The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics
The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics
The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles
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"Progressive roots"?
For some people FDR is the closest thing they can imagine to be progressive politics. The progressive-conservative switch in the Republican and Democratic Parties always makes for weird statements. You've got neo-nazis and neo-confederates controlling the Republican Party and Republicans say they are the party of Lincoln.
Lol, maybe that's what progressives need to do just invade Republican politics and take IT over!
Switch the sides again!
Might be easier than getting Democrats to treat progressives as valued members of their constituency.
Honestly it's more possible...
That's what Democrats have been trying to do since Bill Clinton. The Republicans have already been captured by the MAGA movement, where as the Democrats have yet to be captured by a movement. So for progressives and socialists, it should be easier to capture the Democrats.
It's like pokemon. =p
I wouldn't be surprised if Tankies unironically liked Democrats better when they were the KKK.
With how eagerly centrists have been throwing vulnerable minorities under the bus, it's clear that they bitterly regret the civil rights act and the voting rights act because they cost the party the support of the bigots they love dearly.
Iām black, the Dems have not thrown me under the bus.
Give 'em time. This last election cycle they got Muslims, the undocumented, and trans people.
Dems didnāt overturn affirmative action.
Dems didnāt kill the police brutality bill in 2020.
Dems arenāt the ones fighting tooth and nail to keep confederate flags and statues up.
Itās pretty obvious to me whose tryna to throw black people under the bus.
If you think they won't abandon you in order to chase nonexistent gettable Republican votes, look at who they already abandoned.
Republicans are obviously worse and I never said they weren't. That doesn't mean that Democrats are reliable allies, because unless your name is Netanyahu, they just aren't.
You're a dumbass
No he's not.
You're a dumbass
No I'm not.
Anyone who uses the word "tankie" as a pejorative is a dumbass and needs to touch grass. Same goes for people who defend people's use of the word "tankie".
The term tankie is used to vilify leftists and sow division amongst leftists. It is also used by chronically online liberals to describe anyone who is left of center.
It's used as a pejorative for authoritarian "leftists", e.g. people who could barely be considered left-wing and have more in common with right-wing authoritarians, and who praise authoritarian governments like Russia/China.
Other people on the left don't want to be associated with that shit, and rightfully so.
It used to be. The meanings of words change over time
Centrists call anyone to the left of Manchin a tankie, regardless of their actual positions.
Tankies aren't leftists, they're state capitalists which is an even stupider version of capitalism than the normal kind. Even the Chinese abandoned you foolish tankies.
You're a dumbass
The only people that get butthurt about the word tankie are tankies.
Then I guess I better start praising our lord and savior Xi Jinping /s
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GIven that I've had Tankies try to tell me the fight for LGBT rights isn't worth it because it's a "distraction" and "actually racist to force other cultures to conform to Western Values"
Yeah...
You gladly voted for a genocider and were ready to throw foreigners under the bus in exchange for your own safety. Now you get neither. Good job, loser.
If I didn't vote for Kamela, how exactly would that have changed the outcome? This doesn't really work when it's not my actions that caused this problem.
If more people considered genocide a dealbreaker, they might finally have seen it as a bad electoral move.
But of course, genocide wasn't a dealbreaker for you. Americans only care about their own asses, they were glad to throw foreigners under the bus in exchange for their own safety, and now they get neither.
Look, I had to sit with my wife on the phone with her friend in lebannon while they were getting bombed.
Death to america.
Hm, who did you vote for? The genocide enabler or the genocide enabler?
I'll wait while you perform whatever mental gymnastics you need to rationalize how your vote is different than everyone elses.
I voted for Bin Laden. A write-in.
My favorite thing about 10hr old accounts is how funny they are.
Given that centrists are parroting "Boys in girl's sports" bigotry in their own ads, it's not like y'all weren't itching to abandon trans people.