• Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yet the Dem party repeats all o’er again

      “The party cannot fail you; you people can only fail the party”…

      Damn it, with times like this, one can only wish for an ACTUAL revolutionary party…

      After all, the Rep party originated as a 3rd party historically… against the Whig party and Dem party… yet it won against many odds , all in all.

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        I mean, we had the Black Panthers, but they didn’t check in with the FBI to see if that was allowed first soooo…

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        Nate is just coping about being so devastatingly wrong about his “96% chance of victory!” prediction.

        Besides, it shouldn’t have been that close to begin with. The 2016 election should have been a wham bam slam jam thank you ma’am landslide win for the Democrats, on the scale of Reagan v. Mondale. The fact that it wasn’t should concern you about the party’s competence and/or goals.

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          Nate (or rather, the 538 model). didn’t make a 96% chance of victory prediction. It at most went up to around 88% right after the debates where Trump made a fool of himself and the Hollywood Access Tapes were released. But even then, Silver cautioned in an interview that Hillary’s support among certain groups was soft.

          I’m honestly not sure when the Democrats will have a solid win again. Recently the electoral college has tilted against us and Trumpian populism has taken grip over a large portion of the country. Fewer and fewer voters are up for grabs. It took the unpopular Iraq War for Obama, who was also a very gifted candidate and campaigner, to get a 7.2% lead. I expect a lot more repeats of 2020, where Biden only got a 4.5% lead despite Trump’s poor leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. A slightly closer race would have had Biden losing key swing states and the election.

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    Even if I didn’t know a single thing about history, I’d still be able to look at what Israel is currently doing and know that it’s wrong and we shouldn’t be supporting it. Hillary is such a sociopath.

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      The neolib is eternal. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

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      Nah, the more public statements made by people supporting a genocide, the more history will condem them, and the more ammo for the ICC.

      When someone tells you who they are, listen. And write it down.

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      We all really wish she would shut up, but she’s also the avatar of neoliberalism so in a way we need her around to remind us specifically of what we want to avoid. She’s the England of humans.

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        she doesn’t need to keep talking and turding things up for people to remember that she exists

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          But every time she talks dems lose supporters and that’s really really funny

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            oh, look, a someone who claims to like coMMuNiSm but cheers on obvious authoritarianism and fascism…

            nice work, “comrade” lmao

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              TIL disliking the DNC is authoritarian. Smells like freedom.

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                oh, look, totally not what i said. what a shockingly disingenuous response!/s

                i don’t like the DNC, either, but i’m not cheering for them to lose to a fascist while claiming to be a communist, comrade

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    Just FYI I’m 90% sure the guy on the left is a republican. Like fuck Hillary and all but there have to be better sources lol.

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      I think he used to be but then went Independent but still leans conservative or something and the blonde woman who cohosts with Ryan Grim on Wednesdays and Fridays is also a conservative, idk there’s a whole history/lore to that show but leftist journalists in the anglosphere are a bit scarce and Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim are some of the few. It’s actually been really interesting to watch how some of his old worldviews unraveled in the course of their journalism over time. I’m half-expecting him to become a leftist in a few years if the trend continues.

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    So much “if we can just ignore atrocity a little longer we can break through to a new reality where there is one fewer problem.” Magical thinking at it’s worst.

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      Just vote for the dem, one more time. Come on, this’ll be the last time, then Trump will be gone and we’ll all dance under a rainbow. 15k dead kids? Small price to pay for world peace. C’mon, for the kids. Vote Blue.

      football-lucy

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    Breaking out of touch war criminal says out of touch things about war crimes. Doesn’t understand young people dont like war crimes more at 11.