Anonymous #1 3d

yes the party itself

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Anonymous #5 3d

god forbid we call democrats out on their bullshit. they had 4 years to do something to protect us while biden was in office and rhey didnt

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Anonymous #4 3d

Because people didn’t vote for enough dems in the senate it was deadlocked at 50-50 with 2 being corporate sellouts that didn’t reflect the rest of the party. Even so, for gay rights in specific Biden codified gay marriage which I think is a fine protection and I’m very thankful he got that passed. There’s plenty more he did as well which you probably aren’t aware about

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Anonymous #4 3d

To add on: because it was 50-50, that meant they had to get EVERY dem to support something which oftentimes was hard to do, even so they were able to pass a lot for what they had

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Anonymous #4 3d

ALSO in the senate there’s a rule that non-budget legislation has to get 60 votes to pass, which unfortunately wasn’t plausible for a lot of the legislation introduced due to the 50-50 majority; you can’t blame dems for that

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Anonymous #2 3d

Hi

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Anonymous avannah 3d

Hi

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Anonymous #5 3d

Yeahhh these types of posts are the things that aided in trump winning the last election. Anyone in the world was a better alternative than him and people couldn’t get off their high horse and vote blue so we could keep a fascist who is destroying this country and the broader world faster than we even realize out of office. I can’t forgive non voters like I can’t forgive red voters and I’m not sorry 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Anonymous #3 3d

if only we had a workers party ran by and for the people instead of two corporate parties ran by and for corporations

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Anonymous #12 3d

oh wait, the DSA

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Anonymous #10 3d

quite literally. everyone’s bought out

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Anonymous #7 3d

Wait until you find out who the brutal capital oppressors are and who is funded by them

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

You think I’m not aware of Blackrock? Not every democrat is financed through Blackrock but damn near almost every Republican is. I wish so much our founding fathers fought more for three or more political parities - but early influential Americans really made things pretty rough for us average citizens… you can advocate for an alternative - but if you’re actions are helping more cruel people in power then you’re definitely not helping yourself or the rest of us…

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Anonymous #7 3d

Oh we have 3+ parties, that's not the problem. The problem is, people often forget they exist, I feel. That, and the government has an agenda. If that agenda means pushing two parties and leaving the others to stew in the corner, then that's what'll-and is-happen

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Anonymous #11 3d

Same, friend. Pedos are in power rn because so many people didn’t vote out of some weird protest urge.

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Anonymous #7 3d

I don’t really think there is a way to “help”. Delaying the inevitable while conditions still deteriorate doesn’t help anyone long term. Things are simply going to continue getting worse. The democrats have learned zilch from the last election, when they’re in power they will not fulfill their campaign promises, people *will* get upset with them and search for alternatives, and in that time Dems will have done nothing to prevent MAGA from rising again, and MAGA will be back in power

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Anonymous #7 3d

And man oh man have I studied Duverger’s law. I know how the two party game works. But you cannot tie morality to voting, that’s simply impossible, outside of those who believe in that mythology already. The only solution is to demand more from leaders and punish the party if they don’t deliver. That is the only way it will learn. I’m literally disabled and queer. You talk about wanting to save the most vulnerable but ignore our voices.

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Anonymous #2 3d

Hello

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Anonymous #16 3d

Hello

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

I’m also disabled and queer. I’m not ignoring you. I’m pleading with you to not allow us for what’s happening already. Trump is aiming to be a dictator they talk about 4 more years already, a global MAGA agenda, they are already doing the work to put us in camps or worse. The system is fucked, but pulling the ladder back down into this bucket full of lobsters won’t let any of us climb out. This can’t be like when the black panthers refused to work with queer feminists.

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Anonymous #15 3d

Mhm. It just wasn’t the election to protest vote/not vote and people just couldn’t pull their head out their ass. Now look where that got us. On behalf of all the people whose lives have genuinely been ruined/dead people that would still be very much be alive if Rump wasn’t in office, I just can’t forgive them. Sorry not sorry.

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Anonymous #11 3d

I’m making typos cause I’m so mad but I mean every word. Shame on them.

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Anonymous #7 3d

I don’t think you understand what I’m saying though. Electing democrats will just give MAGA power again. We are in a vicious cycle and voting for either of these parties as they are now will not end it

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Anonymous #4 3d

the party itself isn't an ally but many members are allies

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Anonymous #7 3d

Democrats fail so republicans can win. They are owned by the same people. The way the country goes is not determined by us. All we do is play their game. The rich will push either candidate that they think will get them the most power effectively. There are different factions of the rich fighting, but it’s all to the same common end. We are casualties of their choices and greed. And we will be until we do something differently

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Anonymous #7 3d

Our quality of life has fallen consistently since the 70s. Our visibility has increased and people don’t hate us as much but everything has gotten worse since then for the majority of people. Sure we aren’t forcibly institutionalized anymore, but 1) it was Nixon and Reagan who initiated deinstitutionalization and they did it to cut government spending, and guess what, Democrats across the country, California being an example, are voting to reinstate forcible institutionalization.

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Anonymous #8 3d

they aren’t separable from republicans; the insistence that critiquing the democratic party turns into controlled opposition is fedposting bullshit. put the foreign policy in a perpetual dialectic with the domestic policy and then you’ll realize that american politicians are the enemy

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Anonymous #7 3d

upper middle class queer disabled POC for fascism under a blue shiny veneer while the global south continues to die and ICE funding amps up for the next republican to send them into cities and do pogroms “trump is aiming” the fact that you think trump is separable from the american superstructure is already very telling. america is already dictatorial, and the word has no meaning. democracies can 100% be dictatorships and democracy sucks and nothing exists in a vacuum.

