• PizzaLamp25@lemmy.world
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    49 minutes ago

    No, see the reason why y’all are chronic losers is you guys don’t go far enough and honestly just cowards. Hope you guys have a burn out of your pathetic political career.

    We voted for change and change will come.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    If they were hanging Trump’s Cabinet in the street, slitting their bellies open and strangling them with their own intestines, I might agree that’s far enough. And that is no exaggeration.

    After 01/06, I want literal blood, not figurative.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If you think they’re going too far then it’s time to get out of the way.

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Democrats didn’t win yet, Republicans just lost. Democrats have their chance but can absolutely still blow it

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      3 hours ago

      Which is exactly what Neera Tanden, Chuck Schumer, AIPAC Shakur, Jared Moskowitz, and co. are trying to do.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    it’s not up to the elected to create change

    it’s up to us

    we just needed them in power since the republicans will not listen to public pressure

    but the elected democratics will

    so it’s time to put on the pressure, not to complain about what they say and what we predict they will or won’t do

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      Lol this sounds like a similar argument to using paper straws to save the planet. If climate change gets worse its because we as individuals didn’t use enough of them. Nevermind about all those corporations spewing out more pollution than we could in a million lifetimes.

      You’re already framing an excuse for poor Democratic performance before they’ve even taken office by claiming that it’s our responsibility to make them do a good job despite decades of proof demonstrating that they ignore the electorate just as much as Republicans do.

      This makes a nice double whammy when combined with those arguments from people who claim that criticizing the Democratic party means you must secretly be some Republican operative or working for a Russian disinformation farm. No true Democrat would ever criticize the party for poor performance, so your criticism is disregarded, but when the party performs poorly it’s because we didn’t criticize them enough.

      The blame always comes back to us and must never be directed at the people who voluntarily ran a campaign to become a representative of the public even when they ignore the public they campaigned to represent. Then 2-4 years later they get kicked out of office for poor performance, and 2-4 years after that we must elect them back into office because of the other party’s poor performance. On and on and on it goes…

      Just don’t ever think about voting for any party but these two because can you just imagine how badly things might get if one of the two parties that have been running the country into the ground for hundreds of years isn’t at the helm? It’d be pandemonium!

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        It’s not about blame. it’s about utilizing the system most effectively.

        I think it’s fair to point out when they’re not listening, but we can’t be complacent. We need to guide them. They’re not our leaders, they’re our representation.

        What we’ve got now is because people thought we were done building society, and the system would just work for us. So it was exploited.

        The election was the beginning, not the end.