https://www.ft.com/content/2941e79d-cdc0-457e-a7a3-9c08f1f6e635

https://archive.is/87iPz

liberals reassure you that good things will not happen

btw dejoy still has a job lmao

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 hours ago

    The thing is that a lot of libs would probably support privatization of the postal system. I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 hours ago

      I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

      Fuuuuck. Just reading that pulled me from one coast to the other and for a moment I feel surrounded by smug techbro fucks all over again. They're the same ones that said they'd be pleased if the public libraries all went away because le Amazon is like a library but better.

      libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out debord-tired libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        1 hour ago

        Lol I heard this from Upstate New York liberals. The type who act like cosmopolitan New Yorkers while living in their gated cul-de-sacs.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 hour ago

          I guess I should be glad I don't live too close to the east coast's version of Napa Valley cave dwellers.

  • miz [any, any]
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    2 hours ago

    HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHERE THE HELL WILL I SIT WHEN I EAT MY FAMOUS BOWL?

    (guy who thinks Kamala is going to remove all KFC chairs)

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 hours ago

    One thing I'm tired of hearing from liberal apologists is "We don't know how she'll govern" or retreating to "well the Walz pick says a lot." Her and Walz have said they're going to support Isreal. And now she's saying this which 100% aligns with her business friendly record. We know exactly what she's going to do.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      1 hour ago

      But she might raise the tax rate on corporations by .5% (while giving them a ton of concessions like weakening the FTC and SEC)

    • carpoftruth [any, any]
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      3 hours ago

      every dem politician has to meet their progressiveness quota somehow. she's getting hers by being a black woman, which frees up points for her to dump into fascism

    • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
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      4 hours ago

      People will then often sorta handwaved it away. Like oh they don't mean that. Which of course makes Kamala a liar much like the dang Cheeto.

      Which is it liberals? Is she a ghoul who wants to do genocide and support big business or is she a liar politician who speaks no truth? She must be one based on her own words

  • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    Already started putting my clown make up on as Walz bumbled his way through the politics of joy pablum at the debate.

    I guess Bidenomics isn't the new party orthodoxy, but was in part Biden's personal concessions to "the Left" --explains why Bernie and AOC went to bat for him, even as he turned into the living dead in real time.

  • miz [any, any]
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    5 hours ago

    every statement letting air out of her poll numbers like a deflating balloon

    • BashfulBob [none/use name]
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      4 hours ago

      I wish this were true, but nobody is keeping the score on these shit except Wall Street ghouls.

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    6 hours ago

    Going to start telling liberals I'm a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly. We all know this will never happen, so I'm safely allowed to not vote for Democrats for the foreseeable future.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      6 hours ago

      Going to start telling liberals I'm a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly.

      That was so Jokerfying to me to see that piece of shit deliberately sabotage a part of government that is actually cool and good all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime with ratfucking, and even after that regime (temporarily?) ended, the piece of shit was still there. jokerfied

      • BashfulBob [none/use name]
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        4 hours ago

        all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime

        Congress has been inching towards postal privatization for a while. Bush put the insane rules for bankrolling retirement benefits fifty years in advance into effect in order to back door defund them. Reagan capped the rate at which they could raise postal rates to prevent competition with UPS or FedEx. I'm sure Nixon did some shit, too.

        It's been an office under siege for decades.

  • thoro@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    To be fully transparent, the next paragraph says her team disputes that characterization.

    But I remember similar articles before Obamacare was passed talking about how the admin had started assuring private insurance that there would be no public option in the final bill.

    And lo and behold, we know what happened there.

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    I feel dumb for ever thinking she might be better than Biden in at least 1 or 2 ways, at least beyond being not obviously senile.

  • btfod [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 hours ago

    Thanks for the DeJoy memories. I've got a lot of mileage out of him. Could not imagine a better example of how both major parties are on the same team.

  • combat_doomerism [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    i saw one lib cope comment about dejoy one time that said that since he still has a job he must be way better than they originally thought lmao