Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan
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You can’t control their strategy, but you can control yours.
I think we’ve seen enough of the DNC now to know what to expect. I don’t think we can count on their promises or their logic. I’m not trying to blame you for Trump’s win, just suggesting that we work together (if we get another chance) to apply pressure at points when it will HELP. I don’t think protest voting during the last general election was the right move. Let’s learn from it instead of insisting it was the right thing to do.
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It may have been an impossible task to course-correct. I just think that the primary was our best chance. It’s like we failed to hit the mark but instead of hanging up our weapon we just started shooting ourselves in the foot to prove a point.
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The conservative instance is called Reddit and we're no longer federated with them.
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Cool. You still helped make it worse.
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Aww, y’all hitting the down arrow instead of addressing what I said…. I have been put in maw place!
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you know what Flying Squid - I'm gonna email my senator right now.
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You can't reason with the pro-genocide Kamala voters
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Mexico is currently building the deepest hole in the world!
It's part of the plan to toss all my fellow Mexicans in the hole, then we'll rename the Mexican Riviera to the American Riviera. The Yucatán peninsula will now be "Extraflorida" or southflorida.
Yeah, I see where all this is going. Eventually well have east America ... Land rich in diamonds.
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Thank you! I wish more people did such things!
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There are differences between candidates within each party. And historically both parties have gone through drastic changes. You can vote for like minded candidates at the local level, the state level, and as they gain experience they’ll be better suited to succeed nationally and change the party as a result. But this requires you to actually vote. In every election. Always. And I get the sense that those who complain it’s a two party system the loudest are just offering an excuse as to why they simply don’t vote, don’t participate in our democracy.
The people who run for national office in say, the Green Party, rarely have any government experience or real leadership experience. It’s just boilerplate slogans and a clear demonstration they don’t really know what’s going on. Why the fuck would I vote for that? Shit, I can say all the right things and run for President. But I would suck as president because the job is much more bureaucratic management than just saying shit out loud. -
This is simply a false dichotomy. There's plenty of blame to go around and a large share rests with all the people that had the power to stop this but chose not to.
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Absolutely. Anyone posting about Biden, Harris, or Democrats committing genocide etc. Especially still now. Is either just virtue signaling or trying to sew discord, and not actually interested in helping anyone but themselves.
It was a disingenuous claim from the start. It really downplays what genocide is. I say this as someone who's family has been subjected to various forms of genocide by the US government as recently as my grandparents.
The US government as a whole has been enabling genocide in Palestine for at least a half century. And that's shameful enough without false accusations. Well, they might become true now. But even then it's not about any one person. Even Trump. He couldn't do much without the craven, spineless and bigoted Republican party. And even they would struggle with out all the self-interested Democrats on the dole as well. The system is the problem. Swapping out any individual won't even make a dent. And anyone who implies or acted like it would should have been ridiculed from the start.
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While I do agree that voting for the lesser evil is the correct thing to do for harm reduction and advocated for people to do so during the campaign, ultimately this points to a much larger issue with our supposedly representative institutions.
Unfortunately, the reality is the vast majority of people do not vote on the basis of harm reduction or lesser evil. Most people are too busy working paycheck to paycheck and tuned out of politics. That said there any plenty of popular policies that would gain their interest, policies that would improve their material conditions. Both good policy and good communication is needed here. As well as good politics to follow through and deliver those policies.
The much larger issue is whether the Democratic Party, which is supposed to represent the working class (at least since the New Deal), is genuinely interested in listening to and fighting for their voter base (working class people) or are instead prioritizing the desires of the Donor Class who provide a significant amount of money to the Party (as well as the Republican Party) and who's capital interests are opposed to the voter base. To me it seems clear that the Democratic Party prioritizes the donors at the expense of the voters.
And if that is the case, we have a serious issue. No one is genuinely representing the material interests of the vast majority of Americans. Both parties are completely captured by corporate interests and one only serves as a controlled opposition, creating a rachet effect towards Fascism.
In that case, I think the only way forward is grassroots. Community organizations and unions that do genuinely represent the material needs of the working class. Which is also a problem because unions have been systematically dismantled for decades, we are only recently seeing a resurgence. Non-profit organizations are under serious threat of being labeled terrorist organizations and cut out from all federal funding with no evidence needed. Despite that, I still think it's the only real way forward. Especially with the Democratic Party refusing to recognize the reason for their loss (they instead decided to blame it on their advocation of trans rights, which is completely unacceptable and untrue)
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They're not my enemy, but they are idiots who deserve to be shamed for their terrible decision
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