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The fact he still believes we need another conservative party does not look good.

He looks senile. He is.

As for voting progressive, boy, Biden and Pelosi sure were voting progressive a lot of the time with funding police.

Progressives want community policing. They don't want no police. You're confusing progressives with anarchists.

But you won't convince me or many other leftists to choose a lesser evil or harm reduction or whatever false dichotomy you call come up with.

I'm more leftist than you are, and I've already convinced several. The key idea is that we should always do the best we can. If the choice is between bombing Iran and not bombing Iran, I choose not bombing Iran. If the choice is between sanctioning West Bank settlers and getting aid to Gaza and not doing those things, I choose the former. If the choice is between teaching Americans black history as American history and not teaching black history, I choose the former. If the choice is between helping refugees and removing their legal status after they're already in the country and deporting them, you can guess which one I'm going to choose.

While I make these choices, I convince others who aren't as progressive as me why the progressive policies that aren't yet popular make sense, so the next time around, we'll have the votes for it. In just the same way, I convince progressives who don't think through the consequences of their actions why they need to, so we have the votes not to backslide into regressive policies. I don't agree with anybody I vote for 100% of the time, but I do understand that voting for them is better than the alternative. Imagine if people who wanted equal rights for black people didn't vote for Lincoln because he said he didn't think that blacks should marry whites or go to the same schools (read the Lincoln Douglas debate transcripts).

So I'm hearing then they also cannot manage to keep themselves in order with their overall arching message of Resistance as well.

Nobody is going to get 100% of their members to vote a certain way, especially if their votes don't matter. This is true for any political party, even your favored one. When their votes do matter, Democrats vote consistently more progressively than the alternative.

Also yeah, let's not forget voting to fund ICE and DHS.

ICE was funded by the OBBBA. All Democrats voted against it in both houses and even convinced several Republicans to vote against it to the point that Vance had to cast a tie-breaking vote.

Oh also remember when Biden said we need Republicans as much as Democrats?

Biden is senile. He said a bunch of crazy things, but he didn't say we need Republicans as much as Democrats. He said that we need a Republican Party that is principled and strong. It's precisely a lack of principles and backbone that resulted in the GOP's Trump takeover.

"Some other body" is quoted from the 25th Amendment, which empowers Congress not to do the same thing that the Vice President and Cabinet can do but to create "some other body" that can do what the Vice President and Cabinet can do. They could pass a law that empowers Congress to do that, but that would be less effective than passing a law that empowers some committee.

This commission is the "some other body" that Democrats in "Congress may by law provide."

"They" as a group did not keep voting Trump appointees. Most of them didn't, but you're always going to have some throw away a meaningless vote and holdup in return for a political favor from the other side

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-confirms-48-trump-nominees-at-once-after-gop-changed-the-chambers-rules

And the US used taxpayer money to send Vance to Hungary to stump for Orbán there, right out in the open. In Hungary, using taxpayer money to fund an extremist foreign political party is a scandal. In the US, this matter is too deep in a flooded zone for anyone to care.

Supporting apartheid has nothing to do with antitrust. In fact, there is no law against it at all.

Google does not "throttle access to sites that don't pay them." Paying for an ad placement is as old as newspapers. There is no evidence that they additionally down rank sites that have no advertising account with them, and it wouldn't make any business sense anyway because having nonpaying sites rank highly is what convinces a paying site to pay more to get top of page ad placement.

For those out of the loop, the DNC went a step further and banned all dark money from its primaries, not just AIPAC dark money. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-aipac-dark-money-meeting/

https://abcnews.com/Politics/dnc-votes-dark-money-resolution-singling-aipac-defers/story?id=131897410

Welcome to 2010. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html

Remote installation via the web has been exposed to the user since 2011. https://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-android-market-website.html

This also means users can remotely uninstall. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-uninstall-button-3614548/

Yes, it's possible that Google will abuse this, but it would be an easy antitrust case.

In the US, there's very much a mood among the anti-MAGA crowd that an election can still fix things.

More to the point, if an election can't fix things because the voters are still MAGA, the new government installed by the majority will be the same as the old.

Revolutions don't make sense in a democracy, so until voting is stopped or the results of the vote are ignored (like if Trump had been successful on January 6), convincing voters to vote a particular way is the only surefire solution.

Unlike laws against making guns, this law applies to printer sellers, not to their users.

Those weapons aren't meant to facilitate acts of rebellion. According to the 2nd Amendment, they're meant to be used for exactly the opposite: "the security [emphasis added] of [the] free State."

Full text of the 2nd Amendment follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.