There already exist leftist parties. They languish in obscurity thanks to our election process. We didn’t get a new right-wing party, we witnesses a determined enough voter base take it over through primaries starting with the Tea Party and culminating with MAGA. We need more leftist candidates and voters showing up in the Democratic primaries to wrest the party away from the old guard.

Take the guns first, go through due process second.

Post summary says he’s calling for a pardon on the campaign finance fraud case (the porn star hush money). So assuming that’s an accurate summary he’s not calling for a pardon on treason. Also it’s a state crime so it’s not one the president can pardon anyway.

If they do permanent Standard Time instead of Daylight Savings Time then it probably will go better.

Because Trump and his nominees are out there saying they’re going to go after political enemies. The idea of the pre-emptive pardon is to predict what bullshit will be levied against their targets and shield against it with a pardon.

Most of the Palestinian posts I see are fundraising posts. Seriously it seems like you’re just out there looking for what you want to complain about. There’s plenty of racism and bigotry on the fediverse if you go looking for it.

Precisely

I’ve seen plenty of posts by people asserting to be Palestinians.

Seriously all the posters I see and follow are far left and extremely pro-palestinian and are quite quick to criticize liberals, on multiple topics. Maybe you just followed a bunch of the wrong people and decided that was everybody.

The moderation and blocking on BlueSky set it apart from Twitter.

You’ve clearly not been on the platform for any appreciable length of time, if at all.

They have to be graphically reminded of that. What they think they’re doing is keeping the bud light ladies night commercial guys out of the womens’ bathroom.

Is that Ultimate Warrior?

They thought the exporting country/company would pay for it.

I have seen an uptick in posts saying “block this maga/Nazi/etc” but I haven’t personally directly seen any. I use the Following feed so I only see posts from the people I’ve specifically asked to.

The worst is when a language formally has a disambiguating word but then speakers all just decide to not use it.

When talking about a group but only one individual of the group is present you can still use y’all.

My feed is currently like 2 people, plus a bunch of dead accounts from people who dipped their toe in but didn’t stay.

For me a lot of those toe dippers were subsequently found to have settled on BlueSky.

Thank you! I’ve been asking that question for years and you’re the first to provide an example. Point conceded.

Why not just tell me those things instead of making it a hypothetical?

I think those are all valid points to raise and consider. I voted for Bernie in my primary and Hillary in the general.

Like how the superdelegates were all pledging their votes to Hillary way ahead of the first primaries.

Was there a single state, where the popular vote was for Bernie but the super delegates swept in and gave it Hillary instead?

Or how the DNC pushed Hillary over Bernie

This is not me shrugging it off as a totally cool and reasonable thing, but is that any different than any other election year, from either party, where the established power structure of the party has a preferred candidate? What I’m saying is I don’t think this is anything specifically anti-Bernie as much as a very well established pattern of nepotism that goes back centuries.

as was clear in the Debbie W.S. leaked DNC emails.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but did not the DNC emails show that proposed rat-fuckery was ultimately rejected?

Also, the widespread pressure from party darlings on Bernie to drop out.

Just par for the course, and not special opposition because Bernie is Bernie.

Messaging from the media was to blame as well

I agree with you that the media wasn’t fair in their coverage. Maybe just have been my own echo chamber but I do recall seeing polling data showing Bernie did better against Trump being brought up all over the place.

However, I’m only pursuing discussion of the claims/sentiment that the DNC denied Bernie the nomination. I see that sentiment popping up a lot, and it always completely ignores the fact that Hillary won the popular vote in the primary. Just like Trump just won the popular vote in the general. The only way the parties will change is by enough people showing up in their primaries to nominate better candidates. They aren’t going to change because we’re mad about the results of the election. They don’t care what non-voters think because non-voters don’t win elections, voters do.