Prove it.

I’m sure I’ll really appreciate the new shared use trail in my community after they take away my hormones.

You realize some of us are going to die, right? I’m trying to be patient here, but you don’t seem to realize the stakes. People need to take large bites or we aren’t going to make it. Doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff is not a political action plan. This is going to take a political organization bigger than each of us individually, something that can do more than pass a local sales tax for road repairs or a new community pool. It’s not enough to have done something and tried. We have to win.

And that’s not going to be Democrats. They are tied to the sinking ship of elections, and they will keep wasting their time in them long after Republicans have rigged everything and made winning impossible. Sure, you can get some small wins that way, like shared trails, but the big stuff? Like my access to healthcare? That’s off limits. Republicans will kill me if I play by the rules of the game.

We have a couple months to prepare. That’s it. After that? Anything can happen.

There’s literally nothing in your comment that actually, directly, blames Trump voters. You have to use your words on the internet.

Also? There won’t be any midterms. Elections are over, you need to get with the program and be prepared for something other than playing voteball every two years.

Nah, there will be a few million humans that eek out survival on the tropical Antarctic archipelago.

Quick! Before we’re out of power! Start WW3!!

Trump voters, meanwhile, are blameless.

Free labor is the cornerstone of US economics.

You have a lot of faith in voting.

So, what’s your plan now that we might not have real elections ever again?

Mexico still needs to cooperate on some level to allow border agents to cross the border and dump ex-citizens.

Or I guess the US could just keep them in camps.

I don’t know why they even expect countries to cooperate with that shit. Why should Venezuela accept US citizens being deported into the country?

Maybe they’re going to hold them under detention while trying millions and millions of people. Might need to build new detention facilities, of course, some kind of camps where they can concentrate the population. It’s going to take a long time too, so in the name of government efficiency they can lease them out to businesses and farms for labor while they await their trials. Work sets you free.

Yeah, they’re talking about deporting the children of undocumented immigrants.

Please don’t. I like not dealing with redditeurs.

Okay, so let’s look at the genocide in Gaza.

What could the left have done, more than they already had? There was the whole uncommitted movement of direct involvement in the primary process to make our voices heard, people demanded to speak to nominees and presented petitions and went to the media etc etc. That wasn’t fatalism, people did everything they could imagine and I don’t appreciate you shitting on them for it.

But what did the Party do in response?

They didn’t allow a single Palestinian-American to speak at the DNC!

So tell me, since you’re so good at politics and so incredibly motivated and smart, can you think of anything that they could have done to force the Democratic Party to adopt a resolution banning arms sales to Israel? Because I can’t.

Maybe that’s true!

Out of all the people that voted for Harris, how many of them do you think actually volunteered any time at all to her campaign? I’d guess it wasn’t even 0.1%.

What you’re accusing the US left of, of being armchair whiners, applies to nearly all USAmericans. People in this country believe politics is just complaining and voting every couple years, and this is true of Democrats and Republicans and Independents. The actual political engagement in the US is extremely low and it’s a serious problem.

I’ll choose to believe you, but you should realize you’re a rarity in the US. Half of us don’t even vote!

It’s certainly not bad for China. They’ll just continue to pivot away from US markets.

Might be good for Mexico, they’ll become an even more important trading partner and on top of that China might to decide to park lots of capital in their country to get around the tariffs. Combine that with MAGA wanting to invade Mexico and we might see the collapse of NAFTA at the rate things are going.

To demonstrate how useless the tariffs are going to be.

The US will only hurt itself.

They didn’t do everything they could to stop Trump, Democrats showed there was one step further they could take: have everyone drop out and endorse a single candidate. Republicans also didn’t rig any of their primaries, and I’m pretty fucking sure Democrats did n Iowa (and as someone from Iowa I’m still mad about how they basically just sacrificed our state)

You talk a lot of shit. Did you even volunteer for Harris? Do any canvasing? Door knocking? Phonebanking? How much did you donate? My guess: you did literally nothing.

The limit is our distance from the Sun. After a certain point the greenhouse gasses can’t make up for the fact that we just get less radiation than Venus does. The maximum potential I’ve seen is 10°C - almost all life would go extinct and we’d have to live on the tropical Antarctic archipelago, but not Venus.

Trump was allowed to do what he did to the Republicans because he is not a threat to anyone in power. That’s a very obviously different situation than a socialist, who is very much a threat and needed to be dealt with. They are not the same.

Democrats would rather lose than work with their left. Republicans are happy to work with their right, and that’s why they win.

Besides which, elections are over. If you’re so fucking smart and active and ready to do the work then you need to seriously prepare for when elections are either canceled or so hopelessly rigged that Democrats never win again. Maybe the left could have won with a more organized electoral strategy in 2016 or 2020, but that’s in the past! Here and now, we’re staring down the barrel of the end of elections. Instead of punching left, you’re going to have to march with us or you’ll hang with us.