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DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 11 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

we're in Vermont

Um, f*** you? (Joking. But it could be worse: Imagine living in Texas, Bernie replaced by Ted Cruz, rain replaced by heat that kills half of everything outdoors.)

“I can’t afford another four years of this. I did better under the other guy although I hate him.”

I just can't get over how lazy it is to blame "the current guy" though. I want to say to these people: Surprise, the response to a massive global pandemic led to a couple of years of inflation! (On top of that, poorly regulated capitalism and corporate consolidation led to opportunistic greed and historic profits, what a coincidence!) Who is trying to solve these problems (and who is obstructing)? What are their plans (and are they already improving the situation)? Connect the dots and vote for intelligent policies and people with real plans. This is not a game.

And then there’s the wars.

I would hope people don't see Ukraine and Israel support as the same thing, but I'm all out of hope. On one hand, we have a newly democratic Ukraine and Zelinskyy trying to survive an invasion from a longtime US enemy and so-called superpower, after every heinous thing Putin done in the last decade? (But I'm sure "some people" think brutal dictators should be free to steamroll Europe again.) Seems like we finally found a worthy cause for our obligatory trillion-dollars-per-year military industrial complex! On the other hand, Netanyahu bombs civilians on a daily basis so he can avoid prosecution (sounds familiar). Hmm...