And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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    17 days ago

    Democrats will keep losing because that’s their sole purpose.

    Ratchet effect.

    The Republicans tug on the levers of power pulling everything right.

    The Democrats’ duty is to normalize and rationalize while the GOP resets for the next tug.

    There are Democrats that do actually care, but the DNC leadership is well right of center and would rather lose to Trump than win with Burnie.

    Democrats will always lose because liberals are right of center nimby turds that will continue to worship capitalism as we all burn.

    Anyone expecting the Democrats to save them is ignoring this is the first election in decades no state Democrat contested any result and PA, NY, and NV all show results that are statically impossible and obviously manipulated.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/s/sWhn4WM7sW

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    It should not be on her shoulders to explain this moment. The fact that she is able to articulate our current crisis is amazing.

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    People think the Democrats are losing relevance because they’re “Too woke”, and “No one cares about transpeople when there are bills to pay”

    It’s really because they do shit like try to compromise with someone who wants to kill you by agreeing to let them cut off an arm.

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    i have a question - where is Kamala Harris in all this ? She lost the prez race and decided to just give up on her dreams of creating a better USA? This is the perfect moment for her to step up, invite people for resistance, lead that resistance and be the leader she claimed to be.

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      She’s taking the money from the DNC debt and hiding until she can flee the country from Trump and act like she’s saving us by having a political leader in exile.

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    17 days ago

    Where are all the 2a folks who are going to stop the ‘tyRAnNicAl gOvERnMenT’

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        “Tyranny is only when the evil Commie Leftists tell you that its wrong to call peoppe by slurs.”

        – Average 2A supporter mindset

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        More like they wouldn’t know a tyrant even if one shouted “I’m a fucking tyrant”.

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    “We’re literally losing our democracy!!!”

    votes for it to continue for the 200th time in a row

    “How could this happen?!”

    helps them do it again

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    The only way anything she says will have any impact is if she start getting the army ready to launch a counter-coup, or else starts building a leftwing militia.

    No amount of not-nice wordsmithing and congressional wankery is going to work – we’re past that point now.

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      Uncanny, Lemmy took the mask off and became a bunch of actual unhinged psychopaths calling for a military coup d’etat LMAO 🤣

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      She suggested the full dem party to stop focusing on pronouns and idpol way back when Biden was still on ballots.

      She took her pronouns out of her bio which is 100% correct, no one cares about that shit

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    AOC and others who are prepared to fight this bullshit need to spin off their own political party. I figure it would only take the departures of a handful of high-profile progressives to make the whole house of cards fall. The country is being pillaged, and the Dems’ response has been completely fucking impotent. Time to build a new party that isn’t run by geriatric milquetoasts.

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        This is how they lose.

        If you had a party actually for the people, you would get a lot of the Trump votes as well. Most of MAGA weren’t about racist bullshit or half of what’s happened since the changeover.

        They are tired of the corporate and government corruption and Trump promised (lied) to do something about that. We need to offer the same hope without all the hate. We need to offer change without just saying the other side is evil. It isn’t the ‘other side’ that is the problem. It’s the corrupt people in positions of power and the ones that tell you to blame the ‘other side’.

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        18 days ago

        Who the fuck cares about spoiling a vote between mask off and mask on fascist. The democrats are lost we need real leadership.

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            Exactly. Getting rid of all the shitty Democrats is a tall order, but the Tea Partiers didn’t do that, they just took as many of them down as possible and scared the rest into obedience.

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              Tea party has a lot of money and nothing else to do but play intrigues for decades.

              You cannot adapt this strategy for the masses of people who still need to feed their families.

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                I don’t see how “having to feed their family” plays into this at all. Tea Partiers didn’t apply mass numbers at their stunts, just kept showing up. Angry Democrats are not so pressed for time that we can’t muster a few hundred to protest and make a spectacle any time a Democratic politician goes back on a promise.

                I also do not find the “money rules everything” fatalism particularly useful. The Democrats keep losing races despite raising more money, and people like AOC still beat entrenched donor-focused politicians.

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          That they were so ineffective and unable to mount a campaign against an obvious felonious, grifting, lying rapist is all the proof I need that they’re incapable of leading.

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            We need to stop pretending their failures began in the campaign. It’s not just that they failed in a monumental election, it’s that they’ve failed to secure courts, failed to build a counter part to the heritage foundation, failed to jail the politicians that attempted a coup when they had power. They are simply not equip to fight the rise of fascism, the same as the liberals of Germany.

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    Both parties need to split up into new parties. However, the money flowing is incentive to prevent them from doing that. Party splits have happened before several times in US history. This time the billionaires are funding all of this chaos thanks to legislation they started passing since post Watergate. How do we get them to split? Take the money out or give them more money than the billionaires can. Both resolutions that should not require drawing blood. How do we do that? I have no idea how to fund more money than billionaires, but being somewhat of an optimist, 99% of the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue.

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      TBH we should probably stop regurgitating state propaganda trying to convince us that violence isn’t a valid form of protest.

      Because the rich have backed themselves into a corner where the only thing that will snap them out of their delusions of world domination is to be forced by the rest of us to confront their own mortality.

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    It isn’t playing nice if you know the people you’re approving are fascists. It makes them rolling over even worse. Republicans had no issue obstructing whenever they felt needed.

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      I mean what the fuck are they even doing?

      When the Republicans were out in 2020, they pushed back on everything and everyone, fuck the consequences, which there never are any, and let their base know they had their backs regardless, and even if they voted they damn well made it known they did so reluctantly.

      Here you’ve got Democrats who aren’t even putting things up for a fight and then they have members going on air touring how great these guys are, fucking Fetterman.

      There’s no spine in any of these Democrat assholes so why the hell would I vote for any of them at this point if your going to make it easy for fascists? There is no lesser of two evils now, just sickening enablers.

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    10+ brand new accounts commenting in this thread, with 2 of them less than a day old. Did Lemmy get an influx of new accounts or are these bots?

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      Reddit had a “bug” that banned all NSFW and lgbtq+ subs stating that they were inactive (they were not) and ONLY those subs. So a bunch of people moved here (myself included now that most subs I follow moved here)

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      Some Reddit users. Reddit was A/B testing a zuckservative sub Reddit ban, so spooked people probably. I found my way here thru a Reddit thread.

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    At this point US needs leaders who can mobilize people and spearhead protest marches in the street. AOC is perfectly positioned to call for such protest march. If she does that and become figurehead of the Dem Allies against MuskTrump axis, she might get elevated to same status as MLK and may be even Lincoln. And on that note, why Kamala is quiet ?

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      Kamala is 100% corporate Dem, and they helped create this mess. She has zero interest in recognizing that she was and is part of the problem.