Is he gonna wear that bandage until November?

No.

Then why would you say “idiot commies”?

They are not really commies. But I’d guess you know that.

Edit: In case it’s not clear, I strenuously object to the use of “commie” as a pejorative, particularly when it makes no sense whatsoever.

Agree 100%

It should not be this hard to beat Trump. I’m so tired of sub-standard candidates.

I’m pretty sure reasonable people everywhere have said that about populist candidates in general. And yet you have to ask, if they are so easy to beat why would any reasonable person either vote for them or not vote at all, even if the alternative sucks. Knowing the stakes, WHY?

The report you linked to shows what I’m saying

No it doesn’t. And instead of explaining why you think that you just keep goin on and on repeating the same speculation

Have a nice day.

Trump was already winning before this

Do you just not understand how elections work? You don’t “win” before votes are cast.

Are we placing bets on this being entirely staged?

Edit: Clearly, given the evidence now, that’s a bet I would have lost.

Who cares? I’m perfectly fine treating the symptoms until we can develop a proper course of treatment.

Dammit! So close!

I think she/Biden/Dems would gain more progressives than they would lose conservatives/moderates/independents… absolutely.

You think. Despite not having any data, not doing any real research and not being familiar with how campaigns are run.

So everyone who would vote for Biden, would also vote for Bernie

Pure speculation not borne out by the 2016 election results.

The math isn’t that hard.

You aren’t doing math. You are going with your gut and guessing.

So let me get this straight. Somehow you think that if Clinton went left she’d gain more progressives but NOT lose conservatives/moderates/independents? That is just not the way it works. tl;dr they are trying to thread the needle.

The difference between an R win and a D win comes down to how many progressives actually show up

No, it comes down to how many voters vote for one or the other. As in all voters.

when teaming up left would mean almost certain victory

Except it demonstrably doesn’t. If that were so Bernie would have won overwhelmingly in the primary. Pretty much all the polling and research suggests that the majority of US voters are pretty center or center-left, with dems being pretty evenly split between center/moderate and progressive. (Eg https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-partisanship-and-ideology-of-american-voters/)

Saying “if we were just more left wing” completely ignores this reality. It’s frankly nonsense.

yes, not even dial up (i think)

Apparently some still do exist. 56 KBps… woohoo.

I don’t think you have a point. Or if you do, it’s fleeting and highly variable.

Good bye.

People tend to extrapolate that since some things are broadly fucked everything is fucked for them personally, forgetting that on a personal level for most people who would be posting on Lemmy, there are many things to be thankful for and many things that have gone right. The clear and obvious wealth disparity (for example) may be sickening and outrageous but that ends up usually being a question of degree, which is why I joke that that people are really complaining that their TV isn’t big enough.

And then we shoot ourselves in the feet by assuming that because of this generalized feeling of “bad” and “unjust” that there is no path forward and that no progress has been made. This is factually incorrect and easy to disprove, but people get mired in the “this sucks” phase, leading to angry fist waving without action. tl;dr people love to complain but are too lazy and myopic to do anything about their complaints.

The cold hard truth is a US dictatorship now is

The US is not a dictatorship. Full stop.

Despite my general pacifism, I think this sort of person is best judged by the theoretical punch-ability of their face. Gorka is “I’m gonna need a baseball bat” level.

The good news is that not even the Trumpkins like him.

The cold hard truth is a US dictatorship now is. It’s not edgy, it’s sad is what it is. Hillary got us Trump, and Biden will get us Trump.

LOL. I can’t tell if it’s that your are completely ignorant or just exaggerating because you think somehow that will make your point “stronger”.

It doesn’t. You just sound ridiculous.