The freedom fighters in history are my very favorite heroes. I have never wanted to be one. Electing competent leaders always seemed like a much better plan. I really hope I never have to put in the hard work of using my body to protect my loved ones and friends. I hate that I’m even having to think about this.
Electing competent leaders always seemed like a much better plan
Agreed. If only there had been any to choose from. Instead you get a choice between “maintain the fire burning down your house and sometimes stoke it” and “throw gasoline on it” 😮💨
“maintain the fire burning down your house and sometimes stoke it” and “throw gasoline on it” 😮💨
Fucking. Bullshit.
Get the fuck out of here with “both sides” cold takes.
YOU get the fuck out of here with your “criticizing one side while making clear that the other is much worse is the same thing as saying that both sides are the same” bullshit.
Just because Republicans are much worse doesn’t mean that Democrats are exempt from criticism when they’re not doing their job of faithfully representing the interests of the people. ESPECIALLY when it leads to Republicans winning elections.
Your criticism of democrats is either dumb or/and disingenuous.
they’re not doing their job of faithfully representing the interests of the people.
Straight up misinformation. In addition to fixing the economy, Biden administration forgave $175 billions in student loans, lowered unemployment, passed PACT act, CHIPS act, infrastructure bill, expanded healthcare, appointed Lina Khan on FTC, someone who’s going as hard as she can against corporates. FTC banned non-compete clauses under her leadership.
There are multiple different reports about Biden administration’s work, if you care to look.
Of course the administration had to navigate through the real world challenges and they couldn’t manage to wave a wand and turn USA into utopia.
But to ignore the work they’ve done and say
“they maintain the fire burning down your house and sometimes stoke it”
is abso-fucking-lutely stupid.
You’re as misinformed as Fox News viewer.
And now we have example of Brandolini’s law, “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
Took you less than a minutes to be callously ignorant and it took me 15 minutes to refute it, not for you but for others who might click this thread.
Get informed or get fucked.
I recognize both of y’all from around here and you both often have decent takes. Maybe take a step back and try to salvage things between each other, I know it’d be worth it. Peace.
So where was this BEFORE it came to this point? Even for THIS election.
It’s all well and good people are finally wanting to do something, but fuck the writings been on the walls for decades, kinda hard to feel bad at this point.
In fairness, the group talking about this (Run for something) has existed since 2017 and elected about a thousand progressives in local and state government. They haven’t been idle before this, just seems like there’s more people interested now
We need everyone we can get now to fight back. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today
