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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’re explicitly a centre-right party though. Having a two party system is jokes in this day-and-age (presumably why MAGA replaced it with your new one-party system).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly too many people refuse to acknowledge/accept that the dnc is at all right leaning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

So many have been brainwashed that DNC is the "left".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am becoming a believer that it isnt weakness, its complicity. The weakness is just a good facade to hide the truth.

It also shouldnt be surprising, the government is just a capitalist mouth piece.

"Fuck you I got mine" should be printed on our money

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Democrats are insidious like that, they lull you to sleep with petty reform (inaction) then all of a sudden your neck deep in some insane culture war with all these niche idealogies vying for uber-commodification meanwhile theres a mass congregation of rabid reactionary literal hitlerites spurned on by the media to act as a defense for the rich mfers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"I affirm your identity! You're free to be who you are without shame! As you die in a cardboard box under a freeway of exposure for failing to be exploited well enough, and as an intentional threat to the other poories to keep laboring for their corpo bribers. 🤷

Ooh, but here, have a ribbon! I hear they're quite tasty when boiled."

They're not the primary villain, those are the corpo Fascists, but they're sure as shit the bumbling secondary antagonist. The Denethor to Sauron.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its all wedge issues. Keep us arguing about stuff that doesn't get in the way of capitalism and you wont demand a better life. Hell many of us will even defend the party that aligns with our side of a wedge issue because "At least it isnt the other one i hate", and while i understand voting for the lesser evil, we all do it, I will never understand defending the lesser evil. If 2 people are stabbing me to death I wont thank the one using a smaller knife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"4/5 stabees confirm: Small knife party much preferred to Big knife party!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

"QUIT ATTACKING SMALL KNIFE PARTY FOR STABBING YOU! AT LEAST THEY'RE TRYING TO STAB YOU LESS" - Every pro DNC argument.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

The power of the status quo flows through me

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Support more progressive democrats like AOC and Bernie

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They follow the party line just as much all the other democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

There is some crossover, but no way can you say Bernie is just like other Democrats.

AOC hasn't been a primary candidate so I'm not so hot on her particular positions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That won't fix things, though. The Democratic party can't go against its base, the bourgeoisie, it acts like a great filter. An actual worker party, like PSL, needs to be built up and supported instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Bernie has literally stated that he only runs as a Dem because of the 2 party system and would otherwise be an independent which is the case with most progressives.

Turning up your nose at 2 perfectly good candidates in favor of some non-existent hypothetical candidate is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's not crazy; it's ackowledging the absurdity that there's no real choice and examples like mexico w shienbaum & amlo proved that it's easily possible once you stop uncritically swallowing this type of propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Correct, Bernie's strategy also hasn't worked. As a Communist I don't consider Bernie and AOC to be "perfectly good," and the 2 party system itself needs to be overthrown in order to be fixed, which isn't happening at the ballot box either.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Bernie, the guy who refuses to call the Palestinian genocide a genocide? This marvelous tweet Bernie? https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d200e7bc-08c9-4b63-954b-0a7973050cc3.jpeg Bernie the supporter of about every US regime war?

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (40 children)

The Republicans are a mass shooter massacring children inside a school

The Democrats are the Uvalde police department

They're just standing around holding their dicks LETTING it happen completely unopposed.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It goes against their interests to promote class consciousness, same applies to any electoral party (even those considering themselves on the left), not just the dems or liberal parties of Europe. Class consciousness develops outside the electoral system.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, rich exist in both sides of the political spectrum. The war between the right and the left is there to distract from the more important class war.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (4 children)

At this point it feels like they were only ever there to give the illusion of choice.

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