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[–] 118 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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[–] 180 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is just a list of reasons why you should vote for her

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  • [+] -13 points 5 months ago

    Literally just pro China propaganda, they are doing exactly what they did in Minnesota and California, they are funneling your tax dollars to foreign anti-American bad actors.

    And the data center thing wether you agree or not is still bad for America AI competitiveness making it good for China.

    No such thing as a free lunch literally they can call it whatever they want but it is actually for advancing China Interests.

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  • [–] 62 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm beginning to wonder if someone more left leaning has infiltrated fox. The boss say "put together a hit piece on the demonrat", "sure thing boss" says our mole, before turning over this graphic. To the boss it look great, surely no one could support this! To everyone less poisoned, it looks a lot more enticing.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's always funny when Fox puts up radical left wing policies like taxing billionaires and supporting families and then have to scramble to take them down because even Fox viewers read them and think they sound like a good idea.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Yes! I've been thinking the same thing. This was posted yesterday, and the lurker part of my brain said "surely someone else has already had this idea". So I checked all the comments, but it wasn't there. Then the lurker said "they'll say it soon, and in better words". And it was right!

    Anyway, thanks!

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They didn't even bother to find a diadvantegous picture of her.

    Faux News, what is becoming of you? :smh:

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not sure it's even possible to frame this list in a bad light? those are all unambiguously excellent things

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    $20 an hour minimum wage is garbage, it should be much higher.

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

    "this radical extremist will actually do something for you instead if taking money from the rich and keeping it like it is (trickle up economics)"

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

    Unfortunately, I don’t live in Wisconsin, I live in California

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fortunately* you don't live in Wisconsin.

    Born and raised there; a DSA governor is a fucking fantastic step in the right direction. I'll mention her to my family but...

    Wisconsin is the south of the north. I regularly drove past a Confederate flag. Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US (or was, havent checked recently) and the GOP leans into that with a lot of ugly rhetoric.

    This article is getting a little long in the tooth but is a quality deep dive into some of the very thinly veiled (or outright) systemic racism in Wisconsin.

    Also; rural Grindr made me sad for queer men raised in that environment, including myself.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I just wanted to know that your last statement brought me a bit of comfort today, thank you. I've been feeling a bit isolated here, since, well, ever, but was never able to make it out yet :/ I'm not that rural, but anywhere outside of Milwaukee or Madison is pretty bleak.

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

    Radical left now just means "anybody"

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    When you are so far right, everyone is far left.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago*

    That said, US politics is so bad that this platform is legitimately further left than like 95% of electeds. If this candidate is a Democrat it's likely that her own party will favor a candidate to her right in primary and if she beats them, possibly still not throw their weight behind her in the general.

    Remember that the leader of the Democratic party is basically a domestic spokesperson for Israel and refuses to acknowledge support the most popular politician in his own party.

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

    Stop describing it as a "tax hike"... we want to restore fair taxation after decades of irresponsible tax breaks.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Yeah our country has taxes too low to provide necessary services. Like across the board. Yes, we spend too much on cops, prisons, and war, but we have needs and uncontroversial wants that we can't fund without higher taxes or ever increasing debt.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, I thought this was satire

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago

    $20 Minimum wage and NO Data Centers? How DARE she INFRINGE on my FREEDOM!

    -Poisoned Republicans on Welfare making Rainbow Flags ILLEGAL!

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    She could not get better advertising.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Lol she reposted it herself on socials with no changes

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    This is strong 'Don't threaten me with a good time' energy.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    She wants to implement free child care? What a monster! HIGHER minimum wage?! What the actual fuck?! Who wants more money?

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    And literally none of that is far-left, of course

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  • [+] -15 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    How is publicly-owned grocery stores not far left? That's literal socialism.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Some other literal socialist institutions that are far left:

    • libraries
    • parks
    • postal service
    • public universities
    • museums
    • hospitals
    • healthcare
    • the military

    This isn't a far-left policy. This is FDR Democrats.

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

    The postal service has been turned into a junk mail distribution system and there is nothing citizens can do to stop it. It's infuriating.

    Oh and do not be fooled into paying $8 to $9 to companies claiming they can stop the junk mail, that's a HUGE SCAM.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The one thing you CAN do, and it's FREE is to place a FREE freeze on your credit file with the following: Experian Equifax Transunion Chexsystems Lexisnexis

    These leeches are required by law to provide a free method to freeze access to your credit file. They don't make it easy to find, and bury it under their paid "premium" offers, usually in a plain-text link at the bottom of the page.

    Once you do this, those pre-approved credit cards will stop cold. This will increase your credit score every month, as each one is a "soft inquiry" on your file, costing you thousands over time in higher interest rates, denied credit, and denied leases/rental. It also helps slow down identity theft.

