• @givesomefucks
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    -2310 months ago

    Even if we somehow get a Dem speaker…

    It’s going to be Jefferies who is almost as pro-Israel as Biden

    https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-08-07/ty-article/.premium/top-house-democrat-to-lead-aipac-sponsored-trip-to-israel-in-bid-to-repair-relations/00000189-cf63-d9f3-a1cd-fffbdfe90000

    There’s only one other politician taking more AIPAC money than him

    https://truthout.org/articles/fec-filing-shows-aipac-made-record-donations-to-congress-in-november/

    Even if we “win”, we still ain’t winning. It’s the illusion of choice.

    Until we fix at least one of the political parties or get a viable 3rd, we won’t get dirty money out of politics, because the people who take it keep getting these leadership positions.

    • Xhieron
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      310 months ago

      Easy to complain. Which district are you running in?

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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        010 months ago

        I’d run but I don’t want Melania to find out I’ve also been unfaithful.

        • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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          010 months ago

          I assume Barron Trump downvoted this and I assure him that poking his mom was solely for the paycheck and his dad who paid to watch.

      • @givesomefucks
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        10 months ago

        Are you not aware of how much dirty money is in primaries?

        Or how the Dem party has spent the last decade or so saying primary elections don’t matter and if they want they can just ignore results?

        Like, you might as well have asked why I don’t get in my job cannon and fly off to job land where jobs grow on jobbies…

        • Xhieron
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          10 months ago

          So you’re not running then? Amidst the rampant, unchecked political corruption you claim to observe in every direction, the solution you in your wisdom have found most powerful is to complain about it on the internet.

          • @[email protected]
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            810 months ago

            That’s all these people do. Complain online. And when it’s time to actually do something, they’re vapor.

          • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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            -110 months ago

            You offering up better ideas? Or just complaining about the complainer?

            Running for office isn’t going to help. The problem isn’t a lack of good poloticians, it’s the system that favors poloticians with views that match special interests over poloticians who’s views match the people’s.