• @Suavevillain
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    165 hours ago

    They could have been doing this the whole time lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      105 hours ago

      Starting 40 years ago. They’ve been tripping over themselves to throat the Corporate dick for decades.

  • @[email protected]
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    I just don’t get why we’re not training and endorsing out the next group with all this press. Sanders and Warren need to back and/or start a coalition of progressive up-and-coming leaders that they can help hone and introduce to the larger political landscape while they have the energy and influence. They need to stop being the only torch bearers and start bringing in underlings. Idc if they follow them around like a posse, might actually be better if they did. I would cuddle with Sanders all night if I could, I’m just tired of his name being the only one catching attention. The will try to bury any movement with him when his time comes, best to get ahead of it so momentum can keep going.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 hours ago

      Warren lost any credibility in 2016. She shattered her legacy as fully as Biden is draggin his own name through a river of shit now.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    It’s kind of scary to think that this man could literally die any day and there’ll be nobody to take his place.

  • @[email protected]
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    2218 hours ago

    Warren can go fuck herself, She was one of several that backed out of the 2020 race to kneecap Bernie Because he was projected to win the Democrat nomination. People like Warren fucked all of us.

    • @enbyecho
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      -74 hours ago

      I’m sorry but this is how I read your comment:

      “How dare she run for President instead of letting the man take it.”

      • @[email protected]
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        She split the vote by staying running against the best progressive voice of our time. Her selfishness is a direct cause of Biden being elected.

        • @enbyecho
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          11 hour ago

          You can pretty much lay blame on anyone or anything because there’s absolutely no way to prove it one way or another. You might as well be saying Biden got elected because of the phase of the moon.

      • @bitjunkie
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        53 hours ago

        You need to work on your reading comprehension, then.

        • @enbyecho
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          You need to work on your writing skills. Nanner nanner or something

    • @BigBenis
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      FWIW she actually didn’t back out with the moderate candidates before Super Tuesday. She did after splitting the progressive vote between her and Bernie, giving Biden the win.

  • @[email protected]
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    Form your own party. Dump the useless liberals. Reconstitute the SPA and team up with the unions.

    • @rational_lib
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      Do a hostile takeover of the GOP instead. Many states don’t care why party you register as, and if they do just register as a Republican and vote in their primaries. Pick a socialist candidate and get them to run as a Republican, and vote for them. This is in essence what Trump did, but of course he did it for fascism and got Nazis to vote Republican. The same strategy can work for anyone else. This can start in safe blue states where no one votes in the GOP primaries and spread from there.

      This is a far more realistic strategy because third parties are vulnerable to the spoiler effect and will always fail due to people being worried about electing Republicans.

    • @dohpaz42
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      Thats more of a step 2 or 3. Step 1 is that everybody needs to start putting pressure on the DNC and make sure they understand that we’re not going to take it anymore. And I’m not referring to that bullshit “not voting” rhetoric, because not voting is tantamount to voting republican.

      Once the DNC is forced to listen to us plebs again, then it’ll be a good time to look at breaking out into more parties. But we need to put the fear of whomever they pray to in them first.

      • @[email protected]
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        Why don’t we simply kill the DNC instead. And the RNC. Seems easier that way. And no I don’t mean mentally.

        • @dohpaz42
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          11 hour ago

          Yeah, because that ever works.

      • @rational_lib
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        That’s what they did this election, and we got fascism and the DNC doesn’t matter anymore. So now what?

      • @[email protected]
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        1018 hours ago

        The dnc is never going to listen to the plebs because they only answer the money, and we don’t have it. As long as people keep participating in their game of electoral politics, nothing will change. Let them lose several elections in a row, and maybe they’ll see the light or fade off into obscurity, which is the preferred method.

        • @dohpaz42
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          417 hours ago

          Doubt we have two or three elections left in us.

          Look, I’m right there with you and this defeatist feeling. You and me by ourselves can’t do shit. But guess what? There’s millions of us. And for decades it’s been beaten into our heads that we are powerless; that we are nothing because we are not rich.

          There was a time where there was a group of people who were treated far worse than we’re being treated now. They had so much less than us, and got treated so much worse than us. Yet somehow, they fought back. And while they’re still fighting, they’ve made huge inroads with the status quo that it’s left its mark for the rest of time.

          If they can do that, then the least we can do is scare the shit out of a bunch of idjits at the DNC.

      • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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        You know you can do more than pressure them, right? You can get involved with your state party, which in turn elects the leaders of the national party. You can vote in the primaries and kick out corporate Dems. We know this works because it’s precisely how the fascists took over the Republican party.

      • @tburkhol
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        2022 hours ago

        The reality of American political process is that it takes at least a billion dollars to run a Presidential campaign. (Thanks, SCOTUS) That kind of money doesn’t come from unions, social activists, or proletariat donors. It comes from corporations and billionaires, and those people don’t like revolution.

        Until someone can demonstrate that you can get more votes with progressive, worker-friendly policy proposals than with a well funded propaganda machine, the DNC is going to keep chasing the less conservative billionaires. And no third party will even be relevant.

