• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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    Dems aren’t your friends.

    Still vote for them though… But fight to keep them accountable and primary the fuck out of the establishment / career / corpo ones (re: nearly all of them… But power comes from the bottom up)

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      Yup. Politicians aren’t our friends, they are - or at least should be - something like our “employees”. WE (to some degree) choose them, and (to some degree) pay their salaries. It’s up to us to keep them accountable.

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      It’s fucked up that the Greens actually went into business as Russian stooges instead of just being an opposition party.

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        The democrats didn’t lose because of russia or the green party, they lost because they’re spineless corrupt shitbags

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          Yes, you are correct that the numbers for the Green Party aren’t usually enough to make a difference in any election. I’m just frustrated that they’re not even providing a legitimate alternative to the Democratic Party.

          How I’d want the Greens to work:

          1. Run real candidates in local elections who care about the environment and get shit done. Be able to point to things like town X electing a Green as mayor and not having their water poisoned. Or 6 state reps from the Greens passing air pollution controls and getting more business into the state instead of less. Pro-bike laws. Etc.
          2. Ask both national parties what they’re going to promise to do for the environment and either endorse the better one or release a statement that both parties are unwilling to do anything for the environment and encouraging people to vote local.

          How the Greens actually work:

          1. Take money from private interests
          2. Abandon all local races
          3. Fuck around at the national level, drawing attention and money away from groups that would try to get anything done
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        “voting green or not voting would have saved palestinians and stopped genocide” lol cope

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          Lol more of the same, you’re too chickenshit to actually admit that dems fucked themselves over by refusing to condemn and meaningfully oppose genocide so you blame the victims, the voters, the other parties. You deserved to lose. You deserve Trump and worse.

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    Dems top policy needs to be funding social services and adding healthcare to it. I want to see my tax money actually do good things for people in this country. Not do bad things to people in other countries.

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      Best we can do is not take your civil liberties away quite as quickly. We’re still going to bomb other countries though.

      -DNC

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    “On one hand those trans kids give me the creeps. On the other, I get to call high school girls hot without consequences!”

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      Are there dems on the list? Sure! BURY THEM IN LEGAL HELL TOO.

      Are both sides The Same™️? No, you fucking dipshit dorkass loser.

      Democrats are flawed corporatist neoliberals for the most part, and I wish every moment of every day that they embraced the very real and very vocal contingent of voters crying for leftist policy, but they are by no means The Same™️ as the genocidal accelerationist Fascists that modern Republicans are. To suggest otherwise is delusional.

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        They’re “not the same” in the same way that the good cop and the bad cop are not the same in a good cop/bad cop routine. The difference doesn’t fucking matter, they’re working together against you. Dems aren’t “flawed” they’re corrupt, and spineless halfwits like you are helping them get away with it.

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        I’m right, you’re fine with pedophiles and genocide as long as it’s your team doing it

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          Literally lock them all up. No one here thinks Democrat pedophiles are okay. What the fuck are you even talking about. Only one party invaded Iran and is threatening nuclear war. The right wing is actively destroying our democracy and the only people fighting back are on the left.

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            The US has never been a democracy, it was never even a particularly good representative republic. Maybe you don’t think it’s different when dems do it, but there absolutely are people who think that way and they’re extremely loud about it so there’s no fucking way you’ve never seen it.

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    “I can’t decide if dems are lesser-evil, reluctant genocidaires, or wholesome smol-beanerinos.”

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    Lmao what did the DNC start paying for ads again? Sudden influx of a bunch of leftist bashing and whitewashing DNC actions last week or so.

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    Not as tough as you think for insane MAGA, they have been commanded to hate, so they will hate.