freshcow

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

My heart goes out to him ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 266 points 3 weeks ago (25 children)

How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And "corrupt"? Corrupt might as well be Elon's middle name.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago

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lmao Reddit has become a complete joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Absolutely shameful. I hope the management at this station and CBS in general get a ton of flak for this. Cowards shouldn't be in charge of journalists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (16 children)

You won't have a hard time arguing that Donald Trump is a massive piece of garbage, but your comment presumes that Kamala Harris and the Democratic party are entitled to votes.
You'll find there is a large portion of the Democratic base who are not motivated to vote for a pro-genocide candidate, which is exactly the entire point of this poll. The Democratic party needs to do better and stop fighting against the progressive wing of the party if they ever want to regain the trust of working class people. At a bare minimum you would expect them to respect international law. Then again, they're doing exactly what AIPAC and defense industry paid them to do, same as the Republicans.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No comments yet, but plenty of downvotes. I wonder if anyone here actually read the article past the headline.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Couldn't agree more. When push comes to shove, the democratic establishment will prioritize defeating the left above all else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Obviously to target those that are politically inconvenient to you. Or perhaps as a favor / quid pro quo for one of your rich buddies. Or maybe as revenge for pissing him off. You could pretty much guarantee these scenarios if Trump had this ability. And honestly he doesn't even need to care about any of it, he just needs some conservative think tank to give him a hit list.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If it were the same ratio it would be 70%. 35% is if the death count doubled with zero additional women or children killed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Harris got a huge spike in popularity initially because she was NOT Biden. She then spent the remainder of her campaign explaining how she would be Biden exactly but less old, as well as trying to reach to the right. Her polling steadily trailed off as people realized it would be more of the same. If she had the courage to differentiate herself publicly in any way, (ESPECIALLY with respect to Gaza) we might be having a different conversation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think that's a great way to look at it. I'm hoping we can get some better leadership in the democratic party willing to listen to people and offer fresh ideas instead of taking the "if you don't vote for me then you're hitler" approach.
Leaning to the right didn't work for Harris. We need someone to energize the base by offering meaningful change.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Good analysis. You also should understand that Americans are HEAVILY propagandized, since most of our major media outlets are also captured by the same corporate interests that bribe our politicians. Critiques of capitalism are de facto not allowed, because that would be bad for business. (Not to mention the previous decades of cold war era "red scare" nonsense the older generations grew up with) As a result, many democrats don't know how to receive criticism from the left, and can't even conceive that there might be a different path besides "status quo" and "conservative hellscape".

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