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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago

Okay, one still should vote for a Democrat president. Because why would you vote for a more hostile government? Unless of course you want everything go-to shit but you should lead with your intention.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Okay, one still should vote for a Democrat president.

LOL, the last Democratic nominee saw tens of millions of voters saying 'hey, we'd like to be able to afford food and rent', and their response was 'just be joyful about how poor you are'.

If Dems want votes, they need to do more than make promises.

[-] sobchak@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

She campaigned on fairly substantial changes, such as $25k downpayment assistance, $10k tax credit to first-time home buyers, and a lot of other housing reforms and subsidies. Not that I particularly liked her, but she did campaign on that kind of stuff (which people/media mostly ignored, IIRC).

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not that I particularly liked her, but she did campaign on that kind of stuff (which people/media mostly ignored, IIRC).

That'll happen when your record and that of your predecessors shows that your promises are worthless.

Also she probably shouldn't have spent three months telling people to be joyful about how poor they were before dreaming up her policy positions.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Dems don't want votes though, they are a fundraising organization.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

If Dems got votes, they might win, and then their corporate donors would be very upset

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You claim to be a socialist in your other posts but you sure sound like a DNC centrist all the time.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I see you're the one that responded with a page of why Dems suck when I said the Dems wield power differently but not against Capitalism. Maybe you live in a part of the world where there is no material difference between the two parties but that is not the lived reality for myself or my neighbors. This is not a centrist saying "well actually the Dems don't suck as much as you say", it is a Marxist saying you cannot build a coalition while ignoring the material conditions people are experiencing.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I see you’re the one that responded with a page of why Dems suck

I listed a super long list of dems in congress collaborating with republicans lately. You're the one saying they suck.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

To a lot of Marxists, "materialism" means only believing in physical things, and pretending the mathematics of electoral systems don't exist because maths is abstract.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

I suspect they know math but want to hasten the destruction of the middle class, as if it guarantees a revolution.

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