Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have condemned a raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as “deeply disturbing” and accused the Trump administration of a “rogue abuse of power” just weeks ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Let’s see if they do anything besides strong words and maybe some paddles.
A senator in Virginia got raided a while back. Another woman of color who was a Democrat.
People don’t even remember the MN Democrats that were ASSASSINATED by MAGA (including the “concerned” Democrats that everyone wants to vote for)
Fuck I did completely forget that. We’re definitely in the “Factors Leading Up To” part of the wikipedia entry now.
Way to not address anything. Useless shill
uh… did you reply to the wrong comment? You seem to be lost.
The dnc can get fucked. I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates that want universal healthcare, taxing the rich, et al. Maybe then the dnc will get the message
I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates…
I mean, I want to have those policies and services too, but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m guessing if that happens you’ll get your wish for no DNC by 2028, because we’ll be a state-enforced one-party system by then.
you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m glad people are finally starting to understand how Tankies work. I’d be real skeptical of any lemmy_today accounts you see, they’re still federated with the Tankie hive that is Hexbear. They’re just Russian and Chinese trolls, the lot of them. It’ll be nice once everyone decent finally makes the move over to piefed and we can start delisting all of the lemmy instances.
Well its not up to you, finitebanjo. The dems dont have the votes to lose their progressive voting block and still win elections-- even against trump-- so they can choose to do their effing jobs or they can lose. We’re well aware you’ll vote for them either way, thats factored into the math already.
And you can call people names all day finitebanjo, no one could possibly care any less what centrist armchair generals like yourself think. All you lot do is lose and cave constantly. You centrists are a complete clownshow.
Kreskin your post and comment history are visible. Anybody can just click on your name and see that your whole account exists just to denigrate democrats. You’re a bad faith accelerationist. That’s not me calling you a name, that’s all your posts and comments outing you for what you are.
Well check mine since I agree with him. People should look up what an illusion of choice is.
The Democrats have not GIVEN anything for 40 years. They have not restored anything that was cut by Republicans.
The only thing I cant stand more than MAGA are you pieces of crap that can’t admit to being maga.
You are all just capitalists, our country IS capitalism. What policy decisions are YOU complaining about?
Here is why I say voting for the Democrats is no longer a viable option:
Hakeem Jeffries is secretly meeting with Kushner. He also takes Thiel money and started an AI regulatory committee with 6 other Dems that take Thiel money
Tammy duckworth has stated that after midterms, NOONE should be impeached and Dems should work WITH the pedophilic traitors (that would be YOU, working with them)
Gavin Newsome won’t even COMMIT TO TAXING BILLIONAIRES. Why on earth are you gonna run your mouth and say that he is going to hold anyone responsible and arrest anyone?
Thiel has a abandoned MAGA and is now funding Democrats
AIPAC DEMOCRATS ARE FUNDING AIPAC MAGA CANDIDATES OVER LEFT AND DSA CANDIDTAES.
Can you please explain to us how voting for Democrats will achieve anything for working class people?
No. All you will say is that the margins will be tight, we have to vote harder to get a majority, oh, the parliamentarian shot it down, oh the SCOTUS shut it down. We can’t elect progressives right now, they aren’t electable
Then admit you’re just as willing as MAGA to sacrifice all the people that maga intend to kill because your stance helps maga kill all those people. Congratulations, you’re a fascist accelerationist, not an ally, and you deserve whatever the republicans do to us because you’re actively working towards it.
No. I would want to see Americans free themselves of a fake two party system. It is revolution time and the only thing that pisses me off more than MAGA right now is every agency and institution that everyone allowed to fail that got us here.
Republican actions, followed by Democrat inaction, allowed FASCISM to coup America already.
There is no more America, we need something new and the people that got us here are not going to fix or stop it, or they would have
I’m well aware that I keep my comment list open. People who are honest about their positions and have no shenanigans to hide tend to leave their comments open.
Whats a “bad faith accelerationist” exectly? One who is not commited to true accelerationism? Or are you trying to say any accelerationist are bad faith?
I wont lift a finger to help dems until they stop it with the war crimes and embrace what used to be the core or the Democratic party platform. And the republicans are a completely lost cause and not worth addressing at all. So I yell at dems to do the right thing, and I promise them that until they do I sit on the couch. I dont ever vote for republicans. If thats bad faith to you, then I think your “faith” is worthless slave-like drivel.
Anyone who genuinely equates republicans and democrats is an idiot working for MAGA. If you didn’t exist in bad faith you’d know the parties aren’t the same, since their voting records are public. But you’re not engaging in good faith. If your position isn’t “prevent republicans from holding power by any means necessary” then you’re an accelerationist. If you don’t believe in strategic voting and harm reduction and the spoiler effect then you’re engaging in bad faith and are an accelerationist. That’s your whole account. You’re a bad faith MAGAt bot actively working to elect republicans. Now call in your little bitch brigade or use your alts to upvote your position like it’s the sane take, you fuckers do that shit constantly here.
“prevent Republicans from holding power by any means necessary”
Democrats have repeatedly funded MAGA candidates over the “extreme” and “unelectable” progressive and working class candidates. *And don’t forget about sabotaging Bernie! TWICE! How does this help the working class?
