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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump and the cuts and the attacks on our judiciary and the attacks on our Constitution?” asked Slotkin, who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”

Fair.

“I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.

🙄

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you tell us you have been purchased by the oligarchy without telling us?

End "woke"? So let Republicans shred all DEI? That's not just trans/gay, it's anti racial discrimination, it is help and protection for the disabled ... hell, it is the very laws that make ramps and elevators required for the disabled.

Yes, I might be talked into agreeing that democrats have to tone down "the message" so Republicans cannot use it as a hate rallying cry ... but the goals are still there. The evil fascist stuff this admin has done must be reversed, and these people all need to be in jail for insider trading by ping-ponging the economy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My favorite part was focusing on Trump taking away democracy. Putting Kamala forward, a candidate no one wanted, voted for, or liked. Protecting DuMOcRAsy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Support working class people and idealism. THAT Is what the dems need to do, win over the middle\right folks that can't stand the MAGA shit and want their real country back, not some perverted fucked up version the GOP would like to create.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

this. defend public education and improve it. get universal healthcare. social safety nets to provide support as people are falling rather than after they hit the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Get her out, outdated mindset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but she is right. I think the people upset with her in the comments do not live in red areas.

As stupid as it sounds, that is all people seem to care about. The right used to have abortion as a drum to bang. Now that Roe is overturned the right needed a new social cause, and they found 'woke' which is WAY more effective than abortion since it seems to excite both religious, and non-religious.

If you go and talk with people in rural areas you will be shocked by how prominent this issue is in their minds, and I believe it will always beat economic issues for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If the Democrats become their opposition, then what reason is there to vote for them?

I'm not sure how you fix this, but abandoning your values ain't it. Then it's just a mono-party system.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

What the actual fuck are they thinking?

[–] melsaskca 6 points 5 days ago

I think I used to know what "woke" meant, and I thought it was a good thing to be "woke" but the word seems to be used in different ways by different people. Closest thing I've seen to actual "doublespeak" yet. To be clear, I thought woke meant "to be aware" or "to know you need to learn more about certain issues". Education and learning is good for the society (not so good for an authoritarian leader though).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Fuck that noise. Geronocrats and Turdpublicans brought us here. Both need to be removed from any meaningful position in society.

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