“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldYep. And I'm here for it.
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    blaming Harriss failure in racism, during a change election when she litterally said “I would do nothing different” is obtuse to the point of being intentional. Racism and sexism are absolutely present. But this country looked at the candidate and asked “What are you going to do for me?” and her answer was “Not a god damned thing”.

    This country elected a black man with the name Barrack Huisen Obama. And yes this countrys racist as fuck. But it will get over any issues like that if it thinks the candidate will actually change shit.

    Kamala said she wouldn’t change shit in a country that isn’t working for people and that’s why she lost.


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    Her half a loaf approach to politics delivered us Trump. Excusing and accepting incrementalism when it has fundementally failed makes you part of the in problem.

    We wouldn’t be in the situation if not for the half a loaf politics of the previous 4 decades of Democrats and the half a loaf politics of Democrats is empowered by them being on the other side of supposed “strategic voting” like you just described. Hint: it’s not good strategy if it doesn’t result in the outcomes you want. It’s not harm reduction if it ends up in more harm.







  • The Democrats are at the core of the issues; but satellite to them in this regard is mainstream media, and their apologists and sycophants in social media. The DNC have cultivated a cultural worship of elitism. It spans all major “mainstream” news networks and also public broadcasting like NPR. Its at the heart of “podcasts” like Pod-Save-America (its almost ridiculous to consider pod save anything other than just more mainstream news).

    So coupled with this rejection of Democrats their needs to be a rejection of their media and the frameworks they use around political issues. Its not just enough to reject Democrats as a party; we also need to reject their media enterprise.




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    The administration showed their hand that they didn’t really care about justice or the rule of law by sitting on their hands on going after Trump for J6 until basically too late, and even then, in a purely performative manner. They did not care about the relationship between a literal attack on our democracy and justice and accountability for the powerful. Look at Brazil. Look at SK. Both orders of magnitude more committed to the project of democracy than the US Democratic party.

    In not going after Trump the very hour after taking power set Trump up for victory by putting the full cynicism of the Democratic party establishment on display. Everything that happened from 2021-2024 is an inevitable result of this weakness.