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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Two Superbowl spots

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And America can't afford to feed schoolchildren?

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No books either, for many.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

The president loves the poorly educated

[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

The dnc has become an organization that only cares about raising money and then losing elections.

They could rally around popular policies and advocate for those things with that money. They don’t. They want to push forward a vision for the future that inspires no one and hope that they can get voters to the polls through a combination of “it’s us or Nazis” and “we spent a bunch of money to turn out the vote”

That’s their game plan, and I am joined by a lot of former medium dollar donors (thousands per year to the dnc and their candidates) in not throwing good money after bad.

The dnc as it’s currently constituted is incapable of winning elections and even on the rare occasion it does win an election, incapable of delivering the policies that people want.

They are very capable of blasting my phone and e-mail with dozens of begging pleading messages everyday about all this terrible shit that will happen if I don’t give them enough money. The only other ability they seem to have is allowing that terrible shit to happen and then going “there’s nothing we could have done to stop it, maybe more money?”

Not one more cent. When Biden won in 2020 I said that he would not have the nerve to save the republic and instead would hit the snooze button on fascism, and that’s exactly what happened.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The DNC had a fundraising advantage over Trump leading up to the election in 2024. Honestly that whole "Kamala and the DNC has a 1 billion dollar war chest" a few weeks before the election probably hurt them more than it helped.

Money enables things, and financially it's an asset, but culturally, it's a liability - and always should be.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Democrats: “How is such a thing possible? The only thing we’ve done for a solid decade is ask for money!”

[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Yetanotherpaolo 1 points 1 day ago

Fuck America