• limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    Unity centered around what? The party of the less bad? Of the horrible leadership? The party that only does one genocide? The not Trump party? The party of “we will not trash the economy”?

    I could get behind that, but this federation has not been a democracy for a while. Not when you need more states won and several would require United Nations observers if they were countries. So, in some places it’s just a lost cause.

    People need to be disabused of the notion this is a fair fight won by normal rules. New leadership and splintering is exactly what is needed.

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      19 hours ago

      Unity centered around what?

      Participation. Making things a tiny bit better when possible, and if not that, then minimizing damage.

      Making things better nationally is hard. But locally, change can be efffected — my city (San Francisco) has ranked choice voting for local offices. It’s awesome, and I vote for who I want first. It’s small, but it’s a start.

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      20 hours ago

      Your ignorance knows no bounds. Republicans vote in a block. If we split the left in the midterms, the Republicans will retain control. Simple as that.

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        20 hours ago

        I don’t see how my very well known ignorance, and what I said, have anything in common.

        I do see hackers disrupting x today. That group, whatever their motives or how well I would like them, is doing more to restore good governance than then the entirety of the Democratic Party, if you look at events today.

        What have the democrats done today? Since midnight. Tell me some stuff and I might reconsider my stance

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          19 hours ago

          They can’t do anything but filibuster in the Senate with congressional minority. The left abandoned them at the polls to prove a point, and are now complaining that they’re ineffective with no control. You need to learn about our governmental structure.

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            19 hours ago

            The left abandoned them

            Wait, the whole left? Like a block of people ? No…

            I do agree me and others should understand more about government and get involved. More than watching a few old people in capital hill doing some useless motions while the nation goes under .

            This will naturally happen if things go as expected, and I probably will not like that answer any more than you

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          19 hours ago

          INCOMING TRADE OFFER:

          You get: slower tweets for maybe a week

          They get: removing everybody’s social security, dismantling of NATO, end of federal public education funding, 20 Million (conservative estimate) people removed from Medicaid, deportation on basis of ethnicity/heritage


          We cannot settle for petty attacks on the state. We need to reclaim the state. Vote blue no matter who, any Democrat is better than any Republican.