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is this just mocking us or is there some means-tested-to-poo poo plan I forgot about
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the democrats are going to get destroyed in 2022
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Dec 2, 2021 02:44
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i'm going to outlive the country i've lived in my whole life and frankly, i'm glad of it
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Dec 2, 2021 02:54
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I can't believe I've never seen that, 120 qualifying payments would've been a major crack ping moment for me even as late as 2015
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Dec 2, 2021 04:19
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I wish I could see an alternative to accelerationism at this point
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Dec 2, 2021 22:46
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:All I want is for once after Trump wins in 24 regardless of the actual vote, and it's mask off even for liberals that this isn't a democracy, for Obama to say "vote harder" in a speech at a commencement or something and get booed It will be very funny even the democrats get destroyed in 2022 but don’t fool yourself into thinking democrat voters will ever learn anything
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Yes, that's the really confounding thing about it. No matter how much it's in their existential interest to do so, Democrats refuse to do politics. It's more than just their class or fundraising interests preventing them from doing literally anything - there has to be some kind of ideological blinder that leads them to total impotence. Democrats are watching Republicans cut the brake lines of the electoral system and just going, "you'll be sorry when I start driving that thing around and everyone sees what you've done. I'll wrap myself around a loving tree, and then you'll be really sorry." the neoliberal consensus in the Democratic Party and news media see “doing things that will make your citizens want to vote for you” as cheating at politics, as if politics was high school debate club vote for the democrats because they don’t overtly say racist things like those gross republicans (they’ll just enact the exact same grotesquely unpopular policies) this also explains their hatred at anyone who chooses not to vote. how can you not think we’re the smarter ones, we said all those nice eloquent things
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Dec 8, 2021 23:02
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beto o’rourke, who goes by beto because his dad thought it would trick Hispanic voters into thinking he was Hispanic
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Dec 9, 2021 20:47
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I felt like this was simplistic at first, but I think there is a lot to it. Like when Nancy Pelosi said, "we're all about identity now," she meant it literally. Democrats are selling people a basket of cultural signifiers that reinforce their own sense of superiority over others. Voting Democrat proves you're a good person, and that's all that counts. Democrats themselves only need to serve the whims of market forces, because as an advanced bourgeois dictatorship those are the only forces that count. I just wish I could understand why people think this is a party worth voting for; surely West Wing was not that popular. Party leadership and individual politicians are obviously incentivized to be the party of rhetoric and nothing else, but I’ve gone from wondering “why do poor people keep voting Republican” in 2012 (which isn’t actually very true anyway) to “why do poor and lower middle class people keep supporting neolibs” these days not that I think voting even matters at this point; even beyond election fixing and the mathematical impossibility of getting enough people in the senate who aren’t awful and the dems’ insistence on not doing anything I think American institutions are so thoroughly compromised and broken that having a hundred communists in the senate couldn’t fix them without starting completely over
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Dec 9, 2021 20:57
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after the genocides, not finishing reconstruction probably is literally America’s worst mistake yes (I’m using the word “mistake” loosely)
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don’t worry, the dems have their finest consent manufacturers on the case https://mobile.twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1470428424556662793
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bold of you to assume there will be us elections in 2028
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Dec 13, 2021 23:29
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have any democrats proposed any kind of action or legislation that might prevent things like, I don't know, amazon warehouses collapsing and killing dozens of people being forced to work during a loving SimCity disaster
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Dec 14, 2021 03:38
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Dec 15, 2021 19:19
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ikanreed posted:I think it's not just student loans, which is materially relevant for college educated under-40s. And wouldn't be this slow, steady decline rather than suddenly right now. Obama did a much better job of pretending he gave a poo poo ACA sucked but at least it was a policy. The one thing Biden actually did (leave Afghanistan) was relentlessly poo poo on by his colleagues and the media
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Chuck Schumer, the guy who asks an imaginary white conservative family who lives in his head for advice whenever he makes a decision, has been publicly begging Joe Biden to do something about student loans Chuck loving Schumer thinks Joe Biden should do something, that's how bad the party is right now
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just remembered the lincoln project
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wow! president joe!
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Dec 19, 2021 18:51
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honestly, the likes of Jon Chait and Concerned Citizen losing hope is making me feel more hopeful than I have since Bernie won Nevada
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Dec 20, 2021 01:06
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I’m sure there’s no reason the dems are all focused on manchin instead of the republicans that Biden promised he could get to vote for his policies
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Dec 20, 2021 22:46
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the bitcoin of weed posted:genuinely starting to think we're watching a major political party commit suicide completely from its own ineptitude. i genuinely cannot explain it any other way. the democrats don't even want the democrats to continue to exist at least they want something
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Dec 21, 2021 00:17
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a whole country of Madison Cawthorns And the dems will be ready and willing to compromise with their good friends in the gop
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Business Gorillas posted:just remembered all of a sudden how the goaste NOJOE gangtags were supposed to be some kind of sick own by the libs. now look at them lmao I wear this as a badge of honor
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ex post facho posted:Lets Go Balkanization extremely cool to be a socialist in a country that is about to balkanize when all of my friends and family live in former confederate states
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500 good dogs posted:this is my new favorite graph so I'm gonna put it here too i hate it here
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What it really gets down to is that the only difference between the two parties is culture war bullshit, and the Dems have made it clear they aren't even willing to protect any of that at this point. Voting for the Democrats doesn't even protect abortion anymore, so why should anyone bother voting for them? Abortion's been eroded away over the decades and is de facto illegal for huge swaths of the country no matter what. How long until gay marriage is repealed? The Democrats can't even get their poo poo together enough to let people smoke weed or close Gitmo! Amazon's started causing straight up Triangle Shirtwaist poo poo to start happening and I'm not sure if the Dems have even acknowledged it. Like, I genuinely don't know what their agenda is at this point because they don't seem to be committed to doing anything other than telling people that Donald Trump is bad and that doesn't even get into the complete destruction of every institution in this country. Even if a bunch of well-intentioned Democrats rode an ahistorical blue wave into 70 dems in the Senate and Joe Biden's heart grew 3 sizes I don't know that they'd be able to actually get anything done considering SCOTUS and the absolute loving mutants that make up our federal judges and the nightmare that is our state and local governments. I come from North Carolina, a state that was recently ruled to have one of the worst cases of gerrymandering in the country, to the point that it was ordered to redraw its districts. Do you know what happened? The Republican general assembly made the smallest adjustment they could and got the Democrats in the assembly to sign off on it, because they would continue to have safe seats that would make it easy for them to stay in power, do nothing, and fundraise. You can't vote your way out of that, especially with the usual vote suppressing horseshit that goes on across the entire South (and, more recently, everywhere else).
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Doctor Jeep posted:in a 100 years they'll still be going "this is the last election, for real this time" The most important election of all time will happen just before Iran has finished developing a nuclear bomb
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even if it’s true, what are the democrats offering if they win? vote for the democrats so you can keep voting for the democrats? they don’t actually do anything!
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Without looking it up, does anybody remember what Democrats impeached Trump for? I honestly had forgotten they did it a second time
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Jan 5, 2022 05:21
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got caught saying the word pussy
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just remembered that Biden and the democrats haven't even bothered to get rid of the Space Force, easily among the dumbest things Trump ever did have the dems rolled back *any* republican policies in the past thirty years
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okay, second question because I couldn’t find an easy answer on Google: when was the last time the republicans held a supermajority, which as we know is the only way you can get anything done in congress
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Jan 11, 2022 18:57
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I knew it was bad, I just never realized quite how bad. Forget the ratchet effect; we have one party to move us right and another party to move us right
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https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1480931124360667145 oh drat you don't say? it wasn't just two specific senators we can easily vote past??
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even back in high school I knew that “hope everyone starts acting differently” is a bad strategy for anything so the dems using that for covid as well as all future elections is, well, gonna result in the thread title
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even if it did work the democrats seem to believe that the government should do nothing at all other than launder money for insurance/finance ceos and arms manufacturers
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Nonsense posted:if republicans don’t do debates the democrats aren’t winning the presidency again either don’t worry. The debate club party will just have debates by themselves that will definitely show how normal and tuned in they are
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1481800985936867328 useless, toothless, shameless, hopeless
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super sweet best pal posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1482087905820618759 I talked a lot about the pending legitimacy crisis back during the Floyd riots (specifically, see that time the mayor of NYC politely asked the NYPD to please not trample people to death with their horses and in response the NYPD kidnapped his daughter) but man, I'm honestly a little shocked at how completely useless every institution and every government agency has become in this country. I shouldn't be shocked, but I am. Does the government do anything anymore aside from feed tax money to arms manufacturers and kill people of color? Edit: I just realized I'm literally a civil servant and I'm not sure if the government does anything. I know my job primarily consists of seeing court cases get rescheduled over and over forever
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Hillary Clinton wants to be President but does not really want to do anything as President, she just wants to be President Unfortunately for her she is a member of a party that wants to be in a comfortable second place forever
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