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Anonymous #18 3d

blaming people who were disillusioned by the democratic party and telling them FAFO is actually crazy but when trump won you guys were joking about buying waterfront property in gaza. and literally telling palestinians that “we can hold your genocidaire accountable after we win! don’t worry” and then every time you guys say “push them further left after they’re elected” you guys back to fucking doing NOTHING

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Anonymous #18 3d

you guys don’t fucking organize, you guys don’t do mutual aid. you guys literally put EVERYTHING into the ballot. ballots can be meaningful but this fucking ballot industrial complex and messianic cult of personality and worship of the ballot / treating it as the motor of change when the motor of change has and will always be class struggle and ORGANIZING is insane to me

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Anonymous #7 3d

“a global MAGA agenda” is perfectly inline with the bipartisan genocidal foreign policy of the last 250 years. america isn’t becoming fascist, it’s always been this way. this is relapse into its initial founding barbarism. and every administration knows about the epstein files but didn’t do anything because democrats DO NOT FUCKING THREATEN CAPITAL THEY SUSTAIN IT AND THEY ARE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY AND YOU ARE CONTROLLED OPPOSITION.

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Anonymous #18 3d

anybody left of democrats is sabotaged. even BERNIE SANDERS. and jesse jackson (may he rest in peace; you all are not deserving of uttering his name from your foul mouths). was also sabotaged by the democratic party. they enabled trump to get elected the first and second time. and if you bring up the fact that democrats’ marginally ‘more progressive’ policies were sabotaged, i’d tell you about the democrats that voted against those passages.

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Anonymous #18 3d

even if some democrats are well-intentioned, they are constrained by capital. if they go too left, they are sabotaged. by stopping anybody left of them, they literally allow the policy to become FURTHER and FURTHER right and give republicans carte blanche. and the only solution in your eyes is not land back and mutual aid, is not abolitionism, is not organizing, and is not the inevitable dissolution of the U.S. (which happens over time, not instantaneously/over night).

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Anonymous #18 3d

the solution to yall is restoring faith in a broken electoral system and obfuscating every structurally violent act that democrats’ positions mandate them to do. or trivializing them. sustaining a rogue expansionist genocidal settler colony that ALSO! murders their own. some of you guys when discussing obama’s deportations, say that deporting people with non violent criminal offenses which are often fabricated wrongly and applied is justified, really shows me you don’t care about immigrants.

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Anonymous #18 3d

saying literally everything i’ve ever wanted to say, pop the fuck off

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Anonymous #13 3d

usually do not have the energy bc there are too many ppl like this fascist i’m replying to but the dangerous obsession around trump neglects the fact that they are SUSTAINING the system that CREATED him and will continue to do so, bringing out another trump. then they’ll blame everyone who’s never faith in this insidious colony. dems nostalgia for bombing libya to rubble the genocide of Bosnia and eadt timor, and the Nicaraguan Contra death squads. reintroducing polio in pakistan & so on…

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Anonymous #18 3d

individualism is so so dangerous. they treat trump as if he exists in a vacuum. this is an effect of american socialization. they feel an ounce of what america has always been doing to the lowest substrata and has been doing to the global south and they cry “woe is me” and then blame the very people that the at least republicans tell us they want us dead. but democrats work OT to rehabilitate america’s image. and pretend that they care ab us while they grift, murder our kin; we r expendable.

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Anonymous #18 3d

Spot on. Every single point

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

Trump is absolutely not unique, he’s just the current evil dude playing the leader of the country. This has been building for decades. Leftists in this country knew where this was going since the movement was founded and we’ve been trying to tell everybody. This was predicted over a century ago. We are in the moments they talked about. Last time things got this crazy in America, we entered WW2 and the outcome created the conditions to stall what is happening now

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

And leftists tried warning us all in the 30s-50s as everything unfolding and we’ve been trying to tell everyone since then. Nothing that is happening is surprising

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

*as everything was unfolding

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Anonymous .gaia. 3d

The way we’ve been living is not only being destroyed by the rich, it was created by them and it was never sustainable. They have been playing the long game for generations. Not only unsustainable environmentally but the structure was always doomed to collapse because what the rich seek is power and control and capital.

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Anonymous #13 3d

Based

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Anonymous #13 2d

the DSA works with the democratic party and has no interest in being independent from the democratic party. that’s why they keep running democrat candidates.

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Anonymous #12 2d

I’m in DSA and we have factions that want to be independent. It’s just a bit of a hard decision logistically

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Anonymous #20 2d

my point is more that the organization as a whole is invested in the democratic party. there are other socialist organizations like ISG and the RCA that run independent of the democratic party

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Anonymous #1 2d

idk why ppl are downvoting u this is true

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Anonymous #21 2d

it’s true only because “allies” are mostly cosmetic tonal and don’t actually understand what queer liberation means. all democrats are grifters

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Anonymous #18 2d

if they cared about queer liberation they’d care about the two-spirit people killed and oppressed by this genocidal settler colony. wdym “the party is but not the people in it” literally what are yall talking it. “allies” that bend over backwards for donors who fantasize about wiping out poor people really renders the word meaningless.

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Anonymous #18 2d

parties aren’t fucking sentient ??? democrats are counterrevolutionary and electoralism must burn along with this fuckass evil state

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Anonymous #18 2d

i mean, my mom identifies as a democrat and she’s like the most supportive person in my life about my identity, she probably understands what it’s like to be trans and gay more than most people who call themselves allies bc she’s actually seen the hell it can be. i don’t agree with the democratic party as a whole but many of the members ARE allies. not everybody in one party is a monolith. and just bc someone is in a party doesnt mean they agree with every single belief that party holds

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