• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    Oh, well as long as the economy is growing/metastasizing for the private shareholder owner class, the society that perversely lives in subsistent servitude to it can continue to get fucked.

    This is why the neoliberals lost (yes I voted blue out of harm reduction).

    The laborers needed a party that protected the needs of the laborers from the greed of the capitalists.

    Instead we got, and even continue to get in defeat, “the economy is doing great! It’s you fucking peasants complaining about having enough to make rent and still eat that are wrong!”

    Economies are supposed to be lowly tools to benefit society through equitable distribution of goods and services, the tail has been wagging the dog for half a century, and it’s destroyed us.

    If the people that make up your society can’t afford to live well despite working full time, the economy is a dogshit economy. It’s only so fucking wonderful to these sick fucks of both parties because it’s benefiting their wealthy bribers exclusively as it’s been bastardized to do since the Reagan Revolution.

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    Don’t worry. It’ll all be undone now. Thanks for the incompetence, Dems. Really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

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      9 days ago

      …what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.

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        …what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.

        I don’t suppose being up against a senile rapist who fellates his microphone in front of a crowd and peddles deeply unpopular policies at all counts as a victory that should be, by all rights, a layup, except for the fact that Dem messaging is and has always been pure dogshit?

        Those jaws.

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          Oh, you’re one of the people that think the average American doesn’t support those things.

          I hope you maintain your sense of innocence. I gave up.

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            As if it would make a difference. Success doesn’t matter if your PR arm can’t meaningfully capitalize on it. The Dems could bring up fully automated luxury gay space communism to the US with total success, and their obsession with being an inclusive, big-tent party, like it’s the mid-2000s, would make them unable to campaign on it.

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                We’re the politically involved, man. It’s not us that need the messaging. It’s the mass of American voters who don’t remember anything if the drum isn’t being beaten 24/7.

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          fellates his microphone in front of a crowd

          You know that was a heavily edited gif right? He didn’t stand there and pretend he was blowing the mic.