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[–] 87 points 3 weeks ago (39 children)

It's a long-honored tradition that liberals fuck over progressives.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

    I get downvoted every time I call out establishment liberal dems for things like backtracking on trans rights, etc, in order to entice conservative voters, who will probably never vote for them, based on their so-called effective campaign platform of “Orange man bad,” without any message of changing material conditions for citizens.

    Dems willing to compromise in order to get elected and maintain their seats will absolutely join with GOP on issues like trans rights. I don’t know how the “vote blue line” gaslighters can’t comprehend this.

    The reason the hold so much responsibility in this is they’re supposed to be the buffer against crazy alt-right fascism, but so many capitulate to it, like Hakeem Jeffries. They should be the ones fighting things like genocide in Gaza. Instead, they take the same AIPAC money, when they could be championing human rights and trying to pull anti-Zionist GOPs towards their direction, not the other way around.

    Case in point: Reagancrats and Clinton. Liberal Dems don’t stand up for workers, they just go with the zeitgeist of the times. Because they inside trade and take bribes from special interests, too. They are not pro-worker or pro-social justice, they are pro-status quo.

    I believe in voting. Vote! Don’t sit at home. Vote for candidates who are truly leftists and pro-worker and pro-human rights.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    They're probably trying to entice their own centrists and not MAGA.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/11/most-americans-are-uncomfortable-with-transgender-athletes-on-sports-teams-that-dont-match-their-birth-sex/

    This stupid ass obsession with sports permeates everything in American culture in stupefying ways.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Especially when no one in the US pays any attention to women’s sports. All of a sudden, it becomes a big issue when scapegoats are needed to perpetuate the cultural war. 😂

    I don’t understand how people devote so much time to staring at sports games on a TV, when you could be enriching your life with family, hobbies or constructive things like meal prepping on Sundays, so one doesn’t have to shove expensive convenience junk from Mondelez, Nestle and Monsanto in their mouths during the week.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    "Uncomfortable" does not mean "is an important voting issue". There are policy questions that would affect people's lives that have much greater support in left-inclined voters that get disregarded because "people only care about kitchen table issues".

    Republicans care about this because there's a constant culture war being pushed by their propaganda to distract from everything else being unpopular and it's all they have left. The guy who leans Democratic and is uncomfortable has other things that matter to him. When it comes to voting and vibes, most Republicans probably do too.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago*

    I don’t know how the “vote blue line” gaslighters can’t comprehend this.

    they absolutely do, what they're wary of is the myriad of other issues that can also be much, much worse under the GOP. Exhibit 1, DJT. Sure go hard at primaries AND keep calling those Dems out but... you're choosing to hurt everyone else as well by not voting.

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    [+] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago

    How else are the Dems gonna make sure Trump is successful and free?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    Democrats screwed everyone, together with Republicans, because they're the exact same people.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    No, they screwed over the american people. Bernie may have deserved the presidency, sure. The people deserved Bernie more.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

    Oh look perfectly timed dissent for dem voters. Right before.m the midterms

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago*

    In 2016 they had a coordinated and clear effort to undermine the election and get Hilary in the primary over Bernie. Trump won.

    In 2024 they all agreed to not challenge Biden despite serious concerns the ones in the know must have had.

    Thats twice now they rolled out the red carpet for trump and in both cases it was to make damn sure their preferred candidate won the primary voters be damned.

    It really should be brought up each election because it seems like they really want to keep doing it.

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    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (55 children)

    Jesus, what more could possibly be said about this a full ten years after?

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    That your party is captured by business interests and if you don't decouple your party from business, nothing will get better for anyone who ain't a business leader.

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