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[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I will be a touch disappointed if there is still a us in 2028.

I don't think that the us is worth saving at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

God, americans are so naive. There won't be fair elections anymore. You had your chance and you blew it! It's over for your democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

It is looking more and more like the election was stolen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

It's the Democrats. They still haven't realized that the game is over. Nobody's playing by the rules. Why would they start during an election?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

She is picking a fight with the billionaire oligarchs and unfortunately it seems like a losing battle. Democrats and republicans alike will campaign against her.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Simple. I'm voting AOC if her name is on the ballot. Take my vote AOC!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

She has no path forward clearing primary to fight for presidency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Imagine a primary with AOC, Pete Buttegieg, and maybe a third younger candidate....

All could be really exciting to see advance, but they'll split the vote and open the way for some stupid fucking corpse to win.

I hate this system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

You are also forgetting the SuperPACs

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

All the fucking second-order sexists here saying we can't elect a woman because two of the worst female candidates ever lost.

These are the same people who said Obama couldn't win because he was black. Not that they were racist, no they love black people, but they just want to make absolutely extra sure we don't actually try to elect one. Because they imagine their neighbor/uncle/coworker would look at everything going on and think "none of that is important, no black presidents". They're not racist, they just advocate for racism. And with this most facile of analyses they'll believe themselves to be politically savvy realists rather than reactionary children.

This is the cowardice that dooms liberalism. At every opportunity they want to worry about what their opponents will like and time after time will try to blame strategy or immutable characteristics for the failures of their do-nothing policies. Politics is about change. When people's lives suck you don't try to tell them we'll keep doing the same things. And whether the person talking change is a charismatic black man or a clown show, or even... A FEEEMALE, they'll vote for them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

...when i was growing up, my well-meaning parents pulled me aside to express their concern over a jewish friend dating a black friend; aghast at their comment, i immediately confronted them over its apparent racism, and they replied that they had nothing against it personally, but were instead concerned about what other people might think...

...they're f*cking balls-out fascists fourty years later, and i want no part of them in my life...

...to anyone tempted to compromise their own best interests on behalf of what other people might think: don't give them that kind of power over you, or they'll drag you down in it...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The democrat leadership did everything in their power to stop bernie in 2020 they will do the same against AOC

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

It's "Democratic" when used as an adjective.

Don't use Rush Limbaugh-speak. (May he rot in hell.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

"I'm a Democratic" isn't a good sentence.

"I voted for the Democratic candidate." Accurate but feels off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Agreed, no reason to give them reprieve. Let them try again and this time the gerontocracy is weaker then it has ever been.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Run every time and educate every time till the win and then win again.

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