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[–] 46 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 112 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    To be clear they have "the other guy is shooting moms in the face on national television" and they went with this instead.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The other guy is also a known pedophile.

    The other guy is also a known rapist.

    The other guy is also a known racist.

    The other guy is also a known fascist.

    We legitimately have the first guy in history that's actually WORSE than literal Hitler. I cannot ever remember anyone saying Hitler was a pedophile. Plus, at least Hitler had a cat.

    Omg, I can't believe I'm over here putting Hitler in a good light compared to anyone else.....but here we are.

    It reminds me of a thing that was said by Jim Cornette once. If you've never heard of him, Jim Cornette is/was a tv personality in pro wrestling during the 1980s. Not a wrestler, but a manager. The important thing to take away from this is that to say he's a very opinionated person is an understatement.

    So, in the 1980s he was working in wrestling in the same organization as a guy named Ole Anderson. He's not important, other than to say in the 1980s Cornette hated the guy.

    Then by the 1990s, Cornette is in a different organization working for a guy named Bill Watts. Again, he's not important other than to say that EVERYBODY hates Bill Watts.

    Flash forward to around 1997, and he's working alongside a guy named Vince Russo. And of anybody in life, he has hated Russo more than anyone on the planet. He's been quoted in modern times as saying that his plan is to live at least 1 day longer than Russo, just so he can piss on his grave before he dies.

    So in 1998 when he briefly met up with Ole Anderson, the guy who he used to hate the most in the 1980s, he said this to Ole:

    "There was a time I thought you were worst person walking this planet. Just an absolute scum and absolutely miserable to be around. I actually have a list of people I hate the most. You used to be number one on that list. Well then I met some of these other jackasses, and you've moved down the list, simply by not doing anything differently. I just now have the displeasure of meeting everybody else."

    And thats the quote that modern times reminds me of. Hitler has moved down the list simply by not doing anything different just because we now have the displeasure of knowing Trump.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    they went with "trump bad" in 2024 and we all know how that turned out for them.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Crazy how easy it is to win over voters by focusing on anti-fascism and affordability instead of just "I'm not the other guy"

    So easy even a brown muslim socialist in the heart of America could do it

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  • [+] -20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    So easy even a brown muslim socialist in the heart of America could do it

    You mean the CIA fake leftist plant? LMBO!

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Are you censoring yourself saying ass?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Is that what he's doing? I read it as "limbo", and thought he was making the commentary of "how low can we go?"

    I'm not saying I agree with that statement. I'd openly support a socialist president. Just so long as he doesn't diddle kids, or murder americans. That feels like a really low bar, and yet we aren't clearing it.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Affordability

    "My opponent wants to send 10,000 armed men to the border to begin seizing women and children, summarily executing any vaguely hispanic looking men, and looting them for their most valuable belongings before casting the survivors out into the desert to starve. And I say we need to consider whether all the money for this program could be better spent on a means-tested plan to subsidies charter schools in low income minority neighborhoods."

    “Democrats in the House and Senate [are] focusing on lowering your costs, dealing with affordability. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are focused on spending treasure and, God forbid, lives on military adventurism overseas,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters this week, just before the chamber voted to advance a resolution halting further attacks on Venezuela without congressional permission.

    Fully unironically. Jesus fuck.

    Schumer doubled down at his recent press conference, promising that “Democrats are going to make healthcare and other high costs, the high cost of living, the No 1 issue for all of 2026”.

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    [–] 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Bringing a knife to a gun fight, …again.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I will vote for anyone whose platform is abolishing ICE and prosecuting them and the rest of this administration

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago

    Maybe say something about the Stormtroopers all over our nation killing us? Maybe say something about torching all alliances? You can't be this fucken idiotic, can you? Unless... Maybe... The Citizens United crowd wants this?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Really? ICE is out there brown shirting, but this is what they focus on?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Affordability AND anti-corruption would be better.

    That would give them a mandate to go after regime insiders for their many openly committed financial crimes.

    But the Dems would rather let fascism win if the alternative is jailing the rich for their crimes.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago*

    A lot of the Dems are corrupt. They have the same donors, the same insider trading, cut the same deals with corps, foreign investories, etc, and the get a cut of the pie.

    The reason they didn't prosecute Trump etc, is because then they'd open up themsevles to prosecution for a lot of the same shit. Hence why they foot dragged and just hoped he'd go away.

    The reason to become a rep in american politics is to get rich, or richer. It's not to serve your country or make people's lives better. That disappeared in the 90s. Most it's entirely pay to play.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ummm they should be going all in an affordability becauae the country is suffering. Would they just ignore it if the president was Dem?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Guarantee pardons and cash payouts for people that liquidate Republicans and ICE. Use the tactics your enemies use, that you struggle to defeat. You will either win, or discover the flaws in your enemies tactics

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    “Democrats in the House and Senate [are] focusing on lowering your costs, dealing with affordability. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are focused on spending treasure and, God forbid, lives on military adventurism overseas,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters this week, just before the chamber voted to advance a resolution halting further attacks on Venezuela without congressional permission.

