And I used some of my magic powers to look at who’s been voting for this comment with all these universal upvotes…

And lo, I was enlightened.

If you’re aware of someone botting votes, I’m certain the admins of all instances would like to know, why don’t you post the data?

Ukraine

You’re not understanding, the arms and money we send Ukraine enables them to continue the war. Last year, Russia offered a peace deal, giving up a portion of the territory they occupied at the time. Ukraine declined and says they won’t settle for less than all their territory, including Crimea. Without the weapons, they’d be forced to agree to a deal. Given that Russia probably knows they can’t deal with the insurgency outside of Russian-speaking Ukraine, they’ll probably agree to borders similar to what exists now.

China would have wanted Taiwan regardless

I mean the Republic of China is a part of China, it’s eventual reunification is inevitable, but they obviously see that reunification by invasion would be very expensive, both in cost of the invasion, cost of the insurgency, and resulting sanctions from their third-biggest trading partner. The only case where they’d waste billions of dollars and hundreds of thousand of lives is if the US made that option better than the alternative.

The same calculation happened with Russia; after the maidan coup, the civil war on their border caused them to strategic infrastructure and terrorist attacks. They erroneously calculated the cost of having a hostile, NATO-backed state on the border would be greater than a quick invasion and replacing the US puppet with another Russian one.

You need to look closer to understand what pressures cause countries to do things, these places aren’t cartoons who just decide to self-destruct their economies and send an entire generation into a meat grinder because aUTHoriTariaNism.

We’ve already sent troops to help Israel in Palestine, remember that aid pier that Israel used to do warcrimes, and now there’s troops operating aircraft and a missile defense system to prevent anyone from interfering with Israel’s genocide.

help out Russia in Ukraine

Just not sending weapons and money should be enough to get Ukraine back to the peace table and stop the bloodshed.

help out China in Taiwan

Ironically if we didn’t try to use Taiwan for geopolitical goals, China would have no reason to invade, since a peaceful reintegration over time is far more advantageous than the destruction and insurgency that comes with a military option.

the USA is now going to join WW3 on the side of the bad guys

What do you mean “join”?

The evil empire that militarily supports dictators across the global south to prevent economic development and keep cheap labor and resources flowing out are the bad guys, this hasn’t and will not change short of a revolution or the empire’s control collapsing.

Reforming the democrat party isn’t easy.

The DSA managed to win control of the Nevada branch. Before the handover of power, the outgoing dems spent the entire treasury and ran up a debt with their consultant buddies, and essentially burned any infrastructure could on the way out.

Yup. The nice thing about policy that helps everyone is that it’s incredibly unpopular to kill. Biden could have burned student debt in the most visible way possible, and then dared the SCOTUS to create new debt. If they took the bait, you’d have 46.2 million people ready to vote for anyone who promises to expand the SCOTUS.

immediately alienating everyone who may like him

People who like Trump vote Trump, and are going to vote republican anyway.

There are enough Republicans to win elections

So adopting republican policies didn’t get them the wins, are you suggesting the democrats would have won if they adopted republican policy AND pretended to respect Trump?

He’s a political pundit who used to work for TYT and now streams on twitch. He generally has pretty good analysis, particularly with regard to the middle east.

trump is obviously very popular

He is very popular among republicans, nationally he never broke 45% favorability, and is usually <40%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

It’s dumb because it’s trying to win a popularity contest instead of running on how you’ll immediately improve people’s conditions.

OK, but the people who are that racist and sexist are voting republican anyway. Of the dems many mistakes, running a black woman wasn’t one of them.

It would have to go through congress, which wouldn’t approve it, so it would be a lie.

The US president is probably the single most powerful position in the world between explicit powers and people who serve at his pleasure and can be replaced at will, and undefined powers that that extend as far as anyone is able to stop them, as we saw under Trump. If they just flagrantly broke the law and kept doing it until the SCOTUS and others actually stopped them, the dems would be far more popular than just throwing their hands up and saying "better things aren’t possible.

There’s a lot of indirect ways they can get what they want done, whether it means appointing an AG and other department heads who will punish people who don’t go along or using the military’s vast legal protections and resources.

They told people “I won’t do mass deportations

1. That’s not saying how you’ll improve people’s immediate conditions, just that trump will make them worse

2. You can’t credibly say that when Biden deported more people than Trump.

With a casual blaming attitude

What should my attitude be after decades of saying “triangulation doesn’t work, going to the right to chase ‘moderate republicans’ just depresses turnout.” and watching the dems do this over and over and over while getting accused of being a secret republican because I point this out?

Swinging left wouldn’t have worked either.

It absolutely would have. Progressive policy is insanely popular and easy to campaign on by virtue of being designed to help everyone. Do you think Bernie had such high favorably ratings because they have a thing for 80 year old white dudes?

Tell people “healthcare will be free” or “We will cap rent and build housing that won’t cost more than 3x local median income” and then people can’t afford not to vote for you.

Biden could have cut off arms to Israel, and hundreds of thousands of students so politically activated they’re willing to risk their degrees to protest would be doing everything in their power to keep Trump out.

Instead they sent the police to kick the shit out of those kids, at great expense to the colleges, and called them antisemitic.

What’s the alternative? Democrats do not fail, they can only be failed?

The important part about primaries is that it forces them to talk about policies, and left-wing policies are popular.

If Kamala had adopted popular policies, and dem media didn’t go with hard on immigrantion and crime messaging, she’d have maintained her popularity.

We all saw, in real time, the popularity Kamala had when she announced, and how it slipped every time she adopted Biden or republican messaging.

She managed to lose popularity at the biggest day of the DNC by bringing out and an ICE cop and republicans to represent the party.

So lonely without him🥺

I mean that is a type of light.

Cellphone towers are just microwave light poles.

If there can be Kansas and Arkansas, why can’t there be Arizona and Aarizona?

Why? Is the light pole not providing the correct type of light or something?