A powerful union is urging Chuck Schumer to step aside, as Sen. Chris Van Hollen weighs a challenge and Democrats debate new leadership. Will the party embrace a new generation—and a bolder agenda for working people?
Honestly, as someone who hates the “both sides” argument, watching the US and us here in Canada still hold onto the “both bad but one worse” bit while other countries are aggressively protesting is kinda saddening. The original commentor did, with the sponge-text, accept that they are not equally bad but they’re very right in saying that establishment Democrats, or the LPC here, are also actively trying to harm the working class. As a Canadian it’s actually worse because we literally have a well-known party, the NDP, who is always fighting for us even when they’re massively outnumbered and we just pretend they’re not there.
We’ve accepted the lesser of two evils for too long. It’s about time we start fighting for something that’s actually good for us.
The problem is, not-voting your way out of it got us 8 years of Trump.
If voting your way out of it doesn’t work, then not voting your way out of it is even worse. You’re going to have to come up with a third option, because neither side is going to be willing to cede power
Edit: etymologists help me out. Why is it that Prime refers to first in all cases, except mathematics, and ultimate refers to the last thing, except for sometimes in mathematics?
And yes, I did have this thought because I started thinking about what the antithesis of Optimus Prime (First Best) would be, and was coming up with Pessimus Ultimate (Last Worst.)
Did mathematics use Greek as a base rather than Latin or something?
Edit 2: just realized that a prime number might be called that because it’s the first number that is only divisible by itself on an infinite timeline, but that still doesn’t help with ultimate, as some of the time that’s just a best guess.
Edit 4: wait, does that mean that there’s a possibility that Pessimus Ultimate actually did/does exist? Would they make Megatron look competent or useless?
I’m not saying that the solution is to stick your head in the sand, I’m saying there’s no real tenacity between the two of us. Neither country actually fights for anything. The US had nothing but the limpest possible protests against the most insane shit and, like I said, up here we literally have a third party that Canadians refuse to vote for despite them being super available.
We’re not trapped in an abusive relationship, we’re here voluntarily. The good news is that that means we still have some level of control but the bad news is that it also means way too many of us are full-fucking-stupid.
There were many protests that never got a minute of media coverage. You would see piles of people in the streets on insta/twitter that would magically vanish and never be touched by any oligarch owned media (all of them)
I’ll openly admit we never dialed it up to France, but if we assemble in the streets, even at no-kings masses, and politicians don’t fear, nothing can happen.
Yea, land of the brave and home of the free needs to get to it. If your movement can be shutdown by a lack of mass-media coverage then it wasn’t a fuckin’ movement, it was a little day out in the sun.
And yes, you’re right that without consequences nothing will happen. My biggest frustration these days is simply things like why we started this conversation, which was that with no prompting the classic “but at least one is slightly less horrid than the other!” crap came up again. We are so fucking scared to have vaguely strong feelings on a subject, to the point where our entirely culture is built on shutting someone down for yelling when someone else hits them.
I’m sick of it, and we need to start saying “great, and that’s nowhere near good enough” instead of the usual “hurray, we corrected 1% of the damage and get to feel good about ourselves so let’s stop there.”
Honestly, as someone who hates the “both sides” argument, watching the US and us here in Canada still hold onto the “both bad but one worse” bit while other countries are aggressively protesting is kinda saddening. The original commentor did, with the sponge-text, accept that they are not equally bad but they’re very right in saying that establishment Democrats, or the LPC here, are also actively trying to harm the working class. As a Canadian it’s actually worse because we literally have a well-known party, the NDP, who is always fighting for us even when they’re massively outnumbered and we just pretend they’re not there.
We’ve accepted the lesser of two evils for too long. It’s about time we start fighting for something that’s actually good for us.
The problem is, not-voting your way out of it got us 8 years of Trump.
If voting your way out of it doesn’t work, then not voting your way out of it is even worse. You’re going to have to come up with a third option, because neither side is going to be willing to cede power
The Ultimate panel of the current penultimate Penny Arcade comic, as of the writing of this comic, has your third way answer.
Edit 3: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/11/06/musical-scares that is the comic in question.
Edit: etymologists help me out. Why is it that Prime refers to first in all cases, except mathematics, and ultimate refers to the last thing, except for sometimes in mathematics?
And yes, I did have this thought because I started thinking about what the antithesis of Optimus Prime (First Best) would be, and was coming up with Pessimus Ultimate (Last Worst.)
Did mathematics use Greek as a base rather than Latin or something?
Edit 2: just realized that a prime number might be called that because it’s the first number that is only divisible by itself on an infinite timeline, but that still doesn’t help with ultimate, as some of the time that’s just a best guess.
Edit 4: wait, does that mean that there’s a possibility that Pessimus Ultimate actually did/does exist? Would they make Megatron look competent or useless?
I’m not saying that the solution is to stick your head in the sand, I’m saying there’s no real tenacity between the two of us. Neither country actually fights for anything. The US had nothing but the limpest possible protests against the most insane shit and, like I said, up here we literally have a third party that Canadians refuse to vote for despite them being super available.
We’re not trapped in an abusive relationship, we’re here voluntarily. The good news is that that means we still have some level of control but the bad news is that it also means way too many of us are full-fucking-stupid.
There were many protests that never got a minute of media coverage. You would see piles of people in the streets on insta/twitter that would magically vanish and never be touched by any oligarch owned media (all of them)
I’ll openly admit we never dialed it up to France, but if we assemble in the streets, even at no-kings masses, and politicians don’t fear, nothing can happen.
Yea, land of the brave and home of the free needs to get to it. If your movement can be shutdown by a lack of mass-media coverage then it wasn’t a fuckin’ movement, it was a little day out in the sun.
And yes, you’re right that without consequences nothing will happen. My biggest frustration these days is simply things like why we started this conversation, which was that with no prompting the classic “but at least one is slightly less horrid than the other!” crap came up again. We are so fucking scared to have vaguely strong feelings on a subject, to the point where our entirely culture is built on shutting someone down for yelling when someone else hits them.
I’m sick of it, and we need to start saying “great, and that’s nowhere near good enough” instead of the usual “hurray, we corrected 1% of the damage and get to feel good about ourselves so let’s stop there.”