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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again … a large portion of the current democratic party is rich. The DNC serves corporations not the people. They are controlled opposition. They will keep the status quo as long as they get to continue living their cushy lifestyle. The whole system is corrupt and that includes the DNC, they won’t be saving us.
I’ve noticed the financially conservative bias of a certain minority of the Democrats, which I think you could term “corruption”. I’d say even a lot of them would prefer Americans at least be able to get by on a living wage; hence why blue states have a higher minimum.
I could be missing information you’ve found past me, but what statistics have helped you conclude a “large portion” of them are rich / serving corporations?
Why do you think Democrats helped to pass Trump’s budget?
The "statistics"are the number of Democratic millionaires serving in Congress and the amount of money corporate donors spend to get them elected.
About ten Democrats participated in that. I have their names written down close to my workstation and do not plan to support them. But that’s still a minority of the party, as I expressed in my post.
It’s also very possible some of those senators had less concern for the financial sector or market crash, and more concern for the possibility of shutting down the courts amid so many illegal executive orders. It’s not a great excuse, but it’s also not a self serving one.
As for millionaires: Due to inflation, the metric has shifted a bit. Some people that I directly know, that are smart and empathetic people that do what they can to help the community, are millionaires in terms of net worth. Simply owning a home in my state often puts someone in that scope. Cory Booker is est. worth $15M.
Call it a cop-out but that’s why the targeting is now on billionaires. Many millionaires know that they have more money than their basic needs, and want to make that path to success possible for others. The same likely cannot be said for very many billionaires.
Yeah you’re just missing on the part where nothing is ever fucking good enough for anyone. And we don’t believe in incremental change. Everything should’ve been perfect when we were born and it’s really upsetting that it’s not perfect yet.
At least we never went socialist.
That will provide me a lot of comfort when the Fascists brutally murder me and my family for our dissent. At least they weren’t filthy socialists that tried to feed, cloth, or house anyone without condition. What a nightmare hellscape that would have been.
It’s interesting how when the Democrats are in power they struggle to get legislation across the line, get “outraged” when Republicans stymie their efforts, and eventually agree to cut bills down to the point where they’re achieving a fraction of what they were supposed to.
But when Republicans are in power, Dems seem incapable of putting up any resistance and cry to their voters that if only they just had a few more donation dollars they’d be able to defeat fascism and then turn around and let the Republicans pass whatever awful legislation they want.
Nailed it. That’s the scheme. Provides plausible deniability, while keeping half of the electorate from seeking options that would hurt the corporate bottom line.
Their opposition is purely performative.
Ranked choice voting would help big time. But neither party will ever allow it.
Ranked choice voting already exists in several local and state races, most recently DC. It’s mostly blue states, because Democrats tend to allow it. Several Republican states have legislation banning it statewide, but such laws are entirely absent in blue states.
It’s a bit more than performative. It’s pacifying. It manages to convince a lot of people that it does everything in its power so said people shouldn’t feel like there’s anything else to be done but vote again next time.
Controlled ops, and Dem leaders are Republicans
interesting to look from outside, Kamala completely disappeared after losing election, that tells everything about her involvement. Compare that with Le Pen/Mélenchon in France ,who keep trying and trying and trying lol. Well not Le Pen anymore but point stands
Kamala still sends me emails asking for money, I think for the DNC. That is the problem with corporate Democrats, they think resistance looks like fundraising
So does Pokémon canonical have Jesus being nailed on the cross? Maybe it was Mew the only son of Arcaues? Would make Mewtwo the Antichrist?
Pre-Porygon episode Pokemon is a fucking trip
I remember there was an episode where someone pulls out an actual gun, meaning Pal World is probably more canon than people realize.
Multiple episodes had guns. There’s the banned Dratini episode of course, but James is literally robbing a store with an MP 40 in Squirtle Squad.
After the Porygon episode, right at the time Ash meets Blaine, TR only seems to carry generic bad-guy bazookas. Pokemon figured out what their identity was gonna be REAL fast.
I purchased a gun before Trump took office and have been practicing at the range, as well as encouraging everyone I know to do the same. Arm yourself and prepare, this only ends one way.
cory booker is, at the time I’m writing, filibustering the senate and preventing any actions by the fascist-controlled Congress
if he continues for 30,000 hours, the trump administration will be over and he’ll have singlehandedly saved what’s left of democracy. that would be unlikely, but, maybe it wouldn’t be hard for 30000 people to slow down fascism by one hour each. or 2 million people to slow fascism down by a minute.
So how do I step in and filibuster for him?
Because I’m not a memeber of congress and have no power to do anything.
I think we are expecting the representatives we gave all our power to to do something with that power.
There are some limitations to the Filibuster:
- things that don’t require a senate vote don’t get a filibuster
- confirmation hearings for secretaries and judges don’t get a filibuster
- certain types of bill such as budgets, so long as they avoid specifically off limit contents, don’t get a filibuster so long as they can pass the house again
Also of note is Trump’s term could get a lot shorter if after the midterm elections the 53 GOP senate seats became closer to 40 and/or if enough GOP were convinced to vote to remove Trump.
Any Democrat is better than Any Republican.
People get upset when you say standing in a street with a sign won’t do anything, but standing in a street with a sign won’t do anything.
These guys won’t even do town halls any more. They’re not going to pay attention to paper signs on sticks.
