Because there are no leftist dems. All are either centre or center right.
And there are no center republicans, all are either far ~~left~~ right or extreme far ~~left~~ right.
Their goals are the same, just slightly different methods.
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Centrist dems? The Democrats are right wing. The Republicans are far right. There is no left or centre in US politics. If any is centrist, they are considered communist. What Americans consider to be left is still considered right by the rest of the world. The only centrist American politician I know of is Mamdani and the only slightly-left one I know of is Bernie Sanders. But the Democratic party is definitely on the right side of the spectrum.
By only electing for DSA candidates, the party can be pulled leftward.
Unfortunately, I believe the only way we will ever get another fair, uncompromised election is by making extensive use of louisettes.
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They need a visit from the Board of Education.
The Board of Education:
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Democrats are just paid opposition. There’s a few good ones but the majority are bad
the only good ones are zohran, bernie, and aoc, and maybe some local ones. DNC only tolerates the latter 2, because they need reverse lightning rod.
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No justice, no budget. ICE shouldn't get another bloody dollar until every officer that has violated any law or constitutional provision is in jail. Democrats voting to fund ICE need to be named and shamed as trump boot lickers. Pressure should be made toward the DNC and state parties to expel them.
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they are center right, not even center specifically. schumer and 13 other senators, + hakeem are all closer the og gop.
It's my theory that they want to give ice cameras so they can more easily record the protesters' faces without having to take out their phones since they are making some sort of database.
The company that makes the cameras (Axon, they also make tasers) has a whole web service for sharing the cam videos. So it’s already going to computers that can run facial recognition. I mean, that exists now. Of course more data means more protesters profiled.
Strap some IR LED lights and a small battery and toggle to your glasses.
Decent chance your face is now is big white blob to many cameras.
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Axon tried to recruit me to make payload drones that definitely won't be used to drop grenades and "definitely" won't be sold to US police and paramilitary to drop chemical weapons on civilians because it is "against their company values" (the company that tazes each other as an initiation rite).
I was debating on doing it to try to make everything work as badly as possible and learn how to make civilian countermeasures, but I ended up telling them to go fuck themselves and that they were liars, in no uncertain terms.
likely it will be linking to palintir as well, since we know the new speedcameras, red light are doing the same.
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