• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Then she discovered how irrelevant she was and started screaming “Look at me!!!” even louder.

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      Basically that. Just another female MAGA head that gives credibility to “dumb blonde” jokes.

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      would she though? I can hear everyone from centre left to the far right now saying “I couldn’t vote for AOC she’s just too extreme, we don’t need those far left socialist ideas in our government.”

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        I have a friend—a big Bernie guy who talks about how he wouldve been great. He said to me the other day, “AOC can go fuck herself.” I asked why. He said, “she just doesn’t know what people want. She went too far left.”

        Jesus Christ. He’s usually a pretty sound thinker. I have no idea what that is. Maybe just plain old misogyny.

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          I think that might be oversimplifying things. The media have been very effective at promulgating the myth that the left stands for unlimited immigration, soft approach to crime and foreign policy, and generous handouts to lower socioeconomic groups paid for by the state and taxpayers. Fear of the negative consequences of these policies often drives people to vote further right.

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    They think AOC’s appeal is that she’s an attractive woman. So, of course, their chauvinistic response to put what they consider an attractive woman out against her.

    I can’t tell if it’s just chauvinistic or also a calculated way to keep the conversation about AOC on her looks and away from her policies.

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    All the fascist Republicans crawling out from every creek there is. And dammit there’s a lot of them.
    But it is no wonder, because you’ve had to be a psychopath for decades to be a Republican, and from psychopath to fascist is not very far.

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      both parties are republicans bought by the owner class

      did not see the republican democrat dnc filled with both parties and celebs basically a gala

      and they barred actual democrats out who wanted what the democrats are supposedly for

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        No they are not both Republican, but they are both right wing.
        But only one of them is fascist and anti democracy.

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          Define fascism, and who won every single county in the 2016 Democrat primary, but lost the state?

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            A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

            From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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                  Hmm, sorry. Must’ve been a brain fart. Meant to ask WV dem primary of 2016. BTW Bernie won every county, but Hillary won the state, because democracy. And the thing that caused fascism in Italy, Germany, and now Israel and America is corporate money in government, aka corruption.

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      Is she sadistic enough to hold her own against the big beasts of the party, though? She may be a toxic narcissist, but this is the big league and the performative puppy-killers and AR15 family photo people couldn’t eat her for lunch if she doesn’t bring her game.

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      Member when NBC News was like “Let’s hire her for millions - she’s a serious journalist” and then when everything she did went to shit they were like "hmm. Ok lets’ move her to Saturday afternoons . . "

      Goddamned republiQan owned fuckwit corporate traitor idiots.

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    One of these days, candidates are going to start running for office “for” something. I’m tired of voting against something.

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      Good news!

      The current DNC agrees with you, here’s him being asked about Mamdani months ago:

      Ken Martin (current DNC chair):

      Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.

      One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

      And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

      I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.

      There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

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      then just stop for all of our sakes stop voting straight ticket just because you like the letter d and enjoy the color blue

      blue is a nice color but fuck

      if everyone in the united states is tired of this horseshit then why are democrats and republicans still getting votes

      y’all must like something they do