• Fisherman75@lemmy.world
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    Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I’m not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.

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    8 hours ago

    You’ve had 8 years, 4 of which you had control of the white house. You’ve had enough time. You squandered it. Are you really going to do anything useful with even more?

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    11 hours ago

    We have no fucking time. They told us, explicitly, what they were going to do.

    Any halfway decent opposition party would have already had responses ready for each and every one of the executive orders that have been signed

  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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    It’s amazing that these assholes need time. Fuck off with the triangulation. It didn’t work in the election and it won’t work now.

    The only thing they have to do is take a principled stand in favor of people. Everyone has value (besides Nazis). But they are too interested in appealing to corporate interests and republicans.

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      Exactly. They need time to figure out a strategy where they can appeal to their base while also proposing contradictory public policy that harms their base. Judging by their performance in the past three presidential elections, this strategy will never exist but it sure as hell hasn’t caused them to do any sort of self reflection.

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    Translation: “We need time to figure out a way to look like we’re doing something without risking actually changing anything.”

    If we’re not careful, we might accidentally do something that the voters like but that our owners don’t approve of.

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    We’ve decided to rename the Democrat party to Republican Lite in order to appeal to more voters.

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      That dickhead got roasted for “concepts of a plan”, but just when you think the Democratic party can’t get any more pathetic they go and show how hopeless they are. AOC needs to break and start a party with Bernie.

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    I’m wondering where are the big names in the Democratic party and the left?

    There is a palpable atmosphere of fear coming from a large population in America and there is silence from the “opposition” party. Why isn’t Obama and Michelle organizing and speaking at rallies? Why aren’t other prominent Democratic leaders not trying to rally support for a genuine resistance. Not the resistance of 2016, which I feel failed due to no true national leadership from the Democratic party.

    Maybe this is happening and I just don’t see it, but it sure feels like the national Democratic leaders and influencers just threw up their hands and said “well, we’ve tried nothing and we are all out of ideas. You’re on your own to figure it out. But remember, if your leaderless pent up fear and anger turns to violence we won’t support you.”

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      Maybe this is happening and I just don’t see it

      Then they’re not doing it right.

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      I’ve been wondering that as well and I had a kind of scary thought; maybe there is no opposition party this time around because what’s happening is exactly what all parties involved want to be happening. I’m just so baffled by the state of politics in the US that I can’t help but to feel like we’re witnessing some kind of sea change in the fundamental structure of the government. Unfortunately it is not a progressive or thoughtful change in ideology.

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    Spoiler alert: it will be “send us more money!”. That’s what they always settle on.

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    “Personally, I don’t want to give Republicans an inch on their claims they care about national security after their pardons,” said Murphy, D-Conn. “My hope is that we’re going to be down on the floor and on TV and back in our states talking about the danger of these pardons.”

    At least there’s someone awake at the wheel

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      They’ll see that as too controversial, wouldn’t want to divide the people…

      (/s, just in case)