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[-] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did bush actually have time for what's claimed here? He was mostly about removing rights from Americans in the face of a sham war. I don't think he actually had much focus on tax breaks for rich people...

Obama continued that ritual, removing even more rights from the American people under the guise of "safety". And Obama could have shoved Universal healthcare through but didn't - he watered it down in the name of "bipartisanship", but then ultimately nobody voted for the bill on the right anyways. If that were going to be the case, he should have just rammed through what the American people NEEDED; but he didn't -- because he wanted MORE MONEY FOR RICH PEOPLE (insurance companies)

Hell, Obama bombed more brown people than any president before him as well...let's not pretend he was an angel.

[-] Tower@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

The ACA wasn't "watered down in the name of bipartisanship". The public option was removed because that's the only way Joe Lieberman, the 60th vote in the Senate, would vote for it. And yes, what initially came out of committee was not as progressive as we wanted, but if Lieberman wasn't even going to vote for that, there was no way he was going to vote for M4A.

I wish he just pushed to end the filibuster.

Then, all he would've needed was 50 senators, he can sacrifice 10 of those 60 votes in exchange for a better healthcare system.

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Obama's legaacy should prove that "playing nice", in fact, does not work.

[-] tartarin@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

It's not about the party or the POTUS, it's all about the oligarchs who are funding the parties and really make things happen. All of them were in debt to oligarchs and had to return the given money for the campaigns somehow. Don't be fooled, as long as the funding of political parties isn't reformed to prevent these oligarchs to grab everything there will not be much for the rest of us. Just enough to avoid revolt and riots as long as sustainable. Democracy in the USA is a mascarade.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love how short-sighted this is. Like, I think there are more people that are on a higher level of understanding nowadays, but still the old game still remains. America is an imperialist empire and fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology. Do you think a million dollars is a lot of money? Well I can tell you a billionaire uses that to wipe his ass. So when he donates it to charity, he's just trying to manage perception. So what I'm trying to say is that the Democrats are neoliberal and they are fascist and both the Democrats and the Republicans work together to keep the working class down. That's why we live the way we do today because things only continue to get worse. The rest of the world sees us as a right-wing country. The Democrats are controlled opposition. The bourgeois elections mean nothing to me or anybody with a fucking clue. The Democrats supported genocide in Gaza. Bernie Sanders and AOC are sheep dogs. They are not socialist, but they are there to defame socialist ideas. You can look this up online. It's called the ratchet effect. So no, this is a little too simple for me. This is like baby boo boo diaper information. It's a very immature analysis of the current state of things or what has happened in the past. End Wokeism no War but the Class War.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

Okay you're trying to make some good points but, maybe stop and rephrase that as a coherent thought?

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

yeah #anybytes, try synthesizing your point.

[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago
[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 day ago

Disagree. There were lots of good points in that rambly mess.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for blueberry muffins in iambic pentameter.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LLMs write better than that.

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

as others have said, try synthesizing your ideas. You have a good core argument, but its a little rambly, with some things that feel more buzz word then argument.

Try leading with your thesis, in this case "The democrats are controlled opposition that work with the Republicans to keep the working class down" and then follow up with your supporting comments and evidence. Alot of people wont read everything and just by the first half will judge what you say.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Here's some unsolicited advice: you'd probably get your point across better if you found a way of expressing yourself with less perceived hate, less name-calling, and less labeling - don't dilute your passion, but speak to the reality and to the solutions that aren't being put on the table. Speak to people's silent struggle and find a way to not be polarizing.

Instead of calling out the US as being imperialistic, shed light to the real effects of US imperialism (e.g. US reliance on supply chains that revolve around slavery or child slavery, third-world exploitation, effects of US regime change etc.) and complicity on both sides.

Instead of calling Democrats fascists, explain that they don't have any power or energy to fight fascism, authoritarianism, oligarchy, imperialism (effectively making them complicit). They have no plan and no solutions.

Instead of calling elections bourgeois, explain that political teams and this tug of war game is a pointless exercise and gets literally nothing done — e.g. speak to election/voting reform, the dissolution of team politics and political parties that take money from non-small donors, term limits, and speak to concepts like direct democracy. Bernie Sanders and AOC aren't socialist or anything close to it in practice, but they also aren't necessarily operating in complete bad faith.

I don't disagree with your general sentiment, but your points can be more eloquently expressed. Reduce the terminology, Democrats are powerless even if they shift their tune, they are always going to answer to capital, they aren't interested in addressing critical problems (e.g. modern slavery, the fresh water crisis, the housing crisis, the health care crisis, the economy, deregulation of corporations etc.), and they aren't interested in solutions. They have no power, even when they have had power (e.g. under Obama).

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone get down, it's the tone police

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Everybody is free to express themselves however they wish. I'm merely pointing out why people are calling the poster I was responding to AI or reducing their arguments down to "not containing any rational thought". Their comment speaks to people who are already radicalized, people who already know the Democrats are playing everybody - it doesn't speak to the people deeply entrenched in the propaganda and tribalism that the Democrats invoke.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Missing a Bush before Clinton. HW before W.

[-] PyroNeurosis 1 points 1 day ago

And Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Johnson between JFK and Reagan.

[-] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Hey that's not fair, he also campaigned on explicitly hurting a bunch of vulnerable people!

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