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'Next Step Is Primaries': Calls for Schumer Ouster After Leading Shutdown Surrender (www.commondreams.org)
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The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a Democratic Party that truly fights back continues.

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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (19 children)

It doesn't matter. He'd just be replaced by another traitor ghoul who would happily do the same thing. It's fucking over. Nothing good is possible in this system anymore. Hell, maybe it never was.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    New York elected Mandami so there is a chance…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    New York City did. New York State would likely have elected Cuomo.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cuomo did not do well, but I was surprised he did even as well as he did. It IS a beacon of light that at least one of these pieces of crap got replaced by someone who seems to actually care about something outside of themselves.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Across NY state he would have faired better as he is a known quantity and many liked him for some reason.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Cuomo is one of those politicians whose appeal completely baffles me. He comes across as self-serving to the core. He is exactly the kind of opportunistic, power-obsessed figure people usually say they can’t stand in politics. What’s the draw? The draw must be limited, since NYC rejected him in favor of Mamdani twice, but still.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Really don't know how you have time to comment with all the boots you seem to be licking.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    I genuinely don't know how that makes any sense in response to what I just said.

    I'm over here fucking despairing about being betrayed AGAIN by the group that's supposed to be NOT Nazis, having my life fucked in another new and novel way, and I'm licking boots? Whose fucking boots am I licking?

    Make that bullshit accusation make sense.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah I'm real sure you keep posting like that telling people to just give up and not fight back cause you are sad. Sure buddy. Your post history makes it real clear who you are advocating for.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Again, justify that accusation. You don’t know a thing about me. I’ll give you some information you don’t deserve, and the only thing I want to see in response is either an apology or a real argument explaining what your problem actually is.

    I am married to someone who has an autoimmune issue. Health insurance for my family is mandatory. I get that insurance for her through a job I hate so much I fantasize about getting into a wreck on the way into work because then I wouldn't have to go. Together we developed a plan that would allow me to do a career change that would allow me to switch careers into something that DOESN'T make me dread damn near every waking moment. A plan that relied on the ACA as an insurance stopgap. That just got taken away. Stolen away. Given to Nazis in exchange for NOTHING.

    What about that sounds like “bootlicking” to you? What makes it so unbelievable that I might be upset? Explain yourself, apologize, or just have the decency to stop responding altogether.

    Edit: Initial draft was uncivil. Cleaned the language up some, not entirely, while maintaining the substance of the initial response.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What's there to get? You are telling people to lay down. Give up. Not fight back. Abandon all hope. It's a very apparent patern in your comments. Don't bother documenting fascist crimes it won't do anyything. Don't bother organizing. Don't bother resisting. Lay down and roll over. Thats the tone. Excuse me if that sounds 100% like exactly what the fascists are hoping people think. Relying on us to behave. Can't imagine a better way to lick that boot.

    Stop doing their work for them, assuming that isn't your goal. Or at the very least have the courage to keep your defeatism to yourself instead of trying to demoralize the rest of us.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You’re lecturing me for “defeatism” while you’ve said yourself:

    Yeah the thousands of people who are going to die, be bankrupted, and or go homeless in the meantime probably don’t give a fuck about how it might change the elections in a year.

    There was never a time in American history where checks and balances actually protected the rights of anyone. Nothing we are seeing today is new. This is how the system has always worked. Also hierarchical authority is incapable of fighting corruption.

    So when you say it, it’s righteous outrage. When I say it, it’s “bootlicking”? That’s not conviction, that’s ego.

    You’re not defending hope. You’re defending the sound of your own voice. If you can’t tell the difference between grief and complicity, that’s your literacy problem, not mine.

    And coming from someone who lectures strangers about “polite forms of communication” while doing nothing but sneer and posture, you might want to sit this one out.

    Yeah. I can look at post histories too. The difference is, I’ve offered concrete examples, a thing you are oddly reluctant to do, because any of my comments would fall directly under the explanation I already provided, one you’ve agreed with in your own words. One wonders what might motivate your dodging a challenge issued multiple times.

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