trimdog.bsky.social
chill dude who’s not too complicated (aspirational)
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Generally speaking, fascism is make-everyone-your-bitch-ism
Everything else is some flavor of nobody-is-anybody-else’s-bitch-ism (resist the rich, resist gov’t, etc.)
When the alliance of various not-your-bitch-ists fall apart, the door to fascism opens
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This is their whole pied piper strategy that they just can’t quit. They wanted to run against Trump in 2020, and who’s paying the piper now? Sheesh.
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Yes, primary Dems, of course
But the "I agree with you, now go out and make me do it" attitude is actually very bad, you couldn't imagine Trump saying it, and that's a big part of why his voters are insanely loyal, he just does the thing, he doesn't spurn his base so his base doesn't spurn him
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I’m talking about stuff like raising the minimum wage, it’s not like sending money overseas keeps the minimum wage down, it’s just a rule that they could change and they don’t
Dem leadership won’t fuck around because they’re afraid to find out, and guess what? They’re finding out anyways
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Yglesias is bad for democracy. Obviously the trolling, but more so disingenuously occupying the center in the name of leftist goals. “You can’t move left because strategy” prevents both leftward progress and rightward moderation. It’s a big part of the stagnation that’s killing the country.
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Sega Deuteronomy
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Like, I get it, you could go out on a limb and then there’ll be backlash and you could lose an election
But hey, you lost an election anyway! If there’s gonna be a scapegoat, it’s better for it to be elected reps than USAID and immigrants
Dems won’t give up the center and it’s hurting everyone
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The thing about “we shouldn’t send money abroad when we still have problems at home” is that you don’t need money to solve the problems at home, you need progressive policies and laws, and Dems don’t want to champion those
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While Dems should absolutely learn how modern communication works and lean into saying batshit things
It’d be more consistent for them to roll the clock back to a more reasonable time when we were free from trolling and doomscrolling
Repealing 230 make sense as part of a better sleep platform
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In a lot of ways Trump is a direct result of trolling going unchecked throughout society, it’s past time to do what individual sites do writ large and ban trolls, repealing 230 is a big step in that direction
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Doing the trolling stuff you say is the natural endpoint of trolling, that's the whole destination, words become actions
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I honestly think Carville is given such a high profile because he’s actually Bill Clinton in a Halloween mask laundering his opinions and everybody in power knows it and just plays along
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It’s only February, they still have at least 2 years with no official-and-willing checks on their power
They’re going to want to go after their opponents, and they’re going to want to tip the scales of the next election, time will tell how far they get
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In a lot of scenarios Dems rely on Trump screwing up more than anything else, they don’t even want to interfere in what they think is self-destruction, he’s still the pied piper to them, they want him to do his thing
Then they have the gall to complain about how they’re always picking up the pieces
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Surely Canadians would love to vote for Democrats who in this hypothetical are complicit in a military action against them
And Dems get mad like “how come they can’t tell us apart from Republicans?” Because “technically an alternative” isn’t enough, this isn’t Coke vs Pepsi
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Ross was a thinly veiled stand-in for the Republican Party, right? With a choice to be like Cheney, choose allies and the next generation over self and party (despite bad history), or else be like Trump the rage monster
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Stancil has one quality that Trump also has and Dems need, he embraces the fact that people hate him
Not everybody loves you, you need to clap back at haters, and a lot of Dems can’t because they live in a fantasy world where the people who hate them are just one… something?… from becoming allies
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They think they don’t have to make a case, just be the nice unobjectionable guy and wait to be the rebound when voters see Trump for what he is
It’s a loser’s and a losing strategy, especially past the midterms, we need to head it off in the primaries
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Could Biden have stopped Elon from acquiring Twitter? Honest question. I think so. Should he have? In retrospect, yes, it’s clearly been bad for democracy. Would Dems do anything differently if they could? I don’t know.
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Even if they’re being sincere, they couldn’t begin to do what they wanted. Impossible goals, guaranteed losers, and they confirm it often. You need to screw over somebody, right? People trust Bernie because he’s honest about it, he wants to screw over rich people.
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It’s one thing if Senate Dems want to slow roll and keep their heads down, there are arguments for it
But it’s another to say that it should be the overall Dem strategy, and yet another to say that the next Dem presidential candidate should be another play nice trust the process Senate alum
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Dem leadership is obsessed with running on national unity and maintaining a stable status quo, but nobody cares about any of that and Dems couldn’t even deliver it, just a mess of a party
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What’s the procedure for ousting Schumer as minority leader? Presumably Dems can do it anytime. It’d be an action where blue state voters have more leverage than usual.
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Mailchimp?
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I've been wondering if Dems are playing good cop bad cop with Trump, if you don't take our deal we won't protect you from him
Thinking about the pied piper strategy that raised Trump up to begin with, maybe it's true, maybe Dems find Trump less objectionable than their voters getting out of line
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You just want a rep who has that Trump energy of “sure I’ll just do the thing.” That Obama-era refrain of “I agree with you now make me do it” is way past its expiration date.
We’re not in a policy debate phase. We’re in a fight to save the country phase and we need to see some bare knuckling.
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It is important that Dems actually deliver the change, or else we’ll just be caught in an endless cycle of pulling the slot machine arm until it falls off
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I don’t know what you mean
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The country’s torn apart. It’s smart to be aggressive. A different kind of lawless country is at the very worst a lesser evil. That’s what’s important right, whatever would win?
Dems already ran on unity and a return to order. Voters were tepid on it. When Dems had power they couldn’t even deliver.
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What did it accomplish? Kendrick is celebrated. Drake is humiliated. That’s the essence of politics. Someone who was popular is no longer. Another has united the people around their vision of what is and isn’t acceptable.
Guess who cannot do this? Dems. And their failure to is why they lose.
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Maybe I have brain rot but Kendrick just showed how to take a self-described king and put their head on a spike while the world cheers, using just words
You have to fight the fight, you have to be menacing, you have to fully dedicate yourself to victory, when people see this they will join you
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It’s probably true that a lot of people don’t see a difference between Trump and Dems except for whether they follow the rules
But I’d bet more people with this perspective choose Trump, rules that obstruct adaptation are no virtue, frustration with the status quo is no vice
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More naps and better lottery payouts really is a slam dunk message though, also Schumer needs to pull a Bulworth
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It’ll always be something. Everybody in Trump world has a million reasons why they can’t do what they’re doing. They don’t care.
If Dems had that energy, things might really be all flipped.
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1) The polls have also overstated Dems chances many Presidential elections in a row, and I'd love to know the margin of error here
2) Some Dems want a party of national unity and getting a good night's rest, but that ship has sailed, it's gone, you'd need radical change just to get it back
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The people brushing off the Lamar Bowl are the same ones who brushed off GamerGate
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I don’t want to see another candidate from the Senate for a long time, they say they know how to work the system but they end up embarrassingly sentimental and deferential