• AntonioAndolini@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The Democrats are losers. They will never do anything. Every opportunity that they have is wasted. Don’t expect them to do anything. All those old 80 year Dems are just sitting on a pile of money, they don’t give a fuck about anything the right does

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    Not only will they not pass anything even remotely progressive they will completely fail to prosecute anyone who committed a crime, fail to revert any of the damage, and will beg for forgiveness from the right by offering infinite concessions

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      More likely than not, they’ll become complicit in much of the Republican criminal enterprise by inertia. Then, their inability to roll back any of the deeply unpopular Republican positions will tank their own popularity. And finally, Republicans will come roaring back into office to be the Enthusiastic Fascist Party rather than the Reluctant Fascist Party.

      But hey, DON’T SAY ANY OF THIS TOO LOUDLY. If people hear you casting dispersion on the liberal party, they might become sad. And if they become sad, they might not Vote Blue No Matter Who. And if they don’t Vote Blue, Republicans will win. And then Republican Fascism will be YOUR FAULT!

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        I started tagging peoples usernames with different levels of shitlib from like baby shitlib to ultra shitlib and holy fuck do those people comment a lot. it’s basically a wall of green usertags on basically every political post.

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    I look forward to hearing all their “olive branching” and trying to reach across the aisle and proceed to GET NOTHING DONE WHILE STILL MANAGING TO SUCK OFF THE PEDO PROTECTOR PARTY.

    We do not want ANY olive branches. They proved who they are. Everything they ask for needs to be shot down immediately (aka vote no), just like they always do. Put them in the corner, shame every one of them that keeps their job.

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      They proved who they are.

      So did the Democrats. Over and over again. You’re not going to get anything you’re asking for and you’re delusional if you expect otherwise. Their job is to calm people down so we can ratchet towards fascism again in a few years.

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            Whether you want to admit it or not, Biden was actually the best candidate strategically, which was proven right. It says more about the US people that we all want to believe.

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              If it wasn’t for Covid, Biden wouldn’t have stood a chance. Then Biden completely fucked over 2024. He was not the best candidate.

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                I can do speculations too, if his health wouldn’t suddenly deteriorate, he would crush in 2024, but since he wasn’t an actual final candidate, we couldn’t tell, just as we can’t tell what would outcome of the previous be if not for covid.
                In the end his win record was 1/1 which is kind of what you want from a candidate.

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                  Except we can tell. He was the only candidate that polled even worse than Kamala. And you’re delusional if you think his health decline was sudden.

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              Lol, no he wasn’t. A soggy potato could have won that election, but the DNC insisted on choosing a candidate who would do such a bad job on power that Trump might as well have won. To the point that a lot of liberals have forgotten that the Biden administration even happened

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                Well yeah, you have a theory, and whatever supports it is true because duh, and whatever contradicts it actually supports it because your opponents are all idiots.
                It’s a nice way to feel good about yourself, but terrible way to ground yourself in reality.

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      There are a lot of Democrats that are not in any way progressive. For domestic issues there will always be a few that the GOP can count on to dissent and break the Democrat majority. For isreal-related there will be dozens beholden to AIPAC who will vote however the Israeli government wants.

      This is the secondary danger of Trump being terrible: democratic party doesn’t have to actually change or improve to win. They just have to exist.

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      They pulled the olive branch from the dime, you better not offer up another fucking olive branch Dems. (but we all know you will because you still think unhinged MAGA voters will somehow come around)

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        (but we all know you will because you still think unhinged MAGA voters will somehow come around)

        That’s not why. Not really. It’s because leftwing populism is contrary to the desires of the oligarchs (campaign donors / etc) who own them, while rightwing populism is either acceptable or more often actually beneficial.

        Republican / Democrat is offense / defense for the same team owners.

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            Controlled opposition is AOC / Bernie / increasingly-looking-like Zohran. Most Dems don’t even pretend to be effective opposition, unless you’re 50+ and think a strongly worded letter counts as opposition.

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              I think you are misunderstanding the term. You’re referencing actual opposition. Schumer/Jeffries and the majority of the rest of the party are opposition controlled by the oligarchs.

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    I’ll take “fail to pass anything progressive” over “actively try to destroy the country with every bill” any day.

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        Could just stop letting them win altogether and just support progressive candidates in primaries, but I got sick of explaining this and just left the country. I’ll be back if/when people figure out “let the republicans win” is not “fixing the democrats”.

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          Could just stop letting them win altogether

          I don’t think this is a question of “letting them win”. Ds and Rs are the two wings of Capital. And like any good capitalist enterprise, the underlings must be made to fight it out to exhaustion in order for the master to maintain control.

          If Dems ever actually obtained an FDR-style enduring majority, the capital class would have to bifricate the party in order to keep any populist movements held in check one against the other.

          I got sick of explaining this and just left the country

          Given what’s been going down in damned near every major city in the country with ICE, I can hardly blame you. America’s going to be drowning in blood before too long if shit keeps up the way it has been going. We’re already treating civilians in Minneapolis like they’re Turks or Egyptians. How long until we start treating them like Iraqis or Afghanis… or Iranians or Gazans?

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    It’s super messed up but If they don’t pass anything that’d still be an improvement compared to congress now.

    I really hope they do more than nothing though.