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Those sternly worded letters are sure to work this time (lemmy.world)

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's 2026 and there are still people who think there's more than one political party in the US.

Even worse, some of them are convinced that just spending 3 minutes of their life signing a piece of paper will be enough to change anything.

Note that I'm not discouraging anyone from voting. I don't care whether you do or don't, but I'd strongly encourage you to do literally anything else either instead of or on top of voting.

Just voting is how we got two world wars, with a third one well on its way, a dozen genocides, countless people dying from lack of access to basic necessities, and so on.

Clearly it's not enough. And not just in the US, but everywhere.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I don't care whether you do or don't,

We can fucking tell. Go away.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

schumer and hakeem will do this 100%.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

Which is why the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries has to get the hook and be dragged off stage. They are 50% responsible for the rise, and re-rise of MAGA, and they e done nothing to earn a third chance at containing them.

It's time we give competent, committed people the job of resisting MAGA, since these two have fully proved that they are not up to the task. In fact, when this is over, and we're investigating everybody, we should also check into these two losers, because we'll almost certainly find they were collaborating with MAGA all along. If that's true, then they should end up in jail with their MAGA friends.

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

If history is any guide they'll enthusiastically fund his every whim.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With Gruesome Newsom being the possible front leader of the Democrats for presidential candidates they're utterly not hiding they don't care about human rights. They'd happily walk back LGBT+ rights to stay in office at this point.

[–] deadalus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not American, so I know very little about newscom, what's so bad about him?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago

He's a typical MAGA in Democrat clothing. He criticizes Trump, but he doesn't do anything to punish the Sociopathic Oligarchs that we all know are the heart of the problem. He is perfectly cast for his role as the President where nothing much happens, and MAGA will rise for another bite of Treason Profits.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He's like the definition of smarmy rich liberal.

And yeah, he's anti-trans. Which needs to become a nonstarter for Democrats

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Simply put, transphobe. Uses the same rhetoric as the far right. As well his policies on homelessness and handling it in Cali is pretty piss poor. He's another example of fascist lite put forward by the Dems who are trying to appear more right.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/newsom-transgender-athletes/

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

he seemed to have fell of the news as of late.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (21 children)

He still does. Progressives are winning more and more seats, eventually the DNC will be replaced and be useful brick by brick.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Progressives are winning more and more seats

Can't undersell the amount of progress DSA and its allies have made in the last six years.

But we're talking about half a dozen Congressional seats. A smattering of state and local races. Lots of people who are totally untested and unproven. Lots of people - like El Sayud and Mamdani - who seem more than happy to meet Zionists and bigot reactionaries halfway.

And they're squaring off against legions of ICE goons, corporate drones, and fascist billionaires fully on board with mass extermination of their opponents.

Look at Bo French down in Texas. This is a guy who is advocating a Holocaust of 100M people across the US. He's polling even with Jon Rosenthal, a Democrat who wants to maybe raise taxes on energy companies a little bit.

the DNC will be replaced

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Posts like this only help the fascists. They have no other purpose.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Democrats are the fascists that help enable fascism to flourish

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The accountability Democrats created after a literal attempted coup, and having the power to do something about it for four years:

We're here because of the repeated and reliable failure of Democrats. And that failure is possible because of commentors like you.

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