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• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If they truly wanted money out of politics then they’d stop begging people for donations every single election cycle.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So the RNC are allowed to fundraise and hold concerts and ad campaigns but the DNC are not?

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    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No? It’s hypocritical for Dems to demand voters give them money while telling people they want money out of politics. Personally I’d make it so politicians are paid the minimum wage of the state they represent and aren’t allowed to take bribes, donations, gifts from corporations or CEOs, and election funds are a pooled resource where everyone running for any party, big or small, has access to the same amount. Anyone found getting extra funds is immediately kicked out and banned from holding any level of government office, including even being a town mayor.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well I have some great news because the DNC also want to reform election finances to remove private funding. You should vote for the DNC.

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• Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Some in DNC are the progressive party. TheySome promote taxing the rich and removing money from politics.

  FTFY

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not really, it’s the party’s core platform. If they had 60 senators it would be done. If they had even 51 we would have at least seen minor progress but instead they have 45 now and not more than 48 in over 10 years.

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    • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think you can earnestly say that with the chicinery that kept Bernie from tying the nomination in favor of the heir apparent in Clinton (Bernie and AOC are pulling huge crowds in trump country). They again pulled that shit with having Biden run twice when he was obviously infirmed. He only stepped aside for the young after he did that disastrous debate. Lastly, the gamesmenship the democrats pull on their own members in congress?

      The party establishment is focused on dying on the hill of placating to the rich. That is fundamentally against progress. Hence the diet fascism stance the dems take. We we have 2 rught-wing parties in America.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 primary by 3 Million 700 Thousand individual votes, which he was invited to participate in as a 3rd party by the DNC leadership. He lost the 2020 primary to Biden by a lot fuckin more, too.

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What makes you think they want to remove money from politics? The Dems made $1.5bn last election.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s core policy platform, page 48 of their official manifesto and it’s been publicly stated by pretty much every DNC to reverse Citizens United. They’re also the only party to try to pass any antibribery and anticorruption laws in the last couple of decades, such was the case with HR 1 For the People Act.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No no. Politicans still want all that lovely money.

      The dems put forward the proposal on page 48 to say that they want transparency, because that fucks over the Republicans more than them.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No it doesn’t, it explicitly says they “will ban all private financing from federal elections.”

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• dick_fineman@discuss.online ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. I don’t know where they find folks like you, but holy shit. Yes, the DNC is better than the RNC, by a lot. But, both of them suck the dick of the corporate douchebag. The RNC just has little pompoms with “cocksucker” printed on them and likes to wear makeup when big daddy richie blows a load in their face, while the Democrats pretent to wince.

  They both suck. Republicans just need to end first.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know exactly where they get uninformed assholes like you with no knowledge of legislation or vote histories.

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    • dick_fineman@discuss.online ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      YEAH! SO VOTE DNC Because something something corporate…oh shit they just took another donation from Tesla…something something regulation…something something “we need to mend fences”.

      Anyway, do you laugh when you go fuck yourself, clown?

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re unironically going to sit there and say don’t vote DNC in 2026? You think everything happening in the federal government is good and fine and totally normal?

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You dropped your /s

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow nice counter, fascist troll

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    • rosco385@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend. Criticising the Democrats doesn’t necessarily mean supporting the GOP.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You have to support your side if you want people to vote for them. Trump won because almost 9 million less people voted for Harris 2024 than Biden 2020. 8 million people were dissuaded by comments like “dnc is diet fascism.”

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    • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      are you a child?

      You have a child’s understanding of politics. And a child’s temperament… and a child’s “meme” response. You are a child.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They promote taxing the rich and removing money from politics.

  And then do none of that and support genocide instead.

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• LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Dems are the conservatives, they want the status quo with maybe some mild reforms.

  The Republicans apparently are the radicals, they want to change society (in a direction that I think is completely stupid, but still)

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