Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.

The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.

Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.

He literally has control over it though.

True

Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.

No, for the behavior of staff that he never directly condoned and in-fact provided training and policies against. He didn’t monitor or enforce (well enough anyways) and maintained a culture of competition that indirectly incentivized ripping off customers.

Again, I see that it’s entirely clear that AOC’s over-all case is very different. I said that right at the start. Her’s is a case of imperfect compliance with rules that she and her staff clearly tried to follow, and she immediately worked to correct the issue.

All I’m saying is that she isn’t innocent by virtue of “my staff did it, not me”. Just imagine how the shittiest Republicans you can think of would abuse that loophole.

Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.

My former CEO got fired after being chewed out by Congress for exactly this, so apparently, yes.

Oh, my innocent child…

Both sides harbor sexual predators? Yeah, unfortunately that is obviously the case. I mean fuck, we know with 100% certainty that Billy boy stuck his dick in an intern, and he had a long history of sexual misconduct accusations. When the truth came out, his popularity went up. Instead of being marched out to irrelevance, he has remained an influential member of Democratic leadership.

You might not remember this, but when the Trump “grab 'em” tape came out it was right before a debate. Trump brought a whole gaggle of Bill’s accusers to sit in the audience to call out the hypocrisy. A scandal they should have ended Trump made him stronger. I guess Billy boy fucked us all.

maybe they knowingly accepted or solicited discounts for their boss, but that isn’t AOC’s fault

I think the AOC complaint was overall ridiculous, but this particular excuse shouldn’t fly. She ought to be responsible for properly training , instructing, and managing her staff.

Bill Clinton almost certainly belongs on the list. Furthermore, I think he is the primary reason the Democrats didn’t/couldn’t use Epstein to destroy Trump years ago.

What’s Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul’s religion, not Jesus’.

Will abstaining leftists be willing to offer a peace branch and vote for an anti-fascist candidate, even one that disagrees with their wider views,

You mean just like we have for decades now? Yeah, we might just do that. It sure as fuck isn’t going to be the neoliberals who can’t even bring themselves to endorse the Democratic candidate for NY mayor.

Abstaining leftists didn’t change the outcome, apathetic Americans did. And why are Americans apathetic? One look at the Democratic establishment makes that crystal clear.

I’ll bet more people didn’t show up for Harris because their favorite video game had an update on election day. We don’t see these shit memes shaming them, only the people who are against genocide.

Well theoretical the DNC is not baked directly into the government and continues its stranglehold by trying to kill all 3rdparty prospects pretty aggressively.

No, it’s not aggressive at all in trying to kill 3rd parties. That’s because 3rd parties aren’t a threat to power in this country. It uses 3rd parties as an excuse for their losses, and uses that to go after the left (something it does do aggressively).

Its a soft power Revolution similar to what happened with Adelle in Chile.

Chile is a parliamentary system with proportional representation, not a first past the post winner takes all system. Totally different animal.

I mean functional what’s occurring with the Trump administration is a soft power revolution.

Yes, executed through an inside strategy of taking over the Republican party. Imagine that.

The point of this discussion is to encourage people to put down the DNC in favor of other organizations like local ones that actually benefit the community by helping the impoverished or to look at other organizations like the DSA or PSL or FSRO

If that were the point of this discussion, it would seem like that might have been something to mention before now.

We aren’t likely to get Reformations, the problems with the Democratic party are baked directly in to the institution.

What’s the difference between the Democratic party and the United States of America in this regard? If the Democrats can’t be reformed, why can the USA be reformed? If the USA can’t be reformed, then what’s the point of this discussion?

There are two paths, an inside and an outside strategy. The inside strategy is far simpler, has far greater potential for success, and will harm the least people along the way. Acknowledging that isn’t “giving up”, it’s picking strategy like a grown-up, not some kid afraid to turn down a dare.

without trying

This is the most idiotic thing about third party advocates. There have been third parties running consistently for decades, and we are somehow supposed to pretend that that lengthy record of dismal failure doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, inside strategists haven’t won everything yet, so we are supposed to switch to a strategy with a far worse track record.