Parties don't have primaries out of the goodness of their hearts, they have them to avoid situations like this. But the geniuses at the DNC won't learn a damn thing from this because they cannot fail, only be failed.

The fact that the "Ukraine can win by winning the vibes war!" crowd hasn't downvoted this to all hell yet is a hilarious indictment of their self awareness...

Your VPN isn't forcing you onto its DNS and is using your ISP's. I'd assume Proton has some kind of "antitracker" option or similar in the client that would make it use a Proton-provided DNS server. Failing that, you can use a public DNS server located outside of a piracy shield country by setting it manually.

Sorry, I didn't mean to do a doubleplus ungood by saying something true about Dear Leader. We should support anything he does because Emmanual Goldstein.

Per Nicholas Kristoff's reporting in the NYT, Biden's been an advocate for Israel murdering as many children as possible going back to their invasion of Lebanon in the Reagan administration. The only issue he's never flip-flopped on is murdering children.

Yeah, I use Gnome, and I kind of hate it and feel like a bunch of religious ideologues are constantly trying to break my window manager on update so I find Jesus, but I'm used to it, so it's what I use...

Bill Clinton and Obama were better at not specifically going out of their way to make a show of antagonizing their own base (with the exception of Sista Souljah). Hillary and Biden (especially Biden surrogates like Simone Sanders and Jen Psaki and Karine Jean Pierre) you can SEE the contempt just DRIP off of them. It's insulting, and it's going to cost them volunteers and donations, even if most of those voters are in one party DNC rule states they overtly take for granted. There's a reason why the dems lost the house in 2022 basically entirely in the NYC metro area.

Yes, it would be deeply unfair were a hypocrite need to deal with their actions...

Oh, well then they're just you, per that factor like having your password

Do you mean individual 10 second 6 digit codes? If so very little. If the underlying secret, then they can Google Authenticator codes as if they're you.

I think Fedora is the current best distro. I've used everything under the sun over time, and if you use linux for 20+ years, you'll find you need to distro hop because every distro will get bad (and ideally good again).

Hochul was chosen by Cuomo to be such an unthinkable choice for governor that he could never be impeached. Now, because the DNC doesn't do primaries (except when Israel wants someone's head) she's governor for life.

Why can't we ask better of a party that wants our votes, money, and volunteer hours? Post-2016, the DNC has the weirdest possible relationship with its voters, leaning REAL hard into the "Well, it's us or Comcast" of the whole party duopoly system, and is only made them electorally weaker. The GOP is running a man with 40% approval defending Dobbs, which cuts 60+/40- our way. That we're not looking at a UK this year-style electoral massacre is an indictment of the DNC, and how the state recognized duopoly system squashes real democracy.

Given the 200 year long Al Saud/Bush family connection, and the key role we now know Saudi intelligence played in providing material support for the attacks on 9/11, it wouldn't be crazy to assume it wouldn't have happened at all under Gore. Even assuming the Bushes weren't complicit with their long time friends, it was known and reported at the time that while Clinton was very focused on Bin Laden, W thought it was a distraction before 9/11.

Stay strong, comrade, eventually the neolibs will leave this for a proprietary platform...

Well, you certainly are an expert on being complete trash...

A primary hones a candidate and a party's messaging. The idea that it weakens you is perpetuated by the PR execs who run the DNC, because they don't want to need to deal with internal discontent about them being shit at running a political party. How much free earned media did Trump get, looking like a winner, defeating his opponents? You can't buy that kind of media. But the DNC prefers media cycles of "Man accused of rigging last election won't even allow a primary vote in 5+ states." It's just bad optics, pure and simple, and is part of why Biden's approval is in the 30's. America has never seen him run a non-basement campaign, where he actually tries to earn their votes, since he was calling voters "fats" and challenging them to fist fights in January of 2020.

Well we all know that's just because their minds were poisoned by having a primary. Thankfully the party has moved beyond that and now just ordains who we will vote for at the party level.

Remember the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) Hillary thing in 2008 after she lost the primary and was like "Actually John McCain is an honorable man and I'm glad I ran a SUPER racist campaign?" They and Liz Cheney are just the whole party now. I guess we'll see how "aggrieved woman, angry at you for voting wrong," does in November as a party platform. I'm optimistic!

My favorite thing about Rishi is he Littlefingered BoJo to try to become a billionaire with that India deal he never got done. So while he will never be rendered un-rich, he will be forever known as the Tory PM that almost ended the party, assuming they even survive, and he won't even get a billion pounds. #winning