A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said Monday.
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P.S. these fucking Tankies getting desparate enough to show up a lot on Lemmy World now that Piefed has helped people avoid the plague that ML is.
In all fairness “kinda slow to get with the times” is at least a slight underrepresentation of how culpable democrats are for the current political moment 😅
They are not the same. And they are also clearly almost exclusively accountable to their donors, and for a very hot minute now have done nothing to meaningfully adress the countries class-based dysfunction (that disproportionately impacts minorities) while championing minorities in almost exclusively superficial ways that have laid the groundwork for the current cataclysmic anti-inclusionary social movement thats feeding our rapid decent into neo-fascism.
Slow to get with the times is more than just being charitable. They kinda suck. They are not a monolith, no group is, but there is good reason why people call them controlled opposition. I’d like for people to be wrong about that and for them to fix their shit. Because fixing the Democratic party still feels easier than uprooting the deeply entrenched two party system, and there are candidates that make me hopeful… But I’m not holding my breath :/
The DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years and have never held a SCOTUS appointee majority. They are more progressive now than they’ve ever been, I highly recommend you read their party platform document, do you need a link to it?
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