Apt

-get install actualleftistparty
Edit: I don't even use Linux. I'm being infected by your stink.
- sudo apt get *
  
  I run as root in my non existent Linux.
  
  sudo apt install actualleftistparty && sudo apt --purge autoremove magats
- Hit: 1 in DNC Fetched 60 senators in 16 months Reading policy stances...Done Building volunteer organizations...Done Defending election outcomes...Done 219 house members can be upgraded, type "apt list --rebublicans" to see them. [actualleftist@admin]:
- You don't do that in America (if you want to win). You take an existing party and push it in your direction. That's how the party of Reagan is embracing tariffs.
  
  Ask the whigs about it.
- Just meet me at the
- Well you can make your own, but mind you don't get Fred Hampton'd.

Way too good of an analogy in too many ways.
- … the school shooter wasn’t voted class president by the students.
  
  And Democrats aren't armed or in a position of authority to stop it.
  
  Republicans take a bad idea and make it worse.
  
  And the cops let him
- Nah, the pigs might be incompetent cowards but they aren't as complicit as dems
  I know, you don't ever gotta give it to them, but still
  Edit: Wait, if I remember correctly (easy to confuse these things when there's so many of them), they stopped people from doing what they themselves should be doing, right? Nevermind, it's perfect.
  
  Not complicit in what?
  “Nah” what? You’re way off base if you can’t see what the analogies are.

I thought we were going to talk about 3rd parties once it's not critical to democracy.
When are we going to wise up and realize that people who vacillate between "I won't vote for genocide" and "why won't the Democrats save us!?" are a fucking opp designed to kneecap the left?
- Exactly. Division got us here. Only unity will get us out.
  
  Unity centered around what? The party of the less bad? Of the horrible leadership? The party that only does one genocide? The not Trump party? The party of “we will not trash the economy”?
  I could get behind that, but this federation has not been a democracy for a while. Not when you need more states won and several would require United Nations observers if they were countries. So, in some places it’s just a lost cause.
  People need to be disabused of the notion this is a fair fight won by normal rules. New leadership and splintering is exactly what is needed.
  
  Ah yes, unity. The unity of attacking third parties. Of suing candidates to remove them from the ballot. Of refusing to run a primary to learn the wishes of the party. What great unity. I’ll pass on the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” with your views of “unity” like that.
  I agree we need to come together so the left stops losing. But the democrats do not agree with that, and will actively sabotage it as much as possible. And until that changes, we’re fucked. We need a party willing to adapt to the people on the left, not republicans.
- If you want to not kneecapping the left, you could start by not slurring progressives as "a fucking opp."
- Right. But you can’t have unity/be in coalition with someone who is actively committing a genocide against your family.
  Which is part of why democrats lost, especially in Michigan. With its fairly sizable Arab population. Even if they’d managed to win the other swing-states that would have lost the democrats this election.
  Why should we not have unity with the Arab People of Michigan?
  Please try to keep in mind pointing out the fact that Trump also isn’t in unity with them is not an answer to this question.
- There are steps that need to be taken to get third parties.
  First and foremost is the adoption of a voting system that can not only support third parties, but help them grow.
  TLDR; Fight for Approval if you just want third parties to exist and occasionally win, Fight for STAR if you want third parties to grow and become powerful.
  Now for the long part, talking about the problems with first past the post voting, and how that shapes the political discourse. Or you can watch this video.
  Also, before anyone breaks in with Ranked Choice or IRV as it's called, you might want to read up on the flaws section here.
  And I'd write more, but the dog wants a walk, and that's more important right now.
- Every US election is called the most important election. All of them. At some point I think the only way out is to make someone lose because of their support of FPTP.
  
  Mission accomplished, then. Harris losing is a statement to the world that Not-Trump isn't good enough.
  But in doing these theatrics you've empowered a fascist oligarchy. Maybe it wasn't worth it, maybe electing enough Dems to reverse citizens united and tax the rich would have been the better concession of the two.
- people who vacillate between "I won't vote for genocide" and "why won't the Democrats save us!?
  Those aren't conflicting opinions, my guy. These people exist and are actual leftists who want the party to be what they pretend to be
  Source: I've fuckin met many IRL, trippy I know
- I think "we" realized it from day 1.
  And, yet, here we are.

A screenshot of a tweet of a screenshot of a tweet put on top of a photo of a concert (?) where the person adds nothing. Why do people do this lol
- @glimse didn't realize it was pitch black. And what was likely to happen around a certain hungry memer.
- Clout
  
  I will reblog this every time
  (Please include me)

Yeah, pretty accurate. One cop tries to do something and gets dragged away by the rest

Fuck.....
The perfect analogy for the fucking US of A.

