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Little known fact about us Germans, we all act in unison as a swarm entity. When we vote, the election results are 100% for one candidate, everybody always supports every bill that is brought in parliament since our minds are melded together. We strive for unity and to bring you shitty fossil fuel cars. Eat our Sauerkraut to become one with the hive Gemeinschaft.

I think the vast majority of Democrats in House and Senate will bend the knee or just stay silent before facing persecution.

And everybody voting the furthest left viable is a flimsy strategy for fighting fascism. Many people already do that all the time, but you can't make sure that everybody does. Also, with this there never was a chance to move the party any further left. Every election there was this myth that you have to vote moderate to change the party, but it never happened. Why should it? Moderates can say that the voters have shown they want moderate positions when they win. And when they lose for some reason they go, "Well, if you need them the most the progressives will stab you in the back. Let's cut them out". This is what I mean there are no consequences for Democrats, at least for the leadership that's moderate and neoliberal. They will never move.

Masterful bait sir, you truly got them

I'm seeing a lot of voter bashing but the same Democrats in power. I get the criticism against voters. They should have voted neoliberal. But the Democrats set this vote up to fail. They just don't seem to get any consequences for it.

No, they aren't. Expecting the Dems to get the vote by not being the fascists is a low standard. They have to present more than that. They didn't, in fact, and now the party blames leftists for not voting hard enough when it's their failure.

Jesus, when Luigi Mangione allegedly killed that healthcare CEO, it showed how the entire country liked seeing that, and the Democratic party has no idea what kind of campaign they could maybe run? I'm not saying they should run on a billionaire purge platform, but c'mon, maybe use your one billion dollar campaign funds for sending a message for you and not against the other one. Instead we got a 25k grant for a house purchase if you jump through three hoops. Wow, inspiring stuff.

And Hillary Clinton being characterized as making "no big changes" tells the whole story here. Her opponent went on a "drain the swamp", "we're going to make America great again" campaign and building up a hispanic and muslim scape goat. Everyone who is educated knew these were lies, but people were bad off, even then, and needed change. To be a hawkish candidate in a war exhausted society who runs on nothing but trying to achieve the first female presidential office is a weak attempt at saving America from Trump.

The amount of hatred against phantom leftists that on the one hand lost the Dems the vote and on the other were too weak to have their demands considered is crazy.

No, these people didn't lose you the vote. They don't even exist in this ambivalent form. It was everyday citizens that heard Democrats push the same racist border talking points Trump spewed last election and went "Hm, if even the Dems say this is a problem, I'll vote the party that talked about how evil Migrants were for decades, the GOP". It's people tired of increasingly struggling to make ends meet and the Dems saying everything will stay the same, while Trump promised them change. We know that he just means destroying the last remnants of social security nets for poor people and everything that stands in the way for oligarchs making kaijulllian dollars. But people are stupid and desperate. Why can't the Democratic party be held to a higher standard than whatever this is?

You can't make the survival of democracy hinge on everybody having to vote for you because else it would be getting even worse. You actually have to present an option that promises that things get better. Significantly even, since most people in the US are absolutely struggling.

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A fair bit of reform isn't what people are hoping for. They want radical change. Trump in a fucked up way promises that even though we all know it will be disastrous and just even more oligarchy.

I don't know much about Hillary's campaign other than hawkish speeches against Iran. I definitely dont remember radical promises that truly make the lives of Americans better.

Now, Kamala definitely didn't present any great ideas in her campaign better than 25k for houses if you fit some specific criteria. Tell me how that's a radical idea to combat high costs of living across the board. At first, when she announced Walz she made anti price gouging remarks, but she seemingly dropped those. Biden did have some progressive policies (he couldn't communicate since he was a mummy, but hey) which she could try to lift and use herself as a starting point. She didn't. She did the "Trump was horrible, remember?" campaign which is a remix of Hillarys losing "Trump is crazy" strategy.

600,000 people are homeless. People are in endless medical or student debt. Prices are sky high. Billionaires are getting even richer. And Kamala can't find a simple but radical slogan to combat one of these problems. Instead she says she's not gonna change much when the perception is that Biden did too little . Even if Biden actually has been better than he could present himself in his tine, she should have said I'm gonna step up our game. Even if it meant hurting the feelings of a president with dementia.

Yeah, right. That totally makes Lemmy better. It's so pleasant to always bicker and threaten to defederate from each other. It's also so unlike Reddit where Subreddits brigade each other and have sub wars. Lemmy is so unique in that... /s

Crazy how Israel is doing these things on video many times, but we shouldn't worry about that since Hamas surely has done it and that too is a reason why it's okay that Palestinians die as "collateral damage". Ignore the Israeli politicians in charge and military people who called for these civilians to be slaughtered, no that's only talk and no indication that it has intentionally happened. Realitätsverlust, Name ist Programm 👍

I think most people don't realize how many nations who think about waging war against another nation value experiences taught in Ukraine. The usage of FPV drones has been shown as highly effective. Hell, even in Gaza there seems to be heavy drone usage on the side of Israel.

People should be worried about NK soldiers in Ukraine. That signals that they are interested to train their soldiers for modern warfare. In general the war in Ukraine has opened Pandora's Box, now there is a willingness to use AI controlled drones in Radio jammed combat zones. Only a few years ago people shuddered about the thought of it. Now it isn't even a big discussion.

All this to say Putin sucks. This invasion could be the start of a dark chapter in history and it's just because he thinks Russian influence can only be maintained by military force.