Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What's the difference?

LOL

if the issue was the message and framing, then keep the candidate and fix the framing and message.

The problem wasn't how she said anything, it never is. The only lesson Dems ever take when they get trounced at the polls is that they need to target their messaging better. There's never any self-crit about the possibility they might need to change their policies. They just assume that an electorate who doesn't want corporate-friendly status quo politics is simply wrong, and needs to be propagandized more convincingly. E.g., 2/3 of the US population agree rich businesses and individuals need to be taxed more. But the Dems assessment seems to be that the majority of the country is wrong on that issue, and just needs to be "educated" better. Fuck meaningfully changing policies to actually address the issue.

if the issue was a career justice worker [...]

You mean a prosecutor who worked extra hard to lock up over-policed black folks in support of the US prison industrial complex? Justice worker my ass. There is no justice to be had in the US.

America was overconfident [...]

No, the Dems were overconfident that Trump would be so reprehensible they could sit on their hands, change nothing, put up a lame duck candidate at the last minute after dragging their heels for months over Biden's mental state (which was obvious to literally everyone who heard him talk) and somehow still win the election with a bunch of stale policy positions that were and are deeply unpopular.

Yes I know, for trying to unseat a few of the old guard democrats and replace them with progressive candidates. Apparently it's fine when the DNC does the same thing to incumbent progressives though.

I'm sad I missed the party 😔

Thank you for your content.

Is this still available?

BPR/YDI. The fact you are doubling down on the shit stirring here confirms it was the right call by both mods/admins.

Could they possibly sabotage their own progressives any harder? Eh, I'm sure they'll come up with something.

Dude the Dems have never bothered courting leftist votes. We have basically nothing in common ideologically except for maybe some crossover on identity politics stuff. Now y'all want to have our support because your prosecutor status-quo DNC candidate was defeated running on imo terrible unsupportable policies no different to Biden? We don't do voting for the lesser evil. Put up an actual progressive candidate and leftists will be happy to vote for them. FYI being black or being a woman doesn't automatically mean you're progressive. That's reductive and prioritises identity politics over policy substance. You don't get to keep your neo-liberal policies and your leftist votes. Pick one or the other. And don't blame leftists because you keep making the wrong choice.

The law is an ass if you can't even make a comment to clarify the difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Why even host it in a country that has such restrictions?

I guess every single Albertan Liberal voter downvoted this joke. 😂

Meh they can have Alberta.

We are still feeling out the governance experiment, but it's working out pretty good so far I think. I genuinely find the feedback helpful, and I'm sure we arrived at a better version of the rule because of the community feedback. So thanks for your input.

Awesome, thanks again.

Wow these are awesome!

They more or less perfectly illustrated the point of the meme.

What you "centrists" call "purity tests" by the left are in fact just a threshold level of basic of human decency. Leftists simply don't want to hang with folks who embrace bigoted viewpoints and who are willing to vote for any party that supports the genocide of Palestinians. You are deluding yourself into thinking a compromise position on these issues is in any way morally or ethically acceptable. Compromise is for things like what color you are gonna paint your living room, not for basic human rights.

You aren't in the middle if you are a misogynist who doesn't agree trans women are women, and doesn't believe in women's right to choose. You're on the right.

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