• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s been the case for years. We get our struggles acknowledged now that it’s under Trump. We were gaslit under Biden’s recession.

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      4 days ago

      It’s like I said last August:

      If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

      You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

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        3 days ago

        This is exactly how I’ve tried to explain to people that the Dems are the greater evil, and the GOP the lesser. The Dems work in the cover provided by the media & their base, and end up doing far more damage under far less scrutiny and transparency.

        Not that it’s a worthwhile distinction at this point. They both need to be stopped, for the survival of the species.