News about the USA makes me so incredibly sad and anxious currently.
I hope the world won’t go to shit and people will eventually see reason again.
there is no lesser evil, just the same evil dressed in different clothes
Dems are beholden to billionaires. They just don’t want to be as obvious as Republicans.
It’s not liberals versus conservatives.
It’s the rich versus the rest.
There’s a lot more of us than there are of them.
DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs. They have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years, currently 45. The last time they had 58 for less than two months they caucused with 2 independents to pass Medicaid. They would have launched a Public Option identical to Germany’s healthcare if not for one of those independents opposing it.
DNC is liberal, DNC is on our side, Vote DNC. Or, if an independent polls higher, then vote for them because at least they’re not a Republican and removing every single Republican should be our goal.
DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs.
And their campaign promises have so much value, clearly.
Maybe if we had more than 48 we could find out. Let’s call their bluff.
I agree.
And also, itd be great if senators like Bernie, Warren and others, actually called out their “peers” who are obviously blocking progress.
I think my two Senators: Kaine, and Warner are playing a shell game where they go as corporate as they can and still give the appearance of resistance.
And yet I ha e to vote for them until there is a viable alternative. Its just so frustrating the lack of transparency.
Honestly, I think voting for them isn’t even enough. We have to promote them. We have to outwardly support them and not talk shit about them online or in public, or else they will lose to a Republican and we’ll be all that much worse off.
I mean, depends on your definition of “talking shit” is. If you would describe what I said as “talking sbit” I think that makes the party way too inwardly focused, and almost “cult of personality” like we see from the republicans.
The good thing about the democratic party is the wide tent and diversity of strategies. We need to be more transparent and proove ourselves since we dont (alway) have millionaire and billionaire funding.
I would not slander Democrats and still encourage voting, but to take a different stance, I cant exactly enourage Palestinians to vote for a candidate that actively promoted the genocide of their people. So its tricky, and open primaries and diqlog really clarify all that.
Muslim Imams and Leaders Letter to the Community on the 2024 Elections:
If they could do it then you can, too.
Nonsense.
Donald has the same amount of power that Clinton, Obama, and Biden had.
The problem isn’t a lack of power. It’s their predilection to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents.
Many democrats are on our side. Historically, traditionally the DNC AKA leadership absolutely isn’t. There have been some changes in recent history. And that’s good. But till there’s enough history to plot out a new pattern of behavior. We’d be fools to treat them as if they changed.
The biggest problem with the Democratic party for decades has been that they’re serving two masters. Lip-service to the voters to try and get their neoliberal candidates in office. But legislating largely for the major donors that took over funding the party once Reagan broke the unions. The DNC talks the talk. But atm are unable to walk the walk. I hope that changes soon. With each death and retirement, things look a little better for them.
Many democrats are on our side.
Yeah, like three of them.
And the rest are fighting harder to stop Democrats who actually are on our side than they are against fascists: people like Mamdani and Platner.
They only released this video because they somehow thought it exonerated the killer. They don’t release the videos of them abusing victims at their concentration camps, or breaking into peoples homes. They should always be on camera.
Gives the same vibes as believing being anonymous online encourages hate, when the same people wouldn’t change their behavior when they are not anonymous.
Which Dems are saying this? In any case I’m not sure how a centrist saying a thing like that is surprising
Is he? Just wandering around? I’d be interested to know.
I saw bystanders filming the shooting, was there another angle I haven’t seen?
Regardless, I fail to see how forcing them to document their crimes could be a bad thing.
He recorded it all. You can see him with the phone in hand in all angles. They then released that video and he still looks guilty.
There’s a brief second or so that the phone is pointed down, at a crucial time. Body cam footage would’ve proven conclusively if he was hit by the car or not.
Wait, really, that’s that fuckers name?
Til.
It’s not funny but now indeed image search gives these two dudes side by side.
I mean it would be an improvement if they had body cameras. But don’t give them a cent for anything else.
…you read the same paragraph we just did, right? Did you miss the part where he DOES have a body camera? He filmed it. He’s not holding a cell phone. He’s holding a gun. Which he used to shoot Rene Good in the face.
This is incorrect as others pointed out. A phone is not a body cam.
They released the phone cam, which they used to try to justify his actions with. A body cam wouldn’t have because it would’ve showed he was fucking hit and it would’ve shown him shooting Renee in the face to the world.
The reason they don’t use body cams is because the unspoken word is, “show what you want people to see; throw the phone down when you don’t want them to see it.”
The entire point of a body cam is to always film.
(not a centrist Dem, btw)
He did not have a body camera. He’s got discretion on what he wants to film. Many ICE attacks are not filmed. There has been several other shootings that were not filmed and as a result there has been little backlash against because the ICE lies cannot be debunked.
There’s a couple seconds we couldn’t see, specifically because it was a cell phone and not a body cam. Not that the fascists would ever admit to wrongdoing, but it probably would be convincing even more people that it was a murder if we had body cam footage also.
if you watch the new angle released in the past few days you can see he’s using his own personal phone. he actually swaps hands, pulls out his gun and leans into the car so it looks like he’s next to it on his camera.
body cam would make it clearer but if they can’t afford cameras with the funds already, which is enough to fund a small military let alone 4k agents, I’m pretty sure they are just going to spend it on mustard gas next.
