I know what you’re trying to say. But Barney commands in army of five-year-olds. There was a story a few years back about these kids attacking someone dressed in a Barney costume because they did not sound like Barney.
Barney is more frightening than the realistic looking T-Rex
I get what you’re trying to say, but a real Tyrannosaurus rex is far more frightening than that.
Not really. They’re kinda slow and I’m pretty sure that 6bore bear slug is gonna take care of the overgrown chicken.
Granted… said 6bore would likely take care of the fake one, but I’m not willing to find out. The horde of. Randy lovers, they’re the terrifying ones in this calculation.
And that means big bird is more terrifying than either!
Difference is that Barney is walking among us while the Trex only threaten the cleaner by falling over and crushing him
Trump is a rival in the same sports league. Bernie sometimes dares to question whether the league should even exist
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Bernie Sanders is not an Anarchist.
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The DNC is a decrepit old manager and Trump is the guy who buys out the enemy team on credit from foreign banks.
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In plenty of countries the Democrats would be considered a right wing party, the US does not have a true left party
Create one, and all it will do is suck away Democratic votes, further emboldening Repblicant fascists.
What if…. (and hear me out) the Democrats were actually left wing?
That’s the way. Change the Democrats. Don’t just set up an ill-fated 3rd party that will never win and guarantees they lose. How do you change the Democrats? Well it won’t be with pushing buttons on our phones. The best way to change them is to become them. Run for office. Look at AOC and Bernie. Let’s get 50 more of each of them and then see what life looks like.
I feel like after what happened in Germany recently that doesn’t hold as much water. If the average left wants to defend socialized healthcare and tax the right, then the Dems are left.
Yeah, years of pandering to fascists by elevating their topics, repeating their lies unchallenged and also blaming everything on “the foreigners” shifts politics to the right and far right. Doesn’t mean that it shifts what is left and what is right.
You can have countries full of fascists. Doesn’t mean the “moderate fascists” now get to define what is “left”.
This “logic” of course is peddled by the US Democrats and amplified by the Oligarchy. Also the US Democrats dont want to tax the rich. Over the past Decades they have shifted the taxes from capital to income. There never was a proper healthcare system in the US and Obama defended not creating a proper one when he had the power because “muuh Jobs”.
I think that left being progressive and right being conservative means that the absolute scale does change based on the current situation.
That is such an American view on politics.
A right wing party doing well in one election, does not shift the entire political spectrum for all the other parties. Specially not when you have a parliment with six or so different parties.
Not all Americans ###. Canada isn’t guilty of indigenous genoci… Argentina isn’t a haven for Naz…. Chile isn’t…. Ok, fine, yes America.
Not this argument again, please…
Je ne peux pas m’en empêcher. Faire chier les cinglés d’extrême droite est addictif.
It’s a lot more than a right wing party doing well, it’s a right wing party shifting into territories that used to be radical and still winning. Elon Musk was shown on stage for the AfD telling them to stop being ashamed of germany’s past.
While it is deeply concerning, faux news has been one of the most shared propaganda networks on social media for well over a decade, so it’s not surprising that their disinformation-induced MAGA-mental-illness is spreading throughout the world.
Crime pays; especially when the oligarchs are paying for it.
Democrats don’t want to do either of that. Folks like AOC and Bernie should realistically be on their own party.
If they don’t want to do that then they should stop writing laws that do that. They should stop campaigning on that platform.
I remember conservatives freaking out that Kamala Harris supported a capital gains tax over a million dollars “it will destroy the economy”.
There has been no law that does that enacted in my lifetime.
Bernie threatens their way of life, which is making money doing nothing of note.
Maybe stating the obvious here: their interests are more aligned with Trump than with Bernie.
What a profound lack of any knowledge of legislative history.
What a profound lack of class consciousness and knowledge of political repression.
I’m sure you’re much happier ignoring reality.
You’re defending the establishment dems while they collaborate with fascists by standing in the way of anyone who tries to resist. You’re the one ignoring reality, but sure, keep playing dead. That’ll really show 'em.