That's pretty much how I've known them both

Officers arrived three minutes after Ramos entered the school and approached rooms 111 and 112, but they retreated.
Massacre at room 111. Massacre at room 112. Officer called out, "Yell if you need help!" A girl in the adjoining classroom said, "Help." Ramos heard the girl, entered the classroom, and shot her.
Law enforcement approach his classroom from what sounded like the hallway three times, but they did not enter; during one of these occasions, he heard a student from the adjoining classroom 112 saying, "Officer, we're in here. We're in here." As law enforcement had already left, Reyes said Ramos "walked over there, and he shot again."
Reyes later heard law enforcement telling Ramos to come out of the classroom to talk, saying they did not want to hurt anyone. WTF? That's the smartest line you would come up with? That the police don't want to hurt anybody? What's next, police threaten to shoot at hostages if shooter don't give up?
- What's next, police threaten to shoot at hostages if shooter don't give up?
  Let me tell you a story!
  
  Great story! I especially loved a US police trainer comments on the Beslan tragedy: 'if I have to kill 20 (7%) hostages to save 300, then that’s what I’ll do.', when in Beslan died 318 (25%) and injured 700 (60%) out of 1200.

The assumption here is that Democrats are just cowards. That is the more flattering of two options, but the less likely one.
The other one is that they are actually quite okay with what is happening, because their masters are.

Kinda like how they went straight to blaming Mexicans and black people for losing the election.
- Immediately scapegoating minorities when they ran a bad campaign. And Biden said to bipartisan applause to Congress when Black Lives Matter was the key talking point "We don't need to defund the police, we need to fund the police!"
  The parties of cops and robbers.
- A majority of one particular demographic voted for Trump in the past three elections which PoC and I assume anyone reading this is acutely aware of.
  
  White people, and the DNC will never blame them. But any other skin color? "They cost us the election!"
  
  I dont, please continue.

Did at least 51 put of 100 cops have to agree before busting down the door?

Weird how everything is somehow the dems fault...
- The dems are one of the only groups in the US who (legally) had the power to:
  reduce voter suppression
  fix the electoral system in general (e.g. remove the broken FPTP system)
  stop sabotaging popular candidates
  not choose a senile dementia-sufferer to remain the country's leader for years
  support the worker class instead of the owning class and get their votes (too many things to list)
  support US citizens instead of imperial interests in countries half the population can't plot on a map
  For most of these things, they should have been doing this long, long ago, before even Obama's terms. The Democrat Party clearly had the power of the state for more than enough time to make them look like an alternative rather than a complicit ally of the Republican Party. Why should they not be seen as at fault?
- In this analogy, the Republicans are the shooter. Not sure how you can draw the conclusion that anyone is blaming the Dems there.
  I'll be the first to call out people for solely blaming the Dems when that's the case. I've been banned from so many Reddit subs for that very thing, which is how I ended up here at Lemmy in the first place. But that's just not the case here. What this image is saying is that the fault of the action (the shooting) lies with the Republicans, and the Democrats (the Uvalde cops) are too cowardly to do anything to stop it. It's a pretty damn accurate description of American politics.
- I agree. The Trusk team has got the ball rolling for some of trump's base, but we have to figure out a way to separate the rest from him. I really don't know how at this point. Common sense doesn't work and they never see the people making fun of them because they live in a bubble. It's starting to be too late.
- They actively oppose change as the planet burns and survival becomes unaffordable
  They're supposed to be a counterbalance, instead people have been screaming for change so long that they're being taken in by fascist lies
  They've become the party of one step forward two steps back (before the other side gets their turn and full on sprints to gain more ground)
  They are a right wing party, and they've decided their latest strategy is to move even further right and give up more ground to capture voters who hate them, and to actively block change that the people are demanding. They see the left as their greatest enemy, they tell their supporters stop bothering them, and even now they want to work with the fascists
  Universal healthcare and doing something about housing. Worker protections and standing up to big business. Obstruct Trump and everything he and Elon are doing.
  These things have a ton of support across the political "spectrum", but are apparently totally off the table
  The Democratic party is opposed to all meaningful change... They lost this election because they offer no hope, milquetoast solutions, and they don't fight back.
  Pressuring the voters stopped being a valid point after election day - fascists are in office and their answer is to say "we'll get them next time, stop bugging us"
- So many of these clowns can't be bothered to vote but will still blame the dems.
  
  I voted for Biden and Harris and I will still blame them for not stopping Trump from ruining anything good this country still had left. Sorry your deflections don't work in the real world.

