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An enraged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) again lashed out at Senate Democrats over what she called Friday evening an "inexplicable abdication."

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 129 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's frankly incredible just how devoted the US Democratic party is to losing. They're so ridiculously ineffectual.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

They are a manufactured opposition, and crucial to the success of the fascist coup. Americans should remember that when the civil war starts, and hold them accountable.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

yep, when i’m in the reeducation/reparenting camps, losing my ability to form new memories or access old ones, i’ll remember how the democrats betrayed their voters

[–] KittyCat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Getting relocated is death, don't allow it

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

https://socialistra.org/

They weren't serious, but they should have been.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My urge to stab people in the face is slowly, slowly rising.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mine has been boiling since childhood but is impotent due to the fact that those in my reach would be neither cathartic or useful. This whole load of bullshit is not helping, can we just get to the civil war portion so I can find out if PTSD is a stacking modifier or if im immune to new forms of it.

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[–] fishy@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ten years ago I would've called you a conspiracy theorist. Now however, I am in agreement. We need a new party for the working class because both parties are a bunch of filthy traitors.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are paid to lose thanks to bribery (lobbying) being legal in the USA, go check who are their biggest donors.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

Some guy in a young democrats group called me out for being stupid in 2005 when I held the position that lobbying was bullshit.

"Well how do you get your needs met and points heard?"

"Because it's their fucking job and if I have bribe them to do it, the whole system needs to be shut down"

"You just don't even understand what you don't understand"

"I think I understand enough to call it out as bullshit"

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 116 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My YES vote is not an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is [100 percent] about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. -Fedderman

For fuck sake man, have you looked around? Shutting down everything and nerfing this tool's ability to direct anyone to do anything would be less chaotic than it is right now.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can't blame him. He is brain damaged. That's why he's conservative. He's the only DEI hire that should be removed.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

alot of stroke often turn into a nutty right winger, or a nutty right winger christian. tila tequila, kevin sorbo, or had brain damage from other sources. i was watching a video of someone with schizophrenia and how he fell into the right wing/fundamentalism rabbit hole and said it was a very dangeorus mix.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

fetterman was always a hack, i dont think he really cares about "working families" after his stroke.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She needs to run for NY Senator in 2028. Schumer and Gillibrand both voted yes.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I want her and Walz to be on the ticket so fox news has an aneurism

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And fuck it. We're appointing Obama to SCOTUS.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I want her so bad as president, but I don't know that misogynists would let it happen. I think there's way more misogyny in this country that we expect.

source: I'm a guy, and when they're left to their own more than half the people I know are horrible to and about women.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s part of the class war that keeps us fighting amongst ourselves while the oligarch’s rob us blind

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want her to try, but DNC will never let it happen.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

All the more reason to dismantle the DNC

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be great, but we’d still need two progressive Democrats to primary the NY Senate seats.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago

Letitia James and Juumane Williams. Need to replace gov Hochul as well but I can live with nation over state.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They knew they were going to get crapped on for this. I'm glad she's saying it, but Fetterman and Schumer don't give a shit you can believe that, and I see no reason to think the rest of them do either.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 weeks ago

The are owned. They are responsible to what happens now. They are not for the people, they are for themselves.

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck

Also https://democracy.io/ is good for US citizens who want to voice their opinions to their congressional reps.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we start SLAMming people like we did in Bloody Kansas? 🤔

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

only if we're going to get on that john brown timing we should go in with a better plan. not saying not to go in on that john brown timing. john brown and john g fee both did important things and i think they both were recuired to make forward progress and our current problem is we haven't enough browns and we have too many fees

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I can understand that some people become afraid of Nazis and bend the knee, but these people didn't even put up a fight.

[–] pno2nr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Democrats are past cooked. I'm not sure it will.matter to primary these losers, I don't think Dems will ever win a majority ever again.

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