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She did talk about what she would do though. She ran on increasing the minimum wage to atleast 15. The cash assistance is actually incredibly helpful but you're right it's not enough but also, I don't know who is around you but everyone I know, old and young, find making over 100k to be impressive. She also talked about plenty of other progressive policies.

Also her and all Democrats mainly ran on the problems she could fix and also on the Trump is a fascist shit that was 100% accurate. I only heard the idea of her being the first black Indian woman president be a side thing. There weren't literal slogans about it like with Clinton in 2016.

Again, you're not saying what is identity politics. Is it just that socially progressive policies is identity politics?

Edit: I also think it's important to say that "identity politics" is a right wing term used to describe accepting minorities and giving them equal rights. If you say you're fine with Social progressivism and just want economic progressivism too, that's fine. But then why use their right wing term for it? Why not do "Democrats: Best I can do is socially progressive and economically conservative policies"?

Totally right that those are all problems and that the Democrats should do more when in power. And while more Black and Latino people voted for trump than ever before, they still by a majority voted for Harris. And women voters of both demographics voted even more for her than men Also only 18% of those who were LGBT and voted went for Trump, a drop from 27% in 2020.

You also didn't address the commenters point, what is Identity Politics in your meme? Just saying some minorities voted for Trump doesn't provide rationale for your comment. What is identity politics for you?

100% agree. He's been a Russian agent from the start working towards the dismantling of the US in every way. Including, I think, trying to push the country so far that it splits up so the US is no more. Putin's revenge on the US "winning" the Cold war.

That's a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.

Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.

I can't believe I never thought of trying that! I was always looking for a shuffle button inside the playlist. Amazing, thank you so much!

Hey dude, I love the app and all these updates! But is there a way to shuffle video playlists like there is on other apps? If not I'd love that feature. I fall asleep to some shows and I have a long playlist of them and would love to be able to just click shuffle instead of having to manually scroll through the playlist for a spot to start at.

I was a library "aide" in for a year and a half about a decade ago. We were the ones who shelved books. Who cleaned the section, who had to answer some questions of people around the floor. We also, and this was the majority of the job, had to go through the DVDs and CDs and books to make sure they were in good condition. And make sure there were no bed bugs in them. We found loads of bed bugs. So many. It sucked.

We also had to just do whatever we were told so we had to do jobs of higher paid workers some times because they weren't able to schedule someone for the couple hours of time we had to fill. We also got paid 10 cents above minimum wage to "be competitive" and were limited to 30 hours.

We also had higher ups saying "well 30 hours and not paid a lot is fine because this job is meant for super young people in or just out of highschool or while in college. It's not meant to let you make a living." But almost every single one of us aides were between 20 and 35 with multiple in their 40s and were not in school and many were living with their parents because our job wasn't paying us enough to survive by ourselves.

They also had this "hey maybe if you stay here long enough in this job that doesn't pay enough and won't provide insurance, we'll hire you for a higher paying job. Maybe." Only a handful of aides in the entire library system got hired on for a higher paying job during my time there. This was a system that had like 15 branches. They gotta simultaneously dangle the carrot of higher paying job after years of being there while also saying that the job you have isn't meant to be something you stay in for very long and isn't meant for non people in highschool.

In short, if you're the lowest rung employee in a big system, it sucks ass.

"our community too" you say???? Then why are you hell bent on absolutely destroying it and supporting people who want to send all of us, you included, to camps? You lost all right to be apart of this community the day you decided voting for fascism was more important than your fellow queer folk.

Fuckers deserve to never be allowed in any gay bar ever again.

I mean the thing that signaled Biden had any chance in 2020 was him winning South Carolina pretty big and that showed the establishment moderates that there was someone to back who could win against Bernie. Since Bernie had a plurality not a majority it was a tough race to win outright. Super Tuesday solidified his lead but then Covid happened less than 2 weeks later and made it so Bernie couldn't have made up for his losses on Super Tuesday. Basically guaranteeing that Biden would win. The people that dropped out before ST were Buttigieg, Klobochar, and O'Rourke had kinda already crashed and burned. But Pete was the more left leaning out of those people so even with him dropping out it would make sense for much of those voters to go to Bernie. So realistically a Bidens bump started with South Carolina and the moderates then realized he was their only chance. Again, Bernie could have, and likely would have over come this without COVID. But he didn't. If voters in South Carolina had picked Bernie Biden wouldn't have gotten any bump and Bernie would have continued his way to a plurality of votes. Biden also eventually got a majority of voters to his side while Bernie has never had a majority of voters. Mind you, neither did Obama. But Obama was...Obama. Being a young charasmatic person who can inspire in your speeches helps a whole lot.

Bernie was doing well but couldn't overcome that Biden was viewed as a strong candidate by moderates overall, that covid happened, and also that he just wasn't a Democrat. People had the same thought process for Bloomberg because he was a Republican. They wanted a democrat at the head.

This is also why it will be easier for someone who has always been a Democrat to win the presidential primary as a progressive. Bernie also has the trouble with being a guy with great ideas but still being an old dude and going on tangents that aren't necessary to make his point. He is also not the best at inspiring in his speeches, not that they can't be inspiring. Just that he's not as Charismatic as Obama was. Someone like AOC though has the charisma down, has the ideas down, has the ability to talk like a normal person down, is young, and is able to use things like social media and be just as normal as anyone else.

Which is fair to say. I just think he should be talking about primarying the establishment Dems as opposed to just not running as Democrats.

Okay I see what you're saying now. Yeah I think we are on the same page. It's really all about persistence and progressives voting consistently. I was thinking more about how the movement he started didn't continue on its pace, not necessarily that nothing he did mattered.

I also think the 2020 primaries is complicated in just that the moderates that dropped out weren't polling super well anyway so them dropping out didn't give Biden as much of a boost as much as just him being Biden. That said, Bernie should have been the candidate but not enough people voted for him in the primary to get that to happen. He also still faced the "He's not a democrat" accusation which was a problem for him in both primaries he ran in. Again, if more progressives had come out to vote for Bernie, he would have won.

It's all about voting in the primaries.

So then he's saying "Split your votes and make sure no one you support ever gets into power anywhere above the local level because the democrats suck and the system is broken"?