I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
Called “The Blood of The Exploited Working Class”
But they’ve overcome their shyness
Now they’re calling me “Your Highness”
And the world screams, “Kiss me, son of god!”
.
I destroyed the bond of friendship and respect
Between the only people left who’d even look me in the eye
Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured
And the world screams, “Kiss me, son of god!”
.
I look like Jesus, so they say
But Mr. Jesus is very far away
Now you’re the only one here who can tell me if it’s true
That you love me, and I love me
Personally I’m excited to feel smug about leopards eating faces. \s \s \s
i’ve just been basting myself and gathering bibs
I would like a leg if no one’s called dibs
It’s a simple message, and I’m leaving out the whistles and bells so the room must listen to me:
Filibuster vigilantly.
I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect between the only people left who’d even look me in the eye. Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured.
Can Democrats in the US do anything to stop it? I was under the impression they don’t have enough representatives to stop it
There were the government shutdowns but they always cave. Then there’s getting arrested while protesting (not breaking the law BTW, just straight up intimidation), which is honestly the bare minimum at this point. Look up Kat Abu for an example.
They’re absolutely powerless. There’s literally nothing they can do. If only everybody had voted for them, it would be so much different. \s \s \s
I mean with a majority in either house couldn’t they just vote down law proposals and make different ones and stuff? Not sure how the US system works
Yeah… they suck… but-
They’re visible. Which is better than what any third party “candidate” has been doing. Speaking of, what’s Mr. West and Mrs. Stein been up to since November?
I guess all those important issues only mattered if they got elected.
Where have genocide joe and kamalacaust been? Obama? Gotta give up your partisan fantasies…
gEnOcIDE!
That’s a fair point about the minor parties. Then again, I have seen Libertarians try to do valuable things at the local or state level in various places. I’ve never seen a Green Party candidate for school board or city council.
i mean how else are people going to vote for having your community invaded by bears
Nope. I haven’t either. Last I heard, Stein was cashing in on a few dinner speeches.
What’s funny though? We tried to warn all the freshmen that this has been done before by the exact same clowns in the exact same makeup in elections past…
They were too busy calling us names to bother listening. And apparently, now- they expect us to kiss their asses while we work with them on their grassroots movement bullshit to bail us out of the problems they wouldn’t even do the bare minimum to help stop.
I made the mistake of voting for her in 2016, before I realized that Nader didn’t really retire. He left in disgust at what the party became. Granted, I live in NJ, so my vote basically meant nothing, but it’s still a mistake.
That was before Stein’s theatrics about the debates, too. How anyone could seriously support her after that confounds me.
All it took was a movement they could all anger each other with. That’s all it takes every election. It’s something that gives them all a reason to be manipulated.
The right’s best tactic is dividing the left. They’d never win against a unified front.
Lucky for them there won’t ever be one. These clowns are already warming up their pitchforks and templating their “I won’t vote for [bLuEMaGA cAnDiDaTE]” memes. Hell, a lot of them are calling AOC a centrist. LMAO!
Officials are actively going against MAGA, esp. ICE, right now. It’s not all just tweets. But Trump won twice with the help of social media; other parties embrace it, too. Hopefully in a better way (and I’m not sure Gavin Newsom’s is it).
My favorite scathing TMBG snippet:
Where your eyes don’t go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around to look it’s gone behind you
On its face it’s wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don’t goWhere your eyes don’t go a part of you is hovering
It’s a nightmare that you’ll never be discoveringYeah if we all hate the fascists but then condemn the Democrats, we will have the numbers and the shear power to accomplish nothing….
Seriously, if you don’t like the Democrats then fucking vote for Democrats who will steer the party left. That’s what the neo-cons, tea party, maga did to change the Republican Party (and change it they did).
This notion of a progressive third party is just a waste of time by self-absorbed clique-ish people who fancy themselves too good for “the mainstream”. Grow the fuck up and work with your fellow country-persons instead of this weird romantic fantasy of third party revolution by the superior left…
I look forward to your scathing responses and down arrows. Just know that the fascists don’t care what you think because in all likelihood, that down arrow is the most you are willing to actually do….
