Spray painting two planes that were used in furtherance of genocide at the expense of the same general public that is being subjected to some of the worst austerity politics bullshit ever.

Food banks? Can’t afford them!

The NHS? In THIS economy??

Tens of millions of pounds for the wholesale slaughter of innocent people? Right this way, sir!

You can call petty vandalism of monetarily valuable genocide enabling objects “some really serious criminal offences” as much as you like, doesn’t make you any less of a jackbooted thug repressing righteous dissent.

Which they obviously are 🤷

the Italian Copyright Law. This law, which was originally written in 1941

Draconian copyright laws, government overreach, and fascism. Name a more iconic trio.

The code name for when the US government hired a bunch of literal Nazis in order to gain a cold war advantage over the USSR

Oh! Green, red, napa?

Pretty much everything except Brussels sprouts and cauliflower 🤷

Carry around a head and pull off a leaf at a time

Yes, except for the carrying around. I eat it at home

they pulled strings to get all the establishment candidates to Voltron into Biden for super Tuesday. I do think they influenced their cohorts in the media to make Bernie look like he couldn’t win the general

That very much qualifies as rigging.

I don’t believe they messed with the voting process itself

How do you know? They control every part of it and have shown that they’re not above board in general 🤷

a good lawyer makes use every argument available.

That’s not how it works, no. A good lawyer chooses a coherent strategy that’s both likely to be successful and in accordance with the wishes of the client.

The DNC itself has a lot of skilled lawyers and would have agreed on a strategy long before a word was said in court. This was their choice, not that of a neutral lawyer just doing his darndest.

Being neutral is a good idea,

Agreed

but that rule is pretty meaningless

Only when it comes to unprincipled hypocrites who don’t care about the spirit of the rules but only how they can bend and break them to further their own agenda.

Is every member required to be personally neutral in even their personal relationships

Only to the extent that those relationships affect the primaries. Which they very much do when you’re doing everything you can to favor a specific candidate.

Does that extend to Obama who is neither a board member or on staff at the DNC?

He’s still a member of the party, one of if not THE most influential and thus powerful one at that, with more weight behind his words than most. That great power comes with great responsibility

To be clear, I am no apologist for the Democratic establishment

Could have fooled me, what with all that apologia 🙄

I blame them more for Trump than the Republicans

On that we agree, at least.

That’s why I want progressives to show up and vote them out in primaries

That would be great, if the DNC would ever allow it.

Giving the false accurate impression that their vote won’t count they will be manipulated and cheated is counterproductive the first step in the process of making sure that it will.

Fixed that for you.

Sorry, but I just munch on raw cabbage myself 🤷

That’s like telling a cow to eat grass and burp methane…

“Kill all jaws” actually seems even worse (though less bigoted), given how many species have at least one of those…

supercritical

does some really weird shit

I’m no geologist, but I could have guessed that without any further specifics 😉

Yes.

One word: cabbage.

Two words: yummy cabbage.

Many words: I actually agree with you in general, I just love cabbage which, on top of many other benefits, is SUPER high in vitamin C and excellently suited for climates where not much grows in winter🙂

Nope, that’s what factually is happening.

Just because the Neoliberals from your favorite billionaire-owned media says something doesn’t make it true.

some Republican challenger, whoever that was going to be

Pretty sure that it’s gonna be perennial loser and insanely racist vigilante Curtis Sliwa again.

Either of my cats stand a better chance of becoming mayor of New York than that infected scrotum.

Reality created and enforced by those two parties, especially the DNC.

I mean, that’s not even a dream, that’s just what’s almost certainly WILL happen since they appeal to almost exactly the same demographics across the board.

Would be a surprise if more than one of them even reaches double digit percentages, actually.

That’s an overly charitable interpretation.

What actually happened was that progressives sued the DNC for unfairly rigging the primaries, which they did.

Rather than try to deny it, they went with the tactic of saying “well we’re allowed to because we own the process, not the voters”.

This in spite of their own charter mandating that they stay neutral and not favor any candidate over others during the primary process.

If the Democratic establishment pushes Mamdani hard

Sure, and pigs might fly!

Never forget that it was a coalition led by the Dem leadership on behalf of AIPAC that ousted both Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

They always fight tooth and nail against progressives and roll over on most of the demands of the fascists in the name of “bipartisanship”

The person you’re replying to is just used to the establishment fighting against progressive insurgents.

As is anyone who’s ever paid attention 🤷

The DNC sure as hell isn’t pushing Mamdani, is the point.

Whether they’ll put their enormous propaganda machine behind Cuomo, Adams, or none of the candidates remains to be seen, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they won’t be going anywhere near as hard for the progressive running under their banner as they have for both of the Republicans in all but name he’s running against in the past.

The DNC leadership is almost half as corrupt and hypocritical as the fascist party they pretend to be the only possible alternative to.