• wicked_observer@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter at this point if they ban it they will just send them money somehow. 1 million mini packs or whatever. There’s no stopping it

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    "If there’s ever been a time to discuss serious campaign finance reform, it is now. We are sliding into a new era of American oligarchy, and unless we take decisive action, the integrity of our democracy is at risk.

    This is like saying, “hey, guys, we really need to talk about taking steps to prevent a fire,” as the house is burning down.

    I also wonder what their definition of “decisive action” is. I get the impression that it involves a lot of talking, and not much else.

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      “hey, guys, we really need to talk about taking steps to prevent a fire,”

      So, like we’ve been doing with the climate since the 60’s?

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          It’s important that we, as a society, get past this whole “I don’t wish anybody dead “nonsense. This is just bullshit from the ruling class to control the working class. Religion, the ultimate controller, says to the worker you can’t help yourself, because helping is killing… But the afterlife is nice.

          It’s perfectly fine to wish death on someone who is causing harm to others. There’s nothing shameful about literally being full of glee.

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    End Citizens United. It blatantly lets billionaires buy politicians. That’s the only way out of this.

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      That’s what voters want to do, but that’s not what either party wants, and they’re private organizations.

      If they double down on neoliberalism again at the 2/2/25 chair election, it’s time to leave the DNC behind.

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        My guy they have already like quintupled down, it’s well past time to ditch the oligarch dinosaurs of the DNC.

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        Unfortunately, I feel things have become so desperate that centrists, the left, and progressives are starting to look for an alternative to the DNC. It has already begun with Pelosi leading the charge by keeping AOC out of a key House position where she could have offered a fresh perspective for the left.

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          centrists

          They’re the ones actively ruining the DNC…

          But I have no doubts if the actual left splits, they’ll follow us instead of going back to the Republican party where they belong.

          30 years of trying to steal “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” voters has just depressed Dem turnout and made Republicans batshit insane.

          They destroyed our political ecosystem and now want to play the fucking victims.

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            The USA’s centrists are right of many countries’ traditional conservatives. (Though most countries’ conservatives are busy reinventing themselves as fascists these days.) The Democratic Party covers a wide spread of flavors of liberalism, extending quite far into the right of the political spectrum.

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    Take note - this is precisely why it is important for the party to exert control and preference in its own nominating process. It is not corruption. It is not anti-democratic. But Elon Musk is 100% going to try to use the last decade of information warfare which had been waged on the DNC to convince you that it’s perfectly normal to hijack primaries while invoking the Bernie Sanders defense.

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      both sides aren’t the same!

      I’d agree to anyone bringing this up. They aren’t the same.

      One keeps failing miserably on purpose to support the other. Democrats are fake hope, like truth tobacco commercials.

      paid for by big tobacco