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[-] ClownStatue@piefed.social 123 points 2 months ago

Actually, the other side mostly wants things to stay the same. Their constituents, on the other hand, would like to see better healthcare, education, unions, and stronger safety nets. But since the other side aren’t fascists, their voters are stuck with them.

[-] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 months ago

This right here ☝️. The grassroots democrats I could support. It's the Chuck Schumers and John Fettermans that will undermine the party from within that make supporting democrats difficult.

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Why haven't the democrats kicked out Fetterman?

[-] Corn@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rotating villain. He allows them to tell their constituents "we want what you want, we just don't have the power because of thay one guy, but if you vote just a little harder, we won't pull the football away this time", while telling their donors "we ain't giving them shit lmao".

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

There's always a rotating villain.

Used to be Dianne Feinstein. Then it was Joe Manchin. Then it was that Sinema bitch. Now it's Fetterman and Schumer.

And people just kind of ignore the pattern and pretend it isn't a party-wide PR strategy.

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[-] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

the media is owned by private individuals with their own agenda.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Correction: They SAY they want health care and education, get elected, and then spend their political capital making most people poorer, doing fascism, and genociding.

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[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

No, the media doesn't think that, the owners of the media wants the media to say that they're equal

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 months ago

Equal? Universal healthcare is derided as the delusions of radical extremists. A mere pipedream of anti-semitic tankies, if we're talking the gambit of American media.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

We need to keep repeating this, it's a CLASS war.

[-] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

It's always been a class war. Sometimes we do some of the fighting but the rich are always fighting.

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 months ago

The democrats had the house, senate, and presidency for 4+ years. Where is that Healthcare?

Spoiler: Both sides are bad, they both get paid off. Its just that one side is really fucking honest with you right now ... to the point where they commit crimes in public because no one will do anything about it.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

To be honest what I really want is fully automated luxury gay space communism.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

They won't give us that either.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

That's fine, we'll give it to them for free.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

A lot of world class dipshits on this very platform think both sides are equal. Getting pretty tired of reading

"Both sides are fascist, one's just more open about it."

Stupidest fucking sentiment I've ever had the displeasure of reading. Absolute lack of education and critical thinking skills to say shit like that.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

The lack of critical thinking skills is when people cannot understand that one side is fascist and the other enables the fascists.

To many leftist, capitalist imperialism is just fascism in disguise, and they are entirely correct.

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[-] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Obviously the republicans are genuinely terrible people

But I'll give you an equivalence that actually holds up

Both parties have their snouts in the trough and depend on huge levels of external funding which completely undermines your democracy

That is a problem that needs to be fixed

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The media isn't talking about general ideas, they're talking about political policy.

And, no, the Democrats don't want healthcare and education for everyone as policy, if you think they do, you haven't been paying attention.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Is it easier for the general population to sway the voting of their democrat representatives towards healthcare and education reform or is it easier to sway the Republican reps? What about primaries, if your rep stubbornly refused to support their constituents desire for healthcare and education, are there democrat candidates that could be more focused on those issues? Are there Republican candidates?

You kind of need to work with the system you have until you can change it. Either you find the revolution, join it and force the change through violence, or you work in the system and push the reps you have to make it what you want it to be. There are no third party reps and won't be until you switch to a less archaic electoral system which won't happen without revolution or reps that understand it and see the value.

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[-] xta@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the "media" doesn't "think" they all just push their current agenda

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The two sides are the people and the state/capital, right? ... right?

[-] jeniferariza@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It’s wild how often both sides gets used to blur real differences.

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