• DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Democrats screwed everyone, together with Republicans, because they’re the exact same people.

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    11 hours ago

    Oh look perfectly timed dissent for dem voters. Right before.m the midterms

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      In 2016 they had a coordinated and clear effort to undermine the election and get Hilary in the primary over Bernie. Trump won.

      In 2024 they all agreed to not challenge Biden despite serious concerns the ones in the know must have had.

      Thats twice now they rolled out the red carpet for trump and in both cases it was to make damn sure their preferred candidate won the primary voters be damned.

      It really should be brought up each election because it seems like they really want to keep doing it.

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      Dissent? I think you meant “accurate reporting”.

      (MJ does political reporting every day, 24-7, 365)

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      I get downvoted every time I call out establishment liberal dems for things like backtracking on trans rights, etc, in order to entice conservative voters, who will probably never vote for them, based on their so-called effective campaign platform of “Orange man bad,” without any message of changing material conditions for citizens.

      Dems willing to compromise in order to get elected and maintain their seats will absolutely join with GOP on issues like trans rights. I don’t know how the “vote blue line” gaslighters can’t comprehend this.

      The reason the hold so much responsibility in this is they’re supposed to be the buffer against crazy alt-right fascism, but so many capitulate to it, like Hakeem Jeffries. They should be the ones fighting things like genocide in Gaza. Instead, they take the same AIPAC money, when they could be championing human rights and trying to pull anti-Zionist GOPs towards their direction, not the other way around.

      Case in point: Reagancrats and Clinton. Liberal Dems don’t stand up for workers, they just go with the zeitgeist of the times. Because they inside trade and take bribes from special interests, too. They are not pro-worker or pro-social justice, they are pro-status quo.

      I believe in voting. Vote! Don’t sit at home. Vote for candidates who are truly leftists and pro-worker and pro-human rights.

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        I don’t know how the “vote blue line” gaslighters can’t comprehend this.

        they absolutely do, what they’re wary of is the myriad of other issues that can also be much, much worse under the GOP. Exhibit 1, DJT. Sure go hard at primaries AND keep calling those Dems out but… you’re choosing to hurt everyone else as well by not voting.

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          Especially when no one in the US pays any attention to women’s sports. All of a sudden, it becomes a big issue when scapegoats are needed to perpetuate the cultural war. 😂

          I don’t understand how people devote so much time to staring at sports games on a TV, when you could be enriching your life with family, hobbies or constructive things like meal prepping on Sundays, so one doesn’t have to shove expensive convenience junk from Mondelez, Nestle and Monsanto in their mouths during the week.

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      If leftists and progressives actually voted in primaries none of the fuckery would have amounted to anything, but they don’t.

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            The so-called propaganda community opposes genocide in Gaza, opposes the war of aggression on Ukraine. I post about anti-Trump articles more than you ever will. You defend the establishment Democrats who go to the media wing of the fascist Republicans to attack the leftists who want the USA to respect international laws and want you to have universal health care.

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              10 hours ago

              Mostly you just discourage people from voting and help put republicans in power in doing so.

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                I never did that. Keep up with your lies. You are defending the dems who capitulate to Trump that you claim to oppose

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                  No I’m saying that leftists and progressives that don’t vote in primaries are helping republicans, because they are.

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        I think one point of the article is that progressive and leftist candidates have the odds stacked against them by the party itself. We see this repeating now for candidates like Angie Nixon. The silver lining is that leftist candidates are 10x better because they have to be in order to win.

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          That’s why it’s so important for leftists and progressives to vote in the primaries. But it’s pretty well too late now, innit.

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          None of that addresses my point that none of you fuckin people vote in the fuckin primaries. If cons can tea party the republicans into fuckin nazis, goddamn leftists can tea party the dems into something halfway socialist, BUT THEY DON’T FUCKING VOTE IN PRIMARIES.

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            The Dems cheat heavily in the primaries. As someone who votes in them and pays attention to the minutia of rule changes and who’s in the bureaucracy, I know. The most obvious cheating was with Bernie in 2016, if you feel like learning about this fact.

            When it comes to your false equivalency about the tea party, what you’re leaving out is money.

            See, the Pubs cheat in primaries too. Normally, the tea party would never have gained power. What got the tea party to the position where they could take over, was billions and billions and billions of dollars in funding, over decades.

            Can you think of some hundred billionaires who’d like to donate heavily to the long-term goal of destroying their own power? Then we could easily take over the Democratic party in only the span of a generation. Without the billions, forget about it. There is a buy-in to go to war.

