Trump will probably give them cabinets posts, they seem suitably qualified to join his inner circle.

One person’s negative is another person’s positive I guess.

I know, it’s difficult when people pile on with bad faith takes. Anyway don’t worry, I think it’s clear what you meant now.

Ok fair enough, I accept the explanation you provided. Folks are taking issue with the following comment in particular.

What does it take to impress you? To what would you assign their disturbing success?

In isolation, this sounds a little too close to admiration for the Nazis, which is why we got some reports about it. It seems to me it’s just unfortunate phrasing, because together with the explanation you just provided, it sounds like a reasonable take for you not to want to paint them like some hapless foe that was easily defeated, because that discounts the difficulties faced by those who fought the bastards.

What point are you trying to make here @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

Maybe stop asking leftists to swing to the right (which is what you mean by compromise, presumably) and make some concessions of your own towards the left for a change, then maybe we can talk about coalition building.

Step 1: Get rid of the gerontocracy from the Democratic Party and replace them with actual liberal progressives, instead of spending money to run pro-corporate candidates against your own progressives.

Step 2: Stand for something other than corporate tax breaks and whatever the latest polls say. Make real public health care part of your party platform. Make raising taxes on the wealthy part of your platform. Raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Even better, support UBI. Get rid of laws that are discriminatory against POC, and get rid of for-profit prisons and prisoners-for-rent aka modern slavery. Regulate corporations properly to stop the worst abuses of corporate power and tax avoidance. Get money completely out of politics. Stop supplying weapons to Israel to wage genocide on its neighbours. Just a few obvious ideas to help kick things off.

Step 3: Even though we know liberals are still true believers in neo-capitalist economics (for some reason), if the Democrats showed any sign of progress on any of the step 2 topics (most of which can be implemented perfectly well under a capitalist economy - just look at the Nordic States), the left would be a lot more amenable to coalition building, despite the fact we would prefer socialism. But sadly there’s been no progress and we don’t expect any progress while the current crop of boomers are still in charge of the Democratic Party.

So by “ultra left purism” you think the actual left should be willing to accept compromise positions with literal fascists and their enablers (and by enablers, I also mean those who are willing to compromise with fascists)? Because that’s all the Democrats seem to have doing so far. There is even bipartisan support for many of Trump’s nominees going on as we speak. When given the choice between socialism and fascism, liberals choose fascism every single time, because it’s more aligned with their core values. I know liberals still cling to the belief they are “progressive” and in some ways that’s true, at least compared to the Republicans. But meanwhile, the US has still not got universal healthcare, free education, or a decent social safety net. Democratic governors still imprison black people at hugely inflated rates, through unjust laws and unjust police methods, and rent out prison labor as a form of slave labor. No establishment Democrats are talking about getting money out of politics or seriously challenging what Trump is doing. None of those things will ever be properly addressed by the Democrats. They are the cause of the shitty status quo just as much as the Republicans are.

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sohn eines schweinehundes!

also that cat is entitled just sayin’

This is nothing, wait until the Trump tariffs kick in and everything gets more expensive.

mom’s meth recipe? lmao but I don’t think it qualifies as a meme.

I really needed this meme today. Thank you OP!

Keep 'em coming.

Yeah man, it’s a great community for spreading awareness :)

Glad you’re feeling better, buddy.

Exactly this.

Damn right.

You aren’t gonna freeze to death in the 60 seconds it takes to get from your car to your front door. If the sun’s out and snow is on the ground, it’s still t-shirt weather in my book. (Canadian here, lol)

Shooting Russians I guess.