@cheetoburrito00@darwinism@magi_jay@notcapnamerica This is nonsense. It was the Progressive wing of the party that stuck by Biden the longest. The moderates were the first ones calling on Biden to step down. Hunter Biden just talked about this on a podcast.
@Podzhog_Sarayev@W96Emily It did get stomped. The main effort directed at Kyiv was decisively defeated. They were also defeated at Kherson, and Kharkiv. This forced the Russians to to a mobilization, and slog it out meter by meter. The amount of territory that Russia has gained in 4 years is marginal.
@StatisticUrban This is nonsense. You're looking at, what, 2 or 3 races and extrapolating across the entire party despite incredibly strong showings by establishment candidates in numerous swing states? You're trying to spin a narrative that simply isn't true.
@Podzhog_Sarayev@W96Emily They did mass in 2022, and they got stomped because they were poorly organized and used an insufficiently small force on too many axes of advance. They then turned to focusing mostly just on the east and rebuilding the force. They've been squandering that force since.
@Podzhog_Sarayev@W96Emily Russia can't mass forces because drones allow full vision of the battlefield. Mass attacks are destroyed by drones and artillery before they reach the front.
@Ravioli628@FoydelTom@mattyglesias It actually means selling our debt so we can print money at home, which was actually a cheat code. If we had managed our debt, we could have made that work indefinitely.
@Ravioli628@FoydelTom@mattyglesias That has nothing to do with us controlling the global financial system, and everything to do with restrictive policies towards building new housing, and bad foreign policy, namely tariffs and the Iran War. Inflation would be under 3% without tariffs and the war.
@Ravioli628@FoydelTom@mattyglesias It actually did. It's why the US controlled the global financial system, and a bunch of countries even followed us into the folly that was Iraq. The US sat atop the greatest global alliance system the world had ever seen, and it was largely built on post-war goodwill.
@coffeewithkream@DavidShuster Over a MAGA republican? Absolutely. These people would be sidelined by Dem leadership if they actually got elected. MAGA psychos are the leadership of the GOP. I hate both socialists and fascists, but I hate socialists less.
@EducatingTrump2@DavidShuster No they wouldn't. There is no major constituency in any of those swing states that gives much of a shit about Israel-Gaza. The polling consistently shows that it's one of the least relevant issues for swing voters. Affordability, the economy, and healthcare are the big 3.
@coffeewithkream@DavidShuster You can hate the party and still vote for them. I disapprove of the Democratic party as a whole, but you bet your ass I'd stand in a blizzard for 12 hours in November to vote for the Democratic candidate in the midterm.