Had to go into the archives for this one:

guh

“He’ll see everything, he’ll see the big board!”

I mean, I think you are expressing a valid point and maybe right. The apologists defending Democrats from changing may have brought us over a cliff.

Dr. Strangelove is maybe one of the best piece of film of all time.

Democrats waiting for that other shoe:

We need to change the Democratic party if we want to stop any of this madness. In their current form, they are the in the way of fixing this mess. We’re reaping the fruits of those who blocked criticism and the calls for reform of the DNC: Its Blue No Matter Who put us here. If we can break through on the DNC we can find a way out of this. With the DNC as they are, there is no political path forwards. And with no political path forward, the only remaining option is violence.

We’re locked in a room with a cult that has completely lost their minds, and the people who hold the chains of our political fates, the DNC, are arguing “Be reasonable. Maybe the psychopaths have some interesting ideas”. Then we have to spend most of our energy arguing with those who complain about us wanting to fight those who hold the literal chains that prevent us from directly confronting the psychopaths. If BNMW/ Blue Dogs/ Blue MAGA cant step out of the way and take a back seat with regards to the direction of this party, then I guess we’ll both find out how this ends, just not together.

no regrats. I said what I said.

Trust me as an anarchist

You, are not, however much you might choose to identify as, an anarchist.

You are a statist. You are a liberal. We don’t need your self reporting.

Officers 100% go through basic. Sometimes twice.

You’re hired!

So your saying your well on your way then…

The contract is that because we share a party we share control of that party and it’s direction.

If that contract is breached, well we really don’t have a party.

The cudgel of “it rubs the centrist on the skin or it gets the trump again” only works if centrism can win elections, and that’s entirely the fucking point: it can’t. And when centrists occupy some of the most progressive districts to them cross the fucking line and vote with Republicans, what exactly is the fucking point?

Centrists do own the Democratic party, but if their business isn’t being responsible to the people in the big tent, they’ve violated the peace treaty the tent represents. If they’re going to demand that politics need to be done their way to win elections, they actually have to win elections. Otherwise there is no coalition worth having with having with them.

Internal to the Democratic party is a social contract between factions, and one of the parties in that faction seems to think they can violate that contract with impunity.

I think you are misunderstanding the point. Swap out 9-11 moment with “watershed moment”.

A drone doesn’t need to be able to carry more than 500-1000g to be an incredibly effective tool of war, and it absolutely was, basically, consumer grade drones that Ukraine used.

And all in all, probably, the whole operation cost less than a single tomahawk cruise missile.

I made this point that the article is making here, a few months ago. The US military industrial complex has completely missed the mark on where modern warfare is going., and the US has spent trillions to build a system that can be challenged for billions.

allegedly

The comment wasn’t directed at the bill, but at Democrats. They can’t even represent a united front against corruption and fascism, the former if which is represented by this bill. There are a litany of other votes where BNMW/ Blue dogs/ Blue MAGA crossed the line to censure Al Greene, confirm Trump nominees like Kristee Noem or Miller, I mean the list is a mile long.

The issue isn’t just that these are TERRIBLE, indefensible votes for a democrat to have made, but also the huge damage it represent to our ability to retake power in mid terms or, if at all possible, in a 2028 presidential election.

With Democrats like this, why bother? That’s the question voters are going to be faced with. It’s the question neither Joe Biden or Kamala Harris could come up with an answer to.

Its far far more than just the damage and bloodletting they could be preventing with these votes. It’s that they’re setting themselves up to lose the next election as well.

This is why we needed purity tests.

https://youtu.be/91p5LwHgmgo