• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Lmao what did the DNC start paying for ads again? Sudden influx of a bunch of leftist bashing and whitewashing DNC actions last week or so.

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    3 days ago

    12 trans kids are enough to disintegrate the very fabric of society and civilization at large! Dear god… their power… is unfathomable!

  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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    Dems aren’t your friends.

    Still vote for them though… But fight to keep them accountable and primary the fuck out of the establishment / career / corpo ones (re: nearly all of them… But power comes from the bottom up)

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      Yup. Politicians aren’t our friends, they are - or at least should be - something like our “employees”. WE (to some degree) choose them, and (to some degree) pay their salaries. It’s up to us to keep them accountable.

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      2 days ago

      It’s fucked up that the Greens actually went into business as Russian stooges instead of just being an opposition party.

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        The democrats didn’t lose because of russia or the green party, they lost because they’re spineless corrupt shitbags

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          Yes, you are correct that the numbers for the Green Party aren’t usually enough to make a difference in any election. I’m just frustrated that they’re not even providing a legitimate alternative to the Democratic Party.

          How I’d want the Greens to work:

          1. Run real candidates in local elections who care about the environment and get shit done. Be able to point to things like town X electing a Green as mayor and not having their water poisoned. Or 6 state reps from the Greens passing air pollution controls and getting more business into the state instead of less. Pro-bike laws. Etc.
          2. Ask both national parties what they’re going to promise to do for the environment and either endorse the better one or release a statement that both parties are unwilling to do anything for the environment and encouraging people to vote local.

          How the Greens actually work:

          1. Take money from private interests
          2. Abandon all local races
          3. Fuck around at the national level, drawing attention and money away from groups that would try to get anything done
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        “voting green or not voting would have saved palestinians and stopped genocide” lol cope

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          Lol more of the same, you’re too chickenshit to actually admit that dems fucked themselves over by refusing to condemn and meaningfully oppose genocide so you blame the victims, the voters, the other parties. You deserved to lose. You deserve Trump and worse.

  • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
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    Dems top policy needs to be funding social services and adding healthcare to it. I want to see my tax money actually do good things for people in this country. Not do bad things to people in other countries.

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      Best we can do is not take your civil liberties away quite as quickly. We’re still going to bomb other countries though.

      -DNC

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          We’ve been here the whole time dumbass, you just tune it all out in between elections because you don’t actually give a shit

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          I’ve been a critic the entire time, and I still voted for Kamala, because I’d rather kick the can down there road not stomp on it and crush it right now. You people who claim to only hear it during elections just have your head buried in the sand the rest of the time.

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    “On one hand those trans kids give me the creeps. On the other, I get to call high school girls hot without consequences!”

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    “I can’t decide if dems are lesser-evil, reluctant genocidaires, or wholesome smol-beanerinos.”

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        Sorry if you thought I was referring to you. Unless you are a green party politician. In that case I was talking about you. Lol cope.

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          Quit blaming others for your own failures. If a third party has enough power to fuck you out of an election win then you need to take them and their supporters seriously and make credible policy offerings to win them over. Dems refuse to do that, so they lost to a demented pedophile. Learn the lesson and do better or it’ll happen again.

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            I’m not blaming anybody. I’m pointing out the motivation of the politician is not to win, and is not to make any meaningful difference. They are tools of the Republican Party, and they are fully aware of this fact.

            My post never blamed anybody. That’s something you are accusing me of without merit. I am merely commenting on the motivations of the politician.

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              This thread began with you blaming a third party with basically zero institutional power for shit the democrats did voluntarily, literally anyone who can read is going to call bullshit on that, if you’re going to lie at least try to make it remotely believable

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                Do you at least recognize there is a difference between saying “their motivation is to protect the pedophile protectors” and “they are to blame for the pedophile protectors getting elected”? Cause if not then we just have a different view of reality.

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                  Democrats are pedophile protectors, your “view of reality” is spineless and stupid

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    Not as tough as you think for insane MAGA, they have been commanded to hate, so they will hate.

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      Are there dems on the list? Sure! BURY THEM IN LEGAL HELL TOO.

      Are both sides The Same™️? No, you fucking dipshit dorkass loser.

      Democrats are flawed corporatist neoliberals for the most part, and I wish every moment of every day that they embraced the very real and very vocal contingent of voters crying for leftist policy, but they are by no means The Same™️ as the genocidal accelerationist Fascists that modern Republicans are. To suggest otherwise is delusional.

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        They’re “not the same” in the same way that the good cop and the bad cop are not the same in a good cop/bad cop routine. The difference doesn’t fucking matter, they’re working together against you. Dems aren’t “flawed” they’re corrupt, and spineless halfwits like you are helping them get away with it.

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    Are the trans kids hot? What school do they go to?