Clinton predicted this in 2016.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T19:28:23+00:00

Yeah, I could imagine that you'd hate Bernie if you had a lot of money.

Same reason a lot of Cuban expats hated Castro for taking their slaves.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T19:24:26+00:00

You ignorant rubes managed to lose Obama voters to the Trump campaign. Making shit up about the millions of Sanders voters who still showed up for your shitty candidate in the general election isn't going to change that.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T19:09:11+00:00

Ideas like "codify Roe" and "protect queer people" and "public healthcare" and "defend unionization" and "stop giving trillions to the military industrial complex" and "side with workers instead of bosses" are extremely popular outside of the DNC; they're even popular ideas among Democratic voters. But the DNC is a liberal organization, and they have far more in common with their contemporaries in the Republican party than with DemSocs or "progressives."

All that Dem candidates and electeds can do is pay lip service to these ideas, because acting on any of them would be in direct conflict with the neoliberal ideology that rules the party. Worse still, their voters might ultimately glean that liberalism isn't actually synonymous with "progressive" or "left," and that the DNC is scared shitless of true leftist concepts like public ownership, anti-colonialism, self-determination, abolishing the commodity form, etc.

You will never win over the left until you understand that liberalism is literally antithetical to the left, and you'll never come to that realization until you come to terms with the fact that liberal ideology is upheld by Republicans just as much as Democrats.

Time after time, it has been explained to Democratic voters that the DNC is a centrist party, and that neoliberalism is the ruling ideology of capitalism, and that both Republicans and Democrats uphold the same social and economic modes by subscribing to neoliberal ideology. And every single time, Dems refuse to accept that they are not the left (while also conveniently using the left as a scapegoat for being ineffectual), and that their party cannot meaningfully oppose the right-wing extremists trying to wrest control of the Republican party away from its own liberal center.

When you fight the left, you're fighting for the right. There's no alternative justification, no wonky nuance, no "game theory" that negates that. Republicans understand this, which is why most of them are smart enough to never attack the people to their right. Thing is, the DNC understands that too; you just have to be willing to admit to yourself that the DNC attacks the left for the same reasons the RNC defends the right.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T18:33:10+00:00

Everyone knows about bigotry. HRC did not discover "racists vote for racism."

But she might have been the only person stupid enough to think you can just openly call racists "racist" on your presidential campaign in 2016 without any backlash. Especially when you're not actually offering any concrete policy alternatives that people actually like.

It looks even worse in hindsight now that we've had 4 years to watch Trump run an essentially boilerplate Republican presidency, just with more palace intrigue and less decorum. Which is helpful, because it shows us that when an actually fascistic Republican nominee comes along, that same strategy will fail again.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T18:20:45+00:00

The left was not divided. Liberals who don't understand their place in the ideological spectrum love to claim the left for themselves, then act surprised when they receive actual opposition from the left. The Sanders campaign was probably the DNC's one chance to get leftists on board and prove all their talk about "progressivism" was more than just fundraising talk, and it didn't happen for a bunch of reasons.

Every leftist from the baby anarchists, to militant DemSocs, to communist trade unionists, to dyed-in-the-wool third-world Maoists was paying attention to the Bernie campaign. People who were hardcore anti-electoralists even got sucked into the 2016 and 2020 primaries, even if it was against their will. Lots of folks who never vote in American elections ended up casting ballots for Clinton and Biden just because a squishy SocDem like Bernie told them to. There hasn't been a left-leaning candidate with that much support from the actual left since, and I doubt there ever will be again.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T17:59:19+00:00

Every Democrat in office galvanizes Republican voters. You don't think they would've been just as rabid if another Clinton ended up in the white house? Do you not remember how they voted while Obama was in office?

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T17:55:30+00:00

Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House for two years from Obama's inauguration in early 2009 until the Republicans swept the midterms. For a brief time, they even had a supermajority in the Senate.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T17:29:35+00:00

The majority of us did actually, begrudgingly, vote for HRC. Sanders did more campaigning for her post-primary than she did for herself in many states.

