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She certianly carries a lot of water for establishment dems for someone they call a progressive. She won't even call for Schumer to be replaced, guess we should have seen this one coming.
Oh good, more purity tests. That’ll surely defeat the fascist machine, thoroughly vetting every single thing a candidate does until we’re left waiting for the literal Jesus to return.
Explain how valid criticism is a purity test when no one is taking about elections.
Because your “valid criticism” is someone else’s “line crossed”, and there we lost another voter.
Democrats have to fall in love, republicans only need to fall in line. That and rampant cheating via gerrymandering allow the minority to continue to fuck our country.
It sounds a lot like you're implying you can't critisize democrats which is as unserious as it is unamerican
I’m implying that perhaps criticism can wait until the fascist threat is nullified. Division helps no one but Temu Hitler - let’s focus on putting him in the grave he deserves, then we can spend our time levying valid criticism at the other side when there isn’t Nazi Gestapo kidnapping brown people off the streets.
I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but priorities. If you’ve got time to bitch about AOC’s failings, it would be time better spent fighting fascism in any way you can.
I think the issue is that the current leadership isn't doing anything to stop the march if fascism. Id agree with your position of unification if they didn't just absolutely cave on the shutdown.
“They” was 8 stupid cowards, not the entire Democratic Party - if you want to heap scorn on them I’m all for it, as they helped advance the fascist agenda.
AOC was no part of that. And again, please feel free to hold her to the highest standards, but if you’ve got political energy to burn, maybe burn it fighting fascism.
I’m no fan of the democrats, but we need allies against fascism, and they’re the best we got.
That chuck and dem leadership helped pick out because they were eight retiring, not running again or just won so they can hope it'll be forgotten about when their next election happens
That's the same thing as saying you can't critisize them. Just admit you want your own version of fasicm at this point where people can only critisize the politicians you deem safe to critisize. You're not gonna get rid of red fasicms with blue fascism.
“Wait until the fire is under control to bitch about your taxes”
Is not the same as
“Don’t bitch about your taxes.”
This is fascism as it’s defined, not as one feels. It’s an easy differentiation to make if you put in 6 seconds of effort.
You don’t have to agree with me, but you should remain as intellectually honest as you can manage.
Just admit you’d rather bitch about something safe than resist in any way shape or form, it’s no more shameful than your selective understanding.
The fires been going for 10 years now so effectively it is. Stop trying to curb free speech, that will NEVER make fascim go away. It's literally the antitheses of fighting fascism.
Ok buddy. Thumbs up, good job.
Just say you want your own flavor of fasicm. If you wanna silence opinions you dont like own it instead of hiding behind patronization. But then again if you were brave you would know better than to fight fascism with fascism.
I want you to expend your effort in the most beneficial manner. To me, that’s fighting fascism. To you, that’s bitching about AOC and vigorously defending your safe, lazy bullshit by trying to call me a fascist.
I want you to be better, but you insist on being a pedantic contrarian. Goodbye buddy, get better.
Try not to keep being a fascist out of fear of other fascists. It's pretty pathetic. Your patronization fools no one.
It's because in the real world, you have to deal with reality, not only the couple of pet possibilities that people want to consider. I think AOC is the best shot that any decent person in the US has. She would if she could, but in the real world, these are not actual options.
Part of me agrees with this, part of me thinks that these people are too far into the weeds to know what's possible. Change brings chaos. And when you're at your stressful job with a shitty machine that you are constantly trying to keep running, eventually you reach a point where the thought of turning off the machine is unthinkable.
From an outside perspective, it seems obvious. The machine is bad. We should get rid of it and try something different. But that concept is terrifying to the people who work on the machine. Turn it off? But they've spent years learning how to work with the machine! They know how to sometimes get the machine to do what they want! If they replace the machine with something else, what if they can't figure out how to work the new system? Maybe someday they can replace the machine, but right now? In the middle of everything else? No, no, far too risky. Best to try to keep working with the same old machine.
How living in the real world been working for her? Oh thats right they passed over giving her a more powerful position for a old man with terminal cancer who already left.
Leftists need to stop showing loyalty to a party that uses them and then throws them away.
The DNC is not a viable path twoards the left.
Oh you and your reasonable explanations, with their rational basis in organizational communications.
I’m a PoliSci major and I’m baked AF! Now who knows more?!