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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nah. Both parties suck. Repubs damage, Dems half ass do damage control, then sit around making minor changes and act like they're saviors. The geriatric fucks that hold seats have no semblance of understanding the current world and so we fall behind the curve further every year. Easy things that are obvious never get passed because those get bribed. Sick of the whole system obviously.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Democrats don't do damage control, they actively build the machinery for the next republican to be even more brutal.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They got so heated about pro Palestinian stuff on TikTok that they handed Donald Trump authority to ban any website he feels like by executive fiat. Then TikTok didn’t get banned and Trump got for credit for saving it.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

Republicans are the problem. Democrats are pretending to be the solution but are also the problem.

The reason Democrats deserve more hate is because they divert people from organising a solution to the problem. At least Republicans are honest about how much they suck.

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[–] St0ner@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck both sides of the shitbird

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Liberals think Democrats aren't half to blame for this shitty country being the way it is.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Spamming as a conservative on multiple posts? This is the same type of posts you see on conservative reddit, always pointing out both sides, when there's almost none of the same type of opinionated posts when referring to Republicans. I know you like to blame Dems, but Republicans are the ones actually promoting and using racism , and fascism right? Where's the criticism against them with such vigor as your post. Your the reason why Reddit has been so aggressive with their banning. Also because your barely mention Rs in good faith. Yes dema has their problems, but Republicans are far worst people.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I'll do you one better, I can't stand either party

I just especially dislike Republicans right now because they're in power

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

It's a symptom of our two-party voting system. I lost faith in the Democratic party's ability to do anything effectual a long fuckin time ago, the game is rigged for the rich and it will be until we wipe them from the face of the earth.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What dem supporters need to understand is that support for Trump for many is people sticking two fingers up at the neoliberal order. All this talk of "woke" or whatever would all evaporate if people thought they were getting a fair shake. Of course it's a bloody stupid way of protesting this like so as it's basically asking the foxes to fix the hen house.

The key point is the neoliberal order hasn't been successful by capitalist standards. GDP growth in western countries from 1985-2015 was slower than the 1955-1984 period which preceded neoliberal policies taking hold.

So what you ended up with was a system which actually slowed growth, removed welfare in a lot of cases, made housing unaffordable and really only seems to have succeeded in funnelling money into the hands of the 0.1%.

People have been convinced all kinds of scapegoats and whatever are to blame, but it's pretty clear that they see mainstream politicians, as most embodied by the Dems, as the face of their issues.

The lack of self-reflection on the part of mainstream Dems is a huge, serious issue which has basically given Trump and Musk a blank cheque to implement fascism or at least very authoritarian capitalism.

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