• Saltycracker@lemmy.world
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    Why does being downvoted here even matter at all like who cares. Democrats have lost the plot and only care about identity politics. Policy don’t help the average everyday people.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    Please understand that the democrats are further right than most countries mainstream right wing parties in Europe noone really likes that Germany elected the CDU (politically similar to the democrats) but we’re all very pleased that afd didn’t get a majority. Vote for the least damaging candidate and work on the system by protesting. Noone thinks Biden and Harris are saints, they’re just the least harmful option.

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    What I don’t understand - and please explain if you can - is why Bernie and like-minded people like AOC etc don’t break away from the likes of the Clintons and the Harrises and form their own party. Surely there must be some systemic hurdle keeping them from at least attempting right?

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    During the run up to the election I’ll admit i was guilty of this because it was so important for TFG to lose. I wish our bullshit system allowd for more than a fascist and center right party.

    Now? Fuck that they aren’t leading like they should.

    It’s exhausting.

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    I downvoted. Not because you criticized democrats, but because your stupid post says you get downvoted for that. No you fucking don’t. You almost always get up voted for it. This is a garbage bait post.

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    It’s not that they suck. My problem with them, as an independent, is they’ve positioned themselves as the moral high ground party while in fact they have no moral leg to stand on. Their leadership had a historic moral test when it comes to the Gaza genocide and they failed it. They had another test to put a great candidate to prevent another Trump presidency, but they bowed down to their corporate masters and picked Kamala.

    It’s that level of fundamentalism and holier than thou attitude that alienates many people like me. They have zero fighting tactics against Republicans besides clutching pearls and shaming. Kamala’s website up until the election day had no “agenda section”. You can’t really tell what her campaign is about. I guess she’s perfect enough and shouldn’t be questioned, otherwise “racism and sexism”.

    They need a complete reset and redo of the party and its principles. Until then, I’m a non voter.

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    So let’s be frank here: Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats need to die in a fire. The old guard must be set aside and a new team should take their place by spearheading the direction of the party.

    Get ready for…

    The Democratic Super Friends

    Starring

    • Pete Butigieg (White Man)
    • Kamela Harris (Captain President)
    • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Plucky Latina)
    • Bernie Sanders (Master Splinter)
    • Elizabeth Warren (Super Mom)
    • Cory Booker (Male Ratio)

    These powers combined, maybe YOUNG people won’t be so disgusted by the democrats. That’s right, young people. That’s who the republicans were targeting. Get the millennial vote by making the Super Friends here a reality.

    But nope, that would be too daring, too risque, too sexy - for the democrats. We gotta wheel out Schumer and exhume Dianne Feinatein to prop her up with duct tape in the house of representatives.

    It’s the only way… to lose again lol

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    I wish the Democrats were not being complicit with the Nazis and had half as much of the obstruction the right uses when not in power

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    It’s because a lot of the criticism attributed to “the Democrats” it’s just general criticism about the government and has nothing to do with a Democrats specifically.

    I really feel like as soon as a Democrat gets in the office people forget that the other half of the government is fucking Republicans that will do anything to stop Democrats from getting what they want… That’s the entirety of what Turtleman is made of.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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    I don’t care about any of the two political parties. I just vote based on who sounds the least insane, greedy, fake, and qualified for the job. And maybe someone who doesn’t suck billionaire toe and can tax the rich.

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    As in criticizing Democrats on their merits or criticizing Democrats as equally bad as Republicans? Big difference between the two.

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    All you guys suck, democrats enabled the rise of fascism by being impotent cowards trying to get the scraps left behind by the republicunts.

    Everyone should still vote for them becuase they are better than the only other option in your dogshit political system.

    Vote as far left as possible all the way up, if it ends up as trump v clinton then it should be the lefter of the two.

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    You must be on some weird ass instance. I see tons of reasonable anger at democrats and Republicans alike. I don’t see upvotes for baseless tribal click bait like this tho

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      Nah, post something to /c/memes saying the US is a fascist nation and has been so for decades, it’s upvotes galore.

      Imply the democrats have anything to do with it, and suddenly what’s the time in Moscow, how does Xi’s dick taste like, yadda yadda

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        and suddenly what’s the time in Moscow

        ah, now I get the Hexbear sidebar clock joke

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          Classic failed thought, that. We are seeing the results of the Dems’ hard work right now, my friend.

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            Oh, and the anti immigrant, anti education, anti living wage, anti trans, super genocidal facists are sooooo much better, right?

            Or were you talking about the fucking nobody who had literally ZERO chance of winning? There were really going to win it all and save everybody, what happened?

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              “Oh man what the fuck why did you diddle and torture my dog what the fuck is wrong with you?”

              “Oh and that dude is much better? He wanted to skin him alive then kill him”

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              Anti-immigrant: Democrats adopted Republican immigration policy.

              Anti-education: Democrats wanted to expel students who weren’t pro-genocide enough.

              Anti-living wage: Democrats’ last word on raising the federal minimum wage was Sinema’s thumbs down.

              Anti-trans: Democrats ran hateful Republican anti-trans talking points in their own ads.

              Super genocidal: Democrats have spent the past year shoveling weapons to Netanyahu to be used to murder Palestinians.

              are sooooo much better, right?

              Democrats seem to think so since they keep emulating them.

              You loved every last one of the past SUCCESSES of the Democratic Party to move themselves closer to the fascism you will never even think of opposing.

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              Oh, and the anti immigrant, anti education, anti living wage, anti trans, super genocidal facists are sooooo much better, right?

              You were the one saying genocidal fascists are merely “not the best people”.