as a democratic socialist. He normalized the use of that term. By doing so he connected his supporters to a history of ideas, tactics and, thinkers. We need to normalize the idea of a general strike.

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She’s also worth 21 million dollars now, when she entered congress she was worth less than half a million. Her stock trading game has rivaled Nancy Pelosi’s since she entered office. This should be the bigger scandal. It’s not because it bipartisan.

Honestly, —assuming there’s no fuckery here, which in fairness is a bold assumption— I kind of respect the resignation. She fucked us, got her bag, and fucked off. That’s far better than her becoming a fixture of Washington for the next 50 years.

Supply and demand. How many default fruits have you seen? They’re rare.

The secret is you gotta get ‘em in the freezer before they go soggy.

Just you wait, 11 more of those and it will be a sternly worded letter. 16 of those and they’ll receive a demerit, then they’ll really be regretting their choices. You don’t even want to know what happens if they receive 7 demerits.

I highly recommend you watch this video.

This is a pretty decent overview of the ideas in that book for anyone who is interested.

Or Avril Lavigne?