Tbf, literal feces can by definition not be woke.

The definition being the original definition of woke, which is basically “aware of systemic discrimination and oppression, particularly but not exclusively based on racism”

Hey!

Although yeah, punks ARE pretty damn awesome, I’ll give you that 😁

He’d have to have his nose surgically elongated first 😄

You thought correctly.

No matter how much the billionaire owned establishment media narrative tries to tell people otherwise, state and federal level politicians in the US are significantly further right wing than the electorate they’re supposed to accurately represent and have been for decades.

Because, in the game of thrones, you win or you die.

Seriously, though, I don’t necessarily agree. Though it’s not the norm, people DO come back after losing high profile races.

Just look at how establishment media can’t kick their Hillary addiction, or how Kari Lake somehow remains relevant in spite of never winning anything but Arizona GOP primaries, which are basically just bigotry state fairs.

If they can, AOC DEFINITELY can.

O curse

You’re asking for a dictatorship.

On the contrary. I’m asking for politicians to focus on the real outcomes for real people alive today, rather than tying their own hands with avoidable bureaucracy.

You just want your dictatorship.

Nope. Representing the will of the people more than the ideas of long dead slave owners is not dictatorship no matter how much you insist on your ridiculous strawman.

The structure of government still matters a great deal

As a means towards the minimizing of abuse and otherwise making it more difficult to achieve malicious aims, sure.

Far too often, though, it’s being used as an invalid excuse for Dems to not do their REAL job of representing the will of the people who are affected by their actions.

it’s just irrelevant if the parties involved refuse to maintain the system

Technically correct, but unrelated to my point. I’m not advocating getting rid of all rules and having a free for all.

I’m saying that for example allowing an unelected bureaucrat with only ceremonial authority to decide whether a minimum wage raise is allowed is farcical to the point of dereliction of duty if not malicious sabotage.

You want a democracy

Correct. I want rule of the people. Not rule of the ancient and often irrelevant decrees of old.

More than you want outcomes (hear me out)

This better be fucking good…

Because without a democracy you are truly at the whim of a mad king

Again with the false dichotomy. I have never nor will I ever argue for autocracy.

There are other options than “you don’t get to have a living wage because an advisor said nah” and “let’s dictate policy on a whim!” 🤦

With a democracy,

Again pretending that I’m arguing against democracy rather than for a more representative one 🙄

even a stagnant an ineffective one, progress can be made though it will be made slowly.

That’s the problem, though: it’s generally been one step forward three steps back since 1980 or so, since the least awful party won’t fight, has awful messaging, and care more about the sacred bureaucracy and their owner donors than the people in general.

BUT it is still preferable to a fast-acting autocracy

Wow, you’ve built a dead horse out of straw and you’re still beating it! that would be impressive if it wasn’t so damn stupid.

unresponsive to the needs of the people.

that’s what I’m saying! That the Dems in their hyperfocus on norms and procedures ARE unresponsive to the wants and needs of the people!

BECAUSE their obsession with how Thomas Jefferson thought things ought to be done 250 years ago distracts them from properly focusing on the real life consequences of their actions and lack of same.

They’re acting like they’re in a fucking Aaron Sorkin show where ideology is the worst character flaw imaginable and whomever holds the best rousing speech about bravely weathering adversity deservedly wins everything 🤦

Yeah, US tariffs on Iran is about as consequential as the tariffs on uninhabited Antarctic islands the orange idiot also did.

Especially by the nonfascist party with any power.

Part of what makes the Dem leadership so damn inept at protecting the people from the abuses of the GOP is their reverence for the “sanctity” of the systems and processes making them accept unacceptable outcomes.

For all the awful things that they do (which is pretty much everything they ever do), the GOP are right about one thing: in politics, getting the desired results is more important than following procedure.

That they’re being so hamfisted about it that they’re causing a shitload of unintended harm and that their goals are themselves extremely harmful to the vast majority of the people means that they’re still not right to do it though, of course…

therefore I’ve always taken anyone who says,“I’m not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn’t exist (IE, anti-zionist)” is a closet antisemite at best

It’s not about Israel existing. It’s about Israel existing as an apartheid ethnostate that oppresses and eliminates everyone not of the preferred religion/ethnicity.

Just like it’s not antichristian to not want other countries to discriminate in favor of Christians, it’s not antisemitic to not want Israel to discriminate in favor of Jewish people.

If anything, it’s an antisemitic trope to (wrongly, as demonstrated by the OP and countless other pieces of media) assume that being Jewish means that you support a fascist apartheid regime no matter what they do.

As long as you don’t delve into Deaniel/Castean…

Thanks, fixed it 😁

ICE alleges that Martell-Lebron is really named Juan Carlos Baez and is originally from the Dominican Republic.

Yeah, that’s almost definitely a lie.

He allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2000, ICE said.

And even if it wasn’t, he’s been in the country for a quarter of a century without causing any trouble beyond allegedly lying on application.

If those standards were applied to native born Americans, Washington would be a ghost town.

They voted and spoke out against every last cabinet nominee

You mean Rubio being confirmed unanimously with no abstentions was a trick of the light? If you’re gonna lie, at least make it less obvious 🙄

are bringing most of the cases to the courts to challenge Trump.

Courts which the fascists ignore, like fascists tend to do.

As a whole, they’re doing everything they can from the minority

Again: if you’re gonna lie, at least make it less obvious.

We will still need to primary out the deadwood centrists in favor of progressives that will actually drive change once in power

Finally got to the real meat of the issue. Now if you would just realize that the deadwood centrists (actually center right to right wing) are actually almost all of them, including the entire leadership, maybe you wouldn’t be out here caping for them…

That’s what he was known for being, yes.

Surely they would never do such a thing! What’s next? you’re going to say that people of color DIDN’T do this?