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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Oh, that'll really help.

Somewhere in DC, there's a speedbump that they should name after Biden.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's not Biden.

It's the party.

it needs a culling. absolute decimation. vote nearly all of them out. you know the very few that should stay. erase the rest from history.

dude if a republican unwittingly says something that doesn't call for death of trans people they'll be immediately ousted. democrats out here capitulating to nazis. be a little republican. get them out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If voting worked they would abolish voting. Both parties have the same masters.

Keep setting Tesla dealerships on fire, the only things capitalists respond to are forced devaluation events

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

They are trying to abolish voting, see voter suppression laws and pretty much every voting rights case the Supreme Court has seen during Roberts's tenure.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why has the left been floundering for the past dozen years? It doesn't feel like the common man has anyone to represent us.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Take your pick/all:

$$$/ lobbyists/ citizen united/ Dems deepthroating Corpo influence/ dinosaur leaders pruning any progressive candidates

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

The guy that appointed Republican Merrick Garland to AG can fuck right off forever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Fark off. We're not giving you guys a goddamn thing. You are WAY too comfortable with doing nothing and compromising with 100% concentrated evil. I'll be voting for candidates who were born AFTER the Battle of the Bulge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just retire already. I still regret my vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're getting downvoted but your comment prompts a thought. Would trump 2020 be as dangerous as 2024 trump? The time spent planning and organizing on their part has led to an extremely quick response in destroying this country compared to what happened in his 1st term

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been saying this and it's an unpopular opinion... it honestly would have been better if Trump had just won in 2020.

Yes, COVID would have continued to be a disaster but we wouldn't have the J6 experience, he would still have a few of the old guard people keeping him in check, and he wouldn't have Elon Musk on board with him.

Most importantly: he would be blamed for the post-COVID shit that was his fault, rather than Biden taking the heat for not fixing the disaster Trump left him. The selective amnesia that settled over half the population from 2021-2024 would not have happened.

And we would be fucking done with Trump by now. My god, imagine that. He flies away on Jan 20, 2025 and we never have to hear from him ever again. Wouldn't that be heaven?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If Democrats were the opposition party during the genocide you wouldn’t get online liberals justifying it and ridiculing anyone opposed to it. The Democrats would have probably won in 2024 too.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What a weird coincidence that, just as AOC and Bernie begin a wildly successful tour of the country, we start hearing about the Biden's wanting to help lead the party or Kamala being the the top choice for 2028.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

May as well get ready for president Ivanka Trump in 2028. The DNC is its own worst enemy.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like how suddenly all the milquetoast candidates capitulated to Biden just before Super Tuesday when Bernie was winning states.

Always weird how they use dirty tactics for the left but never the fascists...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Or how they delayed announcing a winner in Iowa, rigged at least one delegate coin flip, and eventually anointed Buttigieg the winner even though Bernie received more votes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

These comments smell tankie af

Biden is giving free money to the progressive party far in advance of the midterms, I say we lock in and join the parade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which progressive party would that be? Is there a viable progressive party? Is it in the room with us now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DNC wants to tax the rich, fund everyone's healthcare, ban lobbying, draw fair election maps, protect the rights of minorities, stop climate change, and protect the right to worship whatever you want.

If they had the authority to pass everything on their platform, if they had a trifecta and 60 senators for the first time since 1979 and a bunch of conservative SCOTUS judges croaked so we could replace them, then the USA would be further left than more than half of the EU.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DNC wants to

DNC says it wants to...

That's something entirely different. When the Dems have had the votes, they didn't deliver. Just like Trump, ignore the words, look at the actions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They've literally done more than half of these things and Republicans make a career out of tearing it down at every opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Ah yes. Give money to the “progressive party” so it can do progressive things like funding ads for far right republicans in primaries:

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads

Or backing “centrist” primary candidates against progressive candidates.

Very progressive. This amalgamation of rich people’s money and consultants is a great political ally.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose he had to offer, it was his support of Israel murdering Palestinian women and children that lost Harris the election, but I think it's best for Joe to have a quiet retirement.

Maybe, in time, we'll remember him fondly as Obama's VP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really want to get into this opinion. You really believe the 2024 election broke to republicans favor over Palestine? If you are one of the voters that advocated for not voting, are you happy with the result? Is palestine now better off due to trump?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not American. Palestine wasn't the only reason, but it certainly lost Harris the Arab vote and Trump only just scraped through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

A bold gambit. Let's see if they can survive 4 years of extra judicial ICE deportations. I don't envy anyone of middle eastern decent if we start a war with iran. Scapegoats just like 2001 but with way less civil rights. Should be fun!

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