If you aren’t actively fighting this shit, you’re contributing to it. And the reality is that in November the only thing you can effectively do to battle Trump is vote blue.

It’s that or pick up a gun. But that takes even more effort, and your lot seems more interested in bitching about things than doing anything to make things even a little bit less awful.

Trump has been worse you fucking moron. In every way. Millions are dying from USAID cuts in addition to Gaza, where he’s openly called for the permanent removal of the Palestinians to build fucking resorts. He’s bombed multiple other countries, killing more innocents than ever. He’s deployed gestapo on the streets, gutted healthcare and the administrative state, and sent people to concentration camps. He’s assaulted every civil liberty and shit on every international ally while engaging in open corruption and starting wars for no reason except to take attention away from the fact that he and his buddies he’s protecting rape children.

How was Biden worse than this?

And you hold dems accountable in the primaries. Fetterman is a traitor - so primary his ass. It’s not that complicated, and works a lot better than sticking your head in the sand on election day then bitching about the GOP’s actions.

You have 2 options in November. Fully-support Trump and the GOP through either voting Republican or not voting at all, or voting for the Dems, who are less-bad and can be changed over time.

If you aren’t supporting the Dems at the ballot, you’re declaring that you support ICE, the Iran and Venezuelan wars, the blockade of Cuba, the gutting of the administrative state, the suppression of the vote, the removal of Healthcare for millions, the millions of deaths from cuts to USAID, and more.

So either try and slow the bleeding or just put on the fucking red hat.

How manybtimes do people have to butch about it before voting in the fucking primaries to move the party left?

I’m in Texas so am more familiar with Texas numbers, and the good news is that Democratic participation in the primaries this year was about triple what it was for the 2022 or 2018 midterm cycles, driven by a particularly tight Senate primary that had received national attention due to the administration’s reactions to Volvert and The View.

The bad news is that even with the incredible relative growth, we’re looking at about 10% of registered voters engaging in the primaries.

If more of people bothered to fucking vote in the primaries instead of bitching about who was selected, then Fetterman wouldn’t be in office.

The hard reality is we have a 2-party system and choosing to not participate doesn’t accomplish anything but empower those who least-represent your interests.

Choosing not to vote because “both parties bad” empowers the GOP and teaches the Dems to drift right because they keep losing to conservative candidates.

You move the party left by voting in the primaries for the progressive candidates. But you also need to vote for whoever gets nominated, even if they’re not progressive enough. Choosing not to vote for the Dems is beneficial to the Republicans, and supports everything that’s happening right now.

The third party is one that publishes the test you pay them to publish and nothing else. There’s no details on the chemistry, density, or even verification that the different battery packs for the different tests are the same chemistry.

But meeting the US’s requirements doesn’t prevent products from being sold in Europe.

It’s the same reason film studios started pandering to China and why frying pans sold in Florida have a cancerous materials warning label that’s only required in California.

Companies cater to restrictive regulations in major markets because those products are still legal in less-restrictive territories.

Yes, but the US is a huge, profitable market. And companies will bend over backwards to appease Nazis so long as it’s more profitable to do so than not.

Within the US we have issues with all the US History books being written to comply with Texas’s “slavery was actually good for black people” bullshit because Texas is such a big market and everybody wants in on it.

If the US government bans Graphene, Motorola will drop them in 1/1000th of a heartbeat.