• Broadfern@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    103
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 month ago

    Imagine the world we’d live in if those corpo fucks didn’t screw over Bernie

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      I got this shit from him after Oct. 7 so don’t be so sure

      He has moved away from being this outright shit since then, I will concede.

      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        No see taking office when elected by hoth popular AND electoral vote is divisive and bad politics. You dumbfuck commies understand nothing about politics. Now drink my slushy poop without making any faces and be my slave forever OR YOU ARE LITERALLY A FASCIST AND IM CALLING ICE ON YOU

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          You dumbfuck commies understand nothing about politics. Now drink my slushy poop without making any faces and be my slave forever OR YOU ARE LITERALLY A FASCIST AND IM CALLING ICE ON YOU

          Ah yes totally goes with saying we should punish/investigate criminals instead of going we must only look forward not back so the country can heal. We can’t do anything about past crimes

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      18
      ·
      1 month ago

      He would have been absolutely hamstrung by the the bullshit factory that is the legislature, and nothing good would have happened that wasn’t undone immediately by the next administration.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 month ago

        He didn’t need congress to sell weapons for genocide.

        He just needed congress when it was shit he didn’t want to do.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          10
          ·
          1 month ago

          The problem with the Democrats is that they still have respect for the constitution and institutions. Otherwise they’d get a lot done.

          • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            1 month ago

            Then why don’t they take office when elected?

            They dont have respect. They just would rather see the other guys win than the the window move one nanometer left

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 month ago

            No, the problem with the leading Dems is that they ONLY respect the institutions. And their owner donors, of course.

            They’d rather let a million people die from lack of political action to save them than subvert the Holy System or inconvenience the rich people legally (and sometimes illegally) bribing them.

          • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            17
            ·
            edit-2
            1 month ago

            I don’t agree. They waited until they lost a supermajority in congress to push healthcare reform (what became Obamacare). And dang, wouldn’t you know it, mean old republicans wouldn’t let us have single payer.

            So we got a healthcare bill that mandated we buy (generally) private market insurance. A bill written by Penny Pritzker, an insurance industry lobbyist.

            It’s kabuki. There’s only one party — the billionaire party.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 month ago

          People are OK with auth right. But auth left? Oh no, that’s not gonna happen. The military would coup the shit out of that real quick.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            9
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            Auth Left is still inherently abusive.

            No matter how much you pretend that it’s for the greater good, authoritarianism will always be detrimental to the relatively powerless masses.

            • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 month ago

              Oh I’m not pretending anything. Just saying that auth left would never get as far as Trump is getting.

                  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    1 month ago

                    And I’m pointing out that history repeats itself when you don’t learn from it.

                    Just like the fascists of today are fucking shit up like the ones in 1920s-40s Europe, the auth left extremists would fuck shit up like the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

                    The horseshoe theory shitlibs trot out to defame the left may be bullshit (definitely is), but auth left oppresses people because it’s auth.

                    You just don’t get good things from a select group excessively controlling everybody, no matter which group that is and how good their initial intentions are.

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 month ago

                Yeah, but it’s not like auth left stops there.

                You can have egalitarian taxation and common sense regulations without being generally authoritarian, and you should.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        1 month ago

        Also true.

        Not that there’s really any “winning” here but it’s nice to dream of the imaginary reprieve we never got.

    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      Or if harris had literally a single electoral group she didnt actively spray shit on

      Or if clinton hadnt helped trump win

      Or…