One person standing on the street obviously doesn’t matter much, but it’s about being the change you’d wish to see. Boycotts don’t really work either. Doesn’t mean you should buy a Tesla.
Boycotts are a hell a lot more efficient than fanfare parades though.
Really what else can one do besides obstruct and sue hoping to stop the tsunami of chaos that this admin embodies?
He wasn’t obstructing anything; it was just theater.
Oh? And what pray tell would the .ml solution to the situation be that is going to be so effective?
anything besides performative theater is good
Such as?
it took me 30 seconds to find these on google; you should try doing the same thing.
Ah, so they should abandon government roles and formal resistance to go throw maltovs in the street…
seizing the means of prediction!
any even remotely law abiding politician(read american “left” wing) is kinda hamstrung with the current state of affairs.
I’m glad this troll bait crap is barely working, but it’s working a little. Come on guys, don’t be a stooge:
“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…
This is not what’s happening here. This isn’t about rendering the libs ineffective. This is real people (this one’s from Canada) trying to send the message that the standard American lib approach is ineffective. That the approach desperately needs to change for resistance to really work. And by libs, I and whoever made the meme mean most mainstream Democrat politicians and to a lesser extent voters who believe those politicians are doing everything in their power to resist fascism, despite the evidence to the contrary. There are a few good discussions in this thread on what’s going on and what could and should be happening instead.
That might be what you are trying to do, but I don’t think this meme is trying to accomplish that. All I see is people complaining, but not giving ideas on exactly what they should be doing. Then if the person actually answers or has ideas, it’s usually already being done, they just haven’t heard about it.
I read the thread you linked. I’m so fucking tired boss.
What do you even do in this situation? The algorithms and propaganda networks are all controlled by fascists and people don’t care. Beyond not caring, they refuse to even protect themselves from being targeted in this way - they do not value privacy nor integrity.
So what do you do? We have to figure something out.
“Liberals will win majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, CNN projects”
The one on the right should be “Edgelord leftists posting on Lemmy”
I mean I’m not gonna deny that some like Schumer have been totally useless. But over the last few months “liberals doing nothing” has included halving Tesla’s stock price and winning the Supreme Court in a state that went Trump. In prediction markets future races are looking bad for Republicans. Don’t like what democrats are doing? Great, go run or support a candidate you do like. Or better yet, run as a Republican and do a hostile takeover of that party so you can challenge democrats from the left in the general too. There’s enough anger at Republicans now that it could actually work, especially in safe blue districts.
Dems biggest problem has never been results. They have done that. Time and time again. Fix the economy. Solve unemployment. Shot the steal. Whatever it is. They have actually done it each time.
But i have never seen a group that has been so mindblowingly incompetent at messaging.
Take some fucking credit you dipshits!
Seriously. Biden did almost everything we asked him to do. But the party never took credit or bragged about it enough. So much so that despite accomplishing the status quo, he still came across as a loser and lost the election for his incumbent.
They did what we asked. But we were too timid or pc to take the fucking credit! we lost because of some semblance of decorum or some other nonsense.
Brag about it you pussy ass bitches!
Part of the messaging problem is our lefties who complain that nothing is lefty enough
If a handful of online “lefties” can undo Democrats’ billion dollars of advertising, then that sounds like you’re agreeing that Dems are mind-blowingly incompetent at messaging.
If Dems can’t win until everyone matches in lockstep with no disagreement then either Dems need to fall in line with their base, or get ready for a third Trump term.
P.S. Democrats are a centrist party (at best). It shouldn’t be surprising that Leftists don’t consider them left enough. Why does the existence of Leftists anger moderates so much?
They aren’t the ones who are undoing the achievements. The rich rightwingers are doing it. They employ a bunch of different channels, including some amount of useful idiots on the left, who are doing their bidding without understanding.
The right can do it because they aren’t bound by any morals, or adherence to decorum, or fear of retaliation, or fear of change in general. Dems are the party of moderate gradual adherence to status quo and maybe moderate change for slightly better, if it’s not too bothersome. And the left for some reason hates the second more that the first, so they aren’t helping.Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
If you agree the Democrats are aiming for “adherence to the status quo and maybe moderate change for the slightly better, if it’s not too bothersome” and you still don’t understand why that isn’t good enough for people being disappeared by agents of the state, I just don’t know what to tell you.
Of course it’s not enough. It’s all you have. There is no other big force that can do anything in US. Progressive movement doesn’t exist, and whatever disjointed groups are out there can’t even elect a representative if their life depends on it (it does). The sad truth is, you either support status quo party in their lukewarm attempts to combat the darkness, or you don’t, and darkness consumes you.
America chose the latter, and nobody forced them to make this choice, they did it by themselves.you either support status quo party in their lukewarm attempts to combat the darkness, or you don’t, and darkness consumes you.
Holy false dichotomy, Batman!
Maybe you picked the latter, I guess. But feel free to be quiet while the rest of us work to support our communities and try to push Democrats to be less useless.
I agree with you. and power to the people we should be able to express our will over that of some rich guy.
I also agree that Democrats are eccentric party and we do not treat the far left very well. I just consider you to weigh the impact of your vote in the future.
I really don’t want to have to go defend Canada for my own country next time if I could. I’m sure you have other wants to.
Can you tell me why any time I express the slightest criticism of the Democrats, a Democrat has to lecture about voting? I did not say anything about how I voted.
They sat out the election so they could do this instead.
Can do the exact same thing with “progressives” that don’t vote.
