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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42369507

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[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 20 hours ago
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 1 day ago

The problem seems to be that republicans make the decisions when republicans are in charge, and when democrats are in charge the republicans also make the decisions.

It's what happens when there's only two right wing parties to choose from.

The Overton Window has shifted way too far.

Democrats ought to move further left to get more nonvoters to vote for them, instead of trying to move right to convert right wing voters.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Had Harris won we would STILL have alienated almost every ally we've had for centuries, deployed a completely undertrained ICE brute squad to liberal cities to kill citizens, attempt to destroy the economy with tarrifs, pull back support for Ukraine and assist Putin, appointed insane maga lifetime federal judges that would cause a generation of suffering, destroy NATO incentivising more nations to build their own nuclear stockpiles... this was all inevitable no matter who won because the dems candidate was a genocidal maniac. Harris = Trump. /s

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the masters of gaslighting are the Republicans who have spent the last month telling us that the innocent people they're murdering and disappearing in the streets of America are "domestic terrorists" orchestrating a "massacre".

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure the masters of gaslighting are the Republicans

Agreed. Both of the parties are gaslighting the public and the Republicans are MUCH better at it than the DNC are.

To the point that they're more successful in spite of being MUCH more out of touch with the needs and wants of regular people when it comes to actual policy rather than propaganda.

That doesn't mean that the DNC leadership isn't dishonest. They're just not anywhere near as good at messaging as the fascists are.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Agreed. Both of the parties are gaslighting the public and the Republicans are MUCH better at it than the DNC are.

okay ...

The Democrats are the undisputed masters of gaslighting

hmm ....

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[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One of the Democrats opposed to shutting down the government to hold ICE accountable said something like "the reality is that we need to be in power to fully address this". Ok... but people won't vote for you in the midterms if you don't use the tools at your disposal to address this NOW.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure everybody was warning the Democrats about ICE when Biden was up, and all they did was... give them more power. They knew when they had the ability to curb it down.

They're also still voting to give them more money.

[–] IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 1 day ago

Everyone was warning Biden about ice and you thought they wanted less ice agents? How out of touch. I'm actually shocked how much of a bubble you need to be in to hold this opinion.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Wild to see these sort of memes finally being upvoted. Pity it had to take until fascists were murdering people in the street, in broad daylight, and protected by the fascist state.

[–] sickday@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Pity it had to take until fascists were murdering white people in the street

quick fix

The fascists were murdering people in the streets well before now

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago
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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Fediverse working as intended.

They can't use their "you're complaining about US in a US platform, lmao" gotcha anymore. And well, also censor and hide it as well as they do on mainstream platforms.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago

Wow. What an ugly font.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'll vote for any Democrat over any Republican. And I'll primary any Democrat that's a Republican cuck.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

If we let Republicans ruin the country then people will vote for us, if we stop them then people will vote Republican.

Is a more verbose way of putting it.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Democrats have not beaten the paid opposition argument with me at all. Most of them seem okay with voting for ICE funding and Trump appointees. They cannot even form a cohesive line in the sand like the fascists can except hen it comes to performative voting like denouncing socialism. The neo-liberal is NOT out way out of this mess.

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[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it an election year already?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Then they'd be saying it's too late to object. You have to do party building on non-election years, including midterms, and not until the new party has 51% support.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

its the GOP, its in thier name. gaslight obstruct PROJECT. you are looking at the wrong enemy to criticize.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

See meme in election year

Look inside

More "dems just as bad" stupidity

Hold on folks, it's only going to get worse the closer we get!

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