thatseanguy.bsky.social
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True, but they'll also be maligned as dangerous communists and have a hard go of it.
Just ask Howard Dean.
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Actually it does take more courage to blame the powerful instead of the powerless for not obeying the powerful.
It's hard to see the Dems as the opposite of fascism given the economic exploitation and the genocide and the suppression of protest they endorse.
Poor voters had no dog in the fight.
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Trump most definitely represents the society's failings
This whole "it's everyone else's fault" mentally is part of why he won.
Dems needed to run against him so they didn't have to confront their donors, making him more the fault of the DNC than of the much maligned non-voters, who were abandoned
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The dumb shit you say doesn't become true just because you call someone a Nazi.
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"if we keep strategically not doing anything about any of this, someday we'll be back in power" is not a rational argument.
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As the general contractor, he hires different companies to do different trades. Usually the lowest bidder, who may or may not have paperwork for their employees.
Many construction workers are 1099, meaning they're responsible for their own taxes and insurance and have few workplace protections.
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Making it about Harris's gender or race ignores the issues that actually caused her loss.
Economics and human rights.
People felt like they were doomed either way and stayed home.
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IDK, seems like he just wants cheap labor.
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Exactly! Notice how the guy in the video says costs would double.
The white guys who'll do construction labor for sub-union wages as 1099 will be more dysfunctional because they're poor.
The capitalist argument for immigration is exploitation.
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For sure, the corruption is the biggest problem by far.
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It must suck to be such a piece of shit.
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You've drunk the Kool aid so you have no perspective.
People who live in objective reality see him actively destroying the economy, the bill of rights, and any pretense of representative government.
You're a billionaire or a sucker if you support this regime.
They want us broke and desperate.
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Trump definitely seems like the exception to the rule, though the party leadership may well have chosen or allowed him the nomination.
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Arguably it hasn't worked very well for the last few decades. Public opinion has zero effect on legislation at the federal level.
Parties control the process and choose the candidates because we don't have ranked choice voting.
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Yeah, it's a framework we might be able to agree on enough to avoid balkanization and civil war.
The constitution needs a rework, but it's also kept the bastards at least somewhat in check for a couple hundred years now.
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They should, but they'd have to give up that sweet corporate cash and I don't think they will.
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As I have to say every week to someone on this app - the fault lies with the professional political class who have failed spectacularly over the past 10 years especially.
Shitting on voters who stayed home because of genocide and the crackdowns on protest or the economy is harmful and stupid.
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At least until now.
Their utter failure to meaningfully confront fascism may be their undoing.
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There's several verses to that song.
Liberals seem to want to feel good about the status quo by making life slightly less shitty (or appearing to) for marginalized groups while making life more difficult for everyone through neoliberal economic policies. It's a losing game.
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"Blue no matter who" was a refrain from earlier presidential primaries that was used to undermine progressives. Now a progressive has won a major primary and the people who used to say that are coming unglued.
As a leftist, it's delicious.
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Truth!
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If you don't see the liberals hating leftists you're not paying attention.
Also, the liberals are part of the counter-revolution that chose Trump and the broligarchy over people like Bernie Sanders and Mamdani.
They're responsible for this mess but blame the voters every week on this app.
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That's the worst part, they don't need one there.
Alligators
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I don't think that's the reason, I think it's just the argument he's using on people who are fearful but don't share his irrational hatred for "others".
He's trying to give mainstream conservatives an excuse to allow his pogrom to continue unopposed.
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Phil Ochs in 1966:
go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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She had every right to run in the primaries, but the polls showed who would be at Trump most easily and it wasn't her, yet the party elevated her anyway, just as it tried to do with Cuomo last week.
It's like they'd rather lose than represent us.
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Guess you didn't watch the same convention as the rest of us.
From my perspective the DNC has utterly failed us 5 of the last 6 elections as well as not preventing a second Trump run.
They get paid by many of the same donors as Republicans after all.
Kinda sus
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Ironic coming from the very kind of bigot that the party doesn't need.
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Nobody disputed that. She had a very unpopular platform and all the institutional support of the entire party.
New left-leaning voters were and are seen as a hostile force - which makes it really hard to convince them to vote for you.
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Dude if a Nigerian gangster was walking around with all the information in the US government databases in his pocket you'd have a fucking problem with it.
Come on man.
I'm not here to split hairs, which it doesn't look like you could spare too many of anyway.
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I wish it was just purity tests.
It's more like a club. Just like how it was "her turn" in '16. People pay their dues and scratch the right backs and expect to have dibs on a certain level of leadership regardless of what the voters want.
It's awful.
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Yeah right?
Diplomatic immunity for an international crime spree?
TF has that got to do with anything?
If dude was anything but a white boy the dipshits who defend the regime would be freaking out.
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When we shut the country down and demand change.
Another permitted March isn't going to do it.
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They get to keep their jobs either way, and share many of the same donors as the fascists.
Arguably it's the centrist libs who need their eyes held open.