And when two parties exist in a FPTP system, with one being extremely regressive, Americans expect the other party to be equally progressive in their approach!

Instead, as with the Rachet Effect, the Dems can’t onboard progressivism because they’re captured by corporate donors and consultants.

Primary 'em out!

Some think it was Trump’s threat of removing the filibuster

Never underestimate the Dems’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

That won’t happen. Cons will fuck over Americans.

The Dems that caved with this vote had “hope” their Con counterparts would vote the right way.

They didn’t even get real assurances in policy measures!!!

THESE are the Democrats that should be uprooted from the party and replaced with candidates that actually represent their voter base.

The fact that Dems has this many spoilers shows you that they aren’t really beating the controlled opposition claims.

We need a Democratic Party that fights back. Not one that caves to evil.

THIS is why many people on Lemmy are disillusioned by Democrats. Dems had only positive outcomes for themselves by letting the shutdown continue. They could have waited while Trump fucks the citizenry more and more, deepening their political capital for 2026.

Instead, all of the Dems who aren’t facing re-election next year, or have re-election in 2028 or 2030 voted to end the shutdown. These Dems have no opportunity loss for voting this way. Un-fucking-believable

Hasan Piker mention? In MY lemmy.world post? Without immediate ridicule?

Based

Good. We’re tired of billionaires hoarding OUR wealth, the wealth WE created, as well as the politicians paid by and for those same billionaires rigging the system on their behalf.

As any Marxist-Leninist knows though, the best time to strike the revolution is after you’ve gained the support of the public and elucidated class consciousness. We need more Leftists in political power first spreading the message of class warfare before we get there.

Because otherwise this “revolution” will be entirely selfish and unorganized and will make it harder to get anything accomplished.

So odd seeing libs talk you down in this thread, and not do basic research.

I haven’t really been following all of this because I don’t need SNAP (yet), but it seems like it’s not hard to figure this out with Google.

Hopefully more states figure out how to allocate the USDA’s emergency funds before more people starve.

Rest in Piss, Dick

Hell yeah!!!

For real lmao

Aptera wanted to do this with their flagship Solar Electric Vehicle (SEV).

IIRC, they switched to an outwheel motor because of the weight the inwheel motors added to the wheels. Could be wrong tho

Making the motor lighter gives weight allowance for the onboard BESS. This could allow more batteries to be installed on the same car, increasing range and power/torque, so long as the volume of the car allows that same BESS increase.

It’s still good progress. I don’t understand your POV where we must focus on the BESS first and make that more efficient, both in terms of weight, volume, power, and energy, then move on to other things.

We can do that in parallel and see faster improvements.

Is that not Kubuntu?

KDE Plasma + Ubuntu = Kubuntu?

Gavin Newsom is not the answer to Donald Trump. He’s a lackey to big corporations.

AOC on the other hand

KDE Plasma on Ubuntu is a dream!!!

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Source Hardware (OSH) for the win!!!

This goes back years, not just 2024.

Lesser evil politics gets you fascism.

The timeline for when you feel a fascist nation’s boot comes down to what your skin color is and where you’re from.

Because they’re fucking Nazis and need to face their existence with a fist