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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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[–] -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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