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  • "Please take care of us": Low-income Trump voters worry he'll cut benefits they rely on

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  • We moved back to Ohio recently (born there then moved out to California for over a decade for work and now back to Ohio so we can be near family). The amount of fucking shacks festooned with trump shit is wild. Doesn’t really seem like he did so great for you the first time Cletus, given that you live in a rundown shanty in the middle of one of the cheapest places to buy land and real estate…

    My favorite though is there is some sort of steel recycler / wholesaler. His sign cycles between his business name the cost for a ton of steel and “you’re fired! trump 2024.”

    I can not wait for the tariffs to absolutely destroy his business and for that reader board to say “thank you for 27 years of business”

    I’m a pretty well off leftist, so now I guess I’ll sit back and watch these poor rubes get fucked. It’s the only solace left.

  • DHS secretary calls social media rhetoric following UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "extraordinarily alarming"

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  • Well don’t forget that he came from the middle class and so intimately knew their struggles and turned his back on them and became a class traitor.

    I mean… hold on let me put on my capitalism glasses.. “he achieved the American dream”

  • Elon Musk signifies he'll go beyond supporting Trump to serve as his political enforcer

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  • These South African immigrants like musk attempting to subvert the will of the American people are the truest threat.

  • If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then what is Bluesky?

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  • Boston Market. It might try to convince you it’s upscale homemade, but it’s just kfc in another wrapper

  • ‘People feel drained’: anti-Trump Americans face temptation to tune out

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  • The Dems raised billions for the election and lost. What did I receive after donating thousands of dollars to them.

    Pleas for more money. Give us just a little bit more money and we will finally do something.

    I’m done. We should fight the fascists but the corporate democrats have been completely captured. They only know how to raise money and hand it to consultants that will tell them to parade around Liz fucking Cheney.

    I’m not paying them to slide further and further to the right anymore.

  • Allyship rule

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  • You keep being an ass to people and you won’t have to worry about anyone wanting to be your ally.

  • Musk could use the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ for self-enrichment

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  • What a weird way to spell “will” I mean they missed every letter, “could” some editor must be real embarrassed.

  • ugh i wish

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  • This problem has always bugged me writ large as well. It seems nearly impossible to have any conversation that looks at the bigger picture of things in a complete and nuanced way.

    Take for example employment rates. It’s just taken as a given that high employment is the goal. But stop and think about that for a second. In any other part of your life is your goal to completely saturate all time with labor? No, obviously not.

    But the goals are set and we must achieve them. More money next quarter than last quarter, it doesn’t matter if every conceivable customer already has a subscription, we must grow. Make the product cheaper to make, charge more, do anything but consider that we might have picked stupid goals.

  • Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

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  • Remember when everyone that got the COVID shot would be dead in 2 years.

    These are Christian nationalists, they love death cults.

  • Matt Gaetz ethics report released to more members of Congress

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  • Speech and debate clause.

    Someone should read that on the floor

  • Reaching across the aisle

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  • If there’s something in particular in that original analysis you disagree with feel free to point it out.

    Progressive voters can’t vote for progressive candidates that don’t exist. My analysis explains why progressive candidates / parties don’t emerge in this system.

    When there are progressive candidates progressive voters vote for them, while centrist Dems say they won’t (that’s exactly what Clinton supporters said they would do if sanders won the nomination)

    What exactly do you think “you know what, fuck you guys, we’re done” looks like in the absence of progressive candidates? Maybe the presidential candidate getting 20M fewer votes? That literally just happened.

  • Reaching across the aisle

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  • I’d refer you back to my first comment that explains the structural incentives and disincentives that prevent an alternative to the Democratic Party from emerging

  • "I love the poorly educated"

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  • How? Does Massachusetts not have working class people in it? Is it a state comprised entirely of the wealthy?

  • Reaching across the aisle

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  • We have data so that we don’t have to go with our guts

    You can check out the vote totals

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

    I would argue the 2016 is a better reflection, in 2020 there was a sort of coordinated drop out of centrist candidates on Super Tuesday as the establishment wing of the party threw their weight behind Biden.