Got a more specific example to work with? We can just slander each other all day, you’re a buffoon who refuses to believe we had a truly better if not perfect choice and collectively are just a bunch of asshats.
We’ve been over this before, no point in rehashing it. That you consider Harris to be anything close to a “perfect choice” is enough on its own to tell me you’re not reachable.
I’ll admit it’s a bit of hyperbole but the amount of effort they put into shutting Bernie out left me with quite the sour taste.
He isn’t in the DNC and they still include him in their presidential primaries, if anything it seems unfair how much preferential treatment he gets compared to other third parties.
They didn’t include him out of kindness but because excluding him would alienate a huge part of their base. They publicly let him in and then behind the scenes made sure he wouldn’t get far.
Recent events have shown clearly how much more public support Bernie is able to pull compared to those deluded old establishment types in the DNC. Schumer keeps yapping the same old platitudes while their numbers keep falling. Meanwhile Bernie’s selling out stadiums even in red states.
He did get far. Millions of people voted for him, he won many districts, and then lost the primaries due to the fact that millions more people voted for Hillary and for Biden.
Keep on toeing that party line. It’s doing wonders for the DNC.
Whats being anti-establishment doing for you? You enjoy having Trump?
Yes, people ended up voting for Hillary and Biden after the DNC tipped the scales in favor of Biden and Hillary. Maybe the DNC should give him an equal opportunity.
So you admit it was a fair and democratic primary, that Hillary and Biden got more votes by huge margins?
I genuinely don’t think so. I just think they’re incompetent when dealing with Trump.
They’re not incompetent, they’re complicit. They care more for their career and finances than they do for any cause.
Yeah. Can’t expect a politician to know what it means to vote for or against a law, or candidate. That is just a level of incompetency. Totally isn’t complicity to vote alongside Trump…
Just sadness washes my body these days.
We desperately need electoral reform. There’s no issue with moderates existing. The issue is that currently the choice is either moderates or fascists. And the fascists are quite adept at portraying the moderates as authoritarian communists.
democrats need more irish
every time i bring up the DNC railroading Bernie in 2016, i get brigaded by status quo idiots
I’m sorry that bringing up how absolutely not even close both of those primaries were makes me an idiot.
It’s almost like they were, until the Democrats put their fingers on the scale. Weird how that turned out.
Oh yeah those Democrats, hurting democracy by…
convincing 14 million more people to vote for them…?
You mean the same Democrats that refuse to have an actual democratic primary? The ones that openly said in court that they rigged things in favor of their preferred candidates? Yes, they are hurting democracy.
So it’s only democratic if you like the outcome?
No, it’s democratic if the voters get to decide. If those in charge get to decide, it’s undemocratic, like the DNC.
Here’s a quick guide on how Democracy works. If you read it first, we can both save time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Look at who won the popular votes in the primaries. It wasn’t even fucking close!
They did the same in 2020 then did away with all pretenses of input in 2024 and just told us who the candidate was going to be
…controlled oppostion doesn’t sound as dirty, does it…?
Hate to defend them, but that’s not really an accurate portrayal of what happened in 2024.
Biden should have announced he wasn’t running and allowed the primary process to play out. If he hadn’t, then the DNC should have overridden him. It’s unbelievable that they didn’t anticipate or care that Trump would win again.
It was a pretty convenient way for them to hand pick a nominee. Given how the last two played out I don’t think that’s an unfair lens to view the situation through.
They really wanted Biden to win it and immediately step down for his illness that they all knew he had so that Kamala could take over without having to run herself. They knew she wouldn’t win a primary, but it was her turn after all.
Biden’s disaster debate ruined that plan and Kamala’s mishandled campaign doomed them.
I was just telling a friend, both sides want the same thing, money. The difference is, one side is willing to kill for it, and the other side is always willing to look away.
Why did Democrats ban large campaign contributions from 2003 until 2010 when the SCOTUS overturned the law?
Who was president from 2009 to 2017 and could have passed a different law? Who was president from 2021 to 2025?
To overrule the SCOTUS interpretation of the constitution you would need to amend the constitution, required 60 Senators and a house majority. Since 2013 there haven’t even been more dems than repubs before caucus, much less 60.