            The fact that you don’t know any of this, brings into focus why you believe as you do. I love your passion. We need your passion fighting the right things at the right times. So you’d benefit us all and yourself if you looked into everything I’m saying.

            Vote, vote in primaries, but neither will fix the issue so you should be doing other things too, and definitely not attacking allies as if they’re simply not trying hard enough to bang their heads against a brick wall.

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              The “cheating” (prove that shit, by the way) wouldn’t amount to diddly fuck if goddamn progressives and leftists actually goddamn voted in the fuckin primaries.

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                Your attitude makes the whole viewpoint you espouse, look puerile and foolish. Not only are you not converting anyone, you are actively driving people from your cause. Which I can only assume now is your goal.

                After 2016, the DNC got sued and stated in court that they are a private entity that does not have to abide by their primary results, that their primaries are just for show. It’s part of the public record.

                There is plenty of other information for you to find on the 2016 DMC shenanigans leading up to that court case, but you come of as terribly disingenuous. So this pointer in the right direction is all the labor you’ll get from me.

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                  Hey, vote in the fucking primaries or shut the fuck up. Tell me specifically how telling people to fucking vote since it’s the bare fuckin minimum political engagement is actually trying not to get people to vote. You got some fuckin republican logic here. Vote in the fuckin primaries. If you didn’t vote in the fuckin primaries then you are part of the problem. Once fuckin again my position consists of VOTE IN THE FUCKING PRIMARIES. Fuck the rest of your bullshit.

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            Leftists do vote in the primaries. They vote more then centrists do. That’s not in doubt. The question is how we are supposed to handle the traitors. What do you do with snakes that hide their colors during the primary, but then betray the base during the general? You could say, “just vote for the traitor now, and vote them out next primary,” but that’s tone-deaf advice. First it rewards traitors. Second, when the next election comes around, suddenly the same exact people telling you “wait til the next primary” change their tune to “we can’t give up an incumbent seat in Ohio, this primary challenge is irresponsible!”

            For liberals, there simply is never a proper time to punish libshit dems that betray their voters.

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              Leftists do vote in the primaries. They vote more then centrists do.

              No they didn’t. If they did, we’d have a large progressive wing of the Dem party. We don’t, because leftists don’t fucking vote. Got any numbers to back up your bullshit? Gonna report this comment too so you you can try to look like you’re engaging in good faith? We both know better though don’t we?

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            I mean, I agree, but there’s big astro turf money in tea partying repubs into Nazis where the opposite is true for the left.

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    Oh come the fuck on.

    It’s been a decade at this point. Bernie lost because he had fewer votes than a former First Lady, and senator who has been a part of the party for decades.

    Bernie lost because, in his entire tenure in the senate, he didn’t want to join the team. He sat off on the sidelines (voting with the democrats but not being a part of the apparatus), and then decided he wanted to be the captain of the football team.

    Did the super delegates favor the establishment choice? Yeah. They favored her over the guy who joined the party that summer to run for president. Is this really that surprising to people?

    It’s been a fucking decade. If online liberals put half as much energy into organizing that they did complaining about Bernie losing then trump would never have been fucking elected in the first place.

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      You’d have a much better point if Hillary didn’t proceed to lose against the man who went on to become the most inept President at time of writing.

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        I’m sorry who had more votes? Who also benefitted from a foreign attack on our elections?

        You seriously don’t think that they would also have attacked Bernie? Cmon.

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      I’d say it’s actually more embarrassing than that.

      2016 he was caught by surprise that black voters in the south preferred the centrist candidate.

      2020 the same thing happened to him and he did absolutely nothing to shore up that weakness. He learned nothing. He even got lucky at the start with the field of centrists splitting the vote, but eventually they sorted their strategy out and beat him.

      Bernie just has the worst goddamn campaign instincts. I remeber hearing his campaign staff were all people who got rejected from the Obama 08 campaign, and instances where his door to door knockers would try to argue with anyone who said they weren’t voting for Bernie.

      Add in that he endorsed Graham Platner, it’s clear he just never had the juice.

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        Bernie is the prototypical idealist. He says the right things, but because of his inability to actually compromise he does nothing.

        He’s been a meek politician at best, who says the right thing. The downvotes on here just prove my point. The truth is hard to look in the face. And the people who sat at home are just as fucking guilty as the people who voted for trump.

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          The reality show that establishment candidates compromise with the republicans and in general liberals in other country compromise with the conservatives and end up alienating both side

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    Ah look, people who want division in the left, right before the generals. I wonder what their true intentions might be. /s