[–] 4 points 1 month ago

Westwing poisoned a generation of liberals brains, many of whom ended up Obama staffers thinking that politics actually works that way.

I still shutter having someone explain that Obama giving Republicans half the discretionionary budget instead of doing what the people who voted for him wanted was some kind of political masterstroke; either republicans would get on board and they'd work together to do what's best for the american people, or voters would see how nice and civil the dems were and vote for them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Democracy isn't an end in and of itself; if you're ever choosing between democracy and weilding power to do the things you were elected to to, that would benefit the people, you don't have a democracy.

    This is relevant when the corporate democrats find all the red tape they need to justify not taking actions their voters want, but their donors don't.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    They're not capable of long term planning like that. We can barely lay fiber in dense neighborhoods, and some places only get LTE. Imagine how much infrastructure would have to be built, billions of dollars of fiber means billions of dollars that aren't going directly into the pockets of billionaires.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You can do democracy, its just not compatible with capitalism. When's the last time Cuba gave arms to a dictator so their populace doesn't rise up and stop giving them cheap labor and resources?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Free healthcare and childcare polls well even among republicans. The "99% hitler" triangulation strategy that has been conventional wisdom among the dem political class for decades attracts nobody.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    China's big gun manufacturer was banned because supposedly they were trying to sell machine guns and tanks to gangs. But I genuinely think this was just a pretense to justify protectionism and China wouldn't do something so cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Trump ran on "It sucks now, and I have a concept of a plan for the best healthcare ever".

    Trump spoke towards a truth we all feel about how bad it is, then lied about the cause and what he was going to do, democrats told us better things aren't possible, america is already great, but if you vote for us, we miiight consider doing .01% less genocide.

    People fell for it because the alternative "Shut the fuck up and vote for tax cuts for small business owners and The Most Lethal Military Evar!" is too depressing.

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