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GoofSchmoofer

@ GoofSchmoofer @lemmy.world

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  • None of These People Should Ever Work in Politics Again

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  • I think the big media companies probably knew this too but needed to create a false horse race for ratings and clicks

    I mean, either every single pollster in every major news organization was just terribly off on their prediction or there was a push from the ownership to make this election 'more interesting'. (This is my own conspiracy theory and I have no sources to back this bullshit up with)

  • So this whole vigilante murder thing...

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  • The rich throughout history have always been afraid of the working class it just usually just shows up in less obvious ways.

    The way the wealthy talk about the working class

    The way the wealthy always look to divide the working class into camps to fight amongst themselves

    The way the wealthy demonize labor unions

    The way the wealthy keep education limited and expensive

    The way the wealthy use religion and media to drive their idea of goodness and justice

    The way the wealthy try to make the working class envious of their wealth so the working class spends their money and time trying to replicate it.

    Are all examples of an underlying fear of the significantly larger working class population getting control.

    And it is such a winning strategy that it works on them in reverse. The wealthy will do whatever they can to keep their wealth and always try to pile more on because of the fear of being one of them (the working class) that they have demonized for generations.

    EDIT: added more examples

  • What is something that people think is scary, but isn't?

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  • hunger.

    I don't mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.

  • There's only one way to defeat Trump's billionaires boys club

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  • If progressives want to actually play with the big kids (GOP and DNC) then they need to quickly start to promote a truly left leaning fire brand candidate. Someone that will fire up not just the base but a large portion of the American voting public.

    The murder of a insurance CEO shows that there are common frustrations within the population at large and I feel that if there was one person that would address this in a way that is exciting and motivating they would do well. Bernie is an example of this but he can't be the only one.

    Someone that is smart and has experience in debating the bullshit makers in the media and on podcasts. Someone that is willing to take the abuse and name calling that will come from the establishment and use it to their advantage. I genuinely believe that they would a least push the DNC away from the center - but it is something that needs to be started in the next 12 months to work.

  • Mike Johnson aiming to ax 75 percent of federal agencies

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  • If this happens there would be a blue wave that took over and would spend the next 4+ years trying to reduce the bleeding which is long enough for many non politically engaged people to forget it was the republicans that started it, who would then blame the Democrats for screwing up the economy .

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    What are the worst / most unique names you've ever personally encountered?

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  • Neighbor's kid named Issac Cox

  • The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics

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  • But Americans actually do like more socialist policies. There is a reason why Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare is known as the third rail of politics.

  • The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics

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  • Harris' solution to the housing problem really annoyed me. There are so many other more effective ways to go about making housing more affordable but she just ignored them. This, in my uneducated opinion, would have also motivated more voters.

    In a more general sense, the mainstream Democrats have always had a difficult time with messaging which is nothing new but really showed itself in this past election.

    Democrats think that if you just spend time educating the voting population on all the good their policies will do then the voter will make a rational decision in the voting booth. And in the exit polling that is exactly who voted for Harris, highly educated people that like that kind of lecture type of politicking. But most people don't vote like that - they don't want a professor in the oval office they want a cheerleader.

  • Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties

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  • That's great! do you have any names of these PACs ?

  • Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties

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  • I think that is a great idea - I would donate to a PAC that promoted the election of progressive candidates. I'm sure many on Lemmy would do the same.

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  • I was going to post something similar. I've seen this type of article since 2016. Nothing comes from it.

    I'm not really sure what's the point of articles like this.

    Is it to create false hope that something will change?

    Is it to just get non-MAGA people to click the link? <--- Probably this one

    or something else.

    What would be a good article would be

    "Thousands of MAGA voters march on Capitol Hill in protest to the trump administration's handling of the economy."

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  • So there has to be a new department - headed by TWO different people that's going to be dealing with efficiency in the government?

    This has to be the dumbest timeline

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  • I would say there is still some complicated stuff going on in the brain with knowing where your arm, hand, elbow and shoulder are in space as well how much force you need to apply (the precise amount of motor neurons to activate at the exact time) so you can toss the ball in the arc you need to catch it on the other side.

  • Gen Z Won’t Save Us

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  • There is Holywood money in the world of progressive actors that could put something together but I don't know that world and how it works so I have no idea if it's something that is actually feasible.

  • Gen Z Won’t Save Us

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  • It's a frustratingly true response... sigh

  • Gen Z Won’t Save Us

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  • Why hasn't there been a push to counter the propaganda on social media with social media?

    Use short form, humorous posts that integrate facts and ideas that give a different more positive take on others. I would guess there are great writers and actors that have a progressive-ish mindset that could put something like this together.

    But honestly what is the reason this hasn't been done? Or if it is being done why isn't there more of a push to get it seen?

  • The Biggest Clue That the Supreme Court Has Lost Touch With Reality

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  • Why all the hush-hush and meekness?

    My feeling on this is that once an American politician gets established, they have won a few elections back to back, they start to gain influence and power. This then changes their view of their job. While it may have been to make changes to a system for the betterment of the citizenry early on, the increase in power and influence weirdly changes them and they become scared of losing their job.

    With this change from "I'm here for my country" to "I'm here to have power and influence" they become more weak and more of a sycophant to those that have the money. If they start to rock the boat, speak out against the oligarchs, then there is a chance they will lose their seat of power and influence.

  • Democrats are trying to work out what went wrong. On the left a consensus is forming

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  • I genuinely feel that most people don't vote for a policy they vote for a feeling.

    I also think that either the DNC doesn't understand the anger that many have about the wealth inequality or they just ignore it due to the donors they were courting. If they did understand this and understand that people vote with their feelings, I believe it would have been a closer race.

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.

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  • I didn't say it wouldn't have helped. That wasn't the point of the comment.

    What I was getting at was that if she wanted to motivate voters, especially more progressive voters, then she needed to go bigger than "build some houses and hand out some money."

    What they wanted to hear from their candidate was a bolder and stronger solution like outlawing corporations from owning thousands of homes. Take a firm stand on corporate greed and corporate inflation. But she never talked about that.