sky accused of being blue; grass accused of being green; sun accused of rising in east; etc.

excuse me, elections are not all democracy is! democracy is when US businesses have unrestricted access to capital, and elections without that are actually dictatorship.

American politics is two candidates with identical policies each insisting the other looks like a Russian and wants to do fewer wars.

Chevy: “Introducing the Chevy Bolt, the best electric vehicle made in the US!” Also Chevy: “fuck you, we’re discontinuing it, buy a truck”

Much of Chapo’s early success was roasting terrified old men writing newspaper columns about the inscrutable things kids were allegedly doing these days.

Have Katy Stoll’s politics improved at all? I used to love her comedy stuff on Cracked, but I couldn’t stomach listening her “toxic misogynist Bernie bros love Trump because they hate women!” shtick that she seemed to believe circa 2016. I remember Cody Johnston having better politics at the time, and I was glad to see her and Cody making it out of Cracked relatively ok. I haven’t had the heart to watch their recent stuff and potentially ruin fond memories of them from Cracked if they just ended up settling into the John Oliver style “America has problems, but it’s still better than every non-white country” niche. I’m still not over John Oliver settling into that niche; he was probably my favorite Daily Show correspondent in the mid 2000’s.

GM and Ford

Is the little treat waiting for repairs?

Same issue here on Lemmygrad, Firefox desktop. Couldn’t find anyone else mentioning it.

“One reason real estate investors are coming out of hibernation is to take advantage of robust demand from renters,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “Elevated home prices and mortgage rates have pushed homeownership out of reach for a lot of Americans, which is fueling demand for rentals. Investors, many of whom can afford to pay in cash to avoid the sting of high mortgage rates, are cashing in on that demand.”

Renters are actually forcing capitalists to buy up all the available housing because they demand rentals too much. People definitely aren’t forced to become renters against their will by capitalists creating artificial scarcity. If people wanted to afford housing, they could simply choose to curb their excess demand and stop forcing the poor powerless investors to buy it all. Think of all the poor small mom and pop landlords that can’t afford to buy new AirBnBs because greedy renters are forcing big investors to buy up all the housing stock with their excess demand!

Getting real tired of hearing the party in power promise to fight for reproductive rights

“access to reproductive rights”

they kindly kept the land warm for us before God was ready for white people to have it

are you serious? if every US state and local government had a magic button that created a free home out of thin air for every currently unhoused person, they would unanimously destroy that button without a second thought to prevent any potential decrease in existing property resale price.

would mean that the only people who want to be homeless are homeless, and anyone who doesn’t, isn’t

this is already what every US property owner believes

I think it’s wrong to libel the victim of attempted homicide while participating in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the murder their partner, but I guess that’s why I’m not a US federal judge.

This is because Trump foolishly gave everyone $1400 and Biden wisely withholding the $600 he promised is what saved the economy and caused COVID to go away.

DSA isn’t a social democrat org

It absolutely is. A few individual self-identified communists in leadership positions of an org founded on social democracy with explicitly anticommunist bylaws that historically and currently pursues an exclusively social democratic strategy don’t change the character of the organization. The character of the organization is determined by the actions it takes.

“cultural christian”

the term white supremacist already exists

big correct on the last bit

"We are not going to build a mass movement by telling people “leftists are opposed to things that help you right now.”

This is the crux of the issue. The people in the United States who belong to a class that the police exist to help will always be counterrevolutionary, because the police do not exist to prevent violence. The police exist to perform violence to one class on behalf of another. This is the primary purpose of a state. A mass movement of propertied settlers whose interests the police represent is an obstacle, not a prerequisite, to proletarian revolution. Saying that we should empower US cops because some individual action might incidentally “stop a bad guy” is akin to saying that we should empower the US military because they built schools in Iraq, or a “floating aid platform” in Gaza, or “stop terrorism”. It’s not what they’re for. It’s true that many propertied Americans believe the police and military are there to help them, because the US is the imperial core and its citizens largely labor aristocrats. Socialism requires defeating those people, not persuading them. It requires organizing the subjects of imperial violence, not finding common cause with the beneficiaries of it.

The people in the US that require organization already understand on a deeply personal level that the police do not exist to protect them. They don’t believe this because someone convinced them of it, they understand this from experience because the US has never afforded them the luxury of misunderstanding how quickly and easily cops are will kill them.

You characterized giving cops more power to do their jobs more effectively as a generally understood “marginal improvement” that “helps people”. That characterization only follows from a misunderstanding about the purpose of police under bourgeois dictatorship or a very specific view of who constitutes “people”. To be clear, there’s little to no revolutionary potential in narrow minority of the US population that the bourgeois criminal legal system exists to “help”.