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The fight against authoritarianism won't be won in D.C.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Feb 19, 2025.

  1. Sweet Lou 4 2

    Sweet Lou 4 2 Member

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    Bernie understands what is happening and what must be done to counter. Question is now, how soon will people realize what is actually happening, believe it, and then take action. Can't just be democrats.

     
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    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Sorry, Bernie, I don't see a communist revolution coming anytime soon.
     
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    Good to know courts of law don't matter as long as my side wins. You're not only pro genocide but a hypocrite as well.
     
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    Your side lost. You don't care though
     
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    You didn't even vote...could have at least wrote a candidate in...lol.
     
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    You're correct. I passed because I wouldn't vote for Harris or Trump. You voted for Harris because all you care about is being left.
     
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    That doesn't even make sense like most of what you post here.
     
  9. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Democracy = communism now.
     
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    didn’t watch the video, but of course it’s not gonna happen in DC

    Democrats are spineless and weak

    and Bernie does a lot of talking for someone who got slapped in the primaries
     
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    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    An "authoritarian" who is cutting government spending, reducing the size of government, operating with unprecedented levels of transparency, and increasing voting integrity. Methinks you do not know what 'authoritarian' means.

    GOOD DAY
     
  12. fchowd0311

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    Lol you think the DNC would allow a principled socialist to be heading the party lol?

    The DNC needs people who voted for the Iraq war to be heading the party. They need vapid husks like Hakeem Jeffries who doesn't believe in a single principled thing besides donor money and fundraising to lead the party.

    At a time like this where the DNC is at a all time low of fecklessness and pussification due to being ran by neo liberal goons, anyone like Bernie or AOC who have been screaming for the DNC to go the opposite direction the last 10 years are the ones who get to come out of this at least holding their heads up high.
     
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    Bernie and the rest of his followers are literally all talk…they can’t mobilize sh*t

    all they and other progressives do is yap
     
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    Bro just reply. Don't be a b**** like this.


    Keep on slurping that Chuck Shumer/Pelosi/Clinton establishment dick. The DNC is doing great now being led by people who think "good billionaires" exist.

    The DNC in 2015 propped up a person who voted for the Iraq war and you are wondering why the DNC is feckless now?

    It ain't because of Bernie Sanders.
     
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    I don't know if it's that, but it is a sense of a lack of realism, and pragmatism that exist with this portion of Americans.

    I try to listen to the Thom Hartman program when I can, and the callers on that program are really telling. I would say 9/10ths of the callers are older Bernie supporters, and almost every single one of the callers will say something along the lines of-

    "What we really should do is ... X".... and X is usually something along the lines of single payer, or some sort of pie and the sky idea that is a nice to have benefit.... that would NEVER get passed as a bill. There's a lack of reality as to the current climate, and what actually has to happen to get these nice things passed into law.

    While in the meantime the house is burning down, and we are staring down the edge of an autocracy that is one Supreme Court decision away from having complete control of our lives for generations to come. I'm not being hyperbolic here with TDS when I say that as long as Trump is alive, there is no way in hell he's leaving regardless of what happens in an election in 2028. You just aren't paying attention if you think this man is just going to leave, and you are naive if you think Democrats in Congress if they JUST MESSAGED BETTER have any power to stop him.

    The power to curtail what is happening in the White House right now has to be handled on the streets in a groundswell that makes it untenable for those in the NEW DEEP STATE to do much of anything because things are so tense on the ground with the US citizens.

    So yeah Bernie is right as usual, but no his supporters.. don't expect them to be the catalyst for results. It'll have to happen with a much broader part of the population.... namely YOUNG PEOPLE.
     
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    always yapping, but never any results…the “progressive” mantra

    with the amount of talking they do, you’d think they’d be in congress actually doing sh*t, but nope

    idiots like Jamaal Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, etc…AOC is basically a social media influencer

    Cenk Uygur dropped the pretense after his pathetic attention wh*re attempt to run for President and is now on his right wing grifter arc sucking off MAGA
     
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    You'd be surprised. Leftists often are some of the most cyclical because of their understanding of our political and econoc system making their desires near impossible.


    "Not pragmatic" isn't the way id define progressive or leftist desires. Rather I'd say leftist desires are "far against the grain of the current hierarchical status quo making the desires near impossible to successfully advocate for due to the thumb of the corporate media ecosystem suppressing those ideas".

    Our media, our institutions etc are owned by capital owners. Of course they will press their things on the scales when it comes to making sure leftist narratives don't hold ground
     
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    trust me, I don’t have any expectations for Bernie supporters, leftists, progressives, or whatever u want to call them…everything they do is performative or to get clicks online

    a ton of them don’t even vote
     
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    You know with these name drops I'd be really curious to hear your opinion of what a non-grifting DNC politician looks like.

    Cenk Ugyr is a union busting hack dude. Why do you think "the left" has singular media icons they worship?
     
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    So have you met with Bernie supporters at cop city protests in Atlanta and having Rico charges against them for activism to prevent a new cop training facility with a urban MOUT town to train cops to room clear urban neighborhoods? Or working at homeless encampments?

    Oh you want these people to do 1000 dollar per plate dinner parties like your political heros? That's where all the real work happens right? At those dinner fundraisers. Leftists need to find a way to network with health insurance executives at dinner parties. That's how you get work done in DC right? o_O


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