hark

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The more you wash, the more you break.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

So your solution is to force everyone to never criticize democrats. Brilliant strategy, mate. I think we're done here.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

You didn't read my response, so I'll sum it up for you: democrats are the biggest reason why democrats lost.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Back to the strawman again, I see. If you have a problem with people "advocating for not voting and participating in the system and calling Democrats Nazi’s" then take it up with them. All I'm doing is pointing out why democrats lose elections. Ignoring voters, mocking their concerns, insulting their intelligence, and taking their votes for granted is not going to "win over their hearts and minds".

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

It depends on the criticism, how it's framed, how dominant it is in the discourse, and how democrats chose to respond. The economy is the biggest issue and it's what dominated mainstream discourse. It's a valid concern for the average voter because it's tough out there. Of course "the economy" means different things to different people. For the rich, the stock market and GDP are among the things that matter. For the poor, cost of groceries and rent are among the things that matter. Democrats decided the best way to respond would be to point to the stock market and GDP.

Criticizing a policy of sending billions of dollars in weapons to a country committing genocide is always the correct thing to do. Let's see how democrats responded: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-clinton-justifies-mass-killings-000813500.html

Oh right, sending bill clinton (not sure how he hasn't been cancelled into oblivion yet, by the way) to defend this policy in the key state of Michigan where a large number of anti-genocide protesters are. Regardless of what you think of the policy, you'd have to admit it's an incredibly stupid strategy to do this. Instead the democratic party would like us all to believe that it's the voters who are to blame instead of democrats, who have/had the power to do things, not doing anything to get votes (i.e. the main job of a politician).

You're free to bury your head in the sand and continue to mock stupid voters, but it's never going to change things when the people with actual power do not want to change things.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (6 children)
[–] hark@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Some days at work I've got only half-hour gaps between meetings. I don't care how adept people are at taking meetings, no one is going to get proper thinking work done in those gaps. If it was repetitive work, sure, you could get back into the groove of things, but even that takes some wind up time. Even worse if you're in-office and expected to attend the meetings in-person.

[–] hark@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

Our political system has false dichotomies throughout it by the nature of the two-party system and you're exhibiting a prime example of it. Pointing out that Harris should listen to voters is not campaigning against her. Also, Harris continuing the rhetoric of Biden, the guy who went out of his way to send billions of dollars in weapons to israel while they're committing genocide is not saving Gaza.

[–] hark@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I've never told anyone to not vote for the democrats and I've pointed out multiple times that I vote for democrats straight down the ballot every time and vote in every primary, so your entire response is moot. Sorry you had to type all those words directed at an argument I wasn't making at all.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Ned Flanders' parents are essentially the democratic party personified. You're trying to wash their hands of blame because "Have fun dealing with the Republicans on this now!" but democrats did absolutely nothing to court voters during the election. On the economy, the biggest issue of the election, they lectured people who were struggling to afford necessities with "well ackshully the stock market and GDP" which has nothing to do with the average American's finances. Even now democrats use "egg prices" as a shorthand to mock people who cannot afford groceries and who might've voted republican.

It's literally "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" as a platform. All they can do is point at republicans, like you are doing now, and shriek about how bad things are going to get while they allow it to happen. Remember how they shrieked about how bad trump was and how much we have to defeat trump during the 2020 election? They went on and on about how many illegal things trump did and then when they got into office, they put in the milquetoast merrick garland as attorney general who did NOTHING for four years. Now we have trump again.

You can't just dismiss this as "that's in the past" because democrats will continue being spineless losers until the end of time because that is their role in this puppet show that the rich put on for us to make us think we have a choice in the matter with this sham of a "democracy".

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Now have it stand on the ground without supports.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Like when reagan had the solar panels removed off the white house.

 

Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!

 

Not entirely sure what this is, but it was revealed during the Jackbox collab on Calli's channel. Reveal on June 18th 8:00PM PDT apparently!

Edit: Here's the reveal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GiWDqoR3s

 

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So much power, and not even sponsored!

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