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The Democrats as we know them will never go away. They might never win a national election ever again, but they will gatekeep and backstab and coopt until Hell freezes over.

The last thing the industry wants is another Doom (1993). A game that is (now) open source, highly portable, highly moddable, and still FUN and approachable 30 years later (and well preserved, as a result). At the time, it made sense for Id to release the source, because it held their competitors feet to the fire. Today, there is nothing left to innovate on the technology side of video games. They want everything to work like Madden/FIFA, where the publishers do the work a couple modders can pull off in a week and charge full price for it all over again.

Didn't realize the "lore" behind this song (which is a Bruce Springsteen cover btw, lmao) until I finally read the book. It does the book a great justice.

If you can blank out Bruce Springsteen playing croquet in Obama's back yard, Bruce and Tom did a combined live performance which is actually legendary.

(to the tune of "Fly Like an Eagle")

Dicks keep on slipping, slipping, slipping,

Into my butthole

While I think the third-worldists / ultras / anti-electoralists are generally right about the prospect of electoral work within the Great Satan, I feel like the pushback against Mamdani (specifically thinking of a couple well known Twitter users here) is an over-correction, and their criticisms come across as lazy and reflexive to me.

First is the criticism of electoral work being a misdirection of resources. It is worth noting that New York is just one city within the Great Satan. Circumstances are different than e.g. the Bernie campaigns of 2016 and 2020. We don't have "the left" dropping everything from sea to shining sea to get this man in office. It is a local struggle, and placed in the context of a city which has seen a militarized police force repeatedly deployed to crush and evict several anti-genocide encampments, it has the potential to change the way these other non-electoral tactics unfold moving forward, and a lot of people involved in the campaign are likely involved in these other tactics. It isn't a this-or-that situation at all.

Then there is the criticism of Democratic Party entryism. We all know the Democratic Party is a dead end institution, but also it is an extremely loosely defined institution. There is a big difference between building independent campaign infrastructure which is capable (among other things) of capturing the Democratic Party ballot line in a municipal election vs. planning to take control (or attempting to reform) institutions like the DNC, county and state level party organizations, the constellation of think tanks, PACs, and corporate media which define the party more broadly. The electoral strategy is a consequence of the shit-ass voting system we've got. I wouldn't call all cases of contesting a Democratic primary election entryism. It really depends on what your goals are. Do you think the party will embrace you if you win? Do you think you can influence them? Or are you doing it just to get on the ballot while eliminating some centrist goblin and forcing people to choose between social welfare and fascism.

I have several hopes for this campaign. I hope it activates people who have been unactivated. If it manages to do this, I wouldn't consider it a misdirection of resources. I would consider it more along the lines of "meeting the people where they're at." And from there people have the potential to grow.

I don't understand how people can write this off simply as entryism. The idea of entryism being bad is that the party cannot be reformed so it is a waste. Well, LOOK at the reaction of all the elite party and media figures to this news. They are destroying themselves. Is that a waste? If an act of "entryism" does more to undermine and destroy an institution than other tactics, can we really be mad about it?

No, this won't stop the genocide, or bring down the empire, but I also don't see any harm coming from this, at this stage at least. For the moment, it is making all the right people go apeshit.

I am convinced laptops are designed beginning and ending with specs and price point. Shit like the keyboard, case, speakers, electronics, etc. are 100% afterthought, and completely neglected if the alternative is being $10 more expensive than a competing product line. Nobody is sorting their search results on Amazon or NewEgg by durability. There is no way to assess this when ordering online.

Damn. You know they ain't getting his cum back.

Yeah I agree. She could have at least lied or pretended to give a shit lmao.

I feel like the framing that she was spared a primary misses the broader point. She was just an empty vessel who happened to be in the right place. The ultimate goal was to spare the party of a primary. Originally the plan was no primary in 2024 "because Biden is the incumbent," no (competitive) primary in 2028, because Harris has 100% name recognition already, then no primary in 2032 "because Harris is the incumbent."

Every time the Democrats have a contested primary, they have to deal with shit like free healthcare or rent freezes becoming popular mainstream ideas and they need to grind the activists down into pulp to trick everyone into believing there is not a mandate behind these ideas. There is nothing they hate more than the electorate being reminded that they deserve a fuck ton more than what the party is willing to offer, and they were very close to killing any possibility of that happening for at least another 8 years when Biden dropped out and Harris landed on the ballot uncontested. This, above all other reasons, is why they tried to run Biden when he was known for years to be unfit, then unanimously coalesced around Harris when they finally realized they couldn't keep fooling the public.

Nominally, he would be in charge of the NYPD, a paramilitary force with 40,000 armed goons. Obviously those goons are overwhelmingly fascists, and the institution as a whole cannot be reformed, but imagine simply not deploying the fucking riot squads and horse pigs the moment anti-genocide protesters pitch a tent on a college campus.

The position ostensibly has a two term limit, but Bloomberg already demonstrated this doesn't matter if you have a loyal city council to ram through an exception.