• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Incredible dedication to upholding the MoCA by not naming the words on it. But also fuck Newsom and his transphobic liberal ass

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You guys demand a Democrat stand up to trump, the moment one does and fights back you guys tear him down and bury him. No wonder you’re al fucked, you want to be. Nobody is a true leftist, nobody is good enough to be an ally. You his literally think Newson is worse than Trump, so enjoy what you fucking got I guess. And if anyone says this is only cause of Newson personally? You all avoided and demanded to be rid of Biden, when they finally get rid of the senile old man and put in a young educated black woman you guys are like “no not that!”

    At the end of the day as a non American who suffered under your empire, i just want your country to die. I’ll take any other megapower over the U.S at this point

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      1 month ago

      The problem isn’t that a Democrat is “standing up” to Trump via the usual “words not actions”, it’s that it’s Newsom, who has also heavily courted prominent far right figures before as well. He doesn’t believe in what he says, he just cares about power as well, and based off his recent actions, he’d likely do nothing to reign in the right wing significantly, let alone prevent anywhere dictator wannabe like Trump down the line.

      It’d be like cheering on Franco criticizing Hitler, for a more well known but hyperbolic example.

      But yeah, last point is true - the US government is so broken it’d be better for the world for it to either balkanize or restructure entirely to a completely new system.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      Same thoughts here as another non-American. I get they have shit candidates but Americans need to realize that ANYONE is better than Trump at this point. And huge emphasis on at this point based on these replies. Even the worst Democrat is still better than the average Republican.

      There’s a civil war brewing, there are people taking over the government, and the left is still hung up on getting the perfect Democrat speaking up, like, not even a candidate. If my government were to turn against the entire population, you bet your ass I’m giving up my gay rights because I understand those are a luxury under a stable government. How could possibly fight for them later under a fascist regime that wants to actively kill me??

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      30 days ago

      This is a straw man that serves the purpose of helping shit candidates becoming the only choice at election time. Now is the time to shit on shit candidates. Not on election day. For example of the oppisite, you don’t see us shitting on Zohran because a) there’s a lot less to shit for and b) he’s now the D candidate for that election.

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    1 month ago

    If this is the best that Democrats can put forward in 2028, we deserve to lose.

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      1 month ago

      Yep. Unfortunately, many neo liberals are ok screwing the trans community & photo ops of homeless encampment removal.

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        30 days ago

        We unfortunately have only two viable parties at the moment. Whoever becomes the Democratic nominee will be the only choice we have.

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      Not to defend the weakness that they offer, they do it for other reasons too, but I don’t know if a stronger candidate would survive the system or the public. It’s a Catch-22 that’s led to this pattern, someone who wants to improve things gets attacked from all sides and fails. Carlin said it’s GIGO, this is the best we can get from the society we have, but I think it’s also a feedback loop. You can’t use the same broken system to fix itself, it has to be done externally.

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        1 month ago

        It is a fair point, someone with a better record of supporting workers and marginalized communities may have less of a shot. But I still believe that we should use the time that we have to find the best candidate possible. Newsom is hopefully not the best that we can find.