• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    Fark off. We’re not giving you guys a goddamn thing. You are WAY too comfortable with doing nothing and compromising with 100% concentrated evil. I’ll be voting for candidates who were born AFTER the Battle of the Bulge.

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    3 hours ago

    Oh, that’ll really help.

    Somewhere in DC, there’s a speedbump that they should name after Biden.

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      You’re getting downvoted but your comment prompts a thought. Would trump 2020 be as dangerous as 2024 trump? The time spent planning and organizing on their part has led to an extremely quick response in destroying this country compared to what happened in his 1st term

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        I’ve been saying this and it’s an unpopular opinion… it honestly would have been better if Trump had just won in 2020.

        Yes, COVID would have continued to be a disaster but we wouldn’t have the J6 experience, he would still have a few of the old guard people keeping him in check, and he wouldn’t have Elon Musk on board with him.

        Most importantly: he would be blamed for the post-COVID shit that was his fault, rather than Biden taking the heat for not fixing the disaster Trump left him. The selective amnesia that settled over half the population from 2021-2024 would not have happened.

        And we would be fucking done with Trump by now. My god, imagine that. He flies away on Jan 20, 2025 and we never have to hear from him ever again. Wouldn’t that be heaven?

      • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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        5 hours ago

        If Democrats were the opposition party during the genocide you wouldn’t get online liberals justifying it and ridiculing anyone opposed to it. The Democrats would have probably won in 2024 too.

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          Yea thank allah we got trump in there now. He will find a place for the palestinians. Somewhere near Trump hotel. They will be the foundation of his Christian Empire in the middle east. Inshallah.

  • Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Why has the left been floundering for the past dozen years? It doesn’t feel like the common man has anyone to represent us.

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      4 hours ago

      Take your pick/all:

      $$$/ lobbyists/ citizen united/ Dems deepthroating Corpo influence/ dinosaur leaders pruning any progressive candidates

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    7 hours ago

    it’s not Biden.

    It’s the party.

    it needs a culling. absolute decimation. vote nearly all of them out. you know the very few that should stay. erase the rest from history.

    dude if a republican unwittingly says something that doesn’t call for death of trans people they’ll be immediately ousted. democrats out here capitulating to nazis. be a little republican. get them out.

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      If voting worked they would abolish voting. Both parties have the same masters.

      Keep setting Tesla dealerships on fire, the only things capitalists respond to are forced devaluation events

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        They are trying to abolish voting, see voter suppression laws and pretty much every voting rights case the Supreme Court has seen during Roberts’s tenure.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    two weeks ago i tried searching to figure out where the fuck Biden had gone. couldn’t find a thing besides the talent agency he’d signed with

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    7 hours ago

    These comments smell tankie af

    Biden is giving free money to the progressive party far in advance of the midterms, I say we lock in and join the parade.

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      Which progressive party would that be? Is there a viable progressive party? Is it in the room with us now?

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        DNC wants to tax the rich, fund everyone’s healthcare, ban lobbying, draw fair election maps, protect the rights of minorities, stop climate change, and protect the right to worship whatever you want.

        If they had the authority to pass everything on their platform, if they had a trifecta and 60 senators for the first time since 1979 and a bunch of conservative SCOTUS judges croaked so we could replace them, then the USA would be further left than more than half of the EU.

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          DNC wants to

          DNC says it wants to…

          That’s something entirely different. When the Dems have had the votes, they didn’t deliver. Just like Trump, ignore the words, look at the actions.

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            They’ve literally done more than half of these things and Republicans make a career out of tearing it down at every opportunity.

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        Fuck yeah fund the opposition’s primary. Your article even explains why that strategy works so well.

        If you don’t like how campaigns get financed, then I have some wonderful news! Democrats have in the past written many campaign finance laws including capping contributions per person effectively outlawing lobbying from 2003 to 2010 which was the basis of the Citizens United SCOTUS decision, which was also a 5:4 partisan decision.

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            No matter how much you think far-right primarying conservatives in congressional districts normalizes the nutjobs, nothing holds a candle to electing the racist felon to POTUS two whole times.

            If there were more competitive conservative primaries in 2024 like there were for democrats then we’d be in a different timeline rn.

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        We didn’t lock into Biden and that’s why we now have Trump.

        How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

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    18 hours ago

    What a weird coincidence that, just as AOC and Bernie begin a wildly successful tour of the country, we start hearing about the Biden’s wanting to help lead the party or Kamala being the the top choice for 2028.

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    I suppose he had to offer, it was his support of Israel murdering Palestinian women and children that lost Harris the election, but I think it’s best for Joe to have a quiet retirement.

    Maybe, in time, we’ll remember him fondly as Obama’s VP.

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      I really want to get into this opinion. You really believe the 2024 election broke to republicans favor over Palestine? If you are one of the voters that advocated for not voting, are you happy with the result? Is palestine now better off due to trump?

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      I read through that whole thing. What is the demand? It’s just general hate against the trump administration? I’m all in favor but unless the strike has specific legal actionable demands what is the point? Even under the “demands” section of their FAQ it lists a bunch of vague “good” things that they want (all of which I’m in favor of) but says it won’t get into specifics until later.

      You do the strike, it panics the ruling class, and then what? There’s nothing they’ve been informed of that they can do. No line that tells them “you can put an end to this if you do XYZ”. Nothing to tell the people whether the strike succeeded or failed. What will that get? A bunch of people who conclude that the strike didn’t work and they need food so they go back to their jobs. Next time the strike comes around, even if it has demands this time, the obvious thought is that it didn’t work last time so why would it work this time and distrust in the people and political ideology that started this strike in the first place.

      In my opinion, a movement like this is defined exclusively by their policies and demands. Without those it’s just people throwing a tantrum.

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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        Their documents specify that they will have meetings with their sign ups to finalize the list of demands.

        So join the discord and join their meetings and ask away.

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      I understand that they probably don’t want to lock themselves into a timetable, but arranging a general strike without a date chosen seems like it is an uphill battle at best.

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        They have a timeline they want to work with.

        0-6M signatures is just organizing/coalition building and figuring out skillsets.

        6-10M signatures create demands and plan events, work on strike dates, keep organizing, more outreach.

        11M signatures strike on the chosen day, mutual aid networks work to support strikers, educate new strikers and volunteers.

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    It honestly feels like the Democratic Party is doing everything they can to lose.