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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

And the Democrats will once again ignore any mandate from voters that conflicts with the orders they get from their donors.

There's a warehouse full of shiny new Fell For It Again awards waiting to be handed out to all the optimistic ShitLibs who saw the returns Tuesday night and are already checked out and back at brunch.

[–] Cherries@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Pessimism of the mind. Optimism of the spirit. You are correct that there are a lot of ways things can go wrong, but that just means we need to put in the work to overcome those obstacles. Put that pessimism to work by using it to predict and surmout roadblocks. If you feel phone calls arent enough, go door knock. If you feels door knocking isn't enough, start organizing. If you feel organizing isn't enough, run for office. Get more and more involved in politics until you understand in your soul that a better future is possible, if only we all work together to make it happen.

[–] Klox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You're being a bitter crumudgen because there are now more Democrats that fought and won against AIPAC money and big money politics with good policy platforms. They ran on a platform of Medicare for all, ending wars, and more progressive policies. We need to see how it shakes out, and calling them ShitLibs is just naked cynicism. When it inevitably comes down to corporate Democrats blocking these efforts, you can go ahead and call them out, but the only way forward is to primary them with better people. Pretending like the new batch is the old batch is disingenuous.

[–] rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There is at best 10 anti Israel democrats politicians

[–] Klox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You're being obtuse then because there's already been a house and senate votes with over 100 Democrats that voted no to Israeli money. Here are 40 Democrat senators that voted to stop the money faucet: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00080.htm. So literally take your cynicism and disappear until you can converse like an adult.

[–] rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

The bill talk about conditional weapons to israel not zero weapons.