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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And how many from the republicans?

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Democratic Leadership knew the position we were in, yet they still refused to run a popular campaign offering any real reforms or attacking anyone increasingly gouging us and ran as the status quo while the Republicans ran as reform.

  We all knew the voters did not know better. The responsibility is in the establishments corner. Three presidential shit shows in a row and they are brushing off the old Hillary Clinton excuses blaming voters as if that would justify letting them stay in control of the party.

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blaming dems for what republicans so is some mental gymnastics.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By running as they do they doom us to the Republicans. I do not see how that is hard for you to understand. Being better than the other guy is not enough to win elections, you should have realized that in 2016 at the latest, yet here we are approaching 2028 and you are still advocating for this doomed to fail policy despite being one election away from a permanently rigged system for a one-party state?

      And make no mistake it will be rigged every way it can be but 2028 we have a chance to take it from them in the succession fight. Not with the establishment leaders we have though.

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      • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Doom us to republicans”

        No this is bullshit as you’re choosing to vilify one and not the other. If you blame your mistake on choosing worse for yourself and blame someone for your choice it is you to blame. And it is pure ignorance. You are using pure ignorance to try to explain your position and only ignorant people and abusive people would agree with this level of stupid.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s funny how one immigrant country is “securing homeland” from another immigrant country. At some point in the late XIX century US, Argentina, Brazil seemed similarly attractive directions for the “give me your tired …” thing.

  I had two books called “anthology of romantic and adventure”, pretty much only centered around sea travel, it had both poetry of a fascist Russian white movement member who was a submariner and “Tamango” by Merimee and Vysotsky’s songs and Poe’s short horror stories and Melville’s “Benito Sereno” racist story, in general a pretty equal mix of radical views of life, honestly, both the good and the bad ones.

  So - it’s mostly rather old stuff, as you might guess, and the image of all those overseas colonized lands is somehow similar and blended. Now you wouldn’t think that there’s much similarity between USA and Brazil and Argentina, LOL.

  OK, I just got carried away. Perhaps that moment when your whole country started feeling “settled” is when the bad things started accumulating (other than lynchings of blacks and lobotomies of autists, I mean). And started feeling less of a union and more of one country.

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