    But in either case the answer is that the Democratic Party is basically a coalition party of centrist Dems that seem to be fine with shifting further and further to the right and more progressive voters. In 2016 it was pretty evenly split so there is appetite just not enough for a viable party.

  • Reaching across the aisle

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  • I volunteered for Bernie Sanders. His two runs for President (along with a long career) are probably as close as you can find to what a modern progressive party would look like.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=n00000528

    He raised a lot of money, had very large rallies, and a lot of very passionate volunteers. But lost, and there’s two reasons why.

    1. First past the post spoiler effect - Bernie had to run as a Democrat within the Democratic Party primary system. If he had run as progressive or democratic socialist he would have split the democratic vote. In a first past the post system Duverger’s Law mathematically guarantees 2 party rule.

    Any progressive alternative would split the democratic vote, and ensure that, at least for a while, the republicans would win every election. You can see on Lemmy and Reddit and all other kinds of social media the amount of anger and infighting this causes on the left. This is a strong disincentive for anyone to start an alternative party.

    1. The donor class - the Democratic Party is largely funded by big money donors. Big money donors have a lot of money because of how things are currently arranged. If the way the country works today has made you fabulously wealthy, even if that means a lot of people suffer, you tell yourself “they suffer because they don’t work hard like me” and want things to stay the way they are. So you donate to both parties to control them and make sure that whatever particular apple cart you’ve cornered doesn’t get overturned.

    Every problem the American people face is a profit generator for some fuck face. Rent too high, some landlord is enjoying record profits. Can’t afford medicine, some pharmacy CEO is buying their third yacht. Those people have enough money to buy politicians, ads, political parties, media networks, social media companies, etc. They aren’t just going to sit back and let you fuck up their money making machine, they will deploy those assets against anyone that threatens the status quo.

    Here’s a particularly egregious example coming from MSNBC during Bernie’s last run when his reforms threatened their wealth https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chris-matthews-bernie-sanders-public-executions-949802/

    So that’s what any progressive party is up against. The mathematical certainty that they would lose until they could unseat the current Democratic Party, something that would take some number of election cycles. The donor class wanting to thwart any change. And let’s say they do overcome both of those things. That party then becomes the thing the donors try to buy next. Your party starts with high minded ideals but one by one the members of your party get big paydays from the billionaires and suddenly they want to soften this reform and maybe hold off on that reform and… oh look they are holding the exact same positions as the current Democratic Party. Because those positions are the positions of the people that own the party, and they will happily buy another.

  • Bitcoin hits record high as Trump vows to end crypto crackdown

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  • Republicans love a good scam

    Next up is the dismantling of the ACA. They will roll out these amazingly cheap alternatives. Health insurance for $10 a month!

    So the poor and the stupid will sign up. They’ll go to the bar and saunter up to a “libtard” and tell them that trump fixed everything.

    Then when they get sick and try to use MAGA super plan plus premium they won’t be able to find a doctor. The $10/month plan only covers an annual trip to a CVS minute clinic. They’ll go on Facebook and write up how the goddamn liberals tricked him. Other faithful republicans will pray for them and tell them that it must be a glitch because trump made things better.

    The con will win because it’ll only hurt those without power.

  • Im flying to the USA from England

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  • USA USA USA

  • AOC Asked People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump To Explain Why—And Their Answers Are Eye-Opening

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  • The Dems also keep running as Republican Light. But if you are interested in Republican Light you’ll probably just vote Republican.

    I think Jon Stewart had a good assessment of this the other night and the fact that the messaging coming out of the DNC is “we lost for running too far left” means they will try again next time too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBJoj4XyFc

  • Im flying to the USA from England

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  • Quick note on this one

    Pedestrians are not expected to look out for traffic, but are not allowed to just cross anywhere. So it balances out.

    If you end up driving, pedestrians are not allowed to cross anywhere (although some places like New York have legalized crossing anywhere) but pedestrians always have the right of way. You can’t run people over because they crossed outside a crosswalk.

    So if on foot, use crosswalks or you could get a ticket for jaywalking. If in a vehicle, don’t hit pedestrians.