    Lmao Chuck Schumer is trying to play this card? Hey, how did you feel about throwing away countless lives and money in Iraq and Afghanistan? How about all the money we're spending to help Israel commit genocide? Maybe if some of that had been spent on making things more affordable, we wouldn't be in this situation.

    If Chuck Schumer actually believed that for a second, we'd be hearing about his resignation and suicide. It's just a soulless ghoul saying whatever voters want to hear, just so long as it doesn't involve bashing ICE.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Universal healthcare and free college….for Israel

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Collaborators

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I want a candidate as pissed off as I am. I'm not voting for another old rich man, i dont give a shit which party he claims to represent.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I have to admit I actually agree with this. It's the one thing that can turn non-voters into voters.

    A lot of Americans don't believe any of the Epstein stuff. They chalk it up to conspiracy or celebrity gossip. There's still alt of states where the unrestricted age of consent is 16, and where the age of consent can go as low as 14 depending on circumstances.

    People are dying all the time. There's always another cop killing someone. These people don't believe it will happen to them. It doesn't happen in my neighborhood. It doesn't happen to people like me. The propaganda tells them the victim deserved it.

    They don't care about Venezuela or Greenland. A lot of Americans probably couldn't identify those countries on a map anyways.

    They care about their bills. Their struggle to survive. Trump beat Harris by focusing on the price of eggs. That's the key to defeating Trump. I don't LIKE it. I wish my neighbors were better educated, more motivated, and made better decisions. But that's the reality of America today.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    While the country is being ripped to pieces, the (other) out of touch old farts can't think of something of substance to say, so instead the faff around, more at eleven.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Until they don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Let’s do eggs again. I don’t know about prices but I’ve already had two grocery trips this year where there were no jumbo eggs

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I wish they wouldn't do this, because people are stupid. People are going to be like "I'll vote for the Democrats bc they're promising to try to fix things", without realizing how much time and effort that's going to take. Biden pulled off a miracle in his soft landing, yet they still voted Trump because the economy wasn't perfect again. And they simply cannot understand that the economy will never be perfect again.

    Running on "we'll fix the economy" just sets them up for disappointment and failure, and they're too stupid to see that.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Biden had an amazing start, with a simultaneous Covid Vaccination Program and an Economic Stimulus Program, and both were wildly successful. That should have made him one of the top 10-15 presidents in history.

    Then he appointed the most feckless Republican in history to be his AG, who slow-walked Trump's cases and gave him a two year head start to run out the clock, which is a Trump specialty. The result allowed MAGA back in power.

    Now Biden will be in the bottom 10-15, along with those pre-Civil War Presidents who let it happen.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    The problem is the messaging. The old farts in the Democratic party don't know how to use social media. And even old timers here in Lemmy don't want to admit it, social media is the new frontline to win hearts and minds of voters. Not many people watch televisions these days or read newspapers, a lot of information are coming from social media.

    Social media is part of the problem for misinformation, but even in the early days of the platform, it was used to organise authentic democratic grassroots protests from Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Even Obama knew the importance of social media and he was called the first social media president for a reason. The younger generations leftist politicians are realising how adept the right has been with social media, and kudos to the likes of Mamdani for co-opting back the platform to organise for the left.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    On the right side candidates can't not be perfect - so it's always easy for them to vote for their candidate

    On the left side candidates will never be perfect - so it's always easy to not vote for their candidate.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You cannot win elections by being "not the other guy".

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (46 children)

    I can't wait for all the leftists on here to tell us why we shouldn't vote for democrats.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (23 children)

    Tell me if this sounds familiar.

    • Demand a leftist candidate.

    • A centralist candidate wins the nomination.

    • Vote for lesser of two evils.

    • Lose election because they were unpopular

    • Blame leftists

    Maybe Democrats could try doing better.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It's like you're trying to do the breast stroke during a hurdles match. The system is broken and only two parties are viable. Who you vote for president won't change that, but could have had one genocide instead of two plus all the internal strife. Fix the two-party problem, then demand better of your presidential candidates. The alternative has only worked about 3 times in the history of the United States.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Fix the two-party problem

    By voting only for congressional candidates who support alternatives to FPTP?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This is probably something that would have to be fixed at the state level before going federal. Either way, until FPTP is replaced, pretending that isn't the system in place isn't going to change it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    So if you're in Maine or Alaska, then it's already time to demand it federally from candidates?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's time for other states to look at it, for groups in those states to use Alaska and Maine as working examples of the benefits, and for Alaska and Maine to start working on an Amendment to change how the president is elected.

