"You have to understand there's only so much I can do in this position"
Meanwhile, one of their former members named Huey Long: "Now I dynamite 'em out of my path"
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Democrats so afraid of being wrong they don't even try to do what's right.
It's just theatrics. They are as conservative as the Republicans.
They do differ slightly on social issues. But that's it.
Exploitation wearing a friendly mask
Vs
Exploitation wearing its true face
Either way, the masses are exploited. A better alternative is possible
That's not their purpose, they just need to look the part. They are comfortable in the 'my hands are tied' position. They can propose bills they know will not make it. When they have a supermajority, like they had not long ago, they are in trouble. They have no choice but to stop proposing bills and find reasons to say they are 'sabotaged'. They played this game for centuries, still works.
They in this case being libs in liberal democracies, not democrats specifically.
One way to resolve the contradiction between the capitalist class, which the state represents, and the masses, whom the state requires to maintain power is for the masses to believe their representatives want what's best for them, but are powerless to implement it due to foreigners or nature or some other group, or are trying and it will happen some indeterminate time in the future.
What's this today?
Been in the fediverse for barely 2 weeks only to be dissapointed by the same manufactured consent from its users (minus the bots).
All of a sudden I see anti-capitalist posts and based comments.
The 'libs' in Europe would be the shamelessly named socialist parties.
Invariably being horrible and keeping the status quo with only difference that they now and then throw a bone to the beloved working class and have their larping day on the 1st of may, sing the internationale like they mean it.
You're on .world. It leans right-wing, essentially trying to be reddit 2 and having de-federated from the explicitly Marxist-Leninist lemmygrad.ml and Communist/Anarchist hexbear.net
I know about these 2 also just learned they defederated (and what that means).
Any more tips?
I know it's tough, but consider making another account on an instance that is defederated with as few instances as possible. Then you can pick and choose which instance you yourself don't want to see anymore.
You can block instances, communities, and users in your settings menu.
consider making another account on an instance that is defederated with as few instances as possible
Any recommendations for such an instance? Or recommendations on where to find such information?
You're on .world. You're gonna see Reddit libs first and foremost
Blue conservatives
And nothing from lemmygrad since .world defederated from it.
They are not afraid of being wrong. They don't actually care about your well being, they are just here to make money for their corporate friends and themselves.
More like too much interest in rules
That's the thing, the left adhere themselves to unwritten rules and current precedences. Whereas the right will break all precedent and scoff at unwritten rules and will try to change the written ones in their favour. It happens everywhere, it's not just a US thing
Really though, beyond the Dems doing something legislatively, could you imagine if the party actually utilized it's network for direct action campaigns. Not that their donors or upper middle class members would be copacetic to any actual economic disruption. I mean christ, the Senate leader doesn't even want to let the Republicans shut down the government while they're busy dismantling it. Their current strategy is to appeal by saying they can bring back business as usual. Unfortunately they don't seem to understand that appearing ineffectual turns centrists off even more than appearing radical does.
Unfortunately they don’t seem to understand that appearing ineffectual turns centrists off even more than appearing radical does.
Does it though?
Look at how much .world or reddit downvote and deride posts critical of Democrat behavior since the beginning on the election and the only takeaway you can get is that they're in onboard with it no matter how much they hate it simply because Republicans are worse.
Look at how much .world or reddit downvote and deride posts critical of Democrat behavior since the beginning on the election
Agreed, but why should we still presume that upvotes reflect genuine user opinion as opposed to astroturfing?
It seems that lib-aligned groups use Reddit to manufacture approval for their clients. Given this, why should we view Reddit as a credible window into popular opinion? The entire site is an infomercial at this point
Ok, but that's a select group of people who choose to spend their free time typing about politics online. If you look at the actual election results, it would appear to back up the claim you're quoting.
that's a select group of people
Analyzing your query: It is indeed challenging to accurately verify if responses on Reddit originate from authentic human participants or sophisticated algorithmic entities. Therefore, the reliability of Reddit discourse as representative data remains uncertain.
They're on board because the party moved to the right for them.
I mean I usually post in world and not ml and I don't get generally get downvoted for these opinions by anybody but pugjesus.
How do you know they're down voting you?
I'm not exactly sure, but from what I've heard you make your own instance and you can see who voted how with admin tools.
You can also do so from some mbin instances. It was a default feature for all users on kbin.
i'm aware of this and it only makes me wonder at why the admins seemingly don't bother to keep to track.
Some do. You see some communities ban users that do nothing but downvote the communities posts from the all feed instead of just blocking them.
In those conversations it's because each downvote is closely associated with a reply though there are ways to see I don't actually use them. And I was mostly joking.
Oh no.
Context?
Context to getting downvoted for demonstrating the Democrats ineffectualism to pugjesus? You'd know if you knew. He gets mad and says that everyone who didn't have solidarity for him as a disabled person wanted to kill him. While he had no solidarity for Palestinians. We came from kbin together so me, him, and the late downpunxx had fun times. Sorry if I'm not entirely coherent, I'm drunk posting for the first time in over a year.
Wait... downpunxx died?
No his bans just finally stuck.
Its all good. Just trying to figure out the lemmy "lore" as it were.
I'm under the impression that he has fans on hexbear, but I don't get hexbear over here on world.
Edit: oh I'm being cryptically sarcastic, I mean they really don't seem to like him. Overall it doesn't bother me.
.world and hexbear have never been federated, they probably don't know he exists.
Yall been taking the bait for years. Dems succeed on your fears. Why would they eliminate them?
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On point
This was from 2020
First-past-the-post voting is a hostage situation and should be treated like the crisis it is. Electoral reform at the state level will give the people the freedom to vote how they want. Who could be against that?
Videos on alternative voting systems
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Truly a visionary
It's funny to me how often we (I've been guilty of this) look at satire and think how amazingly they predicted the future, when they were really just commenting on their present and maybe extrapolating a little bit.
I wonder if Wag the Dog nearly mirroring the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal one month later counts.
or a marxist. weve been through this shit before.
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