At this point why should they say anything? They've been fighting tooth and nail for years against this. I feel this is the 'when your enemy is making mistakes, don't interfere'. They're letting people see what they voted for, or didn't get off their ass to vote for. Not even being part of Trumps' base will be able to insulate them from what they're about to struggle with.
- haha holy shit this is preem.
  saving this for later copypasta purposes.
  you are a fucking gent/lady/gentleperson.
- If that were true, it's a dumb election strategy to sit back and wait while your opponent puts an end to free and fair elections.
  
  This is all on the American people now, not their so called leaders. They could start a coup, anything really. As an outsider I don't give a shit what Obama has to say about the situation. But it would be incredibly inspiring to see the people.wake up and take back their counry
- What world are you living in?
  They had 4 years to fight Trump and make sure he was properly tried and sentenced for his crimes and they just didn't because they didn't want to look like they were going after political opponents. They have actually done next to nothing to fight him.
  And the "mistake" they don't want to interrupt is Trump deporting people to random countries, setting up a giant concentration camp in gitmo, cutting cancer research funding and making life he'll for trans people. So maybe they SHOULD interrupt this mistake, with more than just signs.
  
  Anyone with 2 ears and 2 eyes saw and heard the warnings. This is on the American people who chose not to vote their way out of this. I don't care what they didn't accomplish, it could've been cut and dry if people just voted.
- Yes they (most, not all) are bargaining with the lives of countless Americans, but not themselves or their families.
  Fuck every one of them doing this on purpose.
- Kind of a suicide move. Like, they let the mass murderer in, so you're letting everyone die to spite them.
  We know that project 2025 is essentially a complete dismantling of democracy, so what the hell do they think they'll get out of letting it happen? Aside from getting lined up against a wall?
- I dunno, man, waiting until the last minute to start trying Donald when we all know how slow the wheels of justice grind in this country doesn't seem tooth and nail to me.
- What even can they do?
  This, for better or worse, is the will of the people. It's not like nobody knew this was going to happen.
  
  What even can they do?
  Refuse Democratic cooperation on a single Republican nominee or bill without severe concessions.
  Hang any Democrat who dares utter the word "bipartisanship" from a lamp post.
  Boycott important Trump speeches.
  Refuse to assist in passing laws that will give the president more power.
  Filibuster everything and use every iota of resistance in the Senate possible.
  Participate in direct protests like Al Green - every single member should have done the same thing.
  Participate and lead street protests directly.
  Demand lawful access to government buildings, enter by force if necessary.
  Have candidates for 2028 start running for president NOW, to serve as foci and centers of resistance.
  Start drafting a "Project 2029" now. Be just as prepared as Trump's team was.
  They are not doing any of these things.

Sudo Apt-get install gun-control
- pleb is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

…and the American people are the citizens of Uvalde safe in their homes watching it live on their screens.

And the voters are the people who elected the shooters to run the town
- Whut

the government is not here to be your friend. the government is not here to be your enemy. the government is here to ensure there is a tomorrow.
- ...and they are failing miserably
- really funny considering they're the ones destroying our "tomorrow"
  
  Well, you see, you got a bunch of Neanderthals saying it should be run like a business, and businesses piss literally everyone off to a high degree, so here we are.
- Someone else posed it this way: The Democrats exist to solicit donors; getting elected sometimes is a side effect. Big money has wrecked their ability to oppose what is happening.
- We had millions of tomorrows before governments even existed.
  Governments are here to more strictly enforce social contracts. They do this with varying levels of consent, but that is nevertheless what they do.
  
  Hardly. They're there to enforce the will of politicians, who are funded and influenced by the owning class (regardless of who voted for them once every four years).
- That saying is really good when it's not being actively destroyed
- the government is not here to be your enemy.
  "The government" as an abstract entity might not mean to be anyone's "enemy," but the one currently running the show absolutely views its own people as such.
  I never set out to be anyone's enemy. I want a peaceful life, like most people do. Yet, by doing no more than the radical act of "existing," the current United States government has hand-picked me and others like me to be their enemies. Anyone who's LGBTQ, female, non-white, foreign-born, science-minded, and/or financially poor is liable to be scapegoated (at best) or outright targetted by those currently in charge.
  Make no mistake - "the government" might not be here to be anyone's enemy, but this government definitely is.
- Do you think the government controls the rotation of the planet?
- The government exists to govern you, exploit you, enslave you.
  
  There's reason to be cynical but not outright nihilistic. Also, most of that is due to corporations and lobbyists in the US.