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Kamala Harris could make history as the first president to work at McDonald’s (www.independent.co.uk)

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Now, the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign is nodding to her summer job to highlight her upbringing and a platform to boost American workers that stands in stark contrast to her Republican rival Donald Trump, who “has no plan to help the middle class — just more tax cuts for billionaires,” according to a recent ad.

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[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now, the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign is nodding to her summer job to highlight her upbringing and a platform to boost American workers that stands in stark contrast to her Republican rival Donald Trump, who “has no plan to help the middle class — just more tax cuts for billionaires,” according to a recent ad.

neither do you or your party

some of do not have the luxury of working McDonald's as a summer job to learn values

for some it is a fulltime job that will not pay all the bills including food and will have the workers overworked and underpaid and underappreciated and sick from lack of healthcare

get the fuck out of here saying you know what it is like to struggle Kamala

doubt she ever went to bed hungry

if the Democrats truly understood the minimum wage would be $20 or more and we would have had universal healthcare because they would have fought tooth claw and nail for the people to have it despite Republican oppositions

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 3 months ago

just curious, whats your solution? you seem great at pointing out how everyone running is an ignorant piece of shit and unworthy of politics.

what, Realistically is your solution? vote 3rd party? vote for the faster path to fascism via the orange turd??

no candidates are going to be 100%, we will always be picking the best 'running'. so, who the fuck do you think people should vote for now realistically, to get democratic ideals pushed forward?

so far youre just a whiner with zero added value.

[+] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -18 points 3 months ago

if enough people put in enough vote to a third party then it would become a viable party

the democrats hold a carrot to their voters every election halting any form of progress

every election we get either the Republicans actively against the people or we get the Baby Steps Party that is full of enough empty promises to keep people on the treadmill

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 3 months ago

so you dont have a solution for the present . just some hyperbole on what people maybe should kinda move towards. got it.

doesnt seem to stop you from shitting on the actually choices people need to make now.

look, im with you. progressives have been shit on for 50 years by a very conservative democratic party, but if we dont keep voting the babystepping democrats in, we dont get opportunities like we had where Bernie almost made it.

that is the piece youre flat out ignoring. we cant get more Bernie opportunities if we cant keep people successfully voting down that path. your rhetoric is antithetical to actual progress.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

if enough people put in enough vote to a third party then it would become a viable party

The ONLY way that's going to happen is if the 3rd parties get their shit together and run a candidate and platform that isn't insane; and if we completely eliminate the spoiler effect, which will require a complete switch to ranked choice voting or some other system that addresses it.

As of today, we have a duopoly, and the choices within that duopoly are fascism or not fascism. If fascism wins, 3rds are fucked right along with everyone else, so if you support 3rds then your best option is to vote Harris as a means of preserving a flawed but malleable system that can eventually be made compatible with your goals. Voting for anyone else, or not voting at all, just tips the scales that much closer to fascism.

I'm rooting for you. Viable 3rd parties would be a great addition to our system, but that's going to take systemic changes beyond the scope of one election or party. You've got a LOT of work to do, but keep your eyes on the prize and don't let your work space burn to the ground.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 3 months ago

if the Democrats truly understood the minimum wage would be $20 or more

In Democrat-controlled California, the minimum wage for fast food workers is $20: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/minimum_wage.htm

[-] Rookwood@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

“There was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the bills paid by the end of the month,” she added. “But the reality of McDonald’s is that a majority of the folk who are working there today are relying on that income to sustain a household and a family.”

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