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'Stop gaslighting me!': Florida Democrats' Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism (www.axios.com)
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[–] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

But since winning, she(Nixon) moved fast to distance herself from several DSA positions, saying she doesn't back abolishing all prisons — just for-profit ones, she doesn't support "defunding" police or having so-called "open borders," and she disagreed with the national DSA's controversial commemoration of Fidel Castro.

Nixon's distancing seems very rational to me. I think don't this movement needs to have a mandate to magically get rid of all prisons and cops. Seriously, when's that going to happen? Not any time soon. Praise Castro? That guy that created a utopia in Cuba lol? That'll be so fucking popular lol. Seems like dipshits(or childishly naive people) or Republican saboteurs are running this party(which I've heard of for the first time today).

I really hope people don't support this party and make them the stupid face of Democratic Socialism.

edit: fucking downvoted. lol, good luck guys. i'm sure things will go as you want, what ever the fuck that is

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    To me, it's stupid.

    She shouldn't even be answering questions about prisons or Castro. She should be answering any culture war question the way Zohran did, because every DSA candidate is going to have whatever dumb shit they said in 2014 dragged up and examined, as the billionaires who own the media outlets don't want anyone talking about affordability.

    DSA's have the playbook. They just need to run the play. Republicans have made it laughably easy to win in November.

    Have my upvote though, for at least giving a genuine opinion. You and I at least agree that a candidate letting themselves be forced into discussing culture war nonsense is stupid.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I hope I agree with you. You actually responded without immediately downvoting and I respect that.

    I guess I've always had my own interpretation of what a social democrat is. Means of productions and all that shit is just an old, failed philosophy. I want the best of both worlds. Private companies can compete but we actually have strong government regulations to keep all the pieces of shit under control...with military backing. Like, if you're corrupt, you're considered a traitor. I know how much would need to be fleshed out but I'm just giving the general idea of what I think.

    The only other thing besides the obvious stuff is that the obvious utilities are government controlled. Energy, internet, insurance, healthcare, housing, etc..

    But if we go with standard textbook socialism that a dumbass failure like Castro implemented, this movement WILL fail whether or not if the DNC establishment candidates and Repubs made it easy or not.

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