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[–] 11 points 4 days ago (1 child)

I bet, among all democrats, those 8 are a lot richer now than they were when they first entered the lucrative career of politics.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    Henry Ceullar is a Republican in every way that counts. He had his chief advisor set up a dark money operation that funneled money from Mexico and Azerbaijan to support his campaigns against progressive primary challengers in return for political favors.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 days ago (1 child)
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    That just tells us who needs to go next.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    I actually haven't had the time to look this up. Are there any good examples of Dems that lose their seats over this kind of behavior? The party is pretty infamously anti-socialist even though it appropriates much of the social justice rhetoric that people associate with socialism

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  • [–] 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    What this is actually about:

    This is pure Republican PR. They included a poison pill in the resolution so that Democrats would vote against it, and then they can associate those Democrats with socialism. The reality is that far more than 8 Democrats would have voted in favor of the resolution of it hadn't included that.

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    [–] 47 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    My DEMOCRATIC Congressman is on that list, of course. His office gets a call from me tomorrow. He's such a smarmy loser. I fucking HATE that guy.

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    [–] 32 points 5 days ago (1 child)
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    A bunch of people whose jobs exist because of the socialist practice of combining taxes to pay for government services, have condemned socialism.

    Morons.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The capitalist state isn't socialist in any capacity. Public ownership and publicly run industry under capitalism supports the extension and expansion of capital alone. Taxation isn't socialism either. Socialism is a mode of production and distribution at a societal level, where public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy and the working classes dominate the state.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Presumably, the distrubution would need to be managed by rules, and someone needs to make those. Congress is supposed to represent the working class as elected officials.

    I view schools, the fire departments, and the idea of the public owning the government as a fundamental aspect of socialism.

    Under capitalism, the rich stole the representation and the rich raped the education funding to pay for private schools for white kids. The fire departments are still good but only because we pay out of pocket with large personal donations.

    The whole idea is that the population controls the gov, nit the other way around. The reality is much different.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    That's why we need to understand the concept of the base and superstructure. The base is the economic formation of society, which gives rise to and supports the superstructure, which is the laws and culture of a society, which in turn reinforce the base. Whoever controls the commanding heights of the economy controls the state. Even if it is nominally publicly owned, in capitalism it is de facto privately controlled.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 days ago

    What a good use of time! This really goes a long way towards dispelling the notion that the government is corrupt and incompetent! /s

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago

    What a funny coincidence... Both of my middle fingers unanimously voted to condemn Congress in all its forms.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Is this as useless as a "strongly worded letter"? I think this is pandering more than anything else

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    [–] 13 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    So no more postal service, no more roads, no more trash collectors, right

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    [–] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Well, now you clearly know who to vote out come the primaries.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago*

    Ha. One of them is Henry Cuellar. Party leadership supported him in the primary the last time he had a progressive challenger, and it was because of votes like this.

    They claimed it was because he was the incumbent. But Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman were both incumbents, only they weren't singlemindedly genocidal like every last centrist at all times, so they got no protection.

    And Ken Martin hasn't fixed shit. He is currently presiding over the party's push against the non-genocidal wing.

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    [–] 17 points 5 days ago

    Lets see what shockingly small number of the nays can actually explain what socialism is.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Wait, 8? Out of two 214? So that means 206 democrats didn't do that knowing how much it's actually terrible politically? That's a pretty good result, I wonder why nobody is talking about how good it is, huh?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago*

    Marie Gluzencamp Perez is 100% a maga republican she votes with them basically always and misrepresents her self at every opportunity to the point I knew she would be ok this list

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Remember those names if a revolution ever comes. They'll try to claim they're on your side, only to backstab and sell you out.

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    [–] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    new mexico is the most disapointing. That one says I though so really 7. still.

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    [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    tear up the roads

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    They really have nothing better to do, that they are "allowed" to do by their parties do they?

    Pathetic.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago

    Didn't they already do exactly this in Trump's first presidency?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Guess those Democrats In Name Only faced or are facing primaries against Socialist Democrats?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    I wish. My rep is on there and we had 2 progressive challengers, but near as I can tell, no real support and the result was him winning with like 70%+ of the vote.

    This is the kind of place where people will shoot themselves in the foot before they vote for anyone who might raise taxes or stop bombing brown people.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I thought Hakim was in the list

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    [–] 6 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Great so the U.S. military is no longer?

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