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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We need a new party. Or burn it all to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Electoral politics are clearly a fools errand at this point anyway

[–] [email protected] 30 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

"oh but why won't people vote for the democrats?!?!"

Because they're fucking pussies. Time to vote for the Black Panther Party. I don't care if you're white. I am too.

Now dawn that black beret and start marching with rifle in hand. We're going to go form some fucking cooperatives!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

C’mon, they waved those little signs and all that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And those same people won't vote for an AOC or Sanders in their district because... Reasons?

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

Right seriously

"Erm Bernie isn't viable because he's too radical"

As if Biden or Harris had any appeal aside from not being Trump????

I'm still mad people didn't care that the dems essentially skipped their primary as a way to cheese their candidate selection and not because they actually didn't have the time to complete a primary.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago

Democratic party is the party of status quo.

Conservative party is the party of destruction/cancer.

The people want a party of progress.

The people will never get what they want with these two parties in charge of everything.

Just a sad fact. Things will get worse before they get better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

Fuck Americans. And I say that as an American.

A good chunk of you dont give a fuck about voting and that's why were here.

And they probably aren't smart enough to sign up to Lemmy.

So eat it up. Everyday. Wake up and smell it. All the shit.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Voters: Free Luigi, eat the rich

Elected officials: 💁‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

Exactly.

Eventually something minor cannot be done, we want democrat politicians to stop cooperating with Republicans... but no, they just roll to expose their belly and vote in the budget bill.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Democratic leaders blearily looked up from their mid-afternoon cocktails on the decks of billionaire's yachts and said, "They want us to what?"

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

Indeed, they're just too status quo.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago

Trump is actively killing democracy. Some Democratic politicians have chosen the most pathetic, inexcusable response possible: bland indifference.

I’m torn between fear that our government will collapse, and the cynical realization that maybe it deserves to.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, trumps polling all time low numbers, democrats are polling low numbers.

I feel like if I release T-Shirts that just say "Everything sucks", they would be universally popular.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*gestures broadly* T-shirts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Person wearing "gestures broadly" t-shirt standing next to someone wearing a "Thanks, I hate it" t-shirt.

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

Unfortunately I think the people need to start fighting first. Neither side can count on their elected officials anymore. One side is just too stupid to realize it yet...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Need some serious, if not injurious protests. Time to fight and make some noise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Democratic party is owned by capitalists. They will never fight for policy that actually improves living conditions of the working class, and thus their sole ‘popularity’ has to stem from people who think they will fight against fascism (they won’t and they don’t).

[–] [email protected] -5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Leninism and Stalinism is every bit as bad as fascism. In fact they are practically the same thing. That why Stalin made a military invasion pact with Hitler against Poland.

They will never fight for policy that actually improves living conditions of the working class

You mean like social security, medicare, and the ACA?

thus their sole ‘popularity’ has to stem from people who think they will fight against fascism

This is backwards. Their unpopularity is because they aren't fighting nearly enough against fascism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Socialist states have been very effective against fascism, it’s a shame that the US keeps couping them by providing weapons and insane amounts of money to actual fascist groups.

How has medicare worked out for you? Last I heard the whole US population was celebrating the murder of a healthcare CEO because the US healthcare system systematically bankrupts and/or kills working class people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kamala dropped the ball with the presidential campaign. She had no opinion on any issue that majority of voters really cared about. No wonder the entire democratic party gets backlash

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (8 children)

She should have never been the candidate. Biden put her in an unwinnable position. The old geezer's ego cost America it's democracy.

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

Harris didn't, at least not alone; 2024 was a party platform problem.

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

US voters want to fight against the one party state .... the Democrat/Republican Party

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I'm eagerly waiting to see US voters fighting against Republicans, I'm not sure I've seen it in my whole adult life

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

fight rather than compromise

Why are there so many stupid people that can vote? Because that is how fascists and authoritarian governments get to grab power.

History has given us some of the best documented examples of how it can go terribly wrong. Specifically Hitler and how he first destroyed democracy. Every step Trump is taking is the same as Hitler did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Hungary is another good case of how the right got into power and then changed laws to make it extremely unlikely they will ever be unseated.

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