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[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The Problem with the left is that they actually have different opinions. The right is just different shades of Nazis. The left is a bunch of fundimentally different approaches to make the world the world a better place. Therefore, of course the Nazis are going to win.

What we are talking about is the paradox of inclusivity. Either the 99% oppress the 1%, or the 1% oppress the 99%. From an ethical, a democratic, a Constitutional, and an ecological standpoint, oppressing the 1% would be the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

The Left seems to be made of up a bunch of different coalitions that can’t agree on the priorities to enact. People are for something but they can’t agree on what.

The Right seems to be made up of a bunch of different coalitions that can’t agree on the priorities to repeal. People are against something but can’t agree on what. They also have Nazis.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You Americans get what you asked for

[–] Makhno 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And what political paradise do you belong to?

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 0 points 12 hours ago

Why so you can run it down to make yourself feel better about living in a shit hole?

[–] finitebanjo 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People really fucking blame Democrats for not being in charge after those same people don't vote for them, goddamn clown country.

[–] SmilingSolaris 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Remember that Democrat super majority? Fucking nothing.

[–] finitebanjo 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I remember over a decade ago when 58 Dems voted for single payer, every Republican and a couple of Independents fucked it up for us, but at least we still got the medicaid expansion that gave coverage to millions of American citizens.

Before that, the 111th congress had a dem supermajority for only 72 days and it is the most productive congress on record since the 89th congress as far as bills passed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most the people I know that did vote for them blame them for not being in charge. Yes, it is a clown country.

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[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 8 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Dems gross incompetence is the exact reason they can't get enough votes to win what should have been the easiest election of all of our lifetimes

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[–] rational_lib 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What do you expect from a party that has no power? Honestly Republicans should be more pissed off, they have all 3 branches of government and they're doing symbolic bullshit with 0 chance of success to appeal to Trump specifically, and it'll work because he never watched School House Rock. Not that I'm complaining.

[–] SmilingSolaris 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when the Democrats had a super majority and did literally fuck all with it? No abortion law, no privacy laws, literally fucking nothing? I do. Cause I remember being real excited they might actually do something and now I'm jaded because they fucking didn't.

Keep watching and you'll be just as pissed at how much the Democrats insist on fucking kneecapping themselves at every available opportunity. I mean, Jesus. Christ. Kamala ran on building the fucking wall.

[–] rational_lib 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Remember when the Democrats had a super majority

1979-81 is before my time. In 2021-23 Democrats had a majority in the house and a weak-as-possible majority in the senate (a supermajority is 60 votes, enough to break a filibuster) with only 50 votes*, with Kamala as a tiebreaker.

In all practical terms though, that kind of majority is a Republican majority. In order to control the Senate at all (due to the fact that every state, even rural red states with less than a million people gets 2 votes), Democrats have to include people who are basically Republicans in their senate races, like Joe Manchin - a "Democrat" who refused to endorse Biden or Harris over Trump this last election. And that's exactly why codifying Roe failed - Manchin said no.

I'm not here to defend Democrats though. I think they should've kicked out Manchin a long time ago and stop hiding how broken the system is. But they're not the problem, they're just the insufficient cure. Republicans are the problem, fight them. If Democrats are too centrist, then the left should be primarying Republicans and attempting to make a hostile takeover of the party.

*Technically even this was not a Democrat majority, as it included 2 independents - 1 was Bernie Sanders, the other was the more centrist Angus King

[–] thespcicifcocean 3 points 20 hours ago

the constitution only matters if the people who enforce it actually decide to.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 5 points 1 day ago

The right found themselves someone who champions their values in as much the same way as the left finds a champion in the Roosevelts.

I think it's pendulum swinging to the right in general as is nature of politics. Hopefully it won't last long and someone doesn't stick a knife to stop the pendulum swinging back. There is still plenty of hope considering that many Americans are still resisting. I don't know who is who in both the Senate and the House, but I'm sure the Democrats will vote down the proposal to allow a third term to a president, and a Republican one at that.

[–] Rhoeri 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (26 children)

The fact that people actually believe that this is all the democrats are currently doing clearly illustrates exactly why we had so many protest voters.

It seems as if the far left won’t ever be convinced of anything unless it-

A) Agrees with what they already believe
B) Is in an easy-to-read meme format
C) Comes from their communal clipboard of copypasta marxist rhetiric.

I’m incredibly angry that trump won, but not at all surprised. These people make up not just a portion of our voting body, but also a huge portion of our NON-voting body.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 12 points 1 day ago

The Democratic Party is in a timeloop for thirty years if they believe that courting centrists and right wing voters still work in the age of growing wealth inequality. Actually, forget that, the Democrats still want to court centrists and the right in order to send signal to the true rulers that are oligarchs, that they are just as right wing as the Republicans in order to keep receiving corporate donations and make money from stocks.

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[–] Majorllama 112 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Something something enjoy your republican overlords for the rest of time.

Seriously what the fuck is the democratic party doing anymore. It seriously feels like the second Obama left they collectively forgot what the fuck they were doing.

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

It's because they had nothing to do with Obama. Obama was the result of the last honest primary with no fuckery, and the DNC immediately regretted it. They wanted Hillary to get the nomination in '08, so they forced her through in '16.

[–] givesomefucks 75 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The people running the show since Obama left are the ones that are still pissed he beat Hillary in 08.

Instead of reshaping the DNC, Obama ignored it and Hillary's people have had a hold of it except the brief few months Donna Brazil got in. And since she went public with all the shit they'd been doing, we haven't seen anything else for 8 years.

They know exactly what they're doing won't win elections.

They know exactly what will win elections instead.

But that's not what fills their campaign coffers, so that's not what we'll get from them.

The goals of Dem voters and Dem leadership haven't been aligned for decades.

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[–] halcyoncmdr 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I spend WAY too much time online and see all the stupid viral videos because of it, and I pay attention to politics a LOT more than the average American does getting their hour of ~~news~~ propaganda from billionaire-owned media each night from the TV and facebook posts from their bubble of "friends".

What fucking viral Tuna Melt moment?

Only 80 year old geriatric with dementia would consider that viral, wait.

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[–] Shardikprime 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can someone explain me what was the tuna melt moment? All I get is literal tuna sandwiches in the Google search

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, if that's the most viral they went in the last 5 years, they're in trouble. I don't remember anything like that happening either.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it was that time Biden walked into a Subway and said "you're telling me a tuna melted this sandwhich?" and everyone laughed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Dear lord. I guess that explains everything about how the Democrats failed to win. They live in a different world.

[–] Shameless 36 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Can't someone make a new party that actually represents working class people and just get rid of Democrats? By many other countries politics, Democrats look more right than left

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Alternative title: "What CNBC is reporting on vs What FOX News is reporting on"

Correction: "vs What FOX News is tweeting about"

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