• @tootoughtoremember
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    -64 months ago

    They keep bragging about many Republicans they had on stage. Great, I guess the Democrats are just the Republicans from 10-20 years ago if those speakers find the current Democratic party palatable. I’m sure that will rally people to vote blue like they did in 2008. Was it caving on immigration, peace, and crime what made Obama so popular?

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      This is why I think it’s not impossible that we’ll have a party swap where these right wing politicians all become the new democratic party and the progressives fuck off to form a new left wing.

    • @[email protected]
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      -44 months ago

      They’re not even Republicans from 10-20 years ago. They’re Republicans from five years ago.

      • @Bernie_Sandals
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        114 months ago

        Yes because Republicans from five years ago would definitely have all the largest union leaders and several socialists speaking at their convention.

        • @[email protected]
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          -14 months ago

          If they were speaking at the DNC, they were not socialists. They had more Republicans and cops speaking at that convention than marginalized communities.

          • @Bernie_Sandals
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            If they were speaking at the DNC, they were not socialists.

            So Bernie and AOC aren’t socialists now?

            They had more Republicans and cops speaking at that convention than marginalized communities.

            Uh? No they didn’t? Did you even watch the convention? They had a few Republicans and cops who spoke for less than ten minutes each. Meanwhile they had dozens of women of color, and women’s rights were one of the main themes of the entire convention.

            • @[email protected]
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              54 months ago

              Why would they watch the conversation when you can just make up what you feel probably happened based on emotion?

              Lemmy has a real feelings = facts problem and it’s sad.

              • @Bernie_Sandals
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                Lol, he literally argues for the means of production being owned by workers.

                • @Ensign_Crab
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                  -24 months ago

                  I mean, he does argue for worker co-ops, yes.

                  • @Bernie_Sandals
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                    Yes, he also supports forcefully cooperativizing companies over time. He wanted to create a program to gradually have a federally backed buyout of the largest 1000 U.S companies, with mandatory partial worker ownership of any company over a certain number of employees, and mandatory votes for the corporate boards for workers.

                    Here was the plan from the campaign.