Does that mean they could have overturned it between 2010-2013, but didn’t?
They never had 60 votes. They had a 58 + 2 ind caucus for 72 days and chose to use that time to expand medicaid to millions of americans.
The last time the DNC had 60 seats if I recall was 1979?
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When fighting Bernie, Dems are fighting with a base that is already aligned with them - ie one that they do not have a strong fear of alienating with their positions or attacks.
When fighting Trump, Dems usually fight with the idea that there is a significant group of ‘moderates’ which can be swayed in this country, and thus cannot be offended under any circumstances.
The problem is that there are ‘moderates’ in this country that can be swayed, but that the civility politics approach of the Dems does jack shit to lure most of them. They vote on vibes, and Dems try to avoid any vibes at all, to be the most milquetoast, least unacceptable choice possible to present.
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When fighting Bernie, Dems are fighting with a base that is already aligned with them - ie one that they do not have a strong fear of alienating with their positions or attacks.
They should seriously reevaluate that because they have and they continue to alienate large numbers of people. This is an undeniable fact at this point.
No argument from me on the rest of your comment except for one small thing. The moderate that they’re chasing is a mirage, and doesn’t actually exist in the way that they think it does. These “moderates” don’t actually hold moderate views when questioned about what they believe and what they would support. Progressive economic policy positions are overwhelmingly popular across the board, and many who call themselves moderates tend to have socially conservative or even regressive views.
They should seriously reevaluate that because they have and they continue to alienate large numbers of people. This is an undeniable fact at this point.
Yes, I agree.
No argument from me on the rest of your comment except for one small thing. The moderate that they’re chasing is a mirage, and doesn’t actually exist in the way that they think it does. These “moderates” don’t actually hold moderate views when questioned about what they believe and what they would support. Progressive economic policy positions are overwhelmingly popular across the board, and many who call themselves moderates tend to have socially conservative or even regressive views.
I would caution this with that wording matters very much to these moderates, and the support of ‘feel-good’ progressive policies (like universal healthcare) evaporates once objections are raised in the public sphere (like “Would you support universal healthcare if… the GOP candidate said it was going to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!?” or even realistic issues, like “if taxes went up a small amount”).
I would go so far as to agree that these moderates don’t hold moderate views, in the sense of having a ‘middle ground’ position, but say, in addition, that they have very little real policy positions at all, and that whether they think immigration needs to be loosened or if there’s a crisis on the border depends almost entirely on what side of the metaphorical bed they woke up on a given morning.
They will express opposition to gun control, demand the banning of ‘assault weapons’, and then vote for a pro-‘assault weapon’ ballot initiative, all in the same breath. Civic education in this country is… severely lacking.
They haven’t even considered that maybe 50% of the US population doesn’t vote because they feel like neither party has their interests at heart!
If they swung further left and got an actually progressive candidate who wants to fix the problems in this fucking country, I’m willing to bet everything that they’d win.
Hell, what got Obama in office was precisely the fact that he campaigned on hope and progressive ideals! He didn’t end up sticking to those ideals though, but that’s another story.
Imagine still simping for your guy after he lost his primary almost ten years ago.
Imagine the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and mainstream media colluding in 2015 to boost Trump as a pied piper candidate because they thought he was “unelectable” - and Hillary losing to him.
Oh, wait that’s reality. You don’t need to imagine.
That was ten years ago and you haven’t moved on.
Trump is the current president of the US. Incidentally after the same DNC ghouls that made sure he would win in 2016 made sure he would win in 2024.
Maybe it is good to talk about who and how brought Trump into power, so that we can stop these people from bringing the next worse in line after Trump into power.
Why does anyone have to “move on”? Why can’t we hold them accountable?
Is the ten year temper tantrum doing anything besides helping MAGA gain power?
What part is the “temper tantrum”?
Is this “temper tantrum” in the room with you now?
Maybe look at the meme at the top of the page.
You poor child. That’s what adults call a “joke”. Have you been not taking your medications?
I’ve moved on, I’m just informing others that the Democrats are responsible for the situation we’re all in more than most know.
Thanks for your concern.
