News

Obama was probably out last best chance...

But the party made a lot of changes after 08 to prevent anyone except their favorite from winning.

And they put a lot of pressure on Obama to not actually be progressive, and paired him with Biden to show donors everything would still be ok.

12 years later trying to pretend Biden was/is a progressive was just a huge slap in the face. He was literally the opposite of a progressive, a sign to boomers that the young Black man who talked about "change and hope" would get all the "guidance" he needed.

But like Heinlein said:

Surely the game is rigged, but don't let that stop you. If you never play, you'll never win.

We have to be at them at their own game, there's no other option.

But it's not the first or last time the good guys didn't get a fair fight and fought it anyways.

Win or lose, we still have to keep trying.

Creating a third party isn't really an option unless the DNC goes full nuclear and ignores a primary vote to nominate their favorite.

Just vote in primaries.

The DNC has to respect the result of primaries.

So many people ignore primaries then complain they only have two choices.

Really?

Are you surprised when people criticize the police?

Do you think we should only criticize the criminals, or that it's ok to criticize police when they're not doing enough?

How the fuck hasn't an admin banned that username yet?

Edit:

I've explained this to that account at least three times now, so I'm just blocking them and leaving the same evidence as the other times for everyone else.

Yet, the most infamous records of intentionally spreading smallpox to Native Americans occurred in 1763 at Fort Pitt (present day downtown Pittsburgh). On June 24, 1763, William Trent, a fur trader commissioned at Fort Pitt, wrote in his journal after a failed negotiation between the British and the Delaware tribe. He stated that they had given the emissaries food, and as Trent wrote, “Out of our regard to them we gave them 2 Blankets and an (sic) Handkerchief out of the Small pox (sic) Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.”

Later that year, the Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo Tribes laid siege to Fort Pitt. The fort’s commander wrote to his superior officer, Colonel Bouquet, that he feared the disease would overwhelm the fort’s inhabitants. After hearing of the outbreak, Bouquet’s superior officer, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, sent a suggestion from New York: “Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox (sic) among those Disaffected Tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, Use Every Stratagem in our power to Reduce them.”

Bouquet responded, “I will try to inoculate [them] with some blankets that may fall in their hands and take care not to get the disease myself.” It is important to understand that before Jenner’s safer practice of vaccination, the term inoculation specifically meant deliberate infection. While this method was the main way of producing mass immunity, it was also known to be just as likely to start an epidemic as to end one. The timing of an outbreak of the virus that struck the Ohio Valley later that year and lasted well into 1764 coincides very closely with the distribution of infected articles from Fort Pitt.

https://asm.org/Articles/2023/November/Investigating-the-Smallpox-Blanket-Controversy

And as that article states, the main reason for lack of evidence is Native populations had no written language and were stripped of their own languages later.

So the only evidence we have, is when the people doing it flat out wrote down that they were doing it.

And we've got plenty of examples of that.