Too many commenters here do not understand anything about how any of it works, especially how first past the post voting works. Progressives do not seem to understand that the system has not rejected them, but the voters have.

It is mostly relentless propaganda for the oligarchs that has captured the country. That’s the problem, and it is not fixed by any of the suggestions here.

You need to look up Komar & Melamid. They did market research art, and they commissioned “The Least Favorite Song” after a survey that showed the least favorite features of songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People’s_Choice_Music#The_Most_Unwanted_Song

What a tone-deaf, passive-voice “mistakes were made, no one is to blame, least of all us” sack of shit. You will fight any attempt to change this system that is making you disgustingly rich. The wall isn’t long enough for the healthcare executives that need to be lined up.

The GOP win the culture war. The Dems win the policy war. But the culture war always comes out on top at the ballot box.

SQL does pair well with getting drunk…

My mantra: “Behold, the field in which I grow my fucks, and see that it is barren.”

No, he’s accusing them of being what he is, a time-honored tactic that Trump also utilizes.

Rich people are like other rich people, more than they are like their fellow countrymen, or ethnic group, or religious group. Anything a billionaire says is good for “everyone” needs to be understood in that light: the “everyone” they see are “all the people I associate with”, meaning “other rich people”.

In how many ways do we need to signal to Trump that he can do whatever he wants, without repercussion?

We’re so fucking useless.

“Free” does not mean “unregulated”. Fire in a crowded theater. Everyone who flogs the free speech argument in the service of promoting fascism can fuck right off.

The side that lost in 2020 is the side that likes to resort to violence to solve what they see as the problems in society.

The side that lost in 2024 believes the things they say about civil behavior, adherence to the rule of law, and fucking democracy.

Those founding fathers discovered they had a two party system immediately and did nothing to prevent it from being cemented in place.

Biden spent four years massively pro-union, the Inflation Reduction Act was massive and not marginal with the job creation all over, and his administration remembered that the Sherman and Clayton Acts exist and used them. They have been everything a good leftist could want.

We live in a post-truth world, and the massive media oligarchy is in full effect, driven by the editorial desires of the hyper-rich. Dems could run Jesus and lose, at this point.

Keep flogging the voters until morale improves, buddy. I’m sure it will stop failing for you soon.

That’s not propaganda, as much as it is the reality of human nature. When climate activists (with whom i am in violent agreement) stop letting utter pricks represent them everywhere, they might come closer to getting more people as allies. Strange, i know.

Everyone needs to read that post. 99% of Lemmy/Mastodon users do not know how incredibly highly self-selected they are for a level of tech engagement that is orders of magnitude beyond what the vast majority of people are willing to engage in.

Email has taken 25 years to get people that comfortable with it, and most folks either go with their ISP email, or one of 3 or 4 providers. Discord, you’re already in the tech savvy population.

You have to pick a Mastodon server, before you know anything about anything. The acquisition funnel probably drops 90% of the people checking it out right there.

They did help people, and did it about as much as the government could. Almost 16m jobs created, 6m more than pre-pandemic.

The issue was inflation, but that was global, and the US did better than most of the rest of the industrialized world in that regard. It is a complicated truth vs simple lies: you figure out how to get Americans to listen to the one and not the other.

You mean the railroad workers? Did you stick around to listen to the end of the story? Where scant weeks afterward, his administration negotiated a contract for the workers that gave them more paid sick days than they were asking for.