I think most state parties are ok, and the DNC just got it's furtherest left chair in 30 years..
But the idea behind this, that politicians are loyal to voters over party is a lot better than where party comes first. Because helping voters is hard, and if it's not the priority it doesn't get done.
When we help voters when able, we have the numbers for majorities.
Websites publish what people will click.
People will click what's shared on social media. And people will share this stuff just like they will slow down for a car crash.
With stuff like ad blockers, they're also catering to people who still don't use ad blockers. So, lowest common denominator
The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.
More than business owners, "contractors".
If you're a gig worker, including conventional tipped employment to an extent, you're going to need a buffer because money could dry up. A waitress with a two week cough isn't making the tips they're used to and an Uber driver with a blown transmission isn't making anything.
They couldn't make it 3 months with no income tho.
Even when you have a career and make better money, better healthcare comes with higher premiums. And 401ks need contributions, so even more people paycheck to paycheck
Who knows?
Our edge might be trillions of years from the closest edge and entropy will make us "nothing" before we collide.
Tomorrow the overlap could happen, an entire different reality with maybe complete different physics and life could just suddenly overlap with our boundaey. If it was "new" it would fly thru ours, almost instantly. If it was "old" it could take billions of years to notice. It might start off a chain reaction where we annihilate each other, we might merge, or even just pass thru each other with zero effect on either.
Like, this is just one of a literal dumbfounding amount of things that we just have zero idea about.
We want to never know the answers, but some day we might just find out with zero warning.
The article definitely isn't too long...
But tldr:
Yes, that's exactly what's happening
You're talking about elected politicians.
That is not the DNC.
Party leadership isn't the DNC.
For the past 30 years they've been intertwined, because we kept getting neoliberal chairs and the party leaders are neoliberals. And they worked together to prevent progressives from gaining ground.
Ken Martin wasn't born yesterday, you can look at Minnesota and what they did under his leadership as state chair, and the type of politicians who got to office with his help.
He's not perfect, but he won't stand in the way of progress, and that's all we need to get a non-neoliberal to the general in 2028.
Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.
Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it's expensive to start it back up again.
So what's really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.
For a day or two.
Then leaving till it's started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.
So:
Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone's minds.
To quote a saying that's been around for way to long:
You can beat the charges, but you can't beat the ride
Meaning it doesn't matter if what you're doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.
Edit:
moderately upscale suburb of DC with a particularly liberal (not leftist, liberal) population base. The protest has been happening every Saturday for several weeks now, and usually pulls around 200-300 people
Why the fuck is 200-300 people next to DC not fucking protesting politicians?
I assumed you were in some random city, you all are literally right next to DC and instead of taking advantage of that you're wasting your time with this?
Go fucking protest the actual government in DC, lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you're wasting.
Especially since DC is probably the last place that needs people to be discouraged from buying a Tesla right now.
Like the other person said, what seperates them from regular death cults is rules against suicide.
Like, my mom's just regular crazy Christian. She's been ready to go for over a decade and would be happy about it. But if she takes direct action to die, she goes to the bad place.
So like, during COVID she was leaving the house more than pre-Covid, just intentionally doing dumb shit because putting yourself in a dangerous situation where you might die...
Still isn't direct action
People that want to die, are willing to die over literally anything, are incredibly dangerous for a society.
They'll pull a gun because you waited too long at a green light and be 100% ok dying in a highspeed shootout. Because as long as they don't kill themselves, they believe they're going straight to heaven
I still think we'll end up thinking of the Big Bang as not a singular thing not even a cyclical thing that keeps happening.
More like fireworks in an empty sky, where if we zoom out enough there's "big bangs" happening all over the fucking place, constantly.
Ours will fade out someday, but there were ones before, during, and after ours.
What we've been doing is like if we saw an apple after it started falling and declared it was never in the tree, and will never hit the ground.
We're just not looking at it on a long/big enough scale.
The family belongs to a Mennonite community
Well, yeah...
They're an extremist religious cult...
They don't think their kid is dead and gone, they think "Sky Daddy called our angel home".
This is what happens when people are convinced reality doesn't matter because they have eternity in the afterlife.
No, it changes by having a chair that cares more about beating Republicans than beating progressives...
And we have that now
The fight over the party was over more than a month ago when the Chair election happened.
Neoliberals lost, the party of today is not the same party as 2 months ago, the chair is basically a dictatorship with all the power and zero accountability
If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be...
Thought that was clear: