-get install actualleftistparty
Edit: I don't even use Linux. I'm being infected by your stink.
sudo apt get *
I run as root in my non existent Linux.
non existent Linux when will the distro proliferation end
If we're being technical, it's actually a GNothing OS, where the G stands for GNothing.
sudo apt install actualleftistparty && sudo apt --purge autoremove magats
You don't do that in America (if you want to win). You take an existing party and push it in your direction. That's how the party of Reagan is embracing tariffs.
Ask the whigs about it.
Way too good of an analogy in too many ways.
Nah, the pigs might be incompetent cowards but they aren't as complicit as dems
I know, you don't ever gotta give it to them, but still
Edit: Wait, if I remember correctly (easy to confuse these things when there's so many of them), they stopped people from doing what they themselves should be doing, right? Nevermind, it's perfect.
I thought we were going to talk about 3rd parties once it's not critical to democracy.
When are we going to wise up and realize that people who vacillate between "I won't vote for genocide" and "why won't the Democrats save us!?" are a fucking opp designed to kneecap the left?
Exactly. Division got us here. Only unity will get us out.
Unity centered around what? The party of the less bad? Of the horrible leadership? The party that only does one genocide? The not Trump party? The party of “we will not trash the economy”?
I could get behind that, but this federation has not been a democracy for a while. Not when you need more states won and several would require United Nations observers if they were countries. So, in some places it’s just a lost cause.
People need to be disabused of the notion this is a fair fight won by normal rules. New leadership and splintering is exactly what is needed.
Ah yes, unity. The unity of attacking third parties. Of suing candidates to remove them from the ballot. Of refusing to run a primary to learn the wishes of the party. What great unity. I’ll pass on the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” with your views of “unity” like that.
I agree we need to come together so the left stops losing. But the democrats do not agree with that, and will actively sabotage it as much as possible. And until that changes, we’re fucked. We need a party willing to adapt to the people on the left, not republicans.
If you want to not kneecapping the left, you could start by not slurring progressives as "a fucking opp."
Yeah, pretty accurate. One cop tries to do something and gets dragged away by the rest
Weird how everything is somehow the dems fault...
The dems are one of the only groups in the US who (legally) had the power to:
For most of these things, they should have been doing this long, long ago, before even Obama's terms. The Democrat Party clearly had the power of the state for more than enough time to make them look like an alternative rather than a complicit ally of the Republican Party. Why should they not be seen as at fault?
In this analogy, the Republicans are the shooter. Not sure how you can draw the conclusion that anyone is blaming the Dems there.
I'll be the first to call out people for solely blaming the Dems when that's the case. I've been banned from so many Reddit subs for that very thing, which is how I ended up here at Lemmy in the first place. But that's just not the case here. What this image is saying is that the fault of the action (the shooting) lies with the Republicans, and the Democrats (the Uvalde cops) are too cowardly to do anything to stop it. It's a pretty damn accurate description of American politics.
I agree. The Trusk team has got the ball rolling for some of trump's base, but we have to figure out a way to separate the rest from him. I really don't know how at this point. Common sense doesn't work and they never see the people making fun of them because they live in a bubble. It's starting to be too late.
So many of these clowns can't be bothered to vote but will still blame the dems.
the government is not here to be your friend. the government is not here to be your enemy. the government is here to ensure there is a tomorrow.
...and they are failing miserably
really funny considering they're the ones destroying our "tomorrow"
Well, you see, you got a bunch of Neanderthals saying it should be run like a business, and businesses piss literally everyone off to a high degree, so here we are.
Running things like a business means all the money goes to the guy at the top and his buddies, and the rest should be glad they still have a job.
We had millions of tomorrows before governments even existed.
Governments are here to more strictly enforce social contracts. They do this with varying levels of consent, but that is nevertheless what they do.
Someone else posed it this way: The Democrats exist to solicit donors; getting elected sometimes is a side effect. Big money has wrecked their ability to oppose what is happening.
That saying is really good when it's not being actively destroyed
Fuck.....
The perfect analogy for the fucking US of A.
The assumption here is that Democrats are just cowards. That is the more flattering of two options, but the less likely one.
The other one is that they are actually quite okay with what is happening, because their masters are.
That's pretty much how I've known them both
At this point why should they say anything? They've been fighting tooth and nail for years against this. I feel this is the 'when your enemy is making mistakes, don't interfere'. They're letting people see what they voted for, or didn't get off their ass to vote for. Not even being part of Trumps' base will be able to insulate them from what they're about to struggle with.
If that were true, it's a dumb election strategy to sit back and wait while your opponent puts an end to free and fair elections.
What world are you living in?
They had 4 years to fight Trump and make sure he was properly tried and sentenced for his crimes and they just didn't because they didn't want to look like they were going after political opponents. They have actually done next to nothing to fight him.
And the "mistake" they don't want to interrupt is Trump deporting people to random countries, setting up a giant concentration camp in gitmo, cutting cancer research funding and making life he'll for trans people. So maybe they SHOULD interrupt this mistake, with more than just signs.
What even can they do?
This, for better or worse, is the will of the people. It's not like nobody knew this was going to happen.
What even can they do?
They are not doing any of these things.
Start running town halls and hit adds where republican lawmakers run from their own constituents.
stop bitching about decorum or voting to censor the one guy who stood up for American democracy.
stop pretending like it’s the voter’s fault you lost them
start talking about solutions to problems rather than bitching about how awful trump is. One liners that don’t require an associates degree in economics. And focus on problems of average Americans. Not “The Economy™️”
Yes they (most, not all) are bargaining with the lives of countless Americans, but not themselves or their families.
Fuck every one of them doing this on purpose.
Kinda like how they went straight to blaming Mexicans and black people for losing the election.
A majority of one particular demographic voted for Trump in the past three elections which PoC and I assume anyone reading this is acutely aware of.
Officers arrived three minutes after Ramos entered the school and approached rooms 111 and 112, but they retreated.
Massacre at room 111. Massacre at room 112. Officer called out, "Yell if you need help!" A girl in the adjoining classroom said, "Help." Ramos heard the girl, entered the classroom, and shot her.
Law enforcement approach his classroom from what sounded like the hallway three times, but they did not enter; during one of these occasions, he heard a student from the adjoining classroom 112 saying, "Officer, we're in here. We're in here." As law enforcement had already left, Reyes said Ramos "walked over there, and he shot again."
Reyes later heard law enforcement telling Ramos to come out of the classroom to talk, saying they did not want to hurt anyone. WTF? That's the smartest line you would come up with? That the police don't want to hurt anybody? What's next, police threaten to shoot at hostages if shooter don't give up?
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