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You couldn't make this shit up.

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[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 99 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is what happens when you don't understand the 'why' behind being more inclusive and instead apply it opportunistically to concentrate power.

The Democratic party has a hollow husk of virtue signallers at its core. Let's hope a new generation, one that truly means what they say, can rise above their failures.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Let's hope a new generation, one that truly means what they say, can rise above their failures.

How CAN a new generation rise when the party's failures have lead to a loss of all public trust in the party? Any democrats currently trying to get elected have it harder than ever as the party's reputation is literally in the shitter amongst their voters.

I'm not saying that picking them as the lesser of two evils is wrong, but having that should NOT be anyone's goal

[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Have you not paid attention to politics?

The new generation is all hopeful and bright eyed. If you give them a few years they'll be sleeping on piles of lobby money and talk big about helping the people, while voting the opposite.

[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

No. Sincerely, that is a reflection of who you are as a person.

Just because you can be bought with money does not mean everyone else is the same.

I assure you that my hatred of capitalism is so immense, there is no amount of money I would accept to look the other way as our planet continues to be raped and our future pilfered.

Shame on you.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

As soon as I heard about the possibility of this happening

I fully expected it to happen

... and here we are

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago

As soon as the recommendation to maybe not run incumbent dinosaurs was made, he's was done.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s not what happened. He allocated $20M of DNC funding to run challengers to the incumbents in primaries. Incumbents always stay on the ballot unless they choose not to run.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/david-hogg-run-group-announces-20m-initiative-support/story?id=120861846

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago

Incumbents always stay on the ballot unless they choose not to run.

Hmm, well that's stupid.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Right he was using resources to improve the DNC and make sure the ones that HAVE BEEN FAILING to maybe get primaried. Maybe answer for their mistakes. I don't know these are all things that the DNC need to do to improve. Unless better representation isn't the point. 🤔

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

No, that’s right. I’m 100% behind him. That wasn’t criticism, it was clarification. He didn’t suggest not running incumbents. That’s not a choice the DNC can make.

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those are just made up rules you're enforcing. They're not grounded in logic or reason in any way.

And it's cost us two absolutely fucking devastating losses, the last of which has ended American Democracy as we know it and given rise to a dictatorship in the longest running democracy on earth (previously).

So maybe, just maybe, those rules are bullshit, and the people like you trying to virtue signal need to pick a fucking lane here and decide if you want to fight fascism, or just virtue signal your way into a concentration camp.

Edit: I mischaracterized the poster above me here, they were just relaying information, I've apologized further below. :) Keeping my comment up for context, but I was wrong to attack OP the way I did.

[-] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

/uj America is neither a democracy nor will voting change anything

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Who is enforcing? I’m just explaining what happened.

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

That's fair, I reread your comment, I mis-categorized your response. I apologize.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

No worries!

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe we should change that. I wonder if anybody has tried anything…

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Fuck the DNC with Hilary Clinton’s Dick

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 month ago

Time to go back to shiting on Bernie for being a straight white man

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

No, for supporting Israel.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

by trying to block bomb sales to Israel....

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

No, by not recognising the genocide for what it is, being openly pro Israel and instead opting for only blocking export of weapons and letting Israel do whatever-the-fuck after

it's not the guns from USA that allows Israel to murder people, it's the security and guarantee that USA provides, and Bernie is making no promises on backing down

[-] Xtallll 20 points 1 month ago

He was removed for supporting primary changers to incumbent Democrats, the diversity rule was just what was used to force him out. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dnc-gives-david-hogg-an-ultimatum-00307113

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Yes I know, for trying to unseat a few of the old guard democrats and replace them with progressive candidates. Apparently it's fine when the DNC does the same thing to incumbent progressives though.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Fucking game-playing cocksuckers. Fix my goddamn country already.

[-] m4xie@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Couldn't make a better example of weaponized "neutrality" to benefit the status quo.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

using anti-dei methods, like the gop did.

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Reeeeeee!

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 month ago

Could they possibly sabotage their own progressives any harder? Eh, I'm sure they'll come up with something.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 month ago

At this point I think they'd run a republican before they ran anyone with an iota of progressive backbone.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

That's what they're been doing already

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

most of the DNC are just DINOS, anyways. and rich dems are the same as the rich gop, they get the same donors, and t hey benefit from someone like trump in power.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not American, but I wonder if it isn't only a matter of "in name only" but that if the DNC only puts forward neoliberal candidates, maybe that's who they actually are as an organization.

Acknowledging that there are progressive members -- probably many, but if the

power structures of the org itself won't ever allow them to run a candidate…

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

Hogg isn't a Progressive, he's just a dick riding opportunist.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

And yet has more backbone than the entire dnc establishment

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

Dialectical truths 🥰

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How can one not be motivated to challenge the status quo and current administration? It's not working.

I don't really know this guy or his politics too well, but I think it's unfair to label him as an "opportunist".

Criticizing the Democratic Party for being complicit is seeming less like an accusation and more like fact.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He wants to replace the current group of old, complicit, corrupt neoliberals with young, maybe(?) less complicit and corrupt ~~neoliberals. He does not want to replace them with progressives.~~

Edit: based on my browser history, I believe I formed the impression reading something in a Lemmy thread about a month ago probably related to this article, but I can't find it again so I'm just gonna say I must be wrong.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I guess every media outlet that I've looked at is reporting this wrong for saying he was backing young progressives. Even his website claims that. But I know Democrats love to tease at being progressives to appeal to voters, and then shift back to the right.

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

Hmm, ~~maybe~~ I've fallen for misinformation.

Edit: I can't find the thing that initially gave me the impression that David Hogg wasn't progressive, so I'm removing the "maybe."

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Source?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I can't find it, so I'm retracting the claim.

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