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What year is it? (lemmy.world)
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submitted 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by GlacialTurtle@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

Full text of statement:

"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.

Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.

Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.

Today, despite strong opposition from a majority or Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government's all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.

While the big money interests and well paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much political power? Probably not.

In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.

Stay tuned."

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submitted 36 minutes ago by Aradina@lemmy.ml to c/dredge_tank@hexbear.net
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Maybe the purpose of a system is what it does...
Maybe trying to lower the rate/efficiency of the baby-killing machine is the wrong approach...
Maybe you should be thinking about destroying it...

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submitted 54 minutes ago by Angel@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Need this (hexbear.net)
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Art by Erik Carnell one of the LGBT+ artists who was featured in Target during Pride and then removed thanks to white Christian nationalist pressure.

So here we are, and yeah, we need you all.

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ich🚦iel (infosec.pub)
submitted 22 minutes ago by manucode@infosec.pub to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
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submitted 47 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) by micnd90@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net

You (libs) screwed up

  • First you all colluded and cheated Bernie out of 2020 primary
  • You elected a figurehead and you colluded to hide his cognitive decline before your eyes
  • By sheer luck you somehow won 2020 because of once in a century pandemic, this victory was paid by thousands of lives lost
  • You did nothing to help the people while you are in power
  • You rigged the 2024 primary and squashed all legitimate criticisms from your own base
  • You are complicit in funding a genocide of innocent men, women, and children, and denying victims of genocide of their humanity
  • When the cognitive decline was too obvious, you circumvented the democratic process and replaced your old and decrepit figurehead with another airhead
  • You run a zero substance campaign
  • You raised a billion dollar and burned it to ashes
  • You campaigned with Liz Cheney in Michigan
  • Finally, your campaign was cringe AF. Dark Brandon, JOY, Kamalamentum, Kamalanomics, Kamalanomenon

Captain America is here with the itemized receipt

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Right now. (lemmy.world)
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ich🙅‍♂️iel (lemmy.world)
submitted 58 minutes ago by mlunar@lemmy.world to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
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ich🚥iel (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by django@discuss.tchncs.de to c/ich_iel@feddit.org

Bonusbildchen:

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submitted 36 minutes ago by frankyboi@lemmy.ca to c/fbstolencontent@lemmy.ca
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Extra Crispy (slrpnk.net)
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submitted 26 minutes ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

Access options:

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submitted 48 minutes ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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ich🚦iel (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 hour ago by De_Narm@lemmy.world to c/ich_iel@feddit.org

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt.

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ich💕iel (infosec.pub)
submitted 50 minutes ago by manucode@infosec.pub to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
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Archive Link

Choice quote from the Article:

For the better part of a decade, American discourse has been consumed by emergency politics: a collective insistence that we are teetering on the knife’s edge of collapse, an anxiety that both parties were all too happy to exploit in order to hold their voters captive. This year that impulse reached its apotheosis.

What we just went through was not an election; it was a hostage situation. Our major parties represent the interests of streaming magnates, the arms industry, oil barons, Bitcoin ghouls and Big Tobacco, often without even pretending to heed the needs of voters. A political system like that is fundamentally broken.

A poll from this spring found that about half of voters 30 or younger believe that it doesn’t matter who wins elections. Describing the burgeoning nihilism of this generation, one pollster told Semafor, “Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”

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submitted 2 hours ago by Samsy@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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submitted 1 hour ago by Samsy@lemmy.ml to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
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The recount happens; Kamala wins.

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. (by Tamago) (files.catbox.moe)

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