Seriously, if you don’t like the Democrats then fucking vote for Democrats who will steer the party left
lol ok sure that will work. this time…
Allow me to expand and clarify… Multiple people run for the same office within primaries. Some of them lean more left than others. You can support them by actually voting in the primaries (and especially in state elections), maybe even donating a few bucks or volunteer time as well. But you have to actually vote. You can also write to existing Representatives and lay out your concerns. Enough people do that on an issue, they’ll understand your concerns at least in terms of marketing. Or just poo poo everything. Write social media comments or mouth off at family dinners, both of which are meaningless gestures that change nothing.
Yeah. Very well said. To add, take note of how the candidates they were screaming at us to vote for have disappeared into a cloud of irrelevance.
They’ve entirely abandoned their little handful of supporters.
But don’t worry 3rd Party’ers, they will be back in 2028 to promise a heck of a lot more fun and games for all! Boy howdy!
Thank you!
not american but wondering which good politicians you have
Summer Lee in the democrats seems awesome
That’s not how the Republican party went further right. They went further right because their previous right rhetoric and aesthetic laster long enough for the economy to continue to collapse and for their constituents to feel real economic pain. So, they had to go further right in order to rationalize the situation in the mind of their voters by blaming the erosion of traditional values even more. It’s a death spiral driven by economic realities, not voter ideology.
In the same way, the Democrats are losing because the voters want a solution to the economic problems but the only solution threatens their true constituency - the owning class. So the Democrats can’t be pulled further left because that would accelerate the erosion of the power of the elite. And the Republicans are forced to go further right to explain why their previous policies didn’t create the change that was needed. Thus, the entire elite, both Ds and Rs are dragged right, back into the original rationalizations for founding a nation in indigenous genocide and chattel slavery.
Voting D will never fix that. The proof is all throughout history. The Ds and the Rs collaborated to purge every leftist they could find in the country - twice. And they may very soon be doing it again, because this is what happens when unions get stronger, when resistance movements get stronger, and when solidarity movements get stronger.
Delusional half-truths from lemmy.ml, and no one was surprised.
The Democrats are doing whatever they can to win elections. If you don’t want them appealing to billionaires, stop fucking letting billionaires influence you and people you know. Get off of Twitter. Get your family off of Twitter and Facebook. Find ways to reach out to people.
This both sides bullshit is sabotage to prevent people from useful voting. Vote for whoever you want in the primaries, but in the general, vote for whichever isn’t a fascist. Yeah, if you’re a neolib and you’re scared of communism, whatever, vote for Mamdani anyway. Have this stupid fight in the primaries. The general is against fascism.
Have u already forgotten the whole shutdown ordeal? How the hell are we supposed to get away from billionaires when the dems are in bed with them.
Vote in primaries. And then vote in the general.
Don’t tell other people not to vote, implied or explicit.
Wow. Fully on victim blaming? Stop letting billionaires influence me? Stop them from influencing my family and friends? That’s your strategy? And you call me delusional?
Perhaps you haven’t seen the Princeton study that demonstrated, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that popular opinion has absolutely no influence on legislation in America. That popular and unpopular legislation passes at the exact same rate, meaning that popularity is not a factor in legislation. They went further to explore what DID have an effect on legislation. Do you know what they found? Legislation passing was directly correlated to the popularity of a law with the ultra minority (>1%) of wealthy individuals in the country.
That’s a very direct tell. The people are not clamoring for things the billionaires want. The party is acting in the billionaires’ interests. The research has been done. This is fact. I know blue MAGA can’t handle facts, but you really need to get this fact into your worldview if you’re going to be effective.
In the general [election] vote for whoever isn’t a fascist
The Democrats are the moderate wing of the fascist movement because America is a fascist project. Everything the Nazis did they learned from the Western imperial powers. The Nazis studied American apartheid. They modeled their plans for the Slavs after the USA’s treatment of Indians (which is still happening right now). They modeled their propaganda on our propaganda.
Our cities and towns, our water, our suburban sprawl, our uranium mines, our prisons are all reminders of what fascism does when it wins. It builds on stolen land, it structuralizes the violent oppression, and it creates genteel social aesthetics to cover it over. The Democrats are the genteel social aesthetics.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg showed us this when she rules against a tribe and as precedent she relied on the Doctrine of Discovery, a papal bull that the Europeans used to kill and enslave 10s of millions of indigenous people. It’s very difficult to imagine something more clearly damning than SCOTUS affirming that Indians didn’t have the right to do something TODAY on the basis of the Doctrine of Discovery. She even said that the reason it was important to affirm is because the entire country relied on this for its legal basis to continue existing.
