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Given they absolutely do not fully leverage what power they have when they have it, I fail to see how giving them more power consistently over the years would have changed anything. They're sponsored by the same corporate interests as the Republicans.
They're basically the same party, but with a nicer face. They're the good cop to the bad cop, but they're both cops. You're not going to get improvement if you just keep electing the nice cops. They're still just cops.
That’s a lot of cope you got there.
I don't even live in your shit hole country anymore. I have nothing I need to cope with other than the absolute glut of whinging, centrist, American muppets found online.
That's the most asinine thing I've heard all day. This administration legit has talked about putting people in work camps, and you're over here yelling "bOtH sIdEs".
Our country is covered in work camps and has been for decades, open your eyes and see.
Our prison system is an issue. But that is not at all the same thing as what's being talked about.
Well, in my personal opinion the USA shouldn't be forcing prisoners to work in camps with no pay, all the while claiming that we don't have work camps.
But I'm a stickler
Oh they pay them, usually a few cents to dollars on the hour, well below minimum wage. But that's a way different thing than putting people in death camps, which everyone knows that's what's being talked about in this administration. You'd have to be extremely naive to think otherwise.
You are wrong, many are forced to work without pay throughout the country.
Also, the ones that are paid are paid very little, which the prison system gets back by charging them ten bucks for a toothbrush. Semantics.
You should really read up on this at the least, you are sadly misinformed and are embarrassing yourself. Don't make claims about topics you know absolutely nothing about.
Work camps are different than death camps, nice goalpost shift there; it's not fooling anyone
In conclusion, the USA has had work camps for decades and continues to use them. Open your eyes and see.
This administration is well on their way to making death camps, how did you not get that from the beginning...look around you. You are the one who made this conversation about the prison system instead of the actual topic of the post.
Republicans are putting people in work camps. Democrats are collectively doing scarcely little about it.
CLEARLY these groups are bitter rivals, fighting tooth and nail, not at all just one acting as controlled opposition. You all just have to vote harder next time, right? Then they'll try harder!
I can't believe you lot can't see this. The rest of us do and my decade in your land just drove the point home. Do they not teach you about the events that led up to Nazi Germany?
Why do that when if you educate people, they might ask too many questions. Vote Blue No Matter What They Support!
If you're not allergic to data, take a look at the last time Democrats controlled all three branches of government and everything they accomplished in that short span of time. Then when you're done with that eat shit for echoing russian propaganda without even the tiniest bit of verification.
Like the ACA which was going to be universal healthcare originally until they decided to try working with the Republicans who gutted it then not vote for it?
Edit: Let's not forget they were opposed to gay marriage until it started getting more support, it was Al Gore and his wife behind the movement to censor and control music produced, Biden supported more funds for police as well as military equipment in addition to making student loans harder to discharge. Yeah, the Dems have done a great job thus far, can't wait to see how they status quo at best more.
You don't get it. Here's how it works.
In 72 days they passed an insane amount of progressive legislation, and you minimize these accomplishments down to a single bill that you then completely dismiss because it's less than perfect. Fact is the ACA made healthcare more affordable for American citizens and improved our every day life. It's a shame they weren't able to pass a public option due to holdouts like Leiberman, but this attitude of letting perfect be the enemy of even the slightest improvement is exactly why we keep sliding backwards.
The rest of your comment is completely unrelated. I hate Tipper, too. What's your point? What position of power has she ever held? How is she or anything you've mentioned at all related to Obama's short-lived democratic supermajority?
The point is that they've not been as progressive as people like you make them out to be. There are some good people in the party but the likes of Schumer and Pelosi needed to have retired a long time ago. You'll not find much love for the neo-liberals here, they're still far too conservative of people.
That's not what I'm saying at all. Or course the party that encompasses every person that's not a racist sociopath isn't perfect. Of course 'vote blue no matter who' won't save us in itself. Rather than tear the whole party down with misrepresentations of how ineffective they are, let's show our support for progressive candidates. Instead of holding Dems to impossible standards then letting them be replaced with Republican dipshits when they fail to meet those standards we need to be pragmatic about putting people on the ladder who can actually accomplish things, and instead of just complaining about the party as a whole we need to actually participate in the process. This leftist apathy towards the Dems only pushes both the party and the country further right. That's why spreading the kind of propaganda like OPs comment is so highly valued in Putin's playbook The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia. Just like w/ Project 2025 it is all written out for us and yet we still walk right into the trap of petty squabbling while these evil bastards take ever more from us.
I already have, but thanks for making a response based on assumptions you couldn't possibly know.
I lived in your country for years. It's not hard to see this from the outside, but so many Americans are clearly indoctrinated into simping for their team. Their "improvements" during that time were solidly center to center-right policy, which was then systematically picked apart thereafter.
You're all like abused children with two manipulative abusive parents. Just because one makes dinner on occasion doesn't mean they're any good, only that they're placating you before you do anything effective about their behavior.
Okay Boris.
I'm sorry, you appear to have misspelled "Waaa, someone said something that threatens my years of government indoctrination! I'm going to make up stories about them so I don't have to think about it! Waaaaaaaaaa!"
Enjoy your fascism, Alek. Wobbly cowards like you are why it's so easy for your government to steamroll your population.
Lmao. Okay, Boris.
I did, they couldn't even manage to pass higher minimum wage. But they did save 50,000 dockworkers!
Unions fell from 40% to 10% of work force (since 1970s), good job "labor party"
Not Russian propaganda, fucking facts
Mmm. Reddit levels of censorship.
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