Please read the article again.

So it’s just useless noise and shouldn’t even exists just to waste energy? You need to pick a lane.

Doesn’t change the fact about lack of consent.

They already have thousands of Democratic party mouth pieces that repeat their talking points endlessly. Fundamental issue with this quest is that their policies don’t resonate with people, so unless they change the policies they will never have “Liberal Joe Rogan”.

Sirota:

Liberals are offended by Trump’s lack of manners in pulling off extreme versions of what their own party icons have done, but many Americans seem to cherish the Joker-like quality of Trump’s antics. They seem to appreciate that — unlike establishment Democrats — Trump at least doesn’t use a dog whistle to trick anyone. He uses a bullhorn to proudly broadcast and brag about his malfeasance — all while offering a captivating and distracting culture war along the way.

Swinging these disillusioned voters away from the authoritarian right is an imperative — not for saving the Democrats, but for saving the country. And yet right now, these voters are being offered only conservatives’ MAGA circus or liberals’ Davos cocktail party.

We literally just tried avoiding the culture war to convert conservatives and the centrists and Sirota won’t let that stop them from saying the problem is all that wokeness. Fuck them all.

That’s not how I read that in the context of the rest of the article. Maybe it’s me, but I feel like you try to fit this article into the “centrists” framing when it’s not about that. The article is about offering alternative to Trump fake anti-establishment talk with a real policy based anti-establishemnt movement. It’s promoting everything that corporate (aka centrists) Democrats doesn’t stand for.

Now you’re saying it’s about not having platitudes as the platform, not just not saying them? And this somehow is not engaging in the culture war?

I’m consistent. “<…> offer useless platitudes of “I support x minority” and then do nothing to help them <…>” is not the same as saying you support someone for the sake of saying to gain political capital. And it’s not his platform. His platform is about working people. It might have some policies that are targeted, but the goals are the same. To help all working people to have a better life.

There is a good quote from Sanders in this article that highlights this.

“You get to what we call identity politics (which is) you’re Black you’re wonderful, you’re tremendous, you’re gay you’re the greatest human being on Earth, rather than saying what do you stand for?” Sanders said recently. “You’re gay, that’s fine, who cares. . . . The issue is, what you stand for, which gets you back (to) class politics in the sense of which side are you on? Are you going to stand with working families?”

Sirota doesn’t seem to want either, because we have to peel off MAGA voters and Trump likes to play to racism.

Kamala Harris tried to peel of MAGA voters, how did that worked out for her? His whole post is about the focus being around anti-capitalism and elite establishment which resonates to more people than there are in the MAGA cult. You can’t reach cult members, but you have millions upon millions of people that can be easily reached with good working class focused platform.

Please show me where his platform lists platitudes instead of concrete actions.

That’s not how I read it. I read it as don’t offer useless platitudes of “I support x minority” and then do nothing to help them, but instead improve their and everyone else material living conditions.

Look at the most popular politician in the US Bernie Sanders. He doesn’t focus on platitudes instead offers real solutions to working class people problems and he is supported by all minority groups because of it. That doesn’t mean he won’t defend those minorities when they are atacked, but he doesn’t make it his platform.

This sounds like cancer. One more reason to have shorts disabled.

<…> support legislation to keep kids far away from porn and other dangers <…>

So parent them? That’s in the job description of a parent. Why should everyone else have their private details leaked for your inability to do your job?

There is a dedidacted section about ditching Google and then the article ends with this.

I said this will happen. That’s how VC operates…

Nowhere did I praise the CEO. Please re-read what I wrote…

CEO claims are valid and if people don’t want to support company because of that is fine. But please don’t spread false information about their producs not being trustworthy anymore. Their products have independent audits to show that you can trust their claims and it’s not just empty words.

It’s not. https://scribe.rip/@J_Bowen04/why-there-probably-is-no-such-thing-as-true-randomness-b99fa3ca321d

I’m aware. 3rd parties are not viable in the US. I think the only way to change that is to encourage local already established leaders be it advocates, activists, reporters, teachers or other working class people with a fundamental core of values to run for political office under Democratic banner, but who are also willing to criticize and call out corporate slaves of the party. This upcoming election cycle there seems to be a lot of new new faces primaring useless corporate goons that are raising huge amounts of money with a message of working class first.

Jeremy Ettinghausen has worked in publishing and advertising. He now writes about people and technologies

Probably a bit of both based on the short bio.

How are people feeling about this dystopia?

The same laws were applied to Colombia, Mexico and Cambodia in the past… You are entitled to your own opinion, but facts doesn’t support that position.