    But none of that changes the fact that how or if you vote for president will have any bearing on the voting system or cause it to change.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (17 children)

    We could have had Clinton and Harris and we'd be in a way better place right now but I keep hearing bitching about the democratic nominees from people with no intention of organizing a party or candidate let alone even vote.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (13 children)

    no intention of organizing a party or candidate

    What do you want me to do? Vote third party in the Presidential election? Won't I be wasting my vote?

    let alone even vote.

    Run a popular platform then. Clinton and Harris were status quo candidates. Clinton was a continuation of Obama. Harris was a continuation of Biden. They lost because they didn't run a good campaign. They lost because they didn't change tactics to address Trump.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Biden was one of the best presidents since Jimmy Carter though I’d love to have his policies continued.

    Better than seeing Americans being shot in the face by ICE.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Biden deliberately appointed a Republican AG who let Trump walk, and thereby brought about the destruction of the country. That, by itself, is immediately disqualifying for being a good president, regardless of whatever else he did.

    He's going to be remembered on par with James Buchanan, at best.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Honestly, Biden did a very good job picking up the pieces after Trump. But ultimately he was returning to a status quo that didn't (couldn't?) address the problems with late stage capitalism. I don't blame Biden, I blame that lack of choice in our Democracy.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The American voter turned around and gave Trump his biggest win ever after that so they’re down with this shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Oh well that totally makes it fine for Biden's AG to slow walk the investigation AND let Trump pick the judge

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Even if Trump was convicted and imprisoned he still would have been able to run for president and get out of jail for his term.

    America watched what he did and didn’t care.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There were things he did which could have disqualified him from office, which also weren't investigated, and still doesn't absolve slow walking everything.

    America watched what he did and didn’t care.

    No shit considering the education level of the country, number that flat out don't know what he did because of the propaganda networks in the country, and the dems campaign strategy of ignore everything bad, that's not happening

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    When your entire platform is we are not trump, then proceeding to be exactly like him, is a turn off to people.

    The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat,

    Harry Truman 1952

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    We wouldn't be headed to a better existence with Harris. She was barely to the left of trump, her entire campaign ran like a first-term Trump Republican.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    We've been right in every instance, but the issue is we are always right too early.

    During Biden's presidency he nor Democrats could do no wrong in this community, and a comment like yours would have had a hundred upvotes. Fast forward to Biden being out of office and the general consensus is Democrats are worthless, spineless, and betrayed us. The general consensus is what leftists were saying all along.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can be right all you want but without candidates or a party it doesn’t fucking matter.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    That's another failing of voters, never demanding better. Willing to accept whatever neoliberal they let the party throw at them.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    I can’t wait for all the leftists on here to tell us why we shouldn’t vote for democrats.

    Working hard to throw the next election to the Republicans, yet again, I see.

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Give me a better option then voting democrat.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Demand a better options from Democrats instead of brainlessly cheerleading their constantly losing strategies.

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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Give me a better option then voting democrat.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Fucking braindead strawman argument. We're demanding better Democrats, not third-party losers.

    Quit insulting people's intelligence, pretending we don't understand game theory.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You're absolutely not wrong. And these people that constantly counter anything less progressive than their perfect idea of progressive give me vibes of "spoiling the opposition from both sides" and feel astroturfed a lot of times.

    But that said, we fucking need progressive policies and candidates. I myself polished the Overton Window for far too long as discourse kept harming more and more people. We need politicians working passionately for the people and against corporate power. We need to fight for progress and fight even harder against fascism. And we need to convince people along the way. No more status quo. But I'll be damned if I'll let perfection stand in the way of improvement.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Democrats? You mean right-wing PR team! The ones you vote in to "fix things" after the repubs does everything the D's also secretly want but can't say outloud and only does it surface level until the repubs can get in power again to ratchet ever further to the right

    Vote BlueMAGA if you want, but you're still MAGA if you vote for them

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Put up a better option then we'll talk.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago

    Biden still didn't earn our votes so we need to refuse to vote until the democrats learn their lesson!!!

    Err, Biden isn't running? Really? Are you sure? Oh, shit, it's Kamala?

    Yo dog, that bitch has an ugly smile so fuck her. Besides, she isn't a man so why would you vote for her at all? Oh shit, is that on? I mean, she is so unlikeable that she can't win so you might as well just stay home until the democrats learn their lesson.

    (fast forward a few years... hopefully)

    AOC? She would do so much better in the Senate so don't vote for her. Newsom? He is a transphobe. Err, he is too much of a transphobe for people who don't like that and not enough of a transphobe for people who do. Novelty american flags for the rest of the people who don't vote.

    Bee tee dubs, have you seen these tiktoks out of china and russia? Now THAT is how you run a country.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    We haven't forgotten we also had an affordability crisis when they were in power.

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