    Do this for your kids' social security numbers as well. Those are prime for theft.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    IMHO this makes more a case for socialism than it demonstrates that these things are not socialist.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    My issue is the classification of these particular items being far-left is a failure of what the far-left. Depending on what you consider socialism, this would be it or a conciliation to the ruling class.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    "Tax hike on the rich" sounds offensive, I much prefer "forced wealth redistribution or decapitation" personally

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    It doesn't matter, The people who watch Focks Nooz wouldn't vote for a non-red candidate even if the red candidate said they will literally come and burn down your house if you vote for them.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Her name's Francesca, not Francesa.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Thanks for the advertisment, FOX News!

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

    "BUT how would be pay for all of that ???" Which, not surprisingly, doesn't ever get asked when the DOD's budget gets increased annually.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, that used to work, until they learned to say "We'll just take it from the billionaires," and everyone said "Okay, that's perfectly acceptable."

    Now all they can do is scream "SOCIALISM!" and people are starting to think THAT sounds pretty good, too.

    They're losing their rhetorical weapons quickly, and that arsenal was pretty low to begin with.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Sounds like she's just copying Mamdani. So, good

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Free advertisement! lmao

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Politician called "far-left".

    Expectation: Installation of an egomaniac dictator, which will lead to cult of personality, crackdown on speech and expression based on said dictator's feelings, and installing loyalist to key positions.

    Reality: Bare minimum policies.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine reading that and thinking they are bad ideas.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    none of that is bad no matter how you frame it

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I thought right-wing television shows were against showing porn.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    The horror! OMG the horror. Anyway, let's try it as an experimental effort to demonstrate just how much harm socialism does to actual people. That'll teach 'em..............

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (6 children)
    • Governor - gubernatorial
    • Moon - lunar
    • Brother - fraternal
    • Eye - ocular

    At what point does English admit it made an absolute mess of word forms, borrowing them randomly from different places?

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

    I kinda like it, English is a language based on vibes and theft. It's not here to make sense.

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

    It's the Fr*nch.

    They've ruined everything with their white flags, great wines and reasonable pension age.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Next they condemn public restrooms.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Looks like they know their base is so stupid they can make them hate good things just by saying it’s left. They used to hide it better.

    Also there’s the possibility it’s a plant and this is reverse psychology. I dont know this person and i trust no one now. They’ve done that enough times i wouldn’t be surprised.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fox tells them it's bad, they're brainwashed into thinking everything fox tells them is truth. A normal functioning brain would see how those policies would benefit society...

    (Fox needs to have a disclaimer on all their bullshit that says they are legally required to say this is opinion and not news, as well as quoting their lawyer when he said something like "no one actually believes any of this")

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Alternate Headline: Beautiful flower attempts to grow within a pile of shit.

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

    Conservative voters have been trained to dislike things that are good for them. That's why many Republican controlled areas of this country are almost indistinguishable from 3rd world countries.

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

    The really sinister part is seeing that even some “liberal” Americans have the seeds of conservatism planted in their viewpoints. These are the centrists that tend to say one thing but act out a different way. The brainwashing is deep.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    The Conservative Propaganda Machine has been able to control the political messaging in this country for decades, and some of their messages have become standard belief, like the concept that everything the government does is ALWAYS incompetent and wasteful, and that simply isn't true. MOST of what the government does is very effective.

    The government is an enormous bureaucracy, and if you root around enough, you'll find issues, but overall, it does a pretty amazing job, when responsible people are managing it.

    We need to challenge these standard beliefs that have become dogma, like Dem are bad for the economy (when ALL studies prove that it's MAGA), Socialism is terrible (when many of the best things in America are Socialist, and it still offers better outcomes than whatever we are doing now), etc., and start moving in the direction that we have been so carefully directed away from.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I don’t they realize just how anti-data center Americans of all political stripes have become.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    They did this exact thing to AOC's Green New Deal when she introduced it, and I couldn't comprehend how people could read it as a bad thing (at least those who weren't top 1%ers wanting to evade taxes).

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

    Oh shit. I'm in Wisconsin and didn't know who was running to replace Evers. I knew he was retiring. Thanks for this, now I know I'm voting for her.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You sure about that? The rich will have to pay your childcare! Also, you'll earn at least $20 an hour. Also, your money can't go to overpriced food, because the state will own a place that sells food. On top of that, there won't be any datacenters, so you will be left with enough water, enough electricity and enough land! Doesn't it sound much nicer to have no taxes for the rich? Imagine what they can do with all the money they now don't have to spend on the other people in society. Imagine a world where they can "invest" all of their wealth. Doesn't that sound much better? Think mate!

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    It's like it's free advertising? 😅

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