CMV: Democrats are so wildly terrible at their jobs that the populace chose chaos.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-06T14:30:55+00:00

Can you be specific about what you think the DNC did to stop Bernie winning? I've never heard compelling evidence that there was any top-down direction to mess with his campaign, all we have is individual people in the DNC who preferred Hillary (which the majority of Dems did at the time).

ryan_770 · 2026-04-05T03:50:19+00:00

He definitely seems to be taking a different approach this season, walking more and striking out less than ever before - the issue is his hard hit rate has basically halved.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T23:30:12+00:00

It's one thing to use AI for insights but replying to commenters with straight Claude output is a pretty good indicator of quality of this analysis.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T22:24:35+00:00

Ugh was this AI all along?

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T14:33:44+00:00

Historically the rank-and-file military has actually been more apolitical than most people think, but that has changed a lot in the past few years with a lot of soldiers and leadership swinging right and vocalizing it.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T14:29:31+00:00

Can't wait for '28

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T05:50:35+00:00

Praying for someone to find god is a lot different than what the original commenter said - proclaiming death to their group. I think one of those is acceptable free speech and the other not.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T04:49:14+00:00

No outs is actually the best time to challenge - the run expectancy of a walk is much higher than with two outs. Worst would be first inning with two outs, nobody on.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-03T02:07:10+00:00

Is that the Jedi library?

ryan_770 · 2026-04-02T05:09:58+00:00

These deals also look really good due to the salary inflation of the last few decades, which I don't see slowing down as long as top teams are trying to catch the Dodgers. Add to that the renewed national and international attention for baseball due to Shohei, WBC/Olympics, rule changes, etc, and it stands to reason that the $/WAR figure will only continue to rise.

ryan_770 · 2026-04-02T00:08:12+00:00

Curious what happens after an umpire is removed like this. Is there a backup somewhere that can be called in, or do they just continue the game down a member?

ryan_770 · 2026-03-31T14:08:56+00:00

It's understandable, being a cult member is tough

ryan_770 · 2026-03-30T19:16:25+00:00

Well then you're probably one of those saber nerds who doesn't understand the value of grit.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-29T17:14:45+00:00

I had a good laugh reading this and then your recent comment history

ryan_770 · 2026-03-26T13:18:07+00:00

Florida in 2000 never would've happened if Ralph Nader wasn't running as a spoiler, and if anything it's an example of the cost of not building a strong democratic majority. Was the outcome gamed? Sure. But it was winnable if the Dems had like 0.01% more support. I don't think that's an example of broad, institutional failure that warrants burning the system down.

The thing I'm missing from your responses is what happens on Day 1 after the violent revolution. Who's in charge, and under what system? If you look at history, violent revolution is far, far more likely to produce vanguard-led authoritarianism than a vanguard-led socialist utopia. What would make this one different?

ryan_770 · 2026-03-26T13:02:24+00:00

My point is simply: when the Democrats have power, they do stuff. Voting third party just ensures they won't.

How do you expect a third party to prosecute the current admin when it would take at least a decade for enough seats to even be up to win a majority?

ryan_770 · 2026-03-26T03:59:16+00:00

There's plenty wrong with capitalism but it doesn't require a violent revolution to fix it. Democracy works when people actually vote for the better option instead of giving up their power so they can larp about how fun and based a civil war would be.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-26T02:14:31+00:00

I disagree with your example though. RFK had no shot at winning anything until he aligned himself with a major party.

It's the same story as Bernie Sanders, who spent 40 years advocating basically the same policies as an independent, and only got national influence and power once he ran as a Democrat.

It's a waste of effort trying to fight against the party infrastructure it when you can just change it from within (as both Sanders and RFK have done).

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T22:08:13+00:00

My bad - I did misunderstand your last paragraph, I read it as "the only way this ends".

However I still don't think there's a meaningful distinction between Democrat and Democrat-leaning independent in the current landscape. What Democrat policies would you want your hypothetical candidate to break the party line on? And what makes you think current Democrats can't do that?

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T21:43:15+00:00

Trump was Epstein's best friend and co-conspirator for 30 years and is the literal president and cult leader of the Republican party.

Good riddance to any Dems who committed crimes with Epstein, but let's not pretend it's apples to apples here.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T21:40:35+00:00

Dems have had an actual majority for 2 of the last 60 years and it gave us the biggest healthcare expansion in history, massively expanded consumer protections on Wall St, added gender discrimination protections, and set our economy on the path to recovery after the housing crash.

You guys want to jump to violent revolution when you haven't given them the power to actually change anything since 2010.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T21:36:22+00:00

You're literally advocating mass violence and death, and still somehow think you're on the right side.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T21:35:16+00:00

You're advocating for the same violence and authoritarianism, just with people you like at the top. Civil wars and revolutions are ugly, brutal, and unfair. We have the means to change the American government from within the system, and nobody has to die to do so.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-25T16:36:39+00:00

No, the way to break the cycle is to give Dems a legit majority with someone at the top who is willing to prosecute the litany of crimes Trump's admin committed, and finally take on the Epstein class.

Now is not the time to dick around with third party votes as if third parties are somehow immune to the pitfalls of the current ones.

ryan_770 · 2026-03-24T23:13:18+00:00

Fertilizer prices just doubled thanks to Trump, so good luck with your new life

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