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This is honestly genius so of course the DNC won’t do it.
The DNC is so spineless it's amazing they are at least not caving on the budget. Let's hope they carry this fight to the end.
I love me some DNC establishment bashing, but where is all this free food supposed to come from? As far as I'm aware they still haven't paid off the debts from the Harris campaign.
Pretty sure that would violate laws against "buying" votes, but what the hell are Republicans going to do? Shutting them down would look bad even to their voters.
Do stupid shit like the Republicans do, like "oh we are unaffiliated and just like to set up our booths here because of the foot traffic". They juke and jive our entire justice system with 5 year old tactics but everyone else is scared to look improper.
Honestly that's the part of this suggestion I'm not sure about, but regardless of whether that part's cool, Dems should be setting up food distribution in places that are going to be the worst hit by this.
Kat Abu is running for Congress in Illinois and running a campaign based on doing good community service with campaign donations. She claimed she checked it all out and it's perfectly legal. I think as long as it's not limited by party or in exchange for a voting promise it's fine.
https://www.goodnewsinstead.com/culture/gen-z-candidate-uses-campaign-funds-to-feed-those-in-need
If they would only have that much balls. Hell here in WNC there were hunting parties trying go after FEMA last year. I don't know if the MAGA rural meth-heads would have enough class to even thanks the people helping them.
They're giving all the money the neoliberals stole from state parties, back to state parties:
https://www.insidernj.com/dnc-announces-new-500k-investment-into-new-jersey-virginia-and-pennsylvania-democratic-coordinated-campaigns-to-get-out-the-vote/
It's insane to me that people want the DNC to be a point of consolidated power, almost immediately after we won a 30 year to take it back to where it used to be.
Consolidating all the power in the DNC, just makes it easier for the wealthy to control it all if we get stuck with a neoliberal chair again.
Like, they've fucked shit up so bad for so long, a lot of voters don't understand that a bottom up power structure is the foundation of a party that represents the average voter. So people really just won't stop arguing against their own best interest like you are...
I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing?
That you want a strong DNC where all the money/power is consolidated with them and a single chairperson controls the purse...
I mean, technically you didn't say anything though, you just quoted someone else post verbatim and don't seem to have even understood what they're saying.
What do you think that meant?
My primary interest is in pressuring large organizations with resources to provide food for people cut off from snap benefits. Using it politically is a means to convince the DNC to put resources towards it, though my assumption is that the central DNC will actually do fuckall and it will be small local organizations that decide it's worth the effort.
Oh ok.
So you're not planning ahead.
Luckily we can see from Minnesota that planning more than a week ahead of time pays off. And that's the direction the DNC is moving: planning ahead and distributing power in case we lose the DNC to neoliberals again.
It would be great if you "pressured" organizations that can do something and should do something instead of random organizations that are actually fixing themselves...
But considering your "pressure" is reposting social media comments to Lemmy, well, it doesn't really matter if what you're doing is right or not.
Feel free to "go after" Taco Bell for discontinuing the McDonald's dollar menu if you want as well, people probably won't get as upset even tho it's just as illogical. But politics is an important topic these days
Did it ever occur to you that you don’t know anything about the person you are talking down to and that it might be more effective to engage in a minimal level of politeness?
Unwarranted hostility is his whole deal
Christ almighty.
With allies like you, who needs enemies.
Yeah, bro...
Obviously we should just do easy things that don't matter instead of productive things that are difficult.
Who cares if it's effective as long as you get a quick dopamine hit.
Feel free to go boycott Target about Exon mobile.
I think you completely missed my point.
You are being aggressive and short tempered with someone who is your ally.
There is no justifiable reason to treat people this way.
All the snark does not help. That's not how to have a productive conversation. You know that messaging matters and so all this could possibly mean is that you care more about feeling good from being snarky than actually improving anything.
No one is disagreeing with you. The antagonist you imagine is not in this comment thread
That's a good idea! Call your local McDonalds and get them to restart the dollar menu. Or, even better: donate money to your foodbanks. They prefer cash instead of pantry items, but I'm sure they'll accept anything you're willing to give!
https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
Eh. Lot of Americans already benefit from Democrat created social systems but then turn around and demonize socialism and refuse to vote for Democrats.
So you'd just end up feeding a bunch of ignorant, thankless Trump supporters that will continue voting Republican despite being starved by them.