• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    It’s because Democrats are not willing to become anti-elite or anti-rich or anything like that, they’d piss off their donors. Only Trump was able to do this because everyone knows he’s lying. His donors know it’s all a show.

    • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Hard agree. All we get from the Democrats is more of the same economically and military, but with some feel good identity politics (i.e. that don’t in any way threaten corpos, just provide more markets) and socially progressive vibes. Still better than the alternative sure, but they are just sprinkling glitter on a turd to make it look appealing. There’s zero interest towards actually addressing social/financial inequality, reigning in the power of corpos, separating money from politics, or basically changing the economic status quo in any meaningful way. It’s a sad state of affairs, and absolutely no wonder leftists aren’t enthused to vote for Harris. It’s basically a vote for keeping things exactly as they are now, which is not what voters want at all. US politics is so corrupted by money now that a government of the people for the people is just a distant memory. And this talk of reforming the electoral college is just more window dressing, seems to me.

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        have you considered identifying as metamorphic rocks? Cause my newest donor has some lovely rock Polish for you and when you buy it you prove to all the haters that your post igneous lifestyle isn’t just a phase! In fact I will specifically respect and enforce the sales of metamorphic rock Polish in all stores that would already sell it because of the corporate backing of this product!

        what was that about a rent cap? Sorry no comment. And how dare you diminish the matamorphic-os who you tried to silence with this pointless off topic line of questioning. You are just Rockist.