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          Idk, Harris vastly outraised Trump (over $1B in 3 months) and it… didn’t move the needle.

          Progressives need to distill their ideas down into smart, easily repeated ideas (Billionaire bad, union good) that can spread via social media, aren’t inflammatory (defund the police, etc), and aren’t based on fear and loathing but rather a message of hope.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          1619 hours ago

          As long as the DNC is chasing billionaires, we have no second party.

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            I mean we very obviously do. We have two corporate oligarch parties, but I would much rather have the tech billionaire club that brought us the Gates foundation or the Allen institute and isn’t actively trying to kill a large portion of the country than the one that sees what Israel is doing to Palestine as a good model of how to clean up the riffraff

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              615 hours ago

              I mean we very obviously do.

              No. We have a viable party that chases billionaires with credibility behind it, and the Democratic Party that chases billionaires while pretending that they are for working people, and kills their own viability because they have no credibility with either group.

              As long as they chase billionaires, Democrats are not a viable second party. From a functional standpoint, we have only one party.

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                Does viable have a different definition for you that doesn’t include winning roughly half of elections?

        • Em Adespoton
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          The thing is, a message that’s simple, resonates, and allows people to blame others will always win out over a message calling people to pull their own weight and do the complicated but correct things.

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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        If they really cared about “country over party” they’d vehemently support ranked choice voting at all levels of government and an end to gerrymandering. Even though the Democrats aren’t really extremists our political system will continue to prop up extreme views if everything is identity politics and there are only two you can choose from.

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        1122 hours ago

        Step 1 is already done, and now institutional resistance from inside the party is the problem. So it is in fact time for step 2, there’s enough of a body of voters to start building it.

        The trick is that to subsume the DNC in the next ten years or so, the party has to form a coalition with it for now while remaining separate. That could achieve two goals: first, put a lot of pressure on Republicans they aren’t ready for. Next, create a strong leftward tension that just isn’t represented right now and which the Democrats will be walled off from controlling.

        It’s sort of what happened with the Tea Party / MAGA.

      • @pjwestin
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        Yup. Call your Senators and tell them you have no faith in the party leadership, and that Chuck Shcumer cannot continue as Senate Minority Leader. If they’re up for reelection in the next two years, tell them you’re happy to support a primary challenger if it’s the only way to get change.

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    Good on Warren for saying this. I think that the attacks on Warren for staying in the 2020 primary were really overboard. She would have been a great candidate 🥲

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      Warren, along with the other candidates, colluded with the DNC to drop out en masse in favor of Biden. She, unlike Bernie, is a DNC card-carrying member who, despite her positive work and Progressive stance on Wall Street, played along with the machinations of the Democratic party. They ignored the will of the people.

      If she had endorsed Sanders instead of accusing him of lying (second link), we might have had a different outcome. Moreover, Hillary implied he was sexist - a laughable accusation.

      Warren lacked the convictions she needed when the time was right.

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        Holy shit, you just mind blasted me with a memory I had lost. That whole shit show between Bernie and Warren during a debate where she acted all fluffed and pissed off because Bernie was apparently somekind of sexist?! or at least the media and her team tried to play it that way but it completely backfired if I remember right.

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          Yeah, that was the gist of it.

      • @[email protected]
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        Sanders could have won every single vote cast for Warren and he’d still have lost the primary. Stop making up conspiracies and start recognizing that we need more people to vote for us.

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          I literally posted that with receipts. Enjoy your copium.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            They just scream “conspiracy theorist” at everyone to their left because they can no longer pretend that we all want Trump to win. Wondered what was gonna replace “trumper!” as the go-to admission that they’re not listening and are out of touch on purpose.

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              Nobody cares if you wanted Trump to win, you absolute knob. Whether you wanted to or not, you played a pivotal role in his win.

              I would say it was unknowingly done, but I know for a fact that it was explained to you likely hundreds of times.

              Shame on you.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                11 hour ago

                You hold me solely responsible for millions of voters staying home. Look at you.

                You can’t accept that genocide wasn’t as popular as you wanted it to be.

          • @AbidanYre
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            “Here’s how Bernie could still win”

            He’s not the one with the copium addiction bro.

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              That’s not what I said. Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit.

          • @[email protected]
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            None of your links refuted anything about how Warren’s endorsement would have changed anything, which is my statement. They didn’t even support your conspiracies, they just referenced events that non-believers and true believers don’t have any disagreement over. Just posting any old link is not “receipts”. Receipts actually support your statements.

    • @TropicalDingdong
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      She should have gotten the fuck out before super Tuesday.

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        Or ran in 2016 like Bernie asked her to do. But she sat it out because she wanted Clinton to run.

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      Funny how you’re getting downvoted, but this post saying the same thing isn’t.

      Do better, Lemmy. Quit dogpiling; this isn’t Reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        If you make the exact same low content post a half hour after someone else, you’re probably going to catch some downvotes.

      • rigatti
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        Well that’s because this post was made a half hour after the other post. Too little, too late to grab all of them sweet sweet fake internet points.