https://nitter.net/davidsirota/status/1708840781459640485

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
    hexbear
    93
    9 months ago

    This is probably the best example of the shallow nature of Liberal thought

    She's black and lesbian so she hits the diversity quota

    Nevermind that she's just another corporate ghoul

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexbear
      31
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Obviously, you can't be corrupt if you check the boxes, because everyone knows that corruption is an archtypical Trump-looking guy not an archtypical Stacey Abrams-looking girl.

      Even then... how can you strictly be mad at Gruesome Newsom for making this decision. You know Karen Bass isn't going to make any attempt at a primary. You know if she did, the party would strip her of all her positions and denude her of funding, that the Silicon Valley democrats would turn on her in a heartbeat, and that there's a real chance a Republican insurgent would win a split ballot with some minority coalition as a disciplining exercise.

      Corporate Ghouls are the only folks that need apply, because the good(ish) Dems don't actually have a solid base of support. If a Sanders style liberal could win California, you would think they'd at least make a run. But the only folks that take the plunge are quixotic losers or narcissist freaks.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
      hexbear
      30
      9 months ago

      This is anti-serbian racism. I pushed through card check for public sector employees and raised the state minimum wage.

  • egg1918 [she/her]
    hexbear
    27
    9 months ago

    So are they just incredibly out of touch or do they simply not give a fuck anymore?

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
        hexbear
        9
        9 months ago

        maybe-later-kiddo: "We have to give the republicans everything they want or else it will alienate the working class, and then they'll just take everything they want AND call us SJWs!"

        Like a left-wing version of a pick-me.

    • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      86
      9 months ago

      They are liberal. Liberals are right-wing.

      You think liberals are left wing because one of your liberal parties is holding marginalized people hostage in a 2-party state.

    • Infamousblt [any]
      hexbear
      59
      9 months ago

      No, both parties in the US are liberal. They're both neoliberal specifically, by definition.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
      hexbear
      50
      9 months ago

      little bit further to the right, really - they're center-right until they're inconvenienced, at which point they start moving rightward

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexbear
      48
      9 months ago

      Are you sure you know what liberal means? Market economics, privatization, capitalism good, all that stuff?

    • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
      hexbear
      41
      9 months ago

      the Democrats are a right wing extremist party, wtf are you talking about. they're to the right of basically every party on earth other than the republicans

      Death to America

    • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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      39
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Reminding yourself daily of a thing that is demonstrably false seems bad. The amount of negative descriptors that can be applied to doing that is a bottomless void without end.

    • echognomics [he/him]
      hexbear
      31
      9 months ago

      If the Democrats are so centre-left why hasn't Pelosi gone on The Adam Friedland Show, huh? Ever thought about that?

    • AOCapitulator [they/them]
      hexbear
      29
      9 months ago

      Lmfao daily reminder? You remind people of this often and you have no clue what you’re talking about?

    • NewLeaf [he/him]
      hexbear
      23
      9 months ago

      Reddit ass comment with Reddit ass understanding of politics and economics

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
    hexbear
    8
    9 months ago

    I keep in touch with some young dems because I know I could just call them any day and they'd be down to drink themselves into oblivion because of some stupid shit the party did.

    It's kinda dried up since the Trump years but I already know one friend is gonna be going to the bar tonight because of this.