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[–] takeiteasypolicy 4 points 30 minutes ago

At this point US needs leaders who can mobilize people and spearhead protest marches in the street. AOC is perfectly positioned to call for such protest march. If she does that and become figurehead of the Dem Allies against MuskTrump axis,, she might get elevated to same status as MLK and may be even Lincoln. And on that note, why Kamala is quiet ?

[–] takeiteasypolicy 2 points 26 minutes ago

i have a question - where is Kamala Harris in all this ? She lost the prez race and decided to just give up on her dreams of creating a better USA? This is the perfect moment for her to step up, invite people for resistance, lead that resistance and be the leader she claimed to be.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Where are all the 2a folks who are going to stop the 'tyRAnNicAl gOvERnMenT'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

It's our tyrannical government, so it's okay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

"Tyranny is only when the evil Commie Leftists tell you that its wrong to call peoppe by slurs."

-- Average 2A supporter mindset

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

you know 2a extends to every american, not just the ones who want to marry kids?

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

More like they wouldn't know a tyrant even if one shouted "I'm a fucking tyrant".

[–] boaratio 24 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It should not be on her shoulders to explain this moment. The fact that she is able to articulate our current crisis is amazing.

[–] Ensign_Crab 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It should not be on her shoulders to explain this moment.

I can think of no shoulders more capable.

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

It should not be on her shoulders only.

[–] Ensign_Crab 1 points 45 minutes ago

It should not, no. But here we are.

[–] SoftestSapphic 0 points 48 minutes ago

Unfortunately everyone else seems to be complicit.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Both parties need to split up into new parties. However, the money flowing is incentive to prevent them from doing that. Party splits have happened before several times in US history. This time the billionaires are funding all of this chaos thanks to legislation they started passing since post Watergate. How do we get them to split? Take the money out or give them more money than the billionaires can. Both resolutions that should not require drawing blood. How do we do that? I have no idea how to fund more money than billionaires, but being somewhat of an optimist, 99% of the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue.

[–] SoftestSapphic 1 points 46 minutes ago

TBH we should probably stop regurgitating state propaganda trying to convince us that violence isn't a valid form of protest.

Because the rich have backed themselves into a corner where the only thing that will snap them out of their delusions of world domination is to be forced by the rest of us to confront their own mortality.

[–] Soup 8 points 3 hours ago

Once Conservatives and “centrists” stop handing power to the worst people we could probably just start reversing this global shift to the right even just with that. Progressive candidates are all over, we’re just too collectively stupid to vote for them.

[–] dustyb0tt0mz 5 points 3 hours ago

the population can probably figure out a way once they stop this tribal mentality of red vs blue

which is never going to happen. one side has to lose. buy guns.

[–] Suavevillain 38 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It isn't playing nice if you know the people you're approving are fascists. It makes them rolling over even worse. Republicans had no issue obstructing whenever they felt needed.

[–] RufusFirefly 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried talking to Trump voters. It's fucking impossible because they live in an alternate universe and see a completely different reality than everybody else.

[–] Suavevillain 1 points 1 hour ago

There is no way to get through them tbh. They worship rich people want to be the next wealthy billionaire no matter what the cost. They have no demands of policy net positive for their own countrymen at all.

[–] Gammelfisch 69 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

She's saying the thing the Radical Tankie Left has been saying since the Clinton Era. It's good to hear someone in her position repeating the message one more time. But the fact that it has to come from a fringe member of a fringe caucus, rather than - say - Hakeem Jefferies or Dick Durban, is depressing.

We're so far away from a McConnell style "We're going to make Obama a one-term President" moment. Liberals simply cannot understand politics as conflict. Its always just make'n deals for your district's rich friends and stuffing your own pockets along the way.

[–] Quadhammer -3 points 3 hours ago

Liberals ✊✊✊💦💦💦

Updoots to the left

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Stop salty or buttering it up.

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