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[–] 56 points 7 months ago (17 children)

I'd point out the work of Lina Kahn under the Biden administration as head of the FTC was very progressive until it was dismantled by the current corrupt administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan

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

    Putting Lina Khan as the head of the FTC was a concession the Biden admin made to the more progressive Elizabeth Warren wing of the party.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Be that as it may, any real progressive movement is almost certainly unintentional, given the ruling parties' record on everything that isn't wholly symbolic.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    The Dems rig their primaries, and not only that, they argued publicly in court that they have every right to do so.

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

    The things is that they do have the right to do so. If they were to simply, unilaterally declare which candidates they're going to put forward that too would be perfectly legal. There is no law mandating primaries. The parties are Independent organisations and how they pick their candidates is entirely up to them. If you were to create a brand new party and pick which candidates you're putting forward by drawing straws that would be perfectly legal too. Both parties just choose to hold primaries because for one thing it picks a candidate more likely to win and secondly it obscures how much democracy has been undermined in the US. The systems have been rotting well before Trump.

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

    If that were true Analilia Mejia wouldn't have beaten Tom Malinowski. She did.

    If that were true, Cuomo would've beaten Mamdani. He didn't.

    If that were true Janet Mills would be winning her primary. She's not.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Yep, we've thwarted them for now, in a few exceptional instances.

    But a few examples don't matter in the long run. Look at what happened after Ross Perot. They're already figuring out how to strengthen their hold on our institutions so these few scattered examples aren't repeatable.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It's okay. Cognitive dissonance is a big thing with partisans of both team colors.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Well, actual leftists are watching and appreciate you. ✊🏾

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You're getting mobbed by angry Yanks. They need to spend some time out of the country. I lived there awhile before going home and I still cannot understand how they can be so blind about their own political systems. I suppose the indoctrination runs deep.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Democrats need to go back to combating hypercapitalism, that portion of politics was the most popular in all of US history up until the late 1900s.

    I can explain it like this: The most popular president in history is either George Washington, or Franklin D Roosevelt. Washington could have been king, but set it aside (undisputed badass). FDR was the only president in history to be elected for more than 2 terms (he was elected as president 4 times). FDR helped usher in those "magical" 95%+ tax rates on millionaires and implemented strict business and wealth restrictions. FDR'S "socialist" programs were insanely popular, even amongst non-democrats... no one could successfully run against him. We need someone like that.

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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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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago* (7 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    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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  • [+] 0 points 7 months ago* (6 children)
  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [+] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] [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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  • [+] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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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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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    I'm happy to rage at how terrible Democrats are. I just also want people to recognize how outwardly horrible Republicans are. I think of Democrats as capitalistic opportunists that see an illogically frothing-mouthed monster, and developed a profit means to fight it forever through virtue signalling.

    By all means...that monster shouldn't exist. Not by votes anyway. It has no logical means by which to exist, and it's a cancer not just to Americans but the whole world. No matter how anyone explains it, I'll never understand how people keep voting for them.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. I called it last time a few months early.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Every fucking day it’s anothe democrat texting me, begging me for more money I don’t have.

    I don’t have $5 you fucks. You stole it when you raised my taxes, gave me shit, and then bailed out more billionaire cronies.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Which Democrats raised your taxes? Let's look at the legislation then we can look at who voted which way on it.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Biden, when he was asked his first day in office if he will be repealing Trump's tax cuts for the rich. He firmly said no.

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

    Got a source for that lie? I don't see anything regarding Trump's tax cuts on Biden's day one agenda, nor can I find any relevant Biden quotes.

    And even if it wasn't a complete fabrication on your part, it still wouldn't answer the question. Biden didn't raise your taxes. You said it yourself, it was Trump's policy.

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