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What's up with patreon?

Edit: a quick search showed the only recent controversy involved the banning of a few people for hate speech. On its face that doesn't appear that troubling to me. Was the speech resulting in the ban not truly hate speech? I'm not sure exactly what was said but the implication in the article I read was the n word was used. And the explanation from the host for using it was he was using a critics own language against them. That explanation sounds a little suspect to me.

Vision? How about we start with a pulse?

Thank you. My eye sacs just exploded.

Fuck that font color/background color combo.

Jesus. If you helped get Trump elected, either as a non-voter or voter, you bear responsibility for the current presidency. If you need a national political organization to tell you what's right and wrong, you're part of the problem.

Edit: you're

The billionaires own establishment Democrats as well. See Bernie 2016. MSNBC treated Bernie worse than Trump 2024.

But the voters are to blame. So is the DNC. Both suck...bad. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans, including their political representative, are more concerned with propping up failing capitalism than actually fixing solvable world issues. At this point, I find it impossible to envision creating enough public and political support for actual change unless the entire economic system burns down. My fear is that instead of galvanizing the working class, ian economic collapse is only going to create a vacuum to be filled by the next fascist to secure even greater control.

If you have a practical solution, i'd love to hear it.

I don't understand. You are quoting two different posts, then concluding that two different people with different viewpoints represents a "double standard"... That is also an idiotic take.

With that said, OPs comment asking what the DNC could have done isn't contradictory or hypocritical if you put it alongside my viewpoint. It simply illustrates that you will never make every voter happy on every plank of your platform. We are all different people with different goals. Democracy is about compromise and understanding that the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Certain non-voters attitude became "because neither side aligns with my very specific interest, I'm just not voting! That'll show the Dems that they can't win unless they support [insert political viewpoint here].". To go back to my elephant analogy, it's like those people saying "I'm going to starve because i can't eat the elephant in one bite!"

So for some people, their line in the sand is a humanitarian Gaza policy, which will likely require a strong military presence to enforce ceasefires and aid deployment. For others it's a distaste for overseas military actions, and any intent to increase American involvement in the middle east. One side is pissed off and won't vote if it looks like you are abandoning Palestinians. The other side is pissed off if you suggest increasing military operations in the region, even if it's to deescalate Israeli aggression. You can't please both.

So voters from both of these camps chose to sit on their vote because they couldn't get what they wanted... In exchange they helped someone that is likely destructive to both camps' larger interests, as well as their specific interests discussed above, get elected. That is their right and choice. Just like it's my right and choice to call them out for supporting fascism through inaction.

Looking at it that way, I'm not sure how you could say our viewpoints are contradictory.

I find arguments that the non-voters shouldn't be blamed for Trump because party leadership didn't properly encourage them to vote for Harris idiotic. Everyone has a duty to educate themselves about their vote. Shifting blame to the DNC is both patronizing and destructive. The DNC sucks.... You know who else sucks? people who didn't stand up against Trump. Those people are grown ass adults who actively helped a fascist by doing nothing but bitch.

There aren't many options... Which is probably why op is blaming non-voters, who are complicit in creating our current situation.

Is that John Hodgman?