• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What a weird coincidence that, just as AOC and Bernie begin a wildly successful tour of the country, we start hearing about the Biden’s wanting to help lead the party or Kamala being the the top choice for 2028.

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    it’s not Biden.

    It’s the party.

    it needs a culling. absolute decimation. vote nearly all of them out. you know the very few that should stay. erase the rest from history.

    dude if a republican unwittingly says something that doesn’t call for death of trans people they’ll be immediately ousted. democrats out here capitulating to nazis. be a little republican. get them out.

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      If voting worked they would abolish voting. Both parties have the same masters.

      Keep setting Tesla dealerships on fire, the only things capitalists respond to are forced devaluation events

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        They are trying to abolish voting, see voter suppression laws and pretty much every voting rights case the Supreme Court has seen during Roberts’s tenure.

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    Oh, that’ll really help.

    Somewhere in DC, there’s a speedbump that they should name after Biden.

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    Why has the left been floundering for the past dozen years? It doesn’t feel like the common man has anyone to represent us.

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      6 days ago

      Take your pick/all:

      $$$/ lobbyists/ citizen united/ Dems deepthroating Corpo influence/ dinosaur leaders pruning any progressive candidates

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    7 days ago

    It honestly feels like the Democratic Party is doing everything they can to lose.

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    Dude’s figured out his legacy isn’t what he thought it would be and is trying to come back and “fix” it. Fucking horrible person for his entire adult life.

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      I don’t think it’s that. I think he truly thinks he’s had a good career and fought the good fight. He’s so out of touch, but he wants to help because he heard there’s a problem. Probably don’t even understand how his help might not be a good thing.

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        I think he wants to help out of self preservation, because he still sees himself tied to the democrat party. If it implodes immediately after he loses an election (arguably his loss as well as Kamala’s), it will tank his legacy. He will be a big part of why the party died.

        So sure, yeah he wants to help the democrats, in a round about way. Its hilarious he thinks he could help at all though, rather than hasten its implosion.

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      I read through that whole thing. What is the demand? It’s just general hate against the trump administration? I’m all in favor but unless the strike has specific legal actionable demands what is the point? Even under the “demands” section of their FAQ it lists a bunch of vague “good” things that they want (all of which I’m in favor of) but says it won’t get into specifics until later.

      You do the strike, it panics the ruling class, and then what? There’s nothing they’ve been informed of that they can do. No line that tells them “you can put an end to this if you do XYZ”. Nothing to tell the people whether the strike succeeded or failed. What will that get? A bunch of people who conclude that the strike didn’t work and they need food so they go back to their jobs. Next time the strike comes around, even if it has demands this time, the obvious thought is that it didn’t work last time so why would it work this time and distrust in the people and political ideology that started this strike in the first place.

      In my opinion, a movement like this is defined exclusively by their policies and demands. Without those it’s just people throwing a tantrum.

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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        Their documents specify that they will have meetings with their sign ups to finalize the list of demands.

        So join the discord and join their meetings and ask away.

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        Its just some tankie astroturfers celebrating the fall of the entire USA and all its people.

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      I understand that they probably don’t want to lock themselves into a timetable, but arranging a general strike without a date chosen seems like it is an uphill battle at best.

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        They have a timeline they want to work with.

        0-6M signatures is just organizing/coalition building and figuring out skillsets.

        6-10M signatures create demands and plan events, work on strike dates, keep organizing, more outreach.

        11M signatures strike on the chosen day, mutual aid networks work to support strikers, educate new strikers and volunteers.

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    Fark off. We’re not giving you guys a goddamn thing. You are WAY too comfortable with doing nothing and compromising with 100% concentrated evil. I’ll be voting for candidates who were born AFTER the Battle of the Bulge.

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    I suppose he had to offer, it was his support of Israel murdering Palestinian women and children that lost Harris the election, but I think it’s best for Joe to have a quiet retirement.

    Maybe, in time, we’ll remember him fondly as Obama’s VP.

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      I really want to get into this opinion. You really believe the 2024 election broke to republicans favor over Palestine? If you are one of the voters that advocated for not voting, are you happy with the result? Is palestine now better off due to trump?

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        I’m not American. Palestine wasn’t the only reason, but it certainly lost Harris the Arab vote and Trump only just scraped through.

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          A bold gambit. Let’s see if they can survive 4 years of extra judicial ICE deportations. I don’t envy anyone of middle eastern decent if we start a war with iran. Scapegoats just like 2001 but with way less civil rights. Should be fun!