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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Yeah this is totally warranted given the recent news. I mean, one side trying to expand medicare, the other gutting it. One side trying to close Guantanamo bay, the other opening concentration camps on it. One side trying to get money out of politics, the other side destroying democracy for want of more money.

Totally helpful, totally warranted, OP. Well done. Way to go. You're so cool and centrist.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Got some citations for those claims? Particularly given Kamala's opposition to expanding Medicare.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

yeah sure, I love wasting time arguing with bad faith actors! You're clearly in the special group of the best thinkers, it's so fun to spend time talking with people like you!

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

Good to know you just say shit you can't prove, I won't bother taking you seriously then.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago

You know that Kamala isn't the only Democrat in existence right

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago

You know that's who they picked for president right?

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

And? Despite what Trump says, presidents don't have unilateral power, and members of the president's party can do and say things different from the president

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 7 points 19 hours ago

In case you aren't aware, the president is the most powerful politician in America. The policies they promote have the best chance of succeeding. Polical parties pick a person to represent them to run for president. Democrats picked Kamala and her polices to represent them.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

🙄🙄🙄

presidents don't have unilateral power, and members of the president's party can do and say things different from the president

This is how American politics has worked for hundreds of years. Yes, the president (really the executive branch) holds a lot of power. So do the other two branches of government. One branch can't really do anything without working with the other two, which means that compromise is a frequent theme throughout the history of American politics.

[-] onecarmel@lemm.ee 7 points 18 hours ago

Given the reality of the world we live in, Dems are the best we have right now.

Obama pulled this country out of the worst economy it’s been in since the 30’s. Brought healthcare to countless Americans (my wife would no longer be with us due to the cancer she had - Medicaid allowed her to be treated). He legalized gay marriage. Allowed gay and lesbian people to openly serve in the military. Gave the order that killed Osama bin Laden. We’ve all seen firsthand cities and towns be fixed up from the stimulus bills he passed in 2009. I could go on and on.

Hard for someone like Biden to follow that up being the next Democrat in line.

Meanwhile Trump has done everything to gut the work that Obama did, and make life worse for Americans in general. The last few weeks have felt like years in some sense with all the garbage he’s pulled. He’s bringing back another set of corporate tax cuts that are gonna fuck over a bunch of middle and lower class families.

They aren’t comparable.

At least we have a fighting chance for change under Democrats. They just need to give the old goons the boot.

Say all you want about us providing aid in conflicts worldwide, but that’s what we’ve always done. We all have it great here in terms of safety because of those decisions. I can count on one hand how many times we’ve had foreign powers attack us on our soil since the revolutionary war. Hamas is a proxy of Iran/Russia, so of course we’re gonna back Israel. Same reason we’re backing Ukraine over Russia.

[-] polysexualstick@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Oh my fucking god, the comments in here are so bad. Nobody is saying "both sides bad". This is not a centrist meme. This is a case of observing that Republicans are far-right fascists and Democrats are center-right conservatives.

[-] greenracoon@lemm.ee 11 points 22 hours ago

This “both sides are the same” lie is just as tiring as Trump’s lie about winning.

[-] polysexualstick@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

This is not a point of "both sides are the same", it's a point of "both are on the same side" (with said side being the political right)

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago

You must not have looked very closely at the meme then. Nowhere does it say they're the same.

[-] vegafjord@freeradical.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

@AbsoluteChicagoDog Don't give your voice to the Genocidal Regimes of America. Instead use your actual voice fully. Don't let yourself be compromized by the machine.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

The Ratchet effect.

With this current trump slop, the democrats can shift farther right than they've ever been and gain tons of moderates and even conservatives who just feel sour on trump, and obviously they get the liberal moderates, because trump slop.

Republicans shift right by 10, dems shift right by 6 and seem progressive in comparison.

Billionaires continue getting richer, and we all get fucked. Eat, sleep, repeat.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 days ago

Obama's legacy:

Biden's legacy:

The democrats are a brutal, vicious, genocidal party.

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[-] Geodad@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

I’m honestly looking for work in the EU. If I can land a job, I’ll get established and then bring my family over.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Get in before the backlash - "bloody Americans, coming over here, taking our jobs..."

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This meme made sense in 2012, not when the Republican Party has decided to be the Anti-Democratic Party.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 32 points 2 days ago

If anything Democrats have moved further to the right recently

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