[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago
[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Kamala will be the same as Biden on practically every issue

Which overall, is fine.

But on this issue of genocide, is damning

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah my point is that voters did show up. Dems did historically well in 2022 for an incumbent party

Its just that the structure of our electoral politics favors rural areas and gerrymandered districts. Which currently means the red team benefits. Which isn't the fault of recent voters

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In what way was it more progressive than Medicare and Medicaid?

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society is the high-water mark of progressive domestic legislation. Nothing in the 60 years since then is remotely close - quite the opposite, actually

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

she intends to vote for harris. I’m doing everything I can to stop her.

It's not like voting will do any harm. Instead, wouldn't it be more productive to do everything you can to get her to organize her workplace?

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I agree. But the question is just do we want to organize under the blue team or under the red team/MAGA team.

I agree those are bad options. And I agree with the concern that many libs will just check out and go back to brunch if Kamala wins.

So it depends if you think Trump would be so bad that he would remove the little that is left of the ability of the working class to organize. We would become similar to Hungary under Orban in terms of centralized power with a deferential judiciary. That seems like it would be worse than 4 more years of Biden+'s blue team nonsense

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

You can do all of that and still vote for the blue team.

We all need to organize and work to strengthen unions. We need to do that. So the choice is just do we want to do that under a blue team presidency or a red team/MAGA presidency

Blue team seems much more currently amenable to unionization. So that seems like it would be the superior conditions for us to organize under.

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Wristwatches don't have the negative psychologically addictive and anxiety-producing effects of smartphones

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

especially her being the first ever presidential candidate to mention security and self determination of Palestinians in a speech

She did?

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

So if the above person was familiar with Whitmer then I should presume that most people also are?

Your points aren't making sense. Anecdotal evidence gathered from a non-American child's comments on a random post on a fringe STEM-lord website is not representative of anything.

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I am serious that anecdotal evidence is not statistically significant and that, therefore, one random child is not representative of anything

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

The child above me and their lack of knowledge has no relation to prudent political decision making, and their opinions are not reflective or representative of anything

A random ignoramus on the internet does not determine anything, much less what is wise for the country or the Democratic Party.

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