Democrats and Republicans alike were into ice pick lobotomies for women. Democrats and Republicans alike were into eugenics. Democrats and Republicans alike have a long dark history, because it’s not about both parties being the same, it’s about both parties being adminstrators of the same empire.
It’s the empire that’s fascist. Not just one party. And the fact that you think you can solve this by getting off Twitter and getting your family off Twitter and voting really hard for the less obvious of two facist parties in a violent virulent fascist country is proof that the PR strategy of the Democrats is working exactly as it’s intended.
The country these two parties administer integrated fascists directly into the country’s administration. It supported fascists, and still supports fascists abroad. It depends fascism’s right to organize, to recruit in public, to participate in elections, to participate in governments.
Responsible countries purge fascists. The US does not purge fascists. It purges communists. Anti-communism being a core tenet of fascism, the connection is clear.
But of course. I can’t convince blue MAGA any more than I can convince MAGA. Both groups are completely impervious to facts, history, and reality.
SLAM!
Well said by the way!
The dems aren’t losing.
Im convinced posts like this are pro trump propaganda
It is possible, and encouraged, to call your party out on their bullshit. Criticism is a very important tool in democracy.
Yeah because you think literally everything that isn’t your own take is Trump propaganda 🙄
These posts only benefit trump
Did you miss the whole debacle of “we’ll never cave without ACA subsidies being extended” immediately preceding caving without extended ACA subsidies? That’s far from the only example of such behavior. In fact, I’d say the only anamoly in that situation was the strong stance Dems took before reverting to their usual cowardly selves.
TBF… it’s looking like there will in fact be a vote to extend, which will likely pass thanks to some R that are not fully MAGA
am I missing this article, last I heard, trump was talking about extending the cuts… followed by Mike Johnson saying no we aren’t interested in that at all.
Which then I guess further follows up the question, does Mike Johnson even need to bring it up to a vote at all? Like hypothetically even if they whip the votes and get 10 republicans to defect… would anything actually force johnson to bring it to a vote at all?
My gift, fellow Fedizen
Once Foes of Obamacare, Some Republicans Push to Protect It Nov. 25, 2025
A small cadre of politically vulnerable Republicans in Congress is breaking with the party to push for the extension of health care tax credits for a program the G.O.P. reviles.
All I see is that you guys complain that democrats don’t fight back against trump and the moment one does, you guys tear them down and shit on them. I see Trump being a dictator and you guys still blaming democrats, the Dems you refused to vote for. All I saw was you guys demand the old white man step down, and the moment you saw him replaced with a black woman you all went “eeew I rather have trump” And these posts just say “I still prefer trump”
The people you’re talking about in this post are all different people with different points of view. You’re the only one combining them into a single nebulous idea of a person.
Im ok with combining all Americans into a single nebulous moron, i accept that
Much like I’m willing to combine all of your posts into a single, nebulous centrist whine.
Im so far left of you that you think im centrist lol
American leftists are so rock chewing stupid that ANY dissenting opinion they call centrist or right wing. You’re a bunch of morons and true leftists around the world know it. You guys think being left is shitting on others on the left to the benefit of trump, by the way trump is the american lefts fault
“True leftists”
proceeds to insist that any criticism of moderate democrats is Trump propaganda
Spot-fucking-on!
Yeah. Same. We saw a lot of this during the election. MAGAbots were posting like crazy!
Sadly, DNC leaderships VCRs are still flashing 12:00, so it’s unlikely they’ll ever see stuff like this. The interwebs are a dog gone mystery to them.
"Don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you’re my precious little girl
But don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start
I’ve got a weak heart
And I don’t get around how you get around"
came here for the TMBG
🎵 We die alone
We die afraid
We live in terror
We’re naked and alone
And the grave is the lonliest place🎶
They’re still doing more than the progressives.
It might suck to hear that about your team but it’s true.
Serving power certainly let’s a person do more, just don’t be surprised when people point out how it isn’t helping.
Yes, the libs are working hard with their right-wing collaborators to accomplish their shared agenda.
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I like what you did there.
For what it’s worth I am happy you’re not taking me too seriously right now. Been a long thanksgiving weekend with family for this American. You don’t deserve the blowback from that just becuase I dont agree so I am sorry, how ever feel free to keep that little wordplay in your back pocket, it does come in handy.
It won’t and it’s not clever but I do enjoy it.
Have a great thanksgiving!
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