• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      5 hours ago

      and you are why the entire world for generations have to deal with the aftermath of another trump presidency

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          mine? mate i’m not from your country

          you just don’t seem to understand basic logic: people protest voted, and yall are now inflicting trump on the world

          you had 3 options: protest vote, vote D, vote R

          congrats you got R… thats muuuuuuch better. i’m sure when the marines get deployed to your city you can be comforted by the fact that at least you sent the democrats a message!

          how’s that going by the way? they listening? is it working? please tell me you at least achieved that! because if they haven’t listened, SHIT you got fascism AND a party that’s in every possible way “meh”

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            Zohran Mamdani won the NYC primary, so it sure sounds like the voters are paying attention.

            Whether or not the party wants to listen is their perogative, so long as they claim to represent us they can rise or fall on the strength of their promises to us and our faith in their willingness to make good on those promises.

            “Nothing will fundamentally change” sure isn’t working as well as Obama’s “hope and change”, is it?

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              Yes, thats the exactly place to go hard left, full on no compromises. In the Democratic primaries.

              Not in the presidential election when you know one of exactly two people will win and your choice is which one of them you favour over the other.

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          Are you today’s explanation? Every time the Dems lose, they go to the center to find voters. If you want them to go left, you have to give them wins first. Right now every time they go left, they lose. Biden gave green energy and build back better. The reward? Lose the house. Harris was going to pretty much continue. What was the answer? Voters said no. Their left policy made the Dems lose.

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            Are you today’s explanation?

            Are you today’s right-winger cosplaying as a lib?

            Every time the Dems lose, they go to the center to find voters.

            The center is to the left of where the party was 10 years ago. If the party actually acted like you suggest they are then they wouldn’t have lost to an 80’s villain twice.

            If you want them to go left, you have to give them wins first.

            Why would they go left if the plan to find a middle ground with Republicans was working?

            Right now every time they go left, they lose.

            Zohran Mamdani.

            Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

            Bernie Sanders.

            Every time they’ve gone left they’ve won, every time they reject the left they lose.

            Hell, even that neoliberal Obama who never kept his campaign promises still at least promised us hope and change and won twice, but now the Democrats can only promise that nothing will change. I guess we can credit them with being honest?

            Biden gave green energy and build back better. The reward? Lose the house. Harris was going to pretty much continue. What was the answer?

            The answer is that Biden never went left. “Green energy” is a neoliberal plan to replace fossil fuel subsidies with rare earth subsidies while changing nothing about their extraction, manufacturing, or distribution processes and “Build Back Better” never passed.

            A continuation of nothing is still nothing.

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              Are you today’s right-winger cosplaying as a lib?

              Always a good sign when you start off with a strawman/ personal attack.

              Ok where do we start. Well first off we’re talking national level, not mayoral candidates or safe districts.

              So now let’s look at the history. Let’s go through this chronologically.

              Bill Clinton: After successive Dem losses Bill figured out “it’s the economy stupid”, aka center policy, not leftist policy that gets you elected. Plus when you run against an incumbent (Bush senior) you generally run from the center. So that’s what he did. And he won.

              Gore: After the population hopefully warmed up with Bill Clinton, he stuck his head out left with climate change. And bam he lost the election. Thanks 3rd party protest voters! Aka: The left never shows up.

              Obama: So guess what Obama learned? Don’t stick your head out. He ran on broad “hope” and “yes we can” and having energy, hoping the ambiguity would be enough considering Bush’s disastrous wars. And he won.

              More on Obama: So he enacted the ACA. That’s great, right? The thanks Obama got for that was to lose the House of Representatives for year 3 and 4. And lose the House of reps again for years 5 and 6. And then lose both the House of reps and the Senate for years 7 and 8. He enacted left policy and: The left never shows up.

              Hillary Clinton: So what did Hillary learn from the last 6 years of Obama? She learned that the left never shows up. So she only stuck her head out with a big position to left on the map room to climate change. She basically declared war on climate change. You know that big existential issue that all the leftists care about, right? The big important issue that the left says they want so badly, right? And guess what happened? Bam she lost. Thanks protest non-voters! Aka: The left never shows up.

              Biden: Just like Obama learned from Gore, Biden learned from Hillary that you don’t stick your head out left on anything. Not one thing. And he was running against an incumbent, so once again when you do that you run center. And he won.

              Biden in office: But he did left things anyway. He did green energy (you’re against green energy?), EVs, drug price control, PACT act, Chips act, etc. And what were the results? Lost the House of Representatives for years 3 and 4. Polls showed him losing the election to Trump. He enacted left policy and: The left didn’t show up for midterms, and was not going to show up for the next election.

              Harris: Harris ran on abortion rights, democracy and while she didn’t say it was apparent she’d continue green energy. She relied on the left to show up for their rights and for democracy. They couldn’t even do that. Aka the left never shows up. (Btw Bill Clinton was right, it’s the economy stupid. Trump won on the economy.)

              And people are amazed that they don’t run a big left platform? Every time they rely on the left they lose. Every Single Time. And the next guy learns to go to the center to win. Because the center voters actually show up.

              So how do you get them to move left? By giving them victories first. Consistent and overwhelming victories. Show them it’s safe to take policy chances. Because right now every time they run on left platforms or enact left policies, they lose. Every. Single. Time.

              “Build Back Better” never passed.

              Technically correct on one bill BUT missing that most it was passed through different bills. So passed.

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                Are you today’s explanation?

                Are you today’s right-winger cosplaying as a lib?

                Always a good sign when you start off with a strawman/ personal attack.

                Right‽ Also, why would you make such an honest admission? It isn’t doing anything to help your argument.

                Ok where do we start. Well first off we’re talking national level, not mayoral candidates or safe districts.

                Are you trying to tell me that the governor of Rhode Island has more pull than a mayor of America’s biggest metro with 8x as many constituents? This is a supremely weird way to open up your response.

                A bunch of nonsense about electoral history, blaming Clinton’s loss on climate change, failing to acknowledge that Gore actually won his election, etc.

                Lol.

                So how do you get them to move left? By giving them victories first.

                I think you should try that plan. Start with Mamdani.

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                  Right‽ Also, why would you make such an honest admission? It isn’t doing anything to help your argument.

                  Asking if you’re today’s explanation is neither a strawman or an attack, if that’s what you meant. If you meant something else I can’t figure it out.

                  A bunch of nonsense about electoral history, blaming Clinton’s loss on climate change, failing to acknowledge that Gore actually won his election, etc.

                  Ah you’re straight to ignoring with no response to anything. Glad we had this conversation. Ciao.

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                    Asking if you’re today’s explanation is neither a strawman or an attack

                    Reducing people to a perspective you can feel free to ignore is, in fact, an attack.