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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The post is literally an image that has a two headed creature which is "fascists" and "Democrats doing resistance theatre".

That's not a mild fucking criticism, it's like calling Mr. Rogers a nazi gestapo accomplice because he didn't wash his feet hard enough.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (29 children)

The Dems are doing so little to maintain the political norms of our society that they appear to be ok with them changing. They look like they're just trying to make sure they each individually get to keep their seat. If that's in a sham legislature, that's fine for them. Bribes might be legal soon, so they're getting a sweet deal.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Republicans are controlling 3 branches. At this point the flight needs to come from us.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would expect politicians to have better ideas than the ineffective shit they have been doing this year so far. Considering that I don't believe that politicians at the national level are all actually that dumb, it has to be on purpose. There's certainly DNC politicians who are sincere about wanting avoid fascism, but they aren't the ones who run the party.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Better ideas get filibustered. They could remove filibustered but since they've had 48 or less senate seats since 2013-2015 congress a literal decade ago that also means the GOP could potentially pass laws without a filibuster.

What we need is a strong DNC majority like we had in 2010-2012 which expanded healthcare to tens of millions of people and proposed tax reforms that reduced individual rates to 10% and raised corporate and foreign effective rates to 25% (many companies pay 0%

Instead we just reelected the fucking apeass bastard who keeps cutting taxes for the rich.

And have people learned anything from all this? NO! THEY'RE ACTUALLY GETTING DUMBER AS TIME GOES ON.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Don't pretend like the DNC aren't to blame for not getting enough votes. Look at how hard they fumbled the last national election, and how they're treating Mamdani.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

You mean... just being joyful about not being able to afford food didn't fix your entire life?

I'm shocked.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dems had the presidency for four years. They had Congress for two years. With that same amount of power Donald has accomplished everything he wants.

Did you notice those special sessions Abbott just did in Texas?

The US president has the same power. He could have kept Congress in session for four years straight until he got what he wanted by sheer force of will.

But that assumes he gives a shit.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world -2 points 1 day ago

First of all

  1. Texas house and senate were also solid red.

  2. POTUS can't keep congress in session because that would require power of the purse which belongs solely to the house.

  3. I JUST SENT YOU A LIST OF THINGS THEY ACCOMPLISHED DESPITE THEIR 50:50 MAJORITY, NOT COUNTING ANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Which of the bills you listed were about resisting fascism? I noticed two that were about actively capitulating to it (the ones aimed at disarming the populace), but zero that were about resisting it.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Fascism feeds on desperate and angry people. Economic reforms pre-empt fascism, while neoliberal economic policy leads inevitably towards fascism. Come on, this is basic Marxian analysis.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Dems are literally supporting a genocide. It's pretty effing gross to compare them to Mr Rogers.

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