• Carrots@quokk.au
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    5 hours ago

    Looks like we should kill the billionaires and then we won’t have to tax them.

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      The taxes were the compromise, you give your fair share or we drag you out of your gilded mansions and play you alive

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        3 hours ago

        They already said “no” after we asked. We need to stop playing their stalling game, they’ve been doing it for centuries. Off with their heads.

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    5 hours ago

    I can’t wait to have to vote for this fuckhead because the only other option on the ballot is Grok Mechahitler after the dems help the GOP pass the AI President amendment

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      5 hours ago

      Well we have the primaries at least. I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard. For all of Obama problems. He is proof their rigging can be subverted. I just hope at least AOC or someone better runs in the primaries. And if there are several. Those trailing behind if there is a clear leader will drop and get behind them. Because we know the establishment will line up behind Newsom or Harris as soon as they can.

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        I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard

        Why?

        The DNC is controlled by the chair who is accountable to no one.

        Last primary was a shit show because when a Dem becomes the president, he names the chair.

        Biden named Jamie Harrison, whose only political accomplishment was raising a shit ton of money and losing to Lindsey Graham.

        After him trying to shove Biden’s corpse and then Kamala down our throats and failing the ~400 voting members of the DNC got to hold their chair election.

        And they picked someone who spent the last decade running fair primaries in Minnesota, resulting in a purple state becoming progressive, because progressives win fair primaries.

        So, again:

        I don’t doubt the DNC will be fingering the scales hard

        Why?

        • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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          I saw what they did to David Hogg. DNC is not a grass roots organization, it’s a corporate entity that is resistant to change.

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            What “they” did?

            Jamie Harrison didn’t abide by the election rules.

            It wouldn’t have changed the election for what Hogg won, so the incoming DNC chair (voted for by the same people who elected Hogg) said it should be redone to be by the books…

            Hogg refused to run, even tho it was a walk in victory, he just didn’t put his name on the ballot.

            Who the fuck are you mad at?

            Jamie Harrison who fucked up the election and has nothing to do with the DNC today?

            Martin for redoing it so itd be free and clear?

            Or, should you be mad at Hogg for not putting his name on the ballot and then pretending he was run out because he never actually wanted to be vice chair?

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          If that’s the case then. I hope you’re right. However I dislike all national parties. State parties for that matter honestly. And I have significant doubts that just changing out the head got rid of all the systemic rot underneath.

          I would love to be surprised. But understand till then till I see it happen. I’m going to be skeptical. But here’s hoping that he is what you say he is. And that Democrats don’t find a way to fuck this up as they always do. There’s one thing I can be sure about Democrats in the last 50 years having watched them. It’s that they are professional losers who love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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            You should, the DNC and RNC aren’t even public entities. They are private companies and operate as such. The entire system is corrupt and rotten.

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      5 hours ago

      What are you even talking about?

      He’s term limited for Governor…

      And if you mean 2028 presidential, the only chance any neoliberal has is if the current DNC chair resigns. His entire thing is “fair primaries, and let the voters sort it out”.

      Neoliberals have never been able to win anything close to a fair primary.

      That’s why Hillary had to use Bill’s charisma to get in the White House back in the 90s and hand neoliberals the party. They lost the party well.over a year ago.

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        Obama won one rigged against him. Though to be fair he ran as much more of a vague populist than he turned out to be.