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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago

The Democrats never miss an opportunity to show fealty to Israel

[–] MrSmoothPