#democrat — Public Fediverse posts

Incisive article about the #media's double standard, as in no matter how far right a #Republican goes, it never matters; but how far left a #Democrat does always matters: "When Republicans lose — which, as we’ve seen, happens at least half the time — they aren’t harangued to take up diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, open the borders or clamp down on excess policing, even though their excesses on those issues could just as easily be seen as dispositive."

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/mike-rogers-is-the-real-radical-in-the-michigan-senate-race/

#USPol

Incisive article about the #media's double standard, as in no matter how far right a #Republican goes, it never matters; but how far left a #Democrat does always matters: "When Republicans lose — which, as we’ve seen, happens at least half the time — they aren’t harangued to take up diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, open the borders or clamp down on excess policing, even though their excesses on those issues could just as easily be seen as dispositive."

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/mike-rogers-is-the-real-radical-in-the-michigan-senate-race/

#USPol

Incisive article about the #media's double standard, as in no matter how far right a #Republican goes, it never matters; but how far left a #Democrat does always matters: "When Republicans lose — which, as we’ve seen, happens at least half the time — they aren’t harangued to take up diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, open the borders or clamp down on excess policing, even though their excesses on those issues could just as easily be seen as dispositive."

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/mike-rogers-is-the-real-radical-in-the-michigan-senate-race/

#USPol

Incisive article about the #media's double standard, as in no matter how far right a #Republican goes, it never matters; but how far left a #Democrat does always matters: "When Republicans lose — which, as we’ve seen, happens at least half the time — they aren’t harangued to take up diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, open the borders or clamp down on excess policing, even though their excesses on those issues could just as easily be seen as dispositive."

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/mike-rogers-is-the-real-radical-in-the-michigan-senate-race/

#USPol

Incisive article about the #media's double standard, as in no matter how far right a #Republican goes, it never matters; but how far left a #Democrat does always matters: "When Republicans lose — which, as we’ve seen, happens at least half the time — they aren’t harangued to take up diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives, open the borders or clamp down on excess policing, even though their excesses on those issues could just as easily be seen as dispositive."

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/mike-rogers-is-the-real-radical-in-the-michigan-senate-race/

#USPol

https://www.europesays.com/people/184934/ The social democrat with an ultra discourse #an #Democrat #discourse #MetteFrederiksen #social #the #ultra #with

https://www.europesays.com/people/184795/ Vance labels Michigan Democrat El-Sayed a disaster for the state #AbdulElSayed #Democrat #HaleyStevens #JDVance #michigan #PeterThiel #Republican #SiliconValley

@HakeemG

I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that Mamdani's policy objectives were pointless

And, re Bidens climate bill, I agree it had a number of very good items. Please remind me,: what were the provisions re blue hydrogen? CCS? Biofuel expansion? Nuclear?

Strikes me that those are all examples of items that were in there to get an Aye from #Democrat "centrists", a sop to industry special interests.

So yes, from a climate bill, far less than Ideal.

And yes, I know, Politics. But it speaks to the failures of the centrists. And yes, they are good at blocking good ideas, which was what I was criticizing earlier.

@HakeemG

I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that Mamdani's policy objectives were pointless

And, re Bidens climate bill, I agree it had a number of very good items. Please remind me,: what were the provisions re blue hydrogen? CCS? Biofuel expansion? Nuclear?

Strikes me that those are all examples of items that were in there to get an Aye from #Democrat "centrists", a sop to industry special interests.

So yes, from a climate bill, far less than Ideal.

And yes, I know, Politics. But it speaks to the failures of the centrists. And yes, they are good at blocking good ideas, which was what I was criticizing earlier.

@HakeemG

I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that Mamdani's policy objectives were pointless

And, re Bidens climate bill, I agree it had a number of very good items. Please remind me,: what were the provisions re blue hydrogen? CCS? Biofuel expansion? Nuclear?

Strikes me that those are all examples of items that were in there to get an Aye from #Democrat "centrists", a sop to industry special interests.

So yes, from a climate bill, far less than Ideal.

And yes, I know, Politics. But it speaks to the failures of the centrists. And yes, they are good at blocking good ideas, which was what I was criticizing earlier.

@HakeemG

I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that Mamdani's policy objectives were pointless

And, re Bidens climate bill, I agree it had a number of very good items. Please remind me,: what were the provisions re blue hydrogen? CCS? Biofuel expansion? Nuclear?

Strikes me that those are all examples of items that were in there to get an Aye from #Democrat "centrists", a sop to industry special interests.

So yes, from a climate bill, far less than Ideal.

And yes, I know, Politics. But it speaks to the failures of the centrists. And yes, they are good at blocking good ideas, which was what I was criticizing earlier.

@HakeemG

I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that Mamdani's policy objectives were pointless

And, re Bidens climate bill, I agree it had a number of very good items. Please remind me,: what were the provisions re blue hydrogen? CCS? Biofuel expansion? Nuclear?

Strikes me that those are all examples of items that were in there to get an Aye from #Democrat "centrists", a sop to industry special interests.

So yes, from a climate bill, far less than Ideal.

And yes, I know, Politics. But it speaks to the failures of the centrists. And yes, they are good at blocking good ideas, which was what I was criticizing earlier.

@davidgerard @avilewis
You are a Democrat, @HakeemG. And you know and have influence with others.

Who do you know more of, and, through your positive relationship with them, have more influence with: fellow #Democrats, or people who voted Republican, wasted their vote, or failed to vote last election?

I live in a district that votes like Bernie Sanders supporters: either the leftmost, or rightmost option. It’s a rural blue-collar region with lots of unionized non-college-educated heavy industrial labourers and licensed tradespeople, and lots of fundie churches. (They see our “centre” analogue of the shrinking corporate-sellout faction of the Democratic Party as disingenuous elitist snobs, and they’re not wrong about that.)

I grew up there, know hundreds of people who voted Conservative after voting NDP (which is like 2015 Sanders supporters voting Trump after the DNC sabotaged Sanders and thereby betrayed the base), and I know why they did. I have positive relationships with almost all of them, even while they know my politics are left of the current NDP. I’m natively fluent in their particular ways of using language, I understand their worldviews better than they do, and I know how to bypass all their tripwire words and frame policies in terms of their identities and core values. Judging by the last times I was active in a political campaign, I know from experience I can swing many of their votes.

Judging from what you’ve said here and in our previous discussions, I’m sure you can’t say the same relative to previous Republican voters. You can only change minds of those who know you, like you, and trust you.

Therefore, the people whose minds you could change—about platforms, messaging, and per-district × per-demographic campaign strategy—are your fellow Democrats. Some other #Democrat, who can compartmentalize their anger, vent it off-the-record in closed confidences, tactically park all the blame and the shoulds and notions of deserving out of view and earshot of general voters, and keep their externally visible or audible communication (verbal and nonverbal) strictly aligned with what best serves the mission of winning a given voter’s support for a given seat, can do the work of persuading the not-already-persuaded voter.

Different roles for different campaign participants, based, among other factors, on different mindsets and prior life experiences.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@davidgerard @avilewis
You are a Democrat, @HakeemG. And you know and have influence with others.

Who do you know more of, and, through your positive relationship with them, have more influence with: fellow #Democrats, or people who voted Republican, wasted their vote, or failed to vote last election?

I live in a district that votes like Bernie Sanders supporters: either the leftmost, or rightmost option. It’s a rural blue-collar region with lots of unionized non-college-educated heavy industrial labourers and licensed tradespeople, and lots of fundie churches. (They see our “centre” analogue of the shrinking corporate-sellout faction of the Democratic Party as disingenuous elitist snobs, and they’re not wrong about that.)

I grew up there, know hundreds of people who voted Conservative after voting NDP (which is like 2015 Sanders supporters voting Trump after the DNC sabotaged Sanders and thereby betrayed the base), and I know why they did. I have positive relationships with almost all of them, even while they know my politics are left of the current NDP. I’m natively fluent in their particular ways of using language, I understand their worldviews better than they do, and I know how to bypass all their tripwire words and frame policies in terms of their identities and core values. Judging by the last times I was active in a political campaign, I know from experience I can swing many of their votes.

Judging from what you’ve said here and in our previous discussions, I’m sure you can’t say the same relative to previous Republican voters. You can only change minds of those who know you, like you, and trust you.

Therefore, the people whose minds you could change—about platforms, messaging, and per-district × per-demographic campaign strategy—are your fellow Democrats. Some other #Democrat, who can compartmentalize their anger, vent it off-the-record in closed confidences, tactically park all the blame and the shoulds and notions of deserving out of view and earshot of general voters, and keep their externally visible or audible communication (verbal and nonverbal) strictly aligned with what best serves the mission of winning a given voter’s support for a given seat, can do the work of persuading the not-already-persuaded voter.

Different roles for different campaign participants, based, among other factors, on different mindsets and prior life experiences.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@davidgerard @avilewis
You are a Democrat, @HakeemG. And you know and have influence with others.

Who do you know more of, and, through your positive relationship with them, have more influence with: fellow #Democrats, or people who voted Republican, wasted their vote, or failed to vote last election?

I live in a district that votes like Bernie Sanders supporters: either the leftmost, or rightmost option. It’s a rural blue-collar region with lots of unionized non-college-educated heavy industrial labourers and licensed tradespeople, and lots of fundie churches. (They see our “centre” analogue of the shrinking corporate-sellout faction of the Democratic Party as disingenuous elitist snobs, and they’re not wrong about that.)

I grew up there, know hundreds of people who voted Conservative after voting NDP (which is like 2015 Sanders supporters voting Trump after the DNC sabotaged Sanders and thereby betrayed the base), and I know why they did. I have positive relationships with almost all of them, even while they know my politics are left of the current NDP. I’m natively fluent in their particular ways of using language, I understand their worldviews better than they do, and I know how to bypass all their tripwire words and frame policies in terms of their identities and core values. Judging by the last times I was active in a political campaign, I know from experience I can swing many of their votes.

Judging from what you’ve said here and in our previous discussions, I’m sure you can’t say the same relative to previous Republican voters. You can only change minds of those who know you, like you, and trust you.

Therefore, the people whose minds you could change—about platforms, messaging, and per-district × per-demographic campaign strategy—are your fellow Democrats. Some other #Democrat, who can compartmentalize their anger, vent it off-the-record in closed confidences, tactically park all the blame and the shoulds and notions of deserving out of view and earshot of general voters, and keep their externally visible or audible communication (verbal and nonverbal) strictly aligned with what best serves the mission of winning a given voter’s support for a given seat, can do the work of persuading the not-already-persuaded voter.

Different roles for different campaign participants, based, among other factors, on different mindsets and prior life experiences.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@davidgerard @avilewis
You are a Democrat, @HakeemG. And you know and have influence with others.

Who do you know more of, and, through your positive relationship with them, have more influence with: fellow #Democrats, or people who voted Republican, wasted their vote, or failed to vote last election?

I live in a district that votes like Bernie Sanders supporters: either the leftmost, or rightmost option. It’s a rural blue-collar region with lots of unionized non-college-educated heavy industrial labourers and licensed tradespeople, and lots of fundie churches. (They see our “centre” analogue of the shrinking corporate-sellout faction of the Democratic Party as disingenuous elitist snobs, and they’re not wrong about that.)

I grew up there, know hundreds of people who voted Conservative after voting NDP (which is like 2015 Sanders supporters voting Trump after the DNC sabotaged Sanders and thereby betrayed the base), and I know why they did. I have positive relationships with almost all of them, even while they know my politics are left of the current NDP. I’m natively fluent in their particular ways of using language, I understand their worldviews better than they do, and I know how to bypass all their tripwire words and frame policies in terms of their identities and core values. Judging by the last times I was active in a political campaign, I know from experience I can swing many of their votes.

Judging from what you’ve said here and in our previous discussions, I’m sure you can’t say the same relative to previous Republican voters. You can only change minds of those who know you, like you, and trust you.

Therefore, the people whose minds you could change—about platforms, messaging, and per-district × per-demographic campaign strategy—are your fellow Democrats. Some other #Democrat, who can compartmentalize their anger, vent it off-the-record in closed confidences, tactically park all the blame and the shoulds and notions of deserving out of view and earshot of general voters, and keep their externally visible or audible communication (verbal and nonverbal) strictly aligned with what best serves the mission of winning a given voter’s support for a given seat, can do the work of persuading the not-already-persuaded voter.

Different roles for different campaign participants, based, among other factors, on different mindsets and prior life experiences.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@davidgerard @avilewis
You are a Democrat, @HakeemG. And you know and have influence with others.

Who do you know more of, and, through your positive relationship with them, have more influence with: fellow #Democrats, or people who voted Republican, wasted their vote, or failed to vote last election?

I live in a district that votes like Bernie Sanders supporters: either the leftmost, or rightmost option. It’s a rural blue-collar region with lots of unionized non-college-educated heavy industrial labourers and licensed tradespeople, and lots of fundie churches. (They see our “centre” analogue of the shrinking corporate-sellout faction of the Democratic Party as disingenuous elitist snobs, and they’re not wrong about that.)

I grew up there, know hundreds of people who voted Conservative after voting NDP (which is like 2015 Sanders supporters voting Trump after the DNC sabotaged Sanders and thereby betrayed the base), and I know why they did. I have positive relationships with almost all of them, even while they know my politics are left of the current NDP. I’m natively fluent in their particular ways of using language, I understand their worldviews better than they do, and I know how to bypass all their tripwire words and frame policies in terms of their identities and core values. Judging by the last times I was active in a political campaign, I know from experience I can swing many of their votes.

Judging from what you’ve said here and in our previous discussions, I’m sure you can’t say the same relative to previous Republican voters. You can only change minds of those who know you, like you, and trust you.

Therefore, the people whose minds you could change—about platforms, messaging, and per-district × per-demographic campaign strategy—are your fellow Democrats. Some other #Democrat, who can compartmentalize their anger, vent it off-the-record in closed confidences, tactically park all the blame and the shoulds and notions of deserving out of view and earshot of general voters, and keep their externally visible or audible communication (verbal and nonverbal) strictly aligned with what best serves the mission of winning a given voter’s support for a given seat, can do the work of persuading the not-already-persuaded voter.

Different roles for different campaign participants, based, among other factors, on different mindsets and prior life experiences.

#uspol #cdnpoli

Nobody is paying #MissKittyPolitics. This Kitty is practical. I support every #Democrat, even the liars, through November. If we can have real elections, then let #democracy at least listen to what I have to say that is even more the truth. Let #Freedom Ring? Something first amendment? 🔦🔦🔦
#VOTEBLUE

Nobody is paying #MissKittyPolitics. This Kitty is practical. I support every #Democrat, even the liars, through November. If we can have real elections, then let #democracy at least listen to what I have to say that is even more the truth. Let #Freedom Ring? Something first amendment? 🔦🔦🔦
#VOTEBLUE

Nobody is paying #MissKittyPolitics. This Kitty is practical. I support every #Democrat, even the liars, through November. If we can have real elections, then let #democracy at least listen to what I have to say that is even more the truth. Let #Freedom Ring? Something first amendment? 🔦🔦🔦
#VOTEBLUE

Nobody is paying #MissKittyPolitics. This Kitty is practical. I support every #Democrat, even the liars, through November. If we can have real elections, then let #democracy at least listen to what I have to say that is even more the truth. Let #Freedom Ring? Something first amendment? 🔦🔦🔦
#VOTEBLUE

Nobody is paying #MissKittyPolitics. This Kitty is practical. I support every #Democrat, even the liars, through November. If we can have real elections, then let #democracy at least listen to what I have to say that is even more the truth. Let #Freedom Ring? Something first amendment? 🔦🔦🔦
#VOTEBLUE

@HakeemG @davidgerard @avilewis Why do you care more about punishing voters for having previously worn the wrong team’s jersey than about actually getting candidates elected?

I don’t care whether they get more affordable memory. I want more affordable memory, as do all the leftist or progressive technologists I know, as do all the conservatives you know who think they’re liberal “centrists” and vote for the likes of Haley Stevens. And relative to an election, none of that matters.

I’m already going to vote as far left as can get elected where I live, as nothing approaching too far left exists in any meaningful way in politics here, so what persuades me is irrelevant. What matters is what persuades swing voters and undecided or usually unlikely voters, and meanwhile, what motivates working-class donations and mass volunteering (enough to overwhelm unlimited corruption money, like with the primary Dr. Al-Sayed just won).

What matters is whether a given policy, framed in the right language and narrative, would gain #Democrats more votes than it would lose them, or cost Republicans more votes than it would gain them, without unjustly harming anyone. No one but a few of the worst people on Earth—a few techbro oligarchs—would lose anything from silicon manufacturing capacity being redirected back towards better uses than the slop factories. (Essentially all other uses are.)

No one who doesn’t already have more gilded rentier robber-barron stolen labor value, stolen intellectual and creative value, stolen resource and tax value, than the cost of eliminating all the poverty they bribe politicians to manufacture for their sake, stands to lose a dime from DRAM getting cheaper. On the contrary: reducing the costs of PC memory decreases the cost of education and healthcare and everything else that runs on PCs or ordinary servers (the kind that use DRAM, not HBM), while increasing employment (by cutting operating costs for everything from retail to heavy industry).

I recently used up the entire stockpile of DDR4 (look up how old that is) in a heavy industrial campus, upgrading PCs which had been scheduled for replacement. Not only were PCs out of budget, even RAM alone is. Just after I finished that and working around Microsoft’s latest sloppific self-bricking Windows update, the company had to cut my position for lack of budget. I did damned good work, for a company that produces something people necessarily depend upon, not something pointless and harmful like the slop factories, but it was cut jobs or go bankrupt, and the price of RAM across hundreds of PCs spiking 700% was a significant part of that cash flow shortfall. And mine’s far from the only position they have to cut or leave unfilled.

Anything that would benefit the voters, and that they can effectively be persuaded would benefit them, is worth considering as part of a campaign. If getting a bunch of bros who fell for Elon’s bullshit in 2024 to vote #Democrat in 2026, without losing more votes from others in the same riding, helps elect a Senate that will convict on Article II § 4, that matters infinitely more than whether those guys (and all their leftist, progressive, liberal, queer, trans, racialized, enby, or women counterparts who also use computers) can afford more RAM.

Blaming and seeking to collectively punish voters for some of them having voted wrong last time, rather than learning from campaign failure changing strategy to persuade more voters, is a decisive part of how the DNC handed control of all three branches to literal fascists.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@HakeemG @davidgerard @avilewis Why do you care more about punishing voters for having previously worn the wrong team’s jersey than about actually getting candidates elected?

I don’t care whether they get more affordable memory. I want more affordable memory, as do all the leftist or progressive technologists I know, as do all the conservatives you know who think they’re liberal “centrists” and vote for the likes of Haley Stevens. And relative to an election, none of that matters.

I’m already going to vote as far left as can get elected where I live, as nothing approaching too far left exists in any meaningful way in politics here, so what persuades me is irrelevant. What matters is what persuades swing voters and undecided or usually unlikely voters, and meanwhile, what motivates working-class donations and mass volunteering (enough to overwhelm unlimited corruption money, like with the primary Dr. Al-Sayed just won).

What matters is whether a given policy, framed in the right language and narrative, would gain #Democrats more votes than it would lose them, or cost Republicans more votes than it would gain them, without unjustly harming anyone. No one but a few of the worst people on Earth—a few techbro oligarchs—would lose anything from silicon manufacturing capacity being redirected back towards better uses than the slop factories. (Essentially all other uses are.)

No one who doesn’t already have more gilded rentier robber-barron stolen labor value, stolen intellectual and creative value, stolen resource and tax value, than the cost of eliminating all the poverty they bribe politicians to manufacture for their sake, stands to lose a dime from DRAM getting cheaper. On the contrary: reducing the costs of PC memory decreases the cost of education and healthcare and everything else that runs on PCs or ordinary servers (the kind that use DRAM, not HBM), while increasing employment (by cutting operating costs for everything from retail to heavy industry).

I recently used up the entire stockpile of DDR4 (look up how old that is) in a heavy industrial campus, upgrading PCs which had been scheduled for replacement. Not only were PCs out of budget, even RAM alone is. Just after I finished that and working around Microsoft’s latest sloppific self-bricking Windows update, the company had to cut my position for lack of budget. I did damned good work, for a company that produces something people necessarily depend upon, not something pointless and harmful like the slop factories, but it was cut jobs or go bankrupt, and the price of RAM across hundreds of PCs spiking 700% was a significant part of that cash flow shortfall. And mine’s far from the only position they have to cut or leave unfilled.

Anything that would benefit the voters, and that they can effectively be persuaded would benefit them, is worth considering as part of a campaign. If getting a bunch of bros who fell for Elon’s bullshit in 2024 to vote #Democrat in 2026, without losing more votes from others in the same riding, helps elect a Senate that will convict on Article II § 4, that matters infinitely more than whether those guys (and all their leftist, progressive, liberal, queer, trans, racialized, enby, or women counterparts who also use computers) can afford more RAM.

Blaming and seeking to collectively punish voters for some of them having voted wrong last time, rather than learning from campaign failure changing strategy to persuade more voters, is a decisive part of how the DNC handed control of all three branches to literal fascists.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@HakeemG @davidgerard @avilewis Why do you care more about punishing voters for having previously worn the wrong team’s jersey than about actually getting candidates elected?

I don’t care whether they get more affordable memory. I want more affordable memory, as do all the leftist or progressive technologists I know, as do all the conservatives you know who think they’re liberal “centrists” and vote for the likes of Haley Stevens. And relative to an election, none of that matters.

I’m already going to vote as far left as can get elected where I live, as nothing approaching too far left exists in any meaningful way in politics here, so what persuades me is irrelevant. What matters is what persuades swing voters and undecided or usually unlikely voters, and meanwhile, what motivates working-class donations and mass volunteering (enough to overwhelm unlimited corruption money, like with the primary Dr. Al-Sayed just won).

What matters is whether a given policy, framed in the right language and narrative, would gain #Democrats more votes than it would lose them, or cost Republicans more votes than it would gain them, without unjustly harming anyone. No one but a few of the worst people on Earth—a few techbro oligarchs—would lose anything from silicon manufacturing capacity being redirected back towards better uses than the slop factories. (Essentially all other uses are.)

No one who doesn’t already have more gilded rentier robber-barron stolen labor value, stolen intellectual and creative value, stolen resource and tax value, than the cost of eliminating all the poverty they bribe politicians to manufacture for their sake, stands to lose a dime from DRAM getting cheaper. On the contrary: reducing the costs of PC memory decreases the cost of education and healthcare and everything else that runs on PCs or ordinary servers (the kind that use DRAM, not HBM), while increasing employment (by cutting operating costs for everything from retail to heavy industry).

I recently used up the entire stockpile of DDR4 (look up how old that is) in a heavy industrial campus, upgrading PCs which had been scheduled for replacement. Not only were PCs out of budget, even RAM alone is. Just after I finished that and working around Microsoft’s latest sloppific self-bricking Windows update, the company had to cut my position for lack of budget. I did damned good work, for a company that produces something people necessarily depend upon, not something pointless and harmful like the slop factories, but it was cut jobs or go bankrupt, and the price of RAM across hundreds of PCs spiking 700% was a significant part of that cash flow shortfall. And mine’s far from the only position they have to cut or leave unfilled.

Anything that would benefit the voters, and that they can effectively be persuaded would benefit them, is worth considering as part of a campaign. If getting a bunch of bros who fell for Elon’s bullshit in 2024 to vote #Democrat in 2026, without losing more votes from others in the same riding, helps elect a Senate that will convict on Article II § 4, that matters infinitely more than whether those guys (and all their leftist, progressive, liberal, queer, trans, racialized, enby, or women counterparts who also use computers) can afford more RAM.

Blaming and seeking to collectively punish voters for some of them having voted wrong last time, rather than learning from campaign failure changing strategy to persuade more voters, is a decisive part of how the DNC handed control of all three branches to literal fascists.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@HakeemG @davidgerard @avilewis Why do you care more about punishing voters for having previously worn the wrong team’s jersey than about actually getting candidates elected?

I don’t care whether they get more affordable memory. I want more affordable memory, as do all the leftist or progressive technologists I know, as do all the conservatives you know who think they’re liberal “centrists” and vote for the likes of Haley Stevens. And relative to an election, none of that matters.

I’m already going to vote as far left as can get elected where I live, as nothing approaching too far left exists in any meaningful way in politics here, so what persuades me is irrelevant. What matters is what persuades swing voters and undecided or usually unlikely voters, and meanwhile, what motivates working-class donations and mass volunteering (enough to overwhelm unlimited corruption money, like with the primary Dr. Al-Sayed just won).

What matters is whether a given policy, framed in the right language and narrative, would gain #Democrats more votes than it would lose them, or cost Republicans more votes than it would gain them, without unjustly harming anyone. No one but a few of the worst people on Earth—a few techbro oligarchs—would lose anything from silicon manufacturing capacity being redirected back towards better uses than the slop factories. (Essentially all other uses are.)

No one who doesn’t already have more gilded rentier robber-barron stolen labor value, stolen intellectual and creative value, stolen resource and tax value, than the cost of eliminating all the poverty they bribe politicians to manufacture for their sake, stands to lose a dime from DRAM getting cheaper. On the contrary: reducing the costs of PC memory decreases the cost of education and healthcare and everything else that runs on PCs or ordinary servers (the kind that use DRAM, not HBM), while increasing employment (by cutting operating costs for everything from retail to heavy industry).

I recently used up the entire stockpile of DDR4 (look up how old that is) in a heavy industrial campus, upgrading PCs which had been scheduled for replacement. Not only were PCs out of budget, even RAM alone is. Just after I finished that and working around Microsoft’s latest sloppific self-bricking Windows update, the company had to cut my position for lack of budget. I did damned good work, for a company that produces something people necessarily depend upon, not something pointless and harmful like the slop factories, but it was cut jobs or go bankrupt, and the price of RAM across hundreds of PCs spiking 700% was a significant part of that cash flow shortfall. And mine’s far from the only position they have to cut or leave unfilled.

Anything that would benefit the voters, and that they can effectively be persuaded would benefit them, is worth considering as part of a campaign. If getting a bunch of bros who fell for Elon’s bullshit in 2024 to vote #Democrat in 2026, without losing more votes from others in the same riding, helps elect a Senate that will convict on Article II § 4, that matters infinitely more than whether those guys (and all their leftist, progressive, liberal, queer, trans, racialized, enby, or women counterparts who also use computers) can afford more RAM.

Blaming and seeking to collectively punish voters for some of them having voted wrong last time, rather than learning from campaign failure changing strategy to persuade more voters, is a decisive part of how the DNC handed control of all three branches to literal fascists.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@HakeemG @davidgerard @avilewis Why do you care more about punishing voters for having previously worn the wrong team’s jersey than about actually getting candidates elected?

I don’t care whether they get more affordable memory. I want more affordable memory, as do all the leftist or progressive technologists I know, as do all the conservatives you know who think they’re liberal “centrists” and vote for the likes of Haley Stevens. And relative to an election, none of that matters.

I’m already going to vote as far left as can get elected where I live, as nothing approaching too far left exists in any meaningful way in politics here, so what persuades me is irrelevant. What matters is what persuades swing voters and undecided or usually unlikely voters, and meanwhile, what motivates working-class donations and mass volunteering (enough to overwhelm unlimited corruption money, like with the primary Dr. Al-Sayed just won).

What matters is whether a given policy, framed in the right language and narrative, would gain #Democrats more votes than it would lose them, or cost Republicans more votes than it would gain them, without unjustly harming anyone. No one but a few of the worst people on Earth—a few techbro oligarchs—would lose anything from silicon manufacturing capacity being redirected back towards better uses than the slop factories. (Essentially all other uses are.)

No one who doesn’t already have more gilded rentier robber-barron stolen labor value, stolen intellectual and creative value, stolen resource and tax value, than the cost of eliminating all the poverty they bribe politicians to manufacture for their sake, stands to lose a dime from DRAM getting cheaper. On the contrary: reducing the costs of PC memory decreases the cost of education and healthcare and everything else that runs on PCs or ordinary servers (the kind that use DRAM, not HBM), while increasing employment (by cutting operating costs for everything from retail to heavy industry).

I recently used up the entire stockpile of DDR4 (look up how old that is) in a heavy industrial campus, upgrading PCs which had been scheduled for replacement. Not only were PCs out of budget, even RAM alone is. Just after I finished that and working around Microsoft’s latest sloppific self-bricking Windows update, the company had to cut my position for lack of budget. I did damned good work, for a company that produces something people necessarily depend upon, not something pointless and harmful like the slop factories, but it was cut jobs or go bankrupt, and the price of RAM across hundreds of PCs spiking 700% was a significant part of that cash flow shortfall. And mine’s far from the only position they have to cut or leave unfilled.

Anything that would benefit the voters, and that they can effectively be persuaded would benefit them, is worth considering as part of a campaign. If getting a bunch of bros who fell for Elon’s bullshit in 2024 to vote #Democrat in 2026, without losing more votes from others in the same riding, helps elect a Senate that will convict on Article II § 4, that matters infinitely more than whether those guys (and all their leftist, progressive, liberal, queer, trans, racialized, enby, or women counterparts who also use computers) can afford more RAM.

Blaming and seeking to collectively punish voters for some of them having voted wrong last time, rather than learning from campaign failure changing strategy to persuade more voters, is a decisive part of how the DNC handed control of all three branches to literal fascists.

#uspol #cdnpoli

@WarnerCrocker

"Life is disappointment. Living is how you deal with it."

Yep. And they certainly are dealing with it! The young folks building up the #DSA and then using/challenging the conservative establishment of the #Democratic Party is a beautiful thing. In southern rural MO we have a young left-progressive (edited: originally posted that he was a a Democratic Socialist, he's not) running against an incumbent right-wing #MAGA Republican for this House district. This past Monday he beat out the older corporate friendly #Democrat in the Missouri primary.

Watching the "Vote Blue no matter who" establishment Dems lose their shit as their conservative, bought and paid for candidates get their asses kicked in recent months has been a real treat. I'm going to have to buy more popcorn.

I think I recall a time in the not to distant past when older Dems bemoaned the non-participation of the young folks. My how times have changed!

#US #Politics

@WarnerCrocker

"Life is disappointment. Living is how you deal with it."

Yep. And they certainly are dealing with it! The young folks building up the #DSA and then using/challenging the conservative establishment of the #Democratic Party is a beautiful thing. In southern rural MO we have a young left-progressive (edited: originally posted that he was a a Democratic Socialist, he's not) running against an incumbent right-wing #MAGA Republican for this House district. This past Monday he beat out the older corporate friendly #Democrat in the Missouri primary.

Watching the "Vote Blue no matter who" establishment Dems lose their shit as their conservative, bought and paid for candidates get their asses kicked in recent months has been a real treat. I'm going to have to buy more popcorn.

I think I recall a time in the not to distant past when older Dems bemoaned the non-participation of the young folks. My how times have changed!

#US #Politics

@WarnerCrocker

"Life is disappointment. Living is how you deal with it."

Yep. And they certainly are dealing with it! The young folks building up the #DSA and then using/challenging the conservative establishment of the #Democratic Party is a beautiful thing. In southern rural MO we have a young left-progressive (edited: originally posted that he was a a Democratic Socialist, he's not) running against an incumbent right-wing #MAGA Republican for this House district. This past Monday he beat out the older corporate friendly #Democrat in the Missouri primary.

Watching the "Vote Blue no matter who" establishment Dems lose their shit as their conservative, bought and paid for candidates get their asses kicked in recent months has been a real treat. I'm going to have to buy more popcorn.

I think I recall a time in the not to distant past when older Dems bemoaned the non-participation of the young folks. My how times have changed!

#US #Politics

@WarnerCrocker

"Life is disappointment. Living is how you deal with it."

Yep. And they certainly are dealing with it! The young folks building up the #DSA and then using/challenging the conservative establishment of the #Democratic Party is a beautiful thing. In southern rural MO we have a young left-progressive (edited: originally posted that he was a a Democratic Socialist, he's not) running against an incumbent right-wing #MAGA Republican for this House district. This past Monday he beat out the older corporate friendly #Democrat in the Missouri primary.

Watching the "Vote Blue no matter who" establishment Dems lose their shit as their conservative, bought and paid for candidates get their asses kicked in recent months has been a real treat. I'm going to have to buy more popcorn.

I think I recall a time in the not to distant past when older Dems bemoaned the non-participation of the young folks. My how times have changed!

#US #Politics

@WarnerCrocker

"Life is disappointment. Living is how you deal with it."

Yep. And they certainly are dealing with it! The young folks building up the #DSA and then using/challenging the conservative establishment of the #Democratic Party is a beautiful thing. In southern rural MO we have a young left-progressive (edited: originally posted that he was a a Democratic Socialist, he's not) running against an incumbent right-wing #MAGA Republican for this House district. This past Monday he beat out the older corporate friendly #Democrat in the Missouri primary.

Watching the "Vote Blue no matter who" establishment Dems lose their shit as their conservative, bought and paid for candidates get their asses kicked in recent months has been a real treat. I'm going to have to buy more popcorn.

I think I recall a time in the not to distant past when older Dems bemoaned the non-participation of the young folks. My how times have changed!

#US #Politics

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

HR5334
Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

🗳️ Senate vote PASSED on Passage of the Bill
Yeas: 49 R, 36 D, 1 I
Nays: 9 D, 1 R, 1 I
Not Voting: 3 R

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334

#HR5334 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress

HR5334
Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

🗳️ Senate vote PASSED on Passage of the Bill
Yeas: 49 R, 36 D, 1 I
Nays: 9 D, 1 R, 1 I
Not Voting: 3 R

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334

#HR5334 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress

HR5334
Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

🗳️ Senate vote PASSED on Passage of the Bill
Yeas: 49 R, 36 D, 1 I
Nays: 9 D, 1 R, 1 I
Not Voting: 3 R

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334

#HR5334 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress

HR5334
Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

🗳️ Senate vote PASSED on Passage of the Bill
Yeas: 49 R, 36 D, 1 I
Nays: 9 D, 1 R, 1 I
Not Voting: 3 R

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334

#HR5334 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress

HR5334
Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

🗳️ Senate vote PASSED on Passage of the Bill
Yeas: 49 R, 36 D, 1 I
Nays: 9 D, 1 R, 1 I
Not Voting: 3 R

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334

#HR5334 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress

S5362
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5362

#S5362 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5362
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5362

#S5362 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5362
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5362

#S5362 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5362
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5362

#S5362 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5362
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5362

#S5362 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5366
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carrybacks for the low-income housing tax credit.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5366

#S5366 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5366
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carrybacks for the low-income housing tax credit.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5366

#S5366 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5366
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carrybacks for the low-income housing tax credit.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5366

#S5366 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5366
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carrybacks for the low-income housing tax credit.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5366

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S5366
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carrybacks for the low-income housing tax credit.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5366

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S5361
A bill to improve the use and management of mobile medical units by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5361

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S5361
A bill to improve the use and management of mobile medical units by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5361

#S5361 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5361
A bill to improve the use and management of mobile medical units by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5361

#S5361 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5361
A bill to improve the use and management of mobile medical units by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5361

#S5361 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5361
A bill to improve the use and management of mobile medical units by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5361

#S5361 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5376
A bill to establish minimum hiring, training, and suitability standards for Federal law enforcement officers, to prohibit accelerated or abbreviated basic training and provisional appointments, to provide for enforcement and oversight, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5376

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S5376
A bill to establish minimum hiring, training, and suitability standards for Federal law enforcement officers, to prohibit accelerated or abbreviated basic training and provisional appointments, to provide for enforcement and oversight, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5376

#S5376 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill

S5376
A bill to establish minimum hiring, training, and suitability standards for Federal law enforcement officers, to prohibit accelerated or abbreviated basic training and provisional appointments, to provide for enforcement and oversight, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5376

#S5376 #congress119 #senate #democrat #congress #newbill