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[–] 14 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism

Guessing that, looking at their own stock portfolios and exploding wealth, and now their ability to increase it exponentially by insider betting on prediction markets, that they don't feel the urgent need to do much of anything about it beyond pretending to give a shit and then trying to curb stomp any real progressive who gains traction, like they did to Mamdani and Graham Platner.

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    There are no solutions now, only collapse, and history demonstrates that it will. Mamdani's election will do some limited good for sure, and that's great, but the establishment will learn from that loss and determine how to prevent it in the future, just like they did after Ross Perot got so close to the presidency.

    The only power you or I have is local, and I'd advise you to be involved locally as a voter and if you have the time and money, to run yourself. (And, generally, to just do good things in your neighborhood like picking up trash or handing out sandwiches to homeless people.)

    The only exceptions to that are being a billionaire or being willing to go full Player 2 like a certain CEO-hating Italian.

    Primarying might work on the local level, but it won't work for any national office, because Democrats do not have to play by any rules or honor the result. If they did, we'd have just witnessed the end of a second Sanders presidency, we'd all be making a living wage, and cost of living would actually be affordable.

    I do love your 'complaining' comment though, as if I'm the problem.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    If voting worked your party wouldn't be first term trump conservatives

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    Im not the one incapable of reading community rules telling you to leave your bullshit liberalism at the door. This very post is about people like you. Liberals that love coming into communist spaces and trying to colonize it with your bullshit, then rant when your colonization isnt tolerated.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    You can leave if you want, since you clearly hate it here. You have a clown image for a reason it seems.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 7 months ago

    The US was ready for it, but he was a party sheepdog who was never gonna win. His sole purpose in the elections were to keep disenfranchised voters rounded up in the party until it was too late to form outside coalitions.

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