#republicans and democrats are on the same side

[thestonedsage]

Firstly, I'm British, so I didn't vote. Secondly, on my old account where I had a much bigger following, I was promoting Harris; I talked two people into voting Harris, who'd been looking at 3rd Party options. Thirdly, whilst some of those who did vote 3rd Party may have been one issue voters, I'm more inclined to believe that most have more than one issue with the Dems. Namely,

were Dems to fight as hard against Republicans, as they do Progressives in their own party, they'd win every election in a landslide.

Back in 2016, all of the polls were showing the same thing: Trump beats Clinton, Sanders beats Trump. Who did the Dems go with? Clinton: because they'd sooner lose to Trump than cede ground to the Progressive side of their party. Every election, Progressives are told by Liberals, "now is not the time to talk about progress, we need to make sure the Repugs don't get in," and that gets real fucking boring if you've been voting a long time... in fact, it makes people wonder: why bother, if the Dems are only ever promising to be less worse than Republicans? Pelosi ran a candidate against AOC, who was massively popular in her constituency, and just prevented her from becoming the House Oversight Commitee ranking Democrat—throwing her weight and support behind another white man in his seventies, because fuck progress!

Kamala Harris could, and SHOULD, have spoken out against what was blatantly a genocide being committed by Israel.

Kamala Harris could, and SHOULD, have made it clear that she would NOT support genocide as President, that she would NOT allow US tax payer dollars to go to a genocide.

Kamala Harris could, and SHOULD, have done those things, because that's exactly what a Presidential Candidate should be saying about genocide.

The Democratic Party made a conscious decision that they didn't want the pro-Palestine vote, and it cost them the election. To then turn around and blame those voters is just pathetic.

Rather than asking those (non) voters how they feel now Trump has given the green light for ethnic cleansing in Gaza, ask why it was Kamala Harris WOULDN'T, or COULDN'T, condemn an actual genocide?

(FYI, I encourage people to vote for Harris, and talked at least two people into voting for her (I'm British, so no vote) over 3rd Party)

[lastcatghost]

[short-wooloo]

I cannot overstate this enough, but with the threat of trump and project 2025, there is GENUINELY a chance that this year's pride month could be the last...

I want y'all to really think about that, think about it when you hear or think "I'm not voting" or "both sides are the same

[lady-raziel]

It wouldn’t be a good thing and would certainly throw a catastrophic wrench in everything but the next 12-15 hours would be the absolute funniest time for Joe Biden to go on tv and say “actually I’m a Trump supporter now, after hearing about all this for so long I’ve come around to it and think I’m voting MAGA 😎”

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

All I've seen on the left this election has been a loop of

"I'm not voting Harris cause she's pro-genocide"

"But then you're letting Trump into power! It'll be on you when trans kids die!"

and

"I'm voting Harris cause I don't want Hitler Jr in charge again"

"So Palestine doesn't matter to you? Someone finally showed their true colors!"

I feel like we're saying the same things here. Some coordination would be nice, people.

[sordidamok]

Texas is Texas because white people moved in and "squatted" on land that was occupied by indigenous people. Abbott isn't against squatting - he's against people who aren't white.

[hellscape-halogens]

How democratic presidential campaign merch feels

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[nomaishuttle]

not 2 like. detract from how deplorable the rest of congress is but. i am glad to see that somebody from a red state esp a republican did the right thing

[is-this-really--life]

"Trump winning is not going to be some fucking apocalypse" who said it, a moderate or a "leftist" that hates liberals?

[partiesover]

A proper introduction to: Parties? Over.

[afternoonapocalypse]

(via judiops)

In the 1930s, the US put lots of dams along the Columbia River to provide power and prevent flooding. As a side effect, it destroyed the salmon populations of the upper Columbia River and its tributaries, because salmon have to be able to migrate out to the ocean and back. (They live most of their lives in the ocean, but come upriver to spawn.) The local tribes have been trying to figure out a way of restoring salmon habitat ever since.

The Biden administration just committed $26 million to build infrastructure that will allow fish to bypass dams, and also help with the tribal studies on the best way to reintroduce salmon to the area. And the programs they've agreed to fund were developed by the tribes, so native voices will have a strong say.

[area51-escapee]

Both sides are bad. They’re bad in different ways but also in a lot of the same ways. In a country that that continues to veto all attempts to end a genocide, that still allows the death penalty, that allows its own people to starve on the streets and refuses to spare a fraction of its wealth to migrants and refugees, that constantly reaffirms its “ironclad” support of a genocidal occupation, both sides are in fact bad. Fucking live with it. You can acknowledge that both sides are bad and still vote for the side you believe is less bad, but no one should shut up about this, no one should just sit by silently and ignore this, it is the time to do this, it will always be the time to do this, this country is BAD and we are not helping anyone by closing our eyes and covering our ears because “now is not the time”.

[eto-bee]

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[blairwitchh]

Sorry but you can't vote corruption out when the system itself is built corrupted brick by brick.

[yourheartinyourmouth]

I’ll advocate for forced property seizure by the working class, and so would all of the other American leftists i know.

just because our political SYSTEM leans right, doesn’t mean Americans do. Y’all do know that politicians rig the game so that only conservatives who are in bed with big business win, right? Look at how badly gerrymandered our voting system is. Look at how much MONEY and social capital it takes to win even a local election. A genuinely leftist candidate ran for local office here last year, running on a campaign of genuinely making things better, and it was a real grassroots campaign.

He lost to the guy who had tv and newspaper and mail and YouTube ads blasted everywhere for six months.

I dunno I mean I knew a lot of Americans were against it but I assumed they were all elitist right wing weirdos.

What's the mainstream left wing position then if it's not socialism?