If only even sooner could be like, even sooner sooner. Please?

Yep I understand and totally agree. The details matter.

But ya know, it’s just dissapointing. Having dems actually win in those districts would have been huge. But it’s not surprising.

Great news, we need any win we can get.

But Florida lost to the republicans, by a decent margin. We can chock it off as just being Florida, but it’s still telling. Given everything that’s happening, people are still voting republican. Don’t get complacent, I guess.

BUTTERY MALES!!!

Yowza. After the ADL defended musks blatant and obvious nazi salutes, how are they gonna sugar coat this?

Yes. The entire maga cult.

They’d believe trump if he put a bowl of festering shit in front of them, and told 'em it was chocolate pudding.

Tim Walz is awesome. I’m liking him more and more as time passes.

The entire planet and all humans would be better off without American conservatives. Full stop.

Likewise, I HATE this piece of shit mother fucker.

But, let’s hope for our sakes some of the idiots listen to him.

Punish the poor for being poor, and charge them even more.

Yeah this is definitely what all these republican christians think jesus would have wanted. Psychopaths.

They’re digging down under the barrel straight into raw sewage.

I’m very upset that it says “narrrowly” and “by less than 500 votes”.

We need to have the names of every doge psycho working under musk. Why are they allowed to be private/anonymous? Why isn’t anybody talking about it?

People need to upvote this for visibility, not disagreement. Seems like most of us agree, fuck no.

People need to see what BS is coming.

But then again I’m just assuming that’s how lemmy works and if we downvote it will get lost.

Isn’t this some real nazi fascist like tactics? Are they just testing the waters?

If they could actually get the few progressives we have in prison on BS charges, I think they would. And their supporters would cheer.

Then you aren’t expressing yourself very well.

Agreed.

Copy/paste of my other comment, the gist of what im saying:

LGBT, woke, and immigrant issues are amplified by those in power to get more votes on the right, and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.

This doesn’t mean these issues aren’t important, they are. They’re just used to distract from what’s more important, and energize bigots who end up supporting the right.

Anti oligarchy and the billionaire exploitation should be the most amplified issues talking points. This, done correctly, might even get some support from outside the left (remember luigi?, glimpses of far left and far right joining together).

This doesn’t mean throw minorities under the bus. It means switching priorities, to get power.

LGBT, woke, and immigrant issues are amplified by those in power to get more votes on the right, and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.

This doesn’t mean these issues aren’t important, they are. They’re just used to distract from what’s more important, and energize bigots who end up supporting the right.

Objective fact.

Yowza. That doesn’t apply to my comments at all.

It matters far more than you are giving it credit.

Throwing one group under the bus

It does not, and I’m absolutely not throwing them under the bus.

I’ve already said, inherently and foundationally, leftists support protections for minorities of all types, period. It should be really easy. It doesn’t matter in the sense that it’s simple, bigots who discriminate against any minority should be an extreme outlier. The problem we have is a long term lack of education and cultural indoctrination that supports bigotry. Because of this there’s way more ignorance and bigotry than there should be. The cure for this really is widespread education. We can’t educate if we have no power.

We can’t fix it without power. The true moral thing to do is logically understand how to get power. Keeping immigrant and LGBT issues at the top, is just getting the right to win. Hell, even immigrants went more for trump this election.

everyone and against the oligarchs who are destroying this world

This is the most important thing, but in a way that actually works. The oligarchs are winning and getting more of the masses on their side, because they’re using the immigrant and LGBT issue stuff to rally they’re supporters to get votes and keep power. Conservatives are winning all over the world, and they all use these tactics.

Seems to me you are proposing that we cater to the bigots.

Nope. I’m saying the LGBT stuff doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think it does. It’s amplified as a propaganda tactic to get bigots votes. They get power, which results in bigoted policies to keep power.

Your empathy is irrelevant if you have no power, which you don’t. Do you not recognize that it’s getting worse for the LGBT community? Potentially way fucking worse.

Your way isn’t working, because you don’t understand that it’s not actually your way, it’s the wealthy in power that have you hyperfocused on anything other than them hoarding wealth and consolidating power, and destroying what rights and freedom we have left.