No there haven’t. The one guy who tried to primary Biden got run out of the party entirely.

The problem with demanding “actionable plans” is that the only person who could enact them is the DNC chairperson, who currently reports to the incumbent.

Then maybe it’s time for you to admit that there’s nothing Democratic about elections in this country and to start treating them with the contempt that they deserve.

Elections don’t exist to pick leaders, that’s a mere side effect of their real purpose: the reification of the implied consent of the governed.

This is pure delusion. A rushed primary now does not in any way guarantee a win.

Failing to run a primary doesn’t guarantee a win either. All it guarantees is that the incumbent gets less screen time before the election.

The process will be chaotic and uncertain.

I don’t pretend to foresee specific details, but the general arc of history is as apparent as it has been for the last 8 years.

The army of shitty oped writers will go to work asking “what do we really know about ____”. They’ll dig up innocuous shit from their past that make good headlines. After all of that the favourable a and hypothetical polls will not count for much.

Op-eds and headlines are bullshit. Watch the DNC chairperson to see where the party is headed: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-chair-claims-biden-put-on-a-masterclass-during-error-laden-press-conference/ar-BB1pRTxA

Acting like Biden stepping down is a sure way to win had no basis in reality.

Likewise, keeping your head in the sand and pretending that Biden could still win in November.

Should he have announced he wasn’t going to run a year ago ? Yes. But we’re past that now.

No we aren’t, the convention isn’t until September. The DNC could announce a different candidate today if they wanted, but they don’t want to.

I’m entirely serious. The Republicans can rally around a criminal billionaire and still expect to take the white house, so why can’t the Democrats run an intellectual Canadian? I trust the guy that coined the term “enshittification” a whole lot more than the politicians who have been enabling it, anyhow.

I remember when Hillary’s campaign was “doing fine” too.

The Democrats can’t afford to take the risk of trying to play it safe, not after the decade we’ve had. They need a sure thing, and that means they need to hold a primary.

What’s plan B?

A “lifetime” sounds like plenty of time to make Biden compete in some primary debates

Cory Doctorow.

It’s apathy. They don’t care about politics because they imagine it doesn’t affect them.

Unless they can arrange a new primary to replace Biden as the candidate before the convention, then the course of future history has already been set.

They could easily find a winning candidate, but will not because the party leadership would rather see Biden lose than to lose the campaign funding provided by capitalist PACs. Therefore “all is lost” is a realistic attitude.

The time to start thinking about what you’ll do in a post-Democracy USA was almost 10 years ago when we were put on this path by a DNC who needed to ensure Hillary could have “Her Turn” at the presidency and sponsored Trump as they imagined him to be an easy opponent.

Those who are still in Denial, please proceed to Anger.

Depends on the hit. There’s not much blood so it might just be a graze.

Wouldn’t put it past him.

Not sure how, she’s a total nothingburger. They’ll try and make do with insults, slander, and bigotry, but they’ve already locked in the segment of the population that’s receptive to that anyway.

Whoops, somehow managed to typo it. Fixed now.

I’m very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.

I’m a weird sort of person. 😺

I did too! Turns out there’s a lot of weirdness and jargon that gets built into the system after 44 years of continuous operation, and of course the CC companies wanted to be able to bill separately for issuing new cards and printing replacements. XD

You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.

Unless you build your own, you have to trust your ISP to move packets, but you don’t have to rely on any third party services or give them your personal info to use social media.

Fully decentralized, open-source, and encrypted social networks exist. The only servers needed are your computer and the computers of the friends you communicate with. (See: Retroshare )

They’re just never going to get big because small, personal friend-to-friend networks can’t compete with the network effects of centralized media and a never-ending torrent of dopamine on tap.