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  • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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    15 days ago

    Care-Comrade

    All irony and jokes aside, I think a bit of fear is entirely justified and organizing is more important than ever.

    I wish the general strike wasn't 2028.

  • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    Fucking forced into some accelerationist timeline. Time to find out what Obama could have done with control of all three branches of government if he actually wanted change.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      I can't wait for the ensuing liberal screeds when I point out that Obama could've prevented at least some of the past and future damage done by Trump.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        15 days ago

        Obama could have simply never kowtowed to the GOP when that one justice needed to be replaced (I forgot who), and if RBG wasn’t so pig-headed there could have been a 5-4 court in dems favor.

        No doubt Thomas and Alito are going to retire, they’re evil not stupid.

        • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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          15 days ago

          It was Merrick Garland, and he did, Newt didn't care because denying the judge was the point. The Dems could have forced it through anyway but refused because 'they go low we go high" and "it would mean the repubs can do it later"

      • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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        15 days ago

        you terminally online leftists simply don't understand. the democratic super majority was right wing at the time.

        • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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          15 days ago

          spamton "Ah yes! How could I forget! Just like when LBJ couldn't get the Civil Rights Act passed!"

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    15 days ago

    Dem Whig 2.0 speedrun

    Paraphrasing the partiotism line about "if they took the threat seriously, all of these people (Hillary's Kamala's campaign staff) would've been led into a tiled basement with a drain in the floor for this failure"

    Real time of monsters hoursgramsci-heh

      • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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        15 days ago

        Didn't she have like two separate teams when she ran in the 2020 primary and they weren't communicating with each other and were fighting each other to book her at different events and her sister was running one of them or something? I remember hearing something about how her 2020 attempt was a total incompetent shitshow with a massive staff turnover

          • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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            15 days ago

            Clearly she was too cool and likable

            She dropped out before Iowa and was polling in sixth in her home state behind Andrew Yang lmao

            That's who "the adults in the room" decided should be biden-fall's handpicked successor the-podcast

            • EvenHasAWatermark [he/him]
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              15 days ago

              Republicans were being racist when they called her a DEI hire but she really did luck her way into this position because Biden wanted a black woman VP for points. There was no merit.

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          15 days ago

          She had a real campaign manager, and her sister was also trying to LARP as a campaign manager:
          https://www.sfgate.com/local-politics/article/Kamala-Harris-campaign-aides-strife-dysfunction-14840141.php

          Referenced story in the SFGate article: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/15/kamala-harris-campaign-2020-071105

  • REgon [they/them]
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    15 days ago

    They did a "Hillary"[1]


    1. "Doing a Hillary" means that a person is so assured of victory that they do not do basic tasks needed to acquire said victory, which results in them losing the competition. See also: The turtle and the rabbit ↩︎

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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      15 days ago

      I don't think they were so assured of their victory. They seemed extremely anxious the entire time because of Hillary. That said they did double down on the same centrist strategy that Hillary did.

      • REgon [they/them]
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        15 days ago

        I dunno, promising nothing at all indicates you are very certain you don't need to promise anything in order to win. Biden lied thru his teeth to get in office.

        • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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          15 days ago

          You also can't make promises of any real change while also pivoting right. Not making any promises was apart of the strategy of appearing as the "normal" candidate. Obviously this is a dumb as hell idea but I do think its what the Harris campaign was thinking: promise nothing and the voters have nothing to be upset about.

      • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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        15 days ago

        Centrist strategy? No. They ran to the right as far as they can. They didn't even pretend to cater toward the left.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    Call me a lib but I’m still doomeristic about the results.

    Liberals are so ineffectual that they have fully lost the culture wars. Climate change and pollution will accelerate and make the air much worse, more and more lgbt rights are going to be cut and for eight years straight the GOP has been on fire.

    Democrats are officially a third party as far as I’m concerned.

    • UlyssesT
      hexagon
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      15 days ago

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      • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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        15 days ago

        If I don't find a way to laugh about this and transmute the disgust I feel for the average white amerikan into spite and mirth, I think I'm going to pop a vessel and go straight-up CARVER.

        ...I might be jokerfying in real time i dunno

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    Yeah, I thought / hoped the democraps would at least keep the congress, but they sucked too much even for that. I'm really not looking forward to a fully chud government.

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    I feel for you there. I guess I keep thinking back to what my father says in these situations: "I still have to go to work in the morning."

    • UlyssesT
      hexagon
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      15 days ago

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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    15 days ago

    not to worry the dems will make a rightward turn and punch the non existant left for this failure

  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    I'm so jealous of the people who have the money to just pack up and leave. I don't even have a passport. I think that even tho kopmala sucks it's only natural to feel anxiety at what's going on. I'm just buckling up for the ride I guess. ameriKKKa strikes again

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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    15 days ago

    This solidified my decision to leave the country. I can’t believe that, with all the shit at stake, we chose to actively oppress ourselves, and honestly I don’t think I can continue to live with the people who did that. While I had already given up hope for this country, I have now truly lost any faith I had left. I guess that’s for the best, in the end. May this hasten the fall, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • Saoirse [she/her, comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    "ouuugh i'm moving out of the country im going into the woods" that's great man glad you have all that money in savings, the rest of us dirt poor proles have to stay here and actually try to survive.

    • UlyssesT
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      15 days ago

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  • dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    definitely cannot afford to leave, so we're making a tiny little outpost of okay in Ohio here, so any hexbears looking to leave, if you need a stop on your way out the country, lmk ❤️

    • HeyGreg [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      But we elected Bernie in Ohio last night! Oh wait…

      What’s your little outpost of okay look like?