Yes we absolutely need plenty of immigration. The American population has been below replacement on birth rates since the 1970s. With the Boomers going down it’s going to hit the fan real soon but all they want to do is restrict immigrants.

The 4th estate is a wholly owned subsidiary of fascist inc these days. And facts don’t sell. Just rage.

Only if constant growth and expansion of capital IE capitalism is your goal. If it’s a job you simply enjoy or people you enjoy working with Etc there may not be room for advancement. But why would you want to? Granted many people do not have that. They’re wage slaves for capitalists. Point is the whole concept of a dead-end job is inherently a capitalist thing. If a job takes care of your needs and is Pleasant enough. Who cares if there’s room for advancement.

That could just be down to the author and their aptitude. Lot of people writing field guides aren’t exactly scientifically minded or trained. Because fungus really are kind of anti plants in many ways. It’s sort of like the distinction between fruits and vegetable for tomatoes. For most people tomatoes have always been and will always be vegetables. Despite having long been classified scientifically as a fruit. And pineapples are berries.

I went to college in the '90s. Fungi being classified as plants is new to me. Though perhaps it is part of some Mandela effect or misremembering on my part. But it is inarguable that we’ve learned tons more over the last 20 to 30 years about them.

That would be more along the lines of what’s the difference between Joy Division and new order. One dead body. Rip Ian.

Or what’s a Goth’s default mode? Depeche.

All those dark entries. Must be growing in them thar hollow hills. Best go tell telegram sam, because nobody wants to kick in the eye.

I dunno, Italian spiderman had a decent take

No one is forced to run. That’s the point. You can only vote for the choices you’re given. Not the choices you’re not. That’s the point. If you want better options better choices. Force yourself to run. We always have choice, we always have agency. Even if you choose not to vote. It’s generally the worst thing you can do. But it’s still a choice. And if you don’t believe me just listen to the band Rush.

The first thing Just quickly off the top of my head Period the consumer Financial Protection Bureau was her baby.

The fact that Warren herself is a former republican. I disagree with her on a ton of shit. But I still have to respect her for some of the things she’s done. I think she’s wrong and misguided. But she definitely tries to do good/help in her eyes. And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is absolutely a good thing.

They’re definitely was a lot of overlap on interests. But that doesn’t automatically equate to siphoned off votes. There were a not insignificant number of people who were direct fans of things Warren has pushed for and accomplished. That would not automatically have translated over to sanders. We can speculate that a large number would. But as stated that would be speculation. We could speculate as to why Warren didn’t drop out. But again that would be speculation. However I don’t think that she had anything to gain or owed any allegiance to party leadership to just stay in as a spoiler. Far more likely it was just good old wishful thinking and hubris on her part. It could happen to any of us.

I generally agree with you on everything but the getting fucked part. That implies that Sanders was unaware or unprepared for what happened. If there were those of us outside politics who could see and understood what was going to happen. Which there were a lot of us. I don’t think Sanders is that young naive or inexperienced. If anything I have a feeling it went better than he expected it would.

The man went up against the core of party leadership and the candidate they desired. And while he didn’t win outright. He came out more powerful than he went in. If success is getting fucked Perhaps we should all get fucked.

It really was the strategy that will pay off for generations to come. Fascists by is simply temporarily acting friendly to Sanders managed to drive a wedge between Democrats and the left. That even the candidate himself doesn’t feel exists because of his continued association with the party. All these people will make sure that the Democrats and by extension the candidate they supported won’t have their support or power to do the things their candidate wanted to do. Talk about self-destructing.

As an anarchist Lefty type I have no love for status quo or establishments democrats. But I have to still pragmatically acknowledge that the only way to fix or improve things is through them. Or at least by replacing them from the inside out.

I voted for Sanders in the last two primaries. But the fact remains he lost both primaries ultimately. He did well. And it’s possible he might have drawn in enough people who wouldn’t have voted otherwise. But there’s no guarantee of that. It’s all just baseless speculation.

And let’s be honest it’s entirely possible he would have had more trouble than Biden or Clinton in the general. The fascists acted friendly to him in the primaries specifically because of how it divided Democrats and the left. In the general they would have turned on him with the fierceness equal to Clinton or biden. And I think we have to acknowledge that was a brilliant strategy. Now 8 plus years on it’s still paying heavy dividends for them. As you’ve shown.

Even as the Democratic party acknowledged his voice and gave him positions of leadership. And Sanders himself stayed part of the democratic party. For some reason failing to be as offended as other people were being offended for him. Instead those people choosing to abandon the Democratic Party and take power from them. Ultimately taking power from and abandoning Sanders in the process. An odd thing to do for people who claim to like Bernie Sanders.

First Harris didn’t run, she didn’t even try to run.

Second, Harris is 1/2 of Biden Harris. She’s going to have a lot of the same baggage as Biden at this point.

Third Harris has a ton of her own unique baggage. She’s not a significantly better candidate by any measure. And I’m not even referring to racists and misogynists. Which would happily add themselves on top of that baggage unfortunately.

Who were they supposed to force to run, and how were they supposed to do that? Biden initially talked about being a single term president. Only running again if necessary. The only Democrat that really chose to try to primary was Dean Phillips. Who recently begged a state governor to pardon trump. Biden already appeases fascists too much. With Phillips begging a state Governor to Pardon their leaders crimes. I can see why Biden would run again.

I actually have some hope that there will be some decent Democratic candidates in 2028 if we can get there and still be holding elections.

Just because you in isolation are doing it. Does not mean it is a characteristic of all economic liberals. More importantly. We know that Aid and Outreach is more effective when it is handled by larger organizations. Larger than private individuals. And of course larger than Church congregations. Something rothbard liberals heavily oppose. Mutual Aid absolutely should be one of the primary things our government is involved in. Especially a Dejacque libertarian government.

Libertarians and other groups even in the United States supported lgbtq far earlier than 1970. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad that for all the damage Rothbard, the Koch brothers, and others have done masquerading as Libertarians that is one of the things they’ve kept lip service to at least. They won’t actually do anything to actually improve the lives of lgbtq. But at least they support not overtly visibly discriminating against them.

There certainly are some selfish bastards in every ideology. But economic liberal rothbard Libertarians have a higher concentration than natural. It’s possible that you might be an actual libertarian. But you would be more the exception in the party than the rule.

Counter counterpoint. Some rights absolutely should be. The fact that a person’s vote can be taken away. Is the entire reason we have such sentencing disparity. It along with speech are two fundamental rights that shouldn’t.

I criticize US imperialism all the time. Not even a warning let alone a ban. So I don’t think that’s the case.

There are some nice people. However that does not negate the glaring issues with the instance.