If you’re a young democrat and you go to DC wanting to get involved with the party, they will give you many hoops to jump through. They will tell you you’re not good enough, you don’t have the right connection, too progressive, etc. They will then call you a year later to offer you a volunteer position on a campaign in Iowa with no way to make income to pay off your student debt or help you pay the bills between elections.
If you’re a Republican and you go to DC looking to get involved with the party, they will usher you right in to any number of think tanks or PACs with plenty of ways to make money while you help Republicans get elected.
It sounds like Republican “think tanks” and PACs have more money to spend
Of course they do, they are funded by the 0.1% to make sure they keep their money.
So… Are you telling young people to just be republicans?
No, I’m diagnosing a problem with the Democratic Party. They tell enthusiastic youth to go pound sand when they want a job, unless they’re willing to work for free. But, Republicans have a pipeline that brings people in.
Hmm I’d need to see some numbers, that could be the symptom of an entirely different issue.
Democratic party could have far more young people showing up to help, but can’t accommodate them all as a result
Republicans could be facing a total young person shortage and that’s why their pipeline feels superior
You know this from personal experience, I am guessing?
I started my career trying to work in politics. Now I sold my soul to the tech industry where I can at least earn a living.
You have to remember, there are always more openings for arsonists than architects. The republicans aren’t hiring nobody’s because they believe you deserve a free shot, they are paying pennies on the dollars for your morality.
I may not agree with what the liberals are building, but at least they are building something.
I think I see what you are saying but that’s a terrible metaphor. Is it an old saying I didn’t know? I don’t think arsonist is a paying job; there are waaaaayyy more opportunities to be an architect than to professionally illegally set buildings on fire.
There are only 37,000 members of the Army Corp of Engineers and there are 452,000 members of the US Army in total!
Clearly that means there are more than 10x as many arsonists as architects!
And we wonder why the Dems are out of touch with everyday people who live paycheck to paycheck.
What could we expect from a former SoH claiming her understands our struggles while eating $96 a gallon ice cream?
“I mean it’s one banana Michael, what could it cost, $10?”
How is this a “Biden"s young voter problem?” This has almost always been the case among young, progressive voters, that they criticize their own party in an effort to change it. You can trace this back many decades now
Because it’s been a long time since the party was headed by such a ghoul.
Good one! /s
Which is no surprise, considering the party’s lack of commitment to issues young people care about.
I’m not young, but I’m also not committed to a political party. I consider myself politically and ideologically agnostic. I’m not going to limit myself to only one ideology or orthodoxy. I prefer pragmatism to rigid orthodoxy.
I’m 42, which makes me one of those stupid Millennial children, and the only reason I’m in the Democratic Party is because otherwise I don’t get to vote in the primaries in my state
ETA: I feel bad for colorblind folks trying to read those graphs of green on orange.
Predictable as ever.
People are allowed to post things you don’t like.
And I’m allowed to call it what it is.
And instead you’re just whining that lemmy has content you don’t like.
You could spend a fraction of that energy posting content you want people to see, but instead you just want any discontent with Biden to be removed.
Discontent would be totally fine. I don’t love the guy either, in fact he’s probably one of the worst democratic offerings in quite some time.
But OP is almost exclusively sharing anti-Biden propaganda. So I call it out for what it is. As have many others.
You could spend a fraction of your energy pasting content YOU want people to see, but instead, you want anything critical of anti-Biden propaganda to be removed.
See how that works?
I said what I wanted people to know. Just like OP did, and just like you’re doing.
You could spend a fraction of your energy pasting content YOU want people to see, but instead, you want anything critical of anti-Biden propaganda to be removed.
I mean, you’re constantly badmouthing the mods for not removing what you want removed.
See how that works?
Yes. You want anything you don’t like removed, and whine when it isn’t. You have a personal vendetta against OP, and interpret everyone else’s actions as though they act like you.
No one else posts little pouty shit on every article the person against whom they harbor a grudge posts. No one else whines as much as you do that the mods aren’t your pet censors.
And I fucking wish you were the worst lemmy user about immediately lobbing insults and unfounded accusations at people who dare to be less than happy with genocide.
If you don’t want to see someone’s content, block them.
ROFL… what exactly have I asked to be removed? And my vendetta isn’t against OP, it’s against obvious propagandists.
I call it out when I see it. That it bothers you is a plus, but not the purpose.
Have a good day.
Oh, by the way… if you don’t want to see my content- block me.
And my vendetta isn’t against OP, it’s against obvious propagandists.
“obvious propagandists” = “anyone who says things I don’t like seeing”
