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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 86 points 1 month ago (9 children)

*Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive, said he believes "the most effective pushback to Trump's unconstitutional actions is to model a reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law."

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it’s fair to call the democrats the Conservative Party. The republicans are regressives, certainly. But the people plead for systemic change, and the democrats are just trying to conserve the same failed order that got us to this point.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see them as basically leaning super hard into white man's burden type racism and imperialism except they've replaced it with american and western capitalist burden so it's less obviously racist and they can feel even more smug and superior to the rest of humanity

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

The theoretical roots of the US political divide goes back to: "We should kill all the natives because they're racially inferior" vs "As a progressive, the natives are only culturally inferior, and if we destroy their culture and force them to adopt ours at gunpoint, we can make them civilized." Underneath it all, that's who they each are.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Are you telling me a bunch of old rich people are fantastically out of touch with the common citizen?

Why, I shan't believe it! ruthkanda-forever

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago

the constitution says slavery is allowed, you just have to have a judge sign off on it first

I wipe my ass with the magic parchment

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Republicans think the constitution was written by god himself and Democrats think they can combat that with American Civil Religion.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I always think of that painting whenever someone brings up Juche Necrotracy.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

As long as they pray to the Founding Fathers enough, Trump will lose the Mandate of Washington and will be rendered powerless.

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive

The guy who was trying to recruit a nazi to the DNC a couple weeks ago?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh? Did I miss this or forget?

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He was at the forefront of liberals that were trying to bring Elon into the liberal establishment in the immediate wake of Elon's catfight with Trump

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 29 points 1 month ago

Scratch a lib...

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time I hear democrats speak, I am reminded of the Android speech to Gohan from TAS

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

What a fucking loser

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

Famous last words.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 74 points 1 month ago (6 children)

"What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat.
"Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles ... [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison."

ALL THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY GETTING ARRESTED TRYING TO DO YOUR JOB FOR YOU COULD TELL YOU AS MUCH, DIPSHIT

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a demand that we... allow ourselves to be victims of violence

Yes. It's me folks. I'm the one that's demanding this. The rest of the quote confirms why I will continue demanding it.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's like if a firefighter complained like "they want me to run in to a burning building? Pfft as if!"

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Not only would that be a gift to the fire, not only would it make the fire’s job easier if we were all mired in emergency response… [we are] a group that is disproportionately harmed by fire.”

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

I could die in the fire and then there would be less firefighters

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, Senators famously face more injustice than everyone else. They can't afford legal defense, and the media doesn't care when they're arrested.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Nobody told us that this great power that we voluntarily obtained came with responsibilities!" angery

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I just want to be on the beach why do they need me to press a stupid button on the stupid little desk shrek-pixel-despair

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Also most of them are rich and politically connected, which matters more than literally anything else for how you fare in prison.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao the fucking endgame boss of liberal idpol is a black senator implying there's a racism ick factor when rich white people complain about them

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

You can only demand that your elected representatives take a stand for something when you're poor enough to be ignored.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

anakin-padme-2 So you've spent your political career trying to fix the known problems in American prisons, right?

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Interesting how doing anything is a "gift to Donald Trump" but not stopping him isn't?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Leadership? I just wanted a cushy job that makes me feel important and connects me with rich, powerful people. What about that do you poors not understand?"

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

Hate it when people keep trying to politicize my job of house minority leader

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

I hate this so much

It's so accurate and I hate this so much

These people don't want to do anything; they're not trying to make anything better; we're electing people to sit there and slow the descent into catastrophe and they're sitting atop us while the waves are at shoulder level and they're hardly even trying to slow the descent into catastrophe

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"just saying the right things isn't working anymore.. the people just keep wanting more than that, and we're all out of ideas"

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

Rather, they've moved to "attempting to smear people who say the right things as dangerous radicals"

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What the fuck

  • is this formatting. This is barely readable

  • who organizes thoughts like this?

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s the god awful axios house style—helpful to hide AI content and assuming your readers can’t read or handle content that takes more than 15 seconds.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

assuming your readers can’t read or handle content that takes more than 15 seconds.

oof american literacy rates

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Why it matters
  • Zoom out
  • What we're hearing
  • Between the lines
  • What they're saying
  • Zoom in
  • The bottom line

What, this looks like a logical and organized thought process by someone who definitely knows how to write a memo.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 month ago

Everytime I see one of their articles I think the top is just a summary only to remember that's just the entire thing

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Twitter-brain formatting

[–] Grace@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every single Gen X I know is so demoralized right now, my own parents who were once apolitical are singing a much different tune now -- something that was just a dream for me. This shit is real. Our environment is changing.

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

My Gen x parents are being directly effected by a lot of this policy. They used to be non voters and my dad was kind of libertarian/conservative when I was a kid.

They seem a little more engaged these days and I'm hoping to hear them say something that would make me proud some day

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let the fires of revolution burn bright

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