What benefits has your “strategic voting” given the working class? What benefits or great programs did they deliver using this strategy? Are you going to mention Obama Care? The Republican program that forces you to pay for insurance, although the business can’t deny you? (Although they can use AI to deny everything for you, that’s ok)
Where in any of your stupid takes, do RESULTS HAPPEN?
edible_funk, your making room for people who are traitors to the old Democratic party platform and stand for nothing much unless its pro-grenocide, cashing checks from the wealthy, clamping down hard on free speech and whistle blowers, being soft on civil rights and soft on brutality of peaceful law abiding immigrants is exactly why the party is in the shitter. You and the idiot centrist leaders are the real problem here.
Harris lost voters off the base in every single demographic last election except a single point gain on college educated white males. Every single other subgroup were less supportive of her “platform”-- a “platform” the dem leaders continue to just double down on and not change at all. Notably, she lost ground arcoss black voters and female voters across the board. How can the party win doing the same old stuff that no one trusts them on now? What clearer signal do they need that they need to adapt and change? We have polls, we have election results. What the eff else do you need to see to conclude change is needed?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5309082-democrats-failed-to-recapture-diverse-voters/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/19/us/politics/voter-turnout-election-trump-harris.html
https://democraticautopsy.org/how-democrats-lost-the-white-house/
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2024
Changing nothing is an obvious path to losing again. I think they need to change, you think they dont. Thats fine, I’m not responsible for your bad choices. If my arguing for the dems to get a platform that can win is me being a bad faith accelerationist, whatever the ff that means, then fine, Im a bad faith accelerationist. But you’re a centrist who will lead us to another loss. I’d rather be the accelerationist in that equation.
but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win
We’re saying if its fascist or fascist-lite, we’ll select neither in order to pressure fascist-lite to do better. And if the Dems still dont wanna then they can lose. Its the only way to prerssure them. We cant play chicken we have to give them real consequences.
Sorry, but that doesn’t really make sense. Here are your options:
You don’t vote at all, or vote third party: If you totally sit out the vote, you are having no effect, or are voting for the status quo by omission.
You vote republican: You are voting for the worst outcome.
You vote democrat: You are voting harm reduction.
Now to be clear:
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“Harm reduction” is not just about you. It’s about LGBTQ people, it’s about people who are on ACA who will die due to continued cuts, it’s about immigrants who are going to be abused. Even if you think the democrats are “fascism-lite” (which I think is severely reductionist), you are severely downplaying, to the point that it mirrors GOP lack of empathy, the harms others are experiencing due to your refusal to vote for harm reduction.
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In the primary, please, please vote for the most progressive person you can find, and let corporate democrats eat all the dicks. But in the general, please don’t just think of yourself and your emotional response of “screw them all!” Because “them all” includes your allies.
P.S.: Also, what is the point of downvoting good faith discussion? It really is not nice.
These ideal purists don’t believe in harm reduction. The actual outcome isn’t important, they only care that their hands are clean.
voting is not harm reduction
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So you’ll accelerate the fascism to punish the significantly empirically less fascist group? Sound fuckin logic there brainiac. So you want fascism. You’re a fascist accelerationist.
I sure am, but I do hope the dems leadership pulls their heads out of their arses before the system immolates, but I’m not going to stand around while the government oils the gears of our half assed democracy with the blood of innocents. If it literally takes blood to continue, then it needs to end. You’re just whining because you are so sure the blood wont be yours-- when you shouldnt be sure. Thats ghoulish, bud. And a tad evil and short sighted. But you do you.
The Dems will stand around with their dicks in their hands while the whole thing implodes. There’s no common sense in that tent
DNC will declare bankruptcy before they change their tune
The GOP will bankrupt your country and massacre thousands on thousands before they change.
Get some fucking perspective and take action instead of moping.
Isn’t that the point? That we shouldn’t wait for the DNC to act but take matters into our own hands? That’s not moping, it’s saying no one is coming to save us so we don’t need permission to act.
I understand your point, but…
They’re not taking matters into their own hands either. They’re just waiting for someone DIFFERENT to come save them.
Isn’t this the meme “I like pancakes” - “So you hate waffles?”
Recently went to a community organized meeting where we coordinated ICE watch actions, how to pressure our school board, care packages for those they release, etc. They also asked us to vote and to talk to our families about voting.
So what are you doing? Besides just being a doomist?
TWO Strongly worded Letters are ABOUT to Drop!
Democrats SLAM Mister Drumpf for illegal deportation of sitting US Congresswoman
There has to be at least one furrowed brow among them.
Schumer’s glasses are hanging extra low.
Well, now that it’s been condemned, we should definitely see an apology forthright and a promise that it’ll never happen again!
You see…. this how we pretend things work in America. Becasue to speak plainly- it’s just easier to digest this than it is to accept that he’s allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants because there’s no one in the American govdmrt with the balls to stop him.
Thats all you weak fuckers do, condemn this, condemn that, when are you fucking spineless losers actually going to persecute anyone over their crimes.
