The Dem establishment will obviously blame anyone but themselves. That’s what establishments do. That’s why, assuming there are still free and fair elections in America in two years time, left wing voters in the US need to start planning now how they’re going to primary out every last establishment Dem who thought that leaning right was the answer, and replace them with people who do believe in real progressive politics.

It won’t work everywhere. It can’t. And some of those people will inevitably get caught up in the machine, or turn out not to be what they claimed. Reality is messy. But get enough of them in and you can make a real difference. The mid-terms are the American left’s opportunity to do what the right did in 2010.

But at the end of the day none of this matters, because we’re just two outsiders pontificating over another country’s politics. Despite how deeply those politics affect the whole world, there’s nothing we can actually do about it, other than focusing on what we can do in our own back yards.

Yes, they are morally culpable too. Even more so than the people who refused to vote for them.

That’s the thing about ethics when you actually apply it in reality; someone else being wrong doesn’t mean you’re right.

So, it was worth Trump getting a second term in order for you to maintain your moral purity?

Listen, fuck Harris and every other Dem who failed to condemn the war in Gaza, they all deserve to burn in hell for that.

But did you really get what you wanted out of this?

So you’re saying you failed to plan adequate staffing capacity for the company’s needs?

So you primary in Dems who will support ranked choice. This is .ml, surely you’ve all heard of entryism?

It can both be true that Jill Stein carries water for Russia, and that America still needs third party candidates on the ballot. You shouldn’t cheer for a broken system just because it happens to lock out people you don’t like.

I think you might be seriously underestimating how big a deal wrestling still is in America. We’re not in the glory days of the eighties anymore but it’s still capable of catapulting people like John Cena to mega stardom. Cody Rhodes has barely been back in WWE for a year, and he’s already been added to Call of Duty: Warzone. AEW is the baby brother to WWE and they’re now regularly selling out Wembley Stadium. None of that is small time.

I mean, Hulk isn’t exactly a d-lister. The guy still gets huge pops at wrestling shows. It’s more that he’s absolutely trashed his rep with younger people by constantly being a disgusting piece of shit.

Name the restaurant and give them more business. They deserve it.

Ah yes, let’s just make everyone’s financial transactions public record. That couldn’t possibly be an insanely dangerous thing to do.

This is the biggest problem; you’re basically funneling kids towards those sources least likely to comply with the law.

If some company made a plastic dick that squirts water, kids would be enthralled. They wouldn’t even think it was anything sexual; as far as they’re concerned they’d all just be shooting pee at each other.

But thats a different minister, speaking about a different, if broadly related subject, right?

Like, I get that the overlap in the messaging is concerning, these things don’t always happen by accident, and even less so when there’s a PR strategy involved, but the defense minister’s comments were very much in the context of fixing up known problems with the German armed forces. There wasn’t anything to suggest that he was talking about putting the country on a war footing.

The overlap here seems to really be that both ministers are acknowledging that Europe as a whole has a highly belligerent, authoritian and revanchist rogue state on its border that is currently in the process of building up one on the largest militaries in the world, and is actively invading a neighboring country. Its hard not be talking about planning for the possibility of war in that context.