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And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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[–] tabernac@c.im 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

@inclementimmigrant

IKR?!

WTF Dems...?

Stop enabling a tyrant. This is gonna bite you in the ass quicker than you thing.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean what the fuck are they even doing?

When the Republicans were out in 2020, they pushed back on everything and everyone, fuck the consequences, which there never are any, and let their base know they had their backs regardless, and even if they voted they damn well made it known they did so reluctantly.

Here you've got Democrats who aren't even putting things up for a fight and then they have members going on air touring how great these guys are, fucking Fetterman.

There's no spine in any of these Democrat assholes so why the hell would I vote for any of them at this point if your going to make it easy for fascists? There is no lesser of two evils now, just sickening enablers.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 day ago

They're doing what they always did: uphold the status quo.

The veil is pulled back, neither party (save for a few progressive senators) actually gave a shit about anyone but themselves. The DNC was just better at pretending, using rainbow capitalism to hide it.

[–] tabernac@c.im 31 points 1 day ago

@inclementimmigrant

They still govern by 'gentleman rules' but the GOP and Trump aint fucking gentlemen. They're fucking Nazis using the system against them...

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Perhaps the Dems realize there won't be another vote, and they're better off kissing ass now if hey want their jobs.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

If they realized anything, they would have realized that if they keep enabling this shit, their jobs are absolutely gone and likely their lives.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then they'd piss off their own donors too...

You know when the last big cut to the federal workforce was?

The 90s when Clinton was in office.

You know what trump was doing in the 90s? Donating so much to the DNC that the Clinton's came to one of his sham weddings.

If you want to know why neoliberals aren't opposing Donald Trump, it's because they've literally been working together to destroy the federal government and replace it with oligarchs for the last 30 years.

So stop acting surprised already, and start opposing them.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Say it with me:

👏 Democrats👏 are👏 not👏 coming👏 to👏 save👏 us👏

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Our only chance are the leftists that are too busy arguing semantics and refuse to work together! Aw shit.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah but bipartisanship. Mr. Hitler will surely see sense any day now, if we're polite and reasonable and try not to anger him.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 37 points 1 day ago

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Democrats would rather be fascists than fight fascists.

But when you try and run a campaign as off-brand, Mr Pibb, diet-fascists..

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fear of reprisal.

Once all these confirmations are done, you may see senators that voted against mysteriously fall out of windows.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh please, even Democrats who did vote for these unqualified fascist will get thorium poisoning.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Appeasement will not save anyone from the night of long knives.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only way anything she says will have any impact is if she start getting the army ready to launch a counter-coup, or else starts building a leftwing militia.

No amount of not-nice wordsmithing and congressional wankery is going to work -- we're past that point now.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 day ago

The best time for that would have been several years ago, but... hey, I mean, do it?

[–] xaera@sh.itjust.works -3 points 14 hours ago

Stop salty or buttering it up.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Agreed. It has gone too far.

[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"But both parties are not the same" they screamed as the country burned and the elites on both sides of the aisle lined their pockets off the backs of their suffering constituents.

Come now children and give me your downvotes and paragraphs of bullshit telling me I am wrong.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They may both be shit, but they arent the same....

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean we're talking just on paper at this point when the Democrats are enabling these neo-Nazi assholes and not putting up meaningful opposition.

I've defended people for both siding shit but damn at this point when you've got Democrats passing Laken Riley Act, which allows immigrants to be deported for being accused of fucking shoplifting and Democrats not only voting for Trump's neo-nazi, dog killing, environment killing nominees and then going on air and waximg poetic about the votes for them. What fucking shitty opposition party is this? It's not.

Your right, both parties are not the same, ones worse as a enabler of abusers, they're more pathetic than Trump's Republicans.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Respectfully i disagree with where you went with this.

The devil is in the details as the saying goes and nuance and minute differences as well as intentions and purposes all matter.

Enabling is not worse than driving an outcome. It may be that the enablers are worse in some instances, but driving the worst outcomes is always worse than taking advantage of it when it's happening.

It's always worth it to get to the bottom of events and understand as much as is possible instead of just labeling things as "close enough so it doesn't matter" that's just going to l lead to enabling in w different way.

"They are both the same so i voted for the ones i find funniest, because they both the same"

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Pot meet kettle

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