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VAK lemmy.world VAK@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-18
#52 · Quote Reply

My feeling is that like the occupy wall street movement, this one doesn’t really have an objective which will cause it to fail or peter out. Yes, people got out and said they hate trump but what did that accomplish? He’s still president and his ilk are still fucking up our democracy and will continue to do so for at least 2 3/4 more years.

Umm, the objective is literally the title, no?

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teft piefed.social teft@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-22
#53 · Quote Reply

Umm, the objective is literally the title, no?

We already don't have kings.

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forkDestroyer infosec.pub forkDestroyer@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-01-25
#54 · Quote Reply

My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June. And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)

November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party.

They said that during the 2 last midterms, too. I'm not certain.

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LaunchesKayaks lemmy.world LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#55 · Quote Reply

My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June. And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)

I expected the place I went to have like maybe twenty people and there ended up being hundreds. This is in a deeply red area. We got so many cheers and honks of support from people in traffic. Like it was non-stop horns the whole time. It was only an hour long protest, but it was so incredible. I spoke to a group of 5 protestors who used to be MAGA, but realized they were wrong. They said they were protesting to try to change the minds of the people they used to be like and to make up for helping bring about the meds we're all in. The whole thing made me a lil hopeful for the future and I was riding the good mood from it all the way through Sunday.

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
#56 · Quote Reply

How many democrats in congress have voted against this administrations cabinet picks? I’ll give you a hint: it’s almost none of them.

That would be a very valid point if not for the fact that the democrats winning would've gotten us COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CABINET PICKS.

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VAK lemmy.world VAK@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-18
#57 · Quote Reply

We already don't have kings.

Dunno, not getting investigated for raping kids is not presidential though

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FlashMobOfOne lemmy.world FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#58 · (edited) Quote Reply

November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. They said that during the 2 last midterms, too. I'm not certain.

Oh I am.

Donald's candidates have lost every election in 2025 and 2026, most by double digits, in both red and blue states. The majority of these losses occurred in districts he won by double digits in 2024.

And he's doubling down on unpopular governance.

He's so unpopular they can't even gerrymander because they can't adequately project where it will help them.

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jumjummy lemmy.world jumjummy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-27
#59 · Quote Reply

Baby step IS voting in a neutral party, even without an agenda, and letting things settle down a bit.

Oh look, a brand new account using the “both sides” rhetoric. Fuck off with that bullshit. Have such an overwhelming blue wave that the current Republican Party has no chance of ever winning again, then it makes it much easier for the progressives within the Democrat party to differentiate themselves from the corpo-Dems.

Vote for all the progressives you want in the primaries, but come the general, sitting out or throwing away your vote is voting for a Republican.

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Godric lemmy.world Godric@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#60 · Quote Reply

Baby step IS voting in a neutral party, even without an agenda, and letting things settle down a bit.

Damn, I typed up a couple paragraphs explaining why only a child can't understand an enforced two party system, and why an American third party is only ever a spoiler.

TL:YNWW

Control primaries, control a party. Trump's current VP alternated calling DT America's Hitler and America's Heroin. He then fell in line because everyone who didn't got primaried by a Trumptard.

If you want change, win primaries.

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Nalivai lemmy.world Nalivai@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#61 · Quote Reply

You may be onto something but I always feel like people who are against voting are lazy shitheads that like to rationalize doing nothing whatsoever

That's one group. The "electoralism is bad something something both sides" purity-testers is another.

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kayazere feddit.nl kayazere@feddit.nl
Joined: 2023-07-10
#62 · Quote Reply

We already don't have kings.

They sit at the top of America’s most powerful companies.

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forkDestroyer infosec.pub forkDestroyer@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-01-25
#63 · Quote Reply

Oh I am. Donald's candidates have lost every election in 2025 and 2026, most by double digits, in both red and blue states. The majority of these losses occurred in districts he won by double digits in 2024. And he's doubling down on unpopular governance. He's so unpopular they can't even gerrymander because they can't adequately project where it will help them.

I hope you're right, and I still plan to vote, but my confidence in this society has been plummeting since covid.

Let's hope the planet becomes friendlier by the end of this decade.

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FlashMobOfOne lemmy.world FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#64 · Quote Reply

I hope you're right, and I still plan to vote, but my confidence in this society has been plummeting since covid. Let's hope the planet becomes friendlier by the end of this decade.

It is, from a more objective standpoint, the most positive development we've seen in recent years. It's clear Donald thought he had a fascist mandate, but nope, it is evidently true that he does not.

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