agamemnonymous

Well, Biden was better than Trump before him, so that was nice actually. Didn't quite have enough this time, and now the military is deployed in blue cities. I'd say it could've sucked a lot less.

Did you have a proposed alternative vote that would have come closer to working out?

Uh, I don't share the Democratic party. Sure, I vote any time I can to direct them to suck a bit less, but it's not because I think they represent me. The treaty is that whoever votes in their primaries decides who their candidate is. If you're not voting in their primaries, you have no control.

If the majority of the people really wanted a progressive candidate, they could get one by showing up in force to the primaries. Primary voting participation is like 15%, it would be easy to sweep that if people actually showed up. Get every leftist to show up to the primaries. If they still lose, that's just democracy.

Stop treating the DNC as a traitorous ally. They are not an ally. They are a tool used to effect future material conditions. The tent represents a collection of demographics with a common enemy that they pool their votes to defeat. Leaving the tent only makes that enemy harder to defeat.

Eh, more of an exercise in scientific skepticism. It's, possible that an obscure band with that name was mentioned deep in some training data that's not going to come up in a search. LLMs certainly hallucinate, but not always.

Agreed, that doesn't generalize nationwide though

And would you say that situation has gotten better, or worse under the new administration?

Blasted is nothing, wake me up when they get slammed.

Does this count?

Also, by nature of being underground they would be difficult to look up. Some bands have no media presence, not even a Bandcamp or a SoundCloud.

Probably broke the ð key.

What "social contract"? I don't vote to punish or reward politicians, I vote whichever way is going to make life for me and other Americans suck less. Both popular options suck, but one sucks way more. No third party stands a chance until one of the main parties fractures, or we get RCV. My money's on a Republican fracture personally, and the sooner they start losing the sooner that'll happen.

Blue No Matter Who is just shorthand for those facts. Once the alternative isn't worse, it can be discarded as a strategy. It is a strategy, not a "social contract".

It's a historically observed effect, correlated to actual military action. Could you provide a couple of those other likely explanations?

Maybe they're just way underground and you've never heard of them

Season 1 covered everything from the book, anything past that is 0% Pratchett anyway.