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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They are absolutely refusing to return to any semblance of left.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

They're dabbing on us folks!

matt-jokerfied

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

We will dab on the corpse of this party soon enough

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

charitably, they might mean New Deal rather than neoliberal.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess a charitable view of the new deal and Keynesianism is that it's a semblance of left

I have the harsher view that it was a further entrenchment of reaction to reconstruction but shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

was certainly to the left of reagan. that's the bar for the last 50 years of american national politics. these fuckers have been making Nixon look good by comparison.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

Hence "semblance."

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

They are going to pull out any and all stops to prevent that from happening.

On the positive side, now there's a chance I get to see Cuomo lose again, which will be nice.