Congratulation to Melat Kiros, this just proves what I've so often claimed here on Lemmy.
That the best bet for change, is to become a member of the Democratic party, and help change it from within.
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The company that fired her is now sweating that she'll be their Congressional Rep. I don't advocate for her to retaliate, that's MAGA nonsense, but I'd definitely let them know that I'm watching them.
Unless I knew about any nefarious dealings they may be up to, then I'd use my new power to send the attack dogs after them. Karma is what you get for being scum.
oh yeah. i once got constructively dismissed at an accounting firm because i wasn't willing to help them commit fraud. the eeoc payment was nice, but what was better was getting their licensure yanked.
A guy at my last job had a major, fundamental misunderstanding of how the local building code was updated annually. He, and the partner who said I was wrong for “insubordination” when I refused to do the work using outdated codes, ended up in front of the professional engineers board and had to formally make a plan to show how they would never make that mistake again. It wasn’t exactly license revoking, but it felt great to have started that process haha
The best part was that I know the firm’s code nerd was spoken to to tell me I was wrong and they sent out a company wide notice about making sure your code was updated. No one ever apologized to me. I only submitted the report after they let me go for “not being a good fit”.
The #1 rule of not getting caught doing crime is don't do 2 crimes at once. The in #2 rule is don't make enemies of people that know where the bodies are buried. Sounds like you worked for idiots.
Not retaliating is how we got here. Either the next wave causes a red holocaust or you'll be ratcheted back the other way again.
How TF do you have a 29 year incumbent??
Mitch McConnell has been a senator in Kentucky for 41 years. Its ridiculous that there are no term limits for these people.
MF love boomers. Our governor was a strong 20 year run in office, most your senators have been in Washington since the 80's-90's. Yo these people die in their seats of power, thats how...
I suppose it's the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don't have any other choices?
It is not that there are not other possibilities. I don't really understand how it's now become fashionable on the left to now grumble and carp about "term limits" and engaging in lots of ageism, but what it is fairly obvious is the people doing the most complaining about it are not involved in running in primaries themselves.
I am also highly dubious of anything magical about term limits or having younger people in office.
In fact, I think it's a rather obvious red herring to have everyone engage in some good old fashioned divide-n-conquer, this time divided along generational boundaries. In this particular redux, we now have social media to turbo charge things, instead of the boomers vs. the GI and Silent Generations, it's now Gen Z and Gen Y pitched against boomers. Yawn. I guess it's as predictable as the tides but the people this is mostly aimed at have not been around long enough to know the game.
The fact that so many seem to be fooled by this, especially on the supposed left? Definitely disappointing.
Something I keep noticing is that many polling places are in the lobbies of nursing homes.
No one’s stopping you from running. The DNC will campaign against you if you are socialist.
Damn, that Zionist shill had occupied that seat as long as Melat has been alive!
DSA! DSA! DSA!
Ive been seeing this acronym a lot lately, what does it stand for?
I was legit excited to vote for her. I’m cautiously optimistic to see how she does.
Even if the new class is a disaster we can vote them out and still fracture the power structure enough to slow it down.
I'm so excited. It's time for DeGette to get out of the way of progress.
I really hope Victor Marx doesn't win the Gubernatorial race though.
The real travesty hear is that there was a 29-year incumbent in the first place. Congress desperately needs term limits.
hahahahah boy I hope the radical left is as radical and violent as the republicans imagine them to be.
No. The socialist movement is not growing.
The democratic socialist movement is growing.
I'll leave you with my standard disclaimer:
Socialism refers to collective ownership of the means of production. Social democracy refers to a capitalist market economy supplemented by welfare programs, labor protections, and public services. The two terms are not interchangeable despite frequent misuse on the internet. You are describing and advocating for social democracy not socialism.
Why does this post start talking about democratic socialism then link to a description of social democracy? Those are not the same thing.
In America, liberalism is called leftism, leftism is called fascism, and fascism is called bipartisan common-sense politics.
The nuances between Social democracy and Democratic socialism never stands a chance in public discourse.
The difference between social democracy and Democratic socialism is the same as the difference between Catholicism and protestantism.
Both in effect. Advocate for severe corporate limitations and an abundance of social welfare programs. Which I'm 100% behind. By the way, they totally support either one of these political statements.
You literally said Democratic Socialism and linked a quote contrasting Socialism (generally) to Social Democracy, not Democratic Socialism.
Dem soc =/= Soc dem
Democratic socialists are socialists, social democrats are not.
In a sense yes. Both Burnie and AOC describ themselves as democratic socialists but neither of them have ever advocated for the public ownership of production like in pure socialism. They have always supplimented they're political views along with democracy.
So simple calling them socialists is incorrect. Also keep in mind that both of them are part of the DNC.
Edit: Bernie Sanders is registered as an independent and AOC is not part of the DNC.
Bernie's actually not part of the DNC. He is registered as an independent.
I believe neither of them are part of the DNC. They do caucus with the Democrats because the other option is the Republicans.
You may be correct. They both have always thrown their hats and with the Democrats now as far as I can tell anyway.
Public ownership of production: isn’t that advocacy for public sector like public transport, state run utilities, stronger backing of unions.
No. That is an extremely common misconception that people try to argue for on this platform, but it is ultimately incorrect.
Virtually any form of government can incorporate things like public transportation, state-run utilities, and stronger protections for unions. None of those things, by themselves, make a system socialist.
Socialism is specifically an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled collectively, either by the public or by the workers themselves.
What you're describing are social welfare programs. The word "social" is one of those confusing and often misused words in the English language. Different terms can sound almost identical while referring to fundamentally different concepts. Social welfare is not socialism, even though the two terms sound similar.
At this point, I'm just celebrating because I would take even democratic socialism in this country at this point. Also, I guarantee the majority of people aren't gonna care to distinguish the 2, sadly.
Leave it to the USA to name two completely unrelated things the same name, because it hates both equally and doesn't distinguish either.
Denver is pretty blue, so I'm not sure I'd be getting out over our skis here.
But even for a solidly blue area, we've had DeGette forever and it will be the first DSA representative for Denver. I think in order for a movement to grow, those first few dominos must fall first. These smaller wins will grow the movement into something larger as people see the benefits of the DSA platform. Or it will fall flat on it's face.
I hope they can pull it off in November. That word "socialist" is like Pavlov's bell, triggering the average American to vote Republican.

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