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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

these old pieces of shit need to hurry up and die. i can’t believe they’ve made me defend the political career of david hogg

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fundamental problem isn't gerontocracy, it's the fact that the leadership, including most of the relatively younger members, are totally captured by bourgeois interests.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

But it'd still be nice to have a rotating cast of villains

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

political career of david hogg

Just realized at some point we're 1000% going to see calls to ban "hogg posting" if he's ever talked about too much

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sorry if the hog posting site posts too much Hogg and hogg-posting becomes banned on sight

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

A woodchuck could chuck that much wood.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago

The democrats are so evil that my litmus test for any elected official or canvasser has to be "is genocide bad?". Of the local democrats, the only ones who pass that test are DSA sponsors who have to fight the party.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

remember that socialist (India Walton) who won a primary in Buffalo NY and the defeated dem "won" the general as a write-in with lots of rigging

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually don't remember that. Tell me more.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Buffalo, NY literally elected a socialist as the Democratic nominee for mayor last year. In a district where the Republican never wins and the Democrat always wins the mayoral race. After that, Buffalo considered abolishing the position of mayor. That didn't happen, but what did happen is that the establishment stooge who lost the primary decided to run as an independent in the general, got millions upon millions in funding from corporate donors, got the full support of the Democratic party, and ran a huge propaganda campaign against the socialist insurgent. The socialist lost. Propaganda works! Especially when the media is created, controlled, and funded by capitalists.

So, people can be excused for being a little bit hopeless for democratic socialism in America.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/buffalo-new-york-india-walton-mayoral-election-byron-brown

from this hexbear comment. you can find a flurry of posts about in on hexbear from 4 years ago

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hot damn that's wild! Thanks for this.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

people need to make a list of every Democrat doing this and show up outside their houses ready to fucking skin them and feed it to them instead of just going "the Democrats did this," name names and leave their addresses or "the democrats" are just going to keep doing it under the guise of their anonymized "party" actions

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

Didnt you all see, that they have resurrected a parkland shooting victim with AI now, so the Democrats can say they're letting the parkland shooting victims run the DNC without actually letting a normal human run the thing and potentially appeal to actual people. Wild!

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and flattened-bernie is too much of a coward to start a new party.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Couldn't now if he wanted to, lost all credibility

[–] I_Voxgaard@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

except with my oblivious vibes-based mother

not sure if proud or disappointed

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

It's really true, it's really sad

They eat their young

we all know it fowks

trump-anguish

I so want South Park to do a Chuck Schumer-Hakeem Jeffries episode.