We need to start being more French about these things.

No need to distract anymore from voter suppression and their own voter fraud.

A gold-plated shitter age.

And now there will be a federal abortion ban. Just watch.

You can see it with your own eyes. Just pay attention.

In other words, rewarding Russia’s aggression. Putin says “jump,” Trump says “How high?”

It’s the peace of the graveyard.

That’s the part the DNC doesn’t get. Every single successful campaign since 2000 has run on a change and reform platform.

Oh, they get it. The DNC exists to prevent meaningful change and reform from actually happening.

and get away with it

Until they don’t anymore.

2028, I’ll be campaigning on Squeeze the Billionaires Until the Pips Squeak.

Why don’t you, if it’s so important to you? Be the change.

Any social-media platform that serves as a propaganda outlet for a hostile foreign power should be shut down, and its entire C-suite imprisoned for a long stretch.

If you are consistently seeing the same messages on X as on RT, that’s a problem similar to that of broadcasters of hostile propaganda in wartime. You say First Amendment; I say Lord Haw Haw. They’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

without question or congressional approval

Do you think Congress wouldn’t have approved it? The Democrats are mostly in AIPAC’s pockets, and the Republican would send them even more arms if they could, since they are openly, vocally pro-genocide.

FDR was the last President that prioritized the working class over the capital class

And he only did all that to head off a socialist revolution.

How much of it was due to voter-roll purges, bomb threats at polling stations and other voter-suppression fuckery?

Poland now isn’t the easy pickings it was in the 1930s. Anyone trying to attack them is going to face a determined and economically strong country.

What common features would there need to be in order for it to work in the US? Seems that being patriarchal, traditionalist, conformist and capitalist would suffice.

It’s been that way for a lot longer than that.

It’s not just the men, it’s the social rituals and expectations that accompany marriage, dating, sex, etc. People internalize those unwritten rules, even when they intellectually know it’s bullshit. It’s the path of least resistance.

Anyway, it’s their choice: some men, all men, whatever. From your (or my) point of view as a man, some women just won’t want to get with you, and they’re not obligated to explain why. That’s autonomy, and whining about it doesn’t change the fact that they don’t have to tell you their reasons. It’s ultimately none of your business. They can opt in if and when they choose, and if they choose not to, get over it.

Nobody should be forced into relationships and customs that don’t suit them. It’s up to them to decide if the downsides are excessive or a price worth paying.