No, the people who voted Trump or didn’t vote are the ones to blame for the situation today.
Voting harder for Democrats isn’t the solution, that’s for sure.
If Democrats wanted to take responsibility, they would’ve shifted to the left and appealed to the many countless disenfranchised voters.
I feel it’s fair to say that both major parties are traitors to the American people at this point.
Both sides are the same is a lazy attitude and doing it while there’s no alternative is criminal.
Both sides are the same is a lazy attitude and doing it while there’s no alternative is criminal.
I said they are both traitors. Not that the parties are the same.
We need to demand voting and election system reform after Trump is impeached or is otherwise removed from power.
Why isn’t there an alternative? Could you explain in detail?
“Imagine believing in something”
I’m as anti-conspiracy as anyone with two braincells to rub together, but simply believing that Bernie was unfairly treated and that he would have been a good choice for the country does not a simp make. It just means you had the gumption to believe in the consistency of a politician who’d spent some 30 years walking-the-walk and talking-the-talk.
The nomination was not stolen from Bernie - even getting within ~10% of Clinton was a miracle. Bernie was unfairly treated by the Dem party establishment - they did not want Bernie to win, and were not shy about that fact. These are not mutually exclusive positions.
That’s not the bad part it’s clinging to a now eighty-three year old as if he’s the only savior when he hasn’t even spent the time mentoring someone to take over his own seat much less built a movement it kind of sad.
I’m a fan of term limits so he shouldn’t even be in government anymore we need someone with fresh ideas.
I’m not interested in entering this argument (I lose IQ points every time I argue with a centrist), but I have to say: The inconsistency in your beliefs is palpable, Mr/Miss “I support Joe Biden”.
he’s the only savior when he hasn’t even spent the time mentoring someone to take over his own seat much less built a movement it kind of sad.
It’s only inconsistent if you ignore Harris and how she almost won.
You and reality don’t seem to be on good terms.
We’re fine thanks.
lol, good one.
You misspelled tankies.
Republicans… Dems… All brought to you by aspiring billionaire oligarchs to NOT do their job for YOU. Learn to spot the progressive agents of change, and pay close attention to who blocks them the most fiercely. The status quo is the enemy.
Leftists fighting Democrats. 🤬
Leftists fighting Trump. 🤨
Yeah let’s compare effort made against trump by the left vs the entrenched democratic establishment’s effort, and try again. Like even within the party, let’s do AOC and Walz vs Schumer and Booker.
You say that as if you didn’t realise you were exactly confirming my point.
It still baffles me that Cory Booker spoke through the night to inspire people…and then voted to confirm Trump appointees anyway. I do not understand what goes through these people’s heads.
$$$$$$
You think he was lobbied directly for the confirmation?
Not directly, but the democrats are a right wing bourgeoisie liberal party, so they essentially serve the interests of capital
The interests of capital eventually leads to imperialism and when that starts to crack (<- you’re here), fascism. Unless the actual socialists win.
And you know what? I don’t think socialism had a chance in yankee land. They have spent decades upon decades brainwashing the population in a highly compatible fashion. The highest point of American radical action is just some adventurism terrorist shit that doesn’t do anything. Ask Americans to actually organize and do vanguard action and they’ll screech at you, because the bourgeoisie media and education has made you an slave inside your own brain.
So yeah, democrats or whatever. Why does it matter if fascism comes in 9 years or 4 years, you guys are straight up fucked.
If you live in yankee land, emigrate your ass before you lose your ass
My most generous reading of democrat inaction is that right now their only power at the federal level is obstruction in Congress. This obstruction may eventually lead to government shutdown and this would be the greatest gift you could give a dictator.
Let’s just say that some ICE agents and DOGE maniacs will keep working because they are in it for things beyond money, so to speak.
Both things had about the same amount of impact, honestly.
Would you rather watch horrible people enter office without any say in it or would you rather at least get a word in and have them make promises? Even with every dem voting against they can still afford to lose 3 votes, and Mitch “The Reaper” McConnell was the only Republican to vote nay on 3 candidates.
Performative Politics.
They make more money ‘fighting’ trump.
