• atrizzy@lemmy.ca
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    This may not be a popular take, but it was wokeness that gave us trump in the first place.

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      Trump wasn’t a result of wokeness specifically, he’s just the logical conclusion to American neoliberalism.

      I guess you’re right in the sense that the unique tornado of “ITS HER TURN” brainworms is what made the dems vulnerable to an oaf like Trump, but if it hadn’t been him and her then it would have been two other doofuses. When you have a state in deterioration, and a left that has been completely silenced so the only place critique of the system can come from is the far right, then you get a demagogue like Trump was in his first term. Had Bernie gotten the nomination then Trump would probably have been squashed, since the democrats would have been able to likewise acknowledge the system is flawed.
      Bernie could have been FDR 2.0 in that he would have put a band-aid on capitalism and soothed the disenfranchised.

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    It’s going to take multiple election cycles to achieve the replacement of the Dem leadership and purge the “consultants”, and if we ever get close to accomplishing that you bet your ass there will be political assassinations, and ultimately the party will self destruct rather than hand power over to real progressives.

    The Democratic Party IS a right-wing apparatus, they work in tandem with the Republicans to serve the rich, the ratchet effect is real.

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      You had me in the first half, I was just about to ask you to read some Rosa Luxembourg. Yeah, the democratic party cannot be reformed

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      The conservative democratic party has to hang on long enough to splinter the GOP, and then chase the MAGA people off to their own third-party. Get them registered and on the ballot in all 50 states and then swing the Democratic party as far left as you can reach. You’ll chase the conservative Democrats back to the now-maga-free GOP.

      Do it right, Maga is a permanent 20-25% minority party that spends its time in purity fights with the GOP 20-25%, while the worker-focused Democrats run the table through blue america at 50-60%. We can negotiate things like a union vs the GOP bosses, with MAGA trash screaming culture wars into the void.

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        Now is the time kick out the conservatives out of the democratic party. They can join the GOP where they belong.

        The democrats need to build on democratic socialism policies. It’s the only thing that has won them elections in the last 35 years. Pity they betrayed their voters each time and that is why the US got Trump.

        The overton window on the democrats have been pushing right for so long the GOP has nowhere to stand except on fascism.

        The approval ratings of the conservative democrats are even lower than Trump right now. Now is the time to get rid of them. Before January.

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          Congrats, you just lost the 2028 election.

          Keep voting with emotions like this and we’re never going to fucking win anything.

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            Keep voting with emotions like this and we’re never going to fucking win anything.

            Right statement, wrong application. The statement actually is accurately applied to people who think it matters that Democrats win a majority while the Third Way Neoliberal Ghouls control every lever of power in the party. Your Fell For It Again Award is on its way. Unfortunately for you, the prize is Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “woke is back! god is nonbinary! mandatory sex changes for everyone!” they say as they pass waves of anti-trans legislation in blue states

    and for the rest of the world, only the colours of the bombs will change. welcome to the new normal, same as the old normal

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    It sucks for neurodivergent people that see those patterns sooner than other people. Cassandra is my spirit animal.

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      If caring whether what I believe is true and being a less easy mark for peer pressure and local propaganda makes me neurodivergent,

      then neurodivergent hi-five I guess.

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    Second pic is me when I freaked out about the Gaza genocide

    My family kinda thought I was overreacting/focusing on the wrong thing, because they were more focused on October 7th itself

    Later they realized it’s a genocide which I’m glad about, though I never did hear that I was right all along

    Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut

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      Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut

      Nah, you did the right thing. You’ll know it all the way to your grave.
      Speaking up for marginalised people is a duty of those of us with less dire problems.

      Each person’s contribution may feel futile, meaningless, and insignificant but “no rain drop believes itself responsible for the flood” applies to positive things too.

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      Later they realized it’s a genocide which I’m glad about,

      I dont understand what you mean by this?

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    So are they going to try “actually americans hate free healthcare and love war, that’s why Gavin is the most electable” or “Gavin will be the most progressive president since FDR!!”

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      Wearing leather heels and getting dommed publically?

      I think he might be more savvy, but I would not be surprised. If he’s smart then he gets someone like AOC to be his VP.

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        Nah, because he’s an over hyped governor of a stereotypically blue state that isn’t representative of the country’s population at large. DeSantis and Newsome both have more style than substance and both peaked so far before the primary that they have nowhere to go but down when it turns out primary voters outside their home state aren’t interested in a candidate that feels like he was designed and grown in a lab

        Newsome will flame out so hard once voting starts and there is proof the public doesn’t want his ass same way DeSantis went down in 2024

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          He wasn’t a good governor of CA, he for sure wouldn’t be a good president and I’m glad people will see that

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    At least there’s always the possibility of a sex scandal taking Newsom down. Seems exceedingly likely to me. Fingers crossed.

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        I hadn’t heard of this, I looked it up, and Jesus Christ. The wikipedia article on the topic was clearly written by the most misogynistic liberal they could find. I know it makes no sense, they don’t see us in the global south as people so of course I understand they’re monsters, but imagine still supporting Biden after shit like this is public.

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          Even on the fediverse, speaking up about tara reade during the last election cycle, would get you banned from the liberal / correct the record fediverse servers.

          #MeToo gets dropped immediately as soon as it exposes US democrats as being part of the same epstein class.

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            Biden admired and gave an eulogy for Strom Thurmond who defended racial segregation.

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            He also lied to Anita Hill and told her he’d allow her to speak at Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing, and then shafted her. Citizens United passed by one supreme court vote, and thomas is the quintessential “originalist” on the court who has led this country down a dark path for decades. Biden also was the father of civil asset forfeiture, a cheerleader to go into Iraq, and he drafted the 1994 crime bill, which packed our prisons with 6x the people it used to have, many for silly nonsense. He couldnt even win his home state all the times he ran for president, and once had to drop out of a presidential campaign for plagerizing a speech. He’s a colossal idiot of epic proportions, even before you get to his taking AIPAC bribes through his whole career to aid and abet a genocide of innocents. He belongs in chains, and then sent on to Nuremberg where he should spend the rest of his days in a cell… at best.

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              sorrryyy he’s the most progressive president since fdr and history began on october 7th 2022 anything before that didnt happen

              since we’re doing fun facts, did you know Nuremberg was a farce and there was more nazis in the west german government than the actual nazi government?

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          And the same Libs who’ll blandly say they believe women when discussing Christine Blasey-Ford will call Tara Reade a lying Russian Asset™ and dismiss her entire story. A story which has exactly as much evidence in its favor as Dr Blasey-Ford’s.

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            Even more so. And when she went through ‘the proper channels’ to report the incident they ruined her fucking life. And then they pointed to the wreckage and attacked her character over it.

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      What century do you think you’re in? Unless Gavin Newsome fucked kids on camera in public with multiple witnesses he’s not getting taken down by a sex scandal.

      Biden groped kids on live TV and raped Tara Reade, he was allowed to run in 2020 and fuck up 2024.

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        I think Dem candidates will be wall-to-wall in 2028, so it may not take all that much to knock his campaign off course compared to his rivals. Unfortunately, I highly doubt that means the Dems will instead put forward a reasonable candidate.

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    I feel like newsom just doesn’t have enough juice. I know he’s gov of California, I know he’s been a coward on trans stuff and I know he punted on billionaire tax, that’s it, and 2/3 of those things are damning outright. Oh and I like the gruesome newsom nickname I guess.