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Mutual cooperation is the optimal game theory strategy for most complicated games. It is smart to be kind. But the cooperation cannot be naive. Part of intelligent cooperation is working together to shut down bad faith actors.
Mutual cooperation is the optimal game theory strategy for most complicated games. It is smart to be kind. But the cooperation cannot be naive. Part of intelligent cooperation is working together to shut down bad faith actors.
If we organize in third parties and decide the best way to get those party's candidates into office is through hijacking Democratic primaries so be it. But actually working with the Democratic party is a dead letter.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
If we organize in third parties and decide the best way to get those party's candidates into office is through hijacking Democratic primaries so be it. But actually working with the Democratic party is a dead letter.
There is. Simply. No. Way. Forward. With the Democratic party.
I'm sorry but it is the definition of insanity to keep trying to build a way forward with it. We have reached the breaking point.
I'm sorry but it is the definition of insanity to keep trying to build a way forward with it. We have reached the breaking point.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
There is. Simply. No. Way. Forward. With the Democratic party.
I'm sorry but it is the definition of insanity to keep trying to build a way forward with it. We have reached the breaking point.
I'm sorry but it is the definition of insanity to keep trying to build a way forward with it. We have reached the breaking point.
We are currently being pinned down and tied up by the Democratic party while the Republicans beat the shit out of us.
We had this talk about Democratic betrayals back in 2008-9 when they wouldn't prosecute or push for anything, and they've now done the same shit unto 2025 and fucking fascism.
We had this talk about Democratic betrayals back in 2008-9 when they wouldn't prosecute or push for anything, and they've now done the same shit unto 2025 and fucking fascism.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We are currently being pinned down and tied up by the Democratic party while the Republicans beat the shit out of us.
We had this talk about Democratic betrayals back in 2008-9 when they wouldn't prosecute or push for anything, and they've now done the same shit unto 2025 and fucking fascism.
We had this talk about Democratic betrayals back in 2008-9 when they wouldn't prosecute or push for anything, and they've now done the same shit unto 2025 and fucking fascism.
It's *literally* not possible to take over the Democratic party from the inside, any more than you could take over a noble aristocracy by becoming a government clerk. There is no mechanism by which to do so.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's *literally* not possible to take over the Democratic party from the inside, any more than you could take over a noble aristocracy by becoming a government clerk. There is no mechanism by which to do so.
That's literally not possible.
The DNC and DCCC are private corporations whose internal voters are the representatives of other more local private corporations, almost none of which involve Democrat party members voting for their leadership.
The DNC and DCCC are private corporations whose internal voters are the representatives of other more local private corporations, almost none of which involve Democrat party members voting for their leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
That's literally not possible.
The DNC and DCCC are private corporations whose internal voters are the representatives of other more local private corporations, almost none of which involve Democrat party members voting for their leadership.
The DNC and DCCC are private corporations whose internal voters are the representatives of other more local private corporations, almost none of which involve Democrat party members voting for their leadership.
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This pretty much answers that question....
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This pretty much answers that question....
True. It can always be worse. But we are at the point where a literal actual Republican in Schumer's seat would be less effective with respect to getting Trump what he wants.
So "Do we have a particularly great replacement lined up?" is simply not an acceptable reason to waffle on this.
So "Do we have a particularly great replacement lined up?" is simply not an acceptable reason to waffle on this.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
True. It can always be worse. But we are at the point where a literal actual Republican in Schumer's seat would be less effective with respect to getting Trump what he wants.
So "Do we have a particularly great replacement lined up?" is simply not an acceptable reason to waffle on this.
So "Do we have a particularly great replacement lined up?" is simply not an acceptable reason to waffle on this.
*Literally anyone else*.
A raccoon, a literal goddamn raccoon, would be better than the active coordination of betrayals and votes for MAGA that Schumer has orchestrated the last 10 months.
A raccoon, a literal goddamn raccoon, would be better than the active coordination of betrayals and votes for MAGA that Schumer has orchestrated the last 10 months.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
*Literally anyone else*.
A raccoon, a literal goddamn raccoon, would be better than the active coordination of betrayals and votes for MAGA that Schumer has orchestrated the last 10 months.
A raccoon, a literal goddamn raccoon, would be better than the active coordination of betrayals and votes for MAGA that Schumer has orchestrated the last 10 months.
The problem is that the Democrats have made it absolutely and unambiguously clear that they will never, under any circumstances, support any version of systems reform.
What else is there to build third parties, even if how they fight is technically within the Democratic primary system?
What else is there to build third parties, even if how they fight is technically within the Democratic primary system?
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The problem is that the Democrats have made it absolutely and unambiguously clear that they will never, under any circumstances, support any version of systems reform.
What else is there to build third parties, even if how they fight is technically within the Democratic primary system?
What else is there to build third parties, even if how they fight is technically within the Democratic primary system?
It very much is about right versus left actually. The problem right here is people ostensibly on the left refusing to actually fight the right, or preferring to lose to them than to the left.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It very much is about right versus left actually. The problem right here is people ostensibly on the left refusing to actually fight the right, or preferring to lose to them than to the left.