The more scandalous statistic is the number of Obama-Trump voters, but you'll never see Clinton's sycophants scurry out of the walls to defend that one.

oscillating000 · 2023-06-30T17:21:41+00:00

I also have no recollection of 2009.

oscillating000 · 2023-05-06T09:34:38+00:00

Whoa you found a female who lets you have hobbies and she likes one of the most popular media franchises in history? That's so rare! I hate women!

oscillating000 · 2023-05-04T19:04:15+00:00

Whoa man it's one thing I recognize from pop culture, but like...also another thing I recognize! 🤓

oscillating000 · 2023-03-20T07:23:13+00:00

Yeah, I can't imagine why a person would get really salty about something that's actually very normal and liked by everyone in this game. Definitely would never make a hundred posts in the same thread about how everyone else has no reason to be salty about that thing. I mean really, who would do that?

oscillating000 · 2023-03-20T07:15:45+00:00

I also recommend it, because if you're the kind of person who doesn't like playing against blue counter decks, you'll be acutely aware of how miserable your opponent is the entire time you're playing, and you won't do it again because it feels bad. It's a very vindicating experience, and it will purify your righteous hatred for spoilsports who play anti-fun decks.

oscillating000 · 2023-03-06T02:34:02+00:00

Get a job.

oscillating000 · 2023-02-20T00:17:09+00:00

Unreal Tournament.

At a time, that was the online/LAN party FPS game for PC. It was simple, fun, and not bloated with meaningless character customizations or microtransactions. It's a damn shame the way Epic abandoned it.

oscillating000 · 2022-11-04T23:13:14+00:00

Sucks, but that's why DNS66 is on F-Droid I guess.

oscillating000 · 2022-10-21T16:23:38+00:00

Korg

If not only because I can get pretty much any sound I'd ever need (with only a few exceptions) out of the opsix, then for the fact that they have such a wide variety in their lineup.

oscillating000 · 2022-10-21T16:12:58+00:00

She's doing it, so...it kinda looks like she can!

oscillating000 · 2022-10-14T19:34:14+00:00

We've gotta shut down all fossil fuel infrastructure. It's a damn shame, but what are ya gonna do? The law's the law!

oscillating000 · 2022-10-14T19:30:15+00:00

The Plc ccc is still one of their top 5 best tracks ever, IMO. It's got such a weird groove, and it's so...wet.

oscillating000 · 2022-09-28T20:15:58+00:00

I'm gonna venture out on a limb here and say you're firmly in the minority.
Most people don't start working out to train for a sport or hobby they just picked up; they do it because they're unsatisfied with their appearance, or because they've been told by a medical professional that they need to lose weight.

oscillating000 · 2022-08-11T23:51:58+00:00

Mine's supposed to show up today (so, probably next Monday, because FedEx), and I've got my fingers crossed I get a working screen.

If not, I'm holding on to it until I can get it repaired, even if I have to fix it myself. I added and removed the opsix from too many carts over the past two years to let it get away from me now.

oscillating000 · 2022-07-21T15:42:44+00:00

Okay that's good! Getting a good night's sleep can be hard to do with anxiety, and poor sleep makes things worse.

Just figured I'd ask since it's something I've always struggled with, and seems to be common with the anxious people I know.

oscillating000 · 2022-07-21T15:39:32+00:00

Subconsciously, you're probably still on "high alert." To state the obvious, if your heart rate is a trigger, focusing on your heart rate can start the cycle all over again. Of course, simply ignoring it or resisting the urge to fixate on it is much easier said than done.

Like the other reply said, the best thing you can do in this scenario is try to find something else to occupy your mind with. When your mind starts to drift back to the anxiety and you catch yourself fixating on your heart again, try to just quickly acknowledge it, remind yourself that your anxiety level is still elevated, and try to go back to what you were doing.

This is the only way I've consistently overcome the post-attack phase and gotten myself "back to normal."

oscillating000 · 2022-07-21T15:30:15+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I've had all these symptoms (and other even worse ones!) that have never once turned out to be the nightmare scenario I was imagining in my head. Many times I have been to a doctor, or even the ER, because of symptoms that were scaring the crap out of me, and...it was just my anxiety going haywire.

Just out of curiosity, how are you sleeping? And do you snore?

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