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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Nancy Pelosi ‘Actively Working to Tank’ AOC’s Committee BidEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Nope, McTurtle got rich along the way. But his lifelong goal has been packing the courts.

    He is literally salivating like he just walked into a salad bar at the 42 vacancies Biden is about to hand over.

    Pelosi doesn’t give a shit about the Dem platform or helping people. She wants America to stay in the early 90s, that used to be enough to be considered somewhat progressive.

    But the early 90s were 30 years ago. Imagine calling someone in the early 90s progressive because they wanted America to go back to pre civil rights movement.

    That’s the same time frame.

    The right move was forming a serious left third party decades ago. We’d have a right, center, and left party and nothing would get done without some compromise between the wings, likely leading to a more fluid party structure.

    We’d never see this shit where a handful of republican extremists sabotage everything no matter who has the majority.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Democrats Lost the Propaganda WarEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Still missing the entire point:

    Democrats are missing something that is arguably a prerequisite for ideological messaging to have any effect whatsoever: a media apparatus that can get these messages in front of swing voters.

    We only need a propagand machine to trick people.

    The whole country just united over a dude killing a CEO. We’d unite over actual progressive policy too.

    Propaganda machines are a replacement to manufacturer interest, we can just run on a platform that’s already interesting to voters.

    Like, this author is fucking Hung up on print newspapers for some reason, and wants the party to literally make a propaganda machine…

    Democratic funders could set up new local papers in strategic counties, or buy up some of the remaining husks and staff them up. I would just put together a bog-standard paper with some liberal editorials, but one could make it tabloid-y or explicitly partisan to taste

    It’s fucking insane. No one should be listening to this person for any reason.

    Anyone that claims newspaper are important for elections really…

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•DNC chair candidates say the party needs to do a postmortem of the 2024 electionEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    How Democrats used their vast resources has come under particular scrutiny after Harris’ presidential campaign raised — and spent — a stunning $1.4 billion in 107 days. The pace rattled supporters, donors and even some on the campaign, who complained of lavish spending on celebrities and ongoing appeals for money even after Harris lost the election.

    The only reason why we found out about 2015 shenanigans was neoliberals tucking tail after trump won so Donna Brazile had a chance to see the books.

    This is a huge chance to pry the party out of neoliberal hands, because Jamie Harrison is acting like most of Biden’s picks and resigning before things get difficult.

    But there is zero fucking chance $1,700,000,000 was raised and spent in 107 days and there wasn’t any grifting going on. The purpose of Kamala’s campaign wasn’t to win an election, it was to churn a bunch of money so people could take their slices.

    We can’t afford to do it a fourth time in a row.

    Winning the election needs to be the priority of the party.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’English
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    18 hours ago

    You had two bad options in front of you and used your sense of right and wrong to choose the one that would hurt the least number of people and who wasn’t a cartoonish villain

    The problem is we haven’t had fair primaries since 2008 and even the “less bad” option is bad.

    There is a very small wing of the Dem party who takes a shit ton of money to (legally) rig the primary

    And we have to face facts that they’re willing to lose the general because the only way they lose power in the party is if a progressive wins and appoints a progressive DNC chair. So because the primary isn’t legally an election and they’re allowed to put a finger on the scale, they ensure progressives can’t win the primary.

    Continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils, just ensures our only two options are evil.

    We’re standing in the middle of a game of chicken where both drivers would rather die than lose.

    You might think it’s not worth talking about, and while I disagree you can have an opinion.

    But why try to stop people from talking about it?

    Isn’t now the perfect time?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’English
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    19 hours ago

    Buddy, voting for someone that actively supports a genocide isnt “right” anyway you cut it.

    It’s “less worse”.

    And if you don’t think I’m saying it eloquently enough:

    I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

    https://letterfromjail.com/

    It ain’t just a race thing, it’s a class thing.

    So MLK’s quote is very relevant to how Moderates aren’t our allies, they’re actively working against us.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’English
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    20 hours ago

    but I’d be hard pressed to think of a more progressive president than him in my lifetime

    Huh?

    I think you’re confusing an 81 year old who finally stopped fighting against social change and someone fighting for social change…

    And Obama was far from perfect, but waaaaaay more progressive than Joe. Joe was literally bundled with Obama so old white people wouldn’t be scared of the young smooth talking Black guy with a progressive campaign.

    What logic makes Biden the most progressive president of your life time?

    And that’s an opinion, if you believe it to be true. I struggle to understand why that means it’s enough when it clearly wasn’t or trump wouldn’t be going back to the White House…

    Quick edit:

    dedication to student loans

    Lol

    What about his dedication to abortion too? Or anything else he promised, barely tried to do, then immediately called voters ignorant for thinking a Dem president with a Dem House and Dem Senate could accomplish anything.

    After running a primary campaign focused solely on how only he could get Senate Republicans to vote for the Dem party platform.

    Stop giving credit for what they say they want to do, give credit after they do something

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Mitch McConnell says Trump win puts Americans in a ‘very dangerous world’English
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    21 hours ago

    Imagine putting party loyalty ahead of your own sense of right and wing. I mean, can you? Because I can’t imagine it.

    I wouldn’t describe it as “party loyalty” but I’ve voted straight D for over 20 years.

    2008 was the only time I felt like I was voting for “right”, every other time has just been the least worst option.

    2020 the candidate I voted for became president, I didn’t feel like I won though. I thought moderate policy wasn’t able to effectively fight fascism and Biden would move too slow to hold anyone accountable for 1/6.

    I was right, but in 2024 we didn’t get a primary and my only option was Kamala, and even though I had the same concerns I still had my nose. But not enough other people did. Even if they had, we still wouldn’t have “won” just lost less.

    If everyone put their own sense of right and wrong above loyalty to either party, we’d have a third party president. Because both parties are wildly corrupt and care more about rich donors than voters.