• Lerios [hy/hym]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      but... but then how are we supposed to have pointless struggle sessions? :deeper-sadness:

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Would we really be leftists if we didn't spend most of our time fighting amongst ourselves and pulling down potential allies like crabs in a barrel?

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We would be real leftists if only we didn’t spend most of our time fighting amongst ourselves and pulling down potential allies like crabs in a barrel.

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Me too. I haven't listened to him in a while. I should do that this week.

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      it’s almost like she’s a human being who sometimes does things that are more good and sometimes does things that are less good.

      No this doesn't exist. People are based or cringe, there is no spectrum.

    • regenerativedespair [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      more than that, if their actions and potentials are useful. discard any notion of the individual celebrity personality, altogether.

    • EATFOOD [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      your government is literally bought off. how many times do democrats need to screw you over before you learn

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      You do realize that "cancelled" and "uncancelled" is a joke, right? Well, maybe someone here did take it seriously 😐

  • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    She should explain why Machin, Biden, Obama, Hillary, ect cannot help people. That's the problem with Sanders/AOC/whoever, they don't point a finger at Joe Manchin and say 'He's immiserating you because he literally has to grovel for pocket change from billionaires to run his campaigns. There's no point in moralizing, this is about power.'

    Everyone knows politicians should help people, but the power dynamics as to why that doesn't happen are never discussed.

      • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        True, but it also comes down to power. AOC doesn't have any because 99% of the Democratic Party are blood curdling psychopaths. She knows this, they know this. The entire party apparatus is incapable of any kind of non-means tested re-distributive policies.

        That's why the Dem Party will always co-opt leftists and neutralize them so long as the donor Network is still in place.

      • BigTittyTrotsky [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        She's one vote out of 435. The real problem is there's only one of her and not 218 AOCs in the House :/

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      What 40 cent?

      "Under the deal, workers will get a minimum 70-cent-per-hour raise in the first year, eventually rising to a $1.85 bump by the third year, Kane said. "

      https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/22/22245520/hunts-point-produce-market-strike-tentative-settlement-bronx

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Lol how many people upvoted that lie just because it said something they liked?

        Pathetic, chapos.

  • spectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    At this point just get on with the fucking $1400 checks. After you do that we can move on to bothering you about another round of the goddamn checks for whatever amount

    • the_bavarian [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      thanks for posting that man - I finally made the effort to look up the exact definition of "means testing" and to my absolute surprise the word means doesn't even refer to the statistical metric of the same name. Whhhooow. Again, thanks for uhm, sort of making me aware of that, comrade, I really though *means testing * ame from econometric analysis ( well it kinda does, but still!)

    • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      She's saying that the same people who previously said that "defund the police is too confusing" are now saying that the $1400 checks are not confusing. Shes dunking on the libs