• 1 Post
  • 42 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 16th, 2023

help-circle

  • the “right” that you refer to doesn’t exist, because the overton window has been slammed really fucking far right. There is a sea of idiots somewhere in the middle, Trump was able to take advantage of that, telling them he would fix it all quickly. That lie will only become harder to ignore as these same idiots struggle more and more to afford groceries.

    These are the people that are not hard right, but they are hard dumb. Reality and struggle is the best teacher and they’re about to get a lesson they have never had before in their safe relatively comfortable American lives.

    By just crossing them all off as ‘the right’ and that they want fascism is foolish and self-defeating. Yes the far right DO want this, but everyone that isn’t some semblance of ‘left’ are absolutely not the only ones that don’t.

    Blanket statements provide no value, only serve to remove nuance, and the removal of nuance only serves fascists.


  • Fades@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldGavin Newsom is Not a Progressive
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    OH boy I sure do love purity checks. It’s worked out so great for us in the past.

    Why is this shit always all or nothing, goddamn. It works for maga because they have no nuance and it’s all groupthink, but the rest of the nation is far more complex and won’t just go for a hard left progressive in the same way. It needs to happen but it won’t happen in a single election.

    I am in no way endorsing newsome, but at least he’s doing LITERALLY ANYTHING.



  • The closest I’ve seen is an interview With Tim Miller of The Bulwark and Jeffries. In that interview he presses him on that, where’s the endorsement? All he could bring himself to answer with was ‘I can tell you, the only person I have scheduled meetings with are with Mamdani’, so actually I’d say it’s pretty clear that DNC leadership isn’t backing Cuomo but also not doing much for Mamdani either, which is bad and absurd but not as bad actually as backing someone other than who the people chose in the primary.

    You can’t simply take the lack of vocal support in this intermediate time in between as clear evidence that they back Cuomo, reality is far more nuanced. Your take could have more ground to stand on as we get closer to the actual election without anything different happening though.

    interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szbshrgQHg





  • Democrats leadership is nothing but controlled opposition or absolute weak morons, take your pick. Either way they have no interest in the public’s best interest. Look no farther than the absolute NOTHINGNESS they’ve done to stop Trump every step of the way.

    Dem leadership is complicit in this Epstein coverup at the very least. Obligatory fuck trump/maga/conservatives/etc. etc. I’m not a both-sideser, but in this case both sides refuse to release the list or prosecute anyone other than Ghislaine.






  • What an emotionally immature meme, life isn’t a competition. It can be hard for people even when some have benefits and circumstances others don’t. You don’t know every detail and all of the context to everyone and trying to compete in the struggle Olympics doesn’t make you any more special than anyone else. You have no right to more sympathy just because you may have things harder:

    Life sucks for us all in one way or another. How about learning some empathy instead of trying to turn your struggles into a badge to flex on others with.


  • The outrage is over sending back illegal and legal migrants, they’re talking about reverting citizenship status for some, straight up tossing out legal like the Haitian migrants in Springfield… Also do you have any fucking idea how insane it is to expect a country to suddenly take back thousands of people that are no longer citizens there? The kids and shit they’ve had since they left?

    Oh and not to mention that Trump and friends promised that this thing is going to be bloody… they’re eating the cats and dogs after all right?

    But yeah why the outrage? Who cares about kids and families and human decency. They’re illegal!!! Throw em out with the garbage, right? Who cares about all the cheap ass jobs these people do? Who cares about the direct negative impact it has on farmers, construction companies and the like, just as we saw happen in Florida when they tried to institute the checking of papers each day at job sites to ensure proof of citizenship….

    Who cares at all of the immediate negative impacts to the economy that won’t just magically go away when nobody quits their current jobs to fill in for the now missing migrants?

    That’s what you want us to say right?






  • It’s hilarious how you talk about how simple and easy it all is when you quite clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

    Everything you listed, the Republicans are guilty of by a far larger margin. The difference is that dems were talking about two state solutions while Trump quite literally was telling Bibi to turn Gaza into a goddamn parking lot. (And that’s just the most obvious clue you’re saying nothing of value lol)

    I especially enjoyed you attempting to mount your high horse after this piss-poor attack by mentioning the break in TOS when the OP is talking in general and is not attacking a single person. It’s okay to say “people who think x, or do y are dumb”.

    If anything, you’re the one breaking TOS:

    • Do not engage in name callingad hominem attacks, or any other uncivil behaviour. Criticize ideas, never people.

    You using the threat of TOS can be seen as ad hominem as a way to delegitimize the comment you replied to.