abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The GOP candidate didn't win a primary at all. There's no guarantee anyone at all will show up for him and his platform of supporting one of the most unpopular presidents in history. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The average voter saw five ads supporting her for every one for him and still decided that he was the better choice. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Do you know how handicaps work in sports? This was the equivalent of him beating her in a race where he was wearing concrete shoes and she rode in a limousine. A win by a hair does in fact demonstrate that he's the vastly superior candidate. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Moderates didn't show up to vote for her. I don't think many votes will be lost. She was the 'strategic' and 'moderate' candidate and couldn't even win a primary with a huge advantage. He's a candidate with so much excitement behind him it's showing up in international news. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026No, the "they" isn't even the guy in question. It's not even official DSA policy positions. You're just hanging onto the wildest things the wildest, angriest members of the movement have ever said. It's mostly because we're trying to shut down the genocide here that we can get at as first priority 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026One of them did wildly outperform the other. He pulled a victory at least a 4 to 1 campaign funding disadvantage. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'll say that the Dems ran the clearly stronger candidate and lost. Insisting that losers should advance the political tournament is just bad strategy overall. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026What makes you think that a candidate who spent tens of millions more of PAC donations and still lost to the grassroots candidate had any chance at all in a general election where AIPAC has no further reason to support her? They spent those millions because they're so afraid he can win. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Well, no democracy was born without deposing a king. So sucks for your retirement but some of us have kids and aren't miserable selfish misanthropes. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In the same way that accepting AIPAC money makes you a foreign agent? He has some baseline values that align, like choosing people over corporations. But stretching that to say he expects to implement Chinese communism is drivel. If he's a real idealist he'll use whatever policies have good results 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026You're explicitly saying you're ready to sacrifice democracy for fear of a dictator's army. You don't have a political position at all. Don't try to pretend thought or maturity has anything to do with it. You're just rolling downhill. 110
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026And Harris lost her enthusiastic support because she caved on any issue that made her look leftist. She stopped looking like a leader at all. I'm sorry we couldn't get her in to put off the fight against oligarchs for another 4 years, but you're not going to get peace at this point without some fire 100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It definitely is if you're using platform points from a separate party in order to demonize your opponent. El-Sayed isn't democratic socialist. 040
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026And what, pray tell, in his platform is religious in nature? 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Wait, are you laboring under the misconception that El-Sayed is an democratic socialist? 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Even if that wasn't podcast bro inanity, do they look like they're in danger of winning a majority in the house or senate right now? Representative democracy is durable enough to handle a few extreme viewpoints. It needs the pull for balance.The USA is in its current mess because it lost its left. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Oh, you're doing red scare stuff based on the single most inflammatory streamer you can find. Most of these "progressive" candidates don't actually have plans any more communist than Eisenhower. Seriously, look up what the Republicans actually believed in when their American golden age happened. 1130
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If only there was an overwhelmingly superior military force in the area with complete air superiority and the capability of reducing entire cities to rubble who could choose to build up supply lines and create safe areas for civilians to directly receive supplies and medical care. 110
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'm sorry, you're going to have to explain these non sequiturs. 080
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I didn't say Egypt didn't let them in. I said it didn't work to get stuff in that way. As your post demonstrates. Between Hamas taking first dibs and the Israelis attacking any food distribution that's established for civilians. Israel has military control of the area. If it happens, they want it. 200
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026You're not looking for documentation. You aren't interested in the UN reports, the independent witness account, the objective statistics, the public satellite imagery, or the basic math. You're interested in making your team win at the cost of children dying in pain. Anger is the right response. 100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If that actually worked I'm sure the thousands of tons of medical materials and food would be making their way in that way, yes. 100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Sometimes supporting people requires standing against them when they make horrible decisions. Being an enabler is not helping them. 0110
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Wow, your posting history is despicable. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026What exactly do you think a primary is? 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026We know they're irredeemable and would sell their children's souls for a monopoly dollar so there's nothing left to say about them at all. 020
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Some games. But just like books, if you're a first grader you may need to accept that Applied Chemical Genetics was not made for you. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They're already on their way to losing The Sims market share to upstart indies. The only thing left will be sports games that have been turned into gacha hell. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026That really depends on what you consider fun. What's your top 5 solo games so far? 100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If they were actually interested in justice it seems like they wouldn't be trying to avoid calling the crime by its internationally recognized name. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's only as good as the force used to enforce it. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026How do you end up conflating being anti-political lobbyist with being anti any race? That's like claiming people who are against Monsanto's lobbyists are anti-gardener. It's disingenuous to a level that immediately raises suspicions about your income sources. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026One major reason to never do this is security. You're deploying unread and untested code with no idea how it works. 020
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Continuing to play doesn't prove that some aspects of what you're playing aren't bad, it just means you consider them worth suffering through. But also, yes, players tend to be atrocious at understanding game balance. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I am super curious why you choose to label yourself as a demographic and not a name if you actually have any personality. 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The sun is inevitable and batteries are cheap and getting cheaper. Our home system can last almost two weeks under heavy cloud cover. 012
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A massive amount of fields are becoming dual use: pasture and solar together. And even if the USA just replaced the stupid fields that are being wasted on ethanol corn and lie fallow most of the year they could fill their entire energy needs. 110
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Everyone who comes away from this thread frustrated by the DNC's lack of messaging: Make a sign. Put it outside. Do something. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Hey what's with constantly pushing police state bills like C 22? Canada is no place for this Palantir BS. 070
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026How do you think this random whataboutism helps at all? 000
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If only you were holding some sort of device that could search the Internet to fill in that terrible information gap. 2120
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh, I was fully on board with it at the time. I just started learning stuff like history and ethics later and suddenly genocide seemed kinda gross. 100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Some of the people we beat up can walk." Is a hell of a weak defense. 190
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Okay, no, sorry, I've got a more nuanced reply. I've been to the Holy Land. I've observed the Shabbat in the West Bank. I believe there's a good reason half the Talmud is dedicated to calling out Israel's leaders for being heinous abusers and that now is not the time to stop doing so. 200
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Shove off, genocide fan, we don't need your "alternative facts" here. Every single incident I referenced is documented history. 3100
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026And who Hamas has killed is almost entirely irrelevant. If anything, it illustrates very clearly that despite Israel suffering a tiny fraction of the casualties and committing the industrial scale atrocities Israel is winning the culture war based on weaponizing anecdotes. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026And was it the casualties that won the civil rights victories? No. It was sustaining political, social, and military pressure despite suffering those losses. If all the leaders of the civil rights movement offered themselves up to the KKK as martyrs the KKK would have won. 010
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Israel has kidnapped flotillas of activists right out of international waters. They've annihilated foreign doctors, journalists, and UN observers. Becoming another dead body in the hopes that yours will be the one that will jam their genocidal gears is just bad strategy. 400
abdominaltyrant.bsky.social @abdominaltyrant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The point is it has been tested and doesn't play out the way you think. Going boots-on-the-ground to become a target for Israeli missiles just gets written off as you being a terrorist sympathizer. Could people be doing more? Yes. But choking out Israel's war machine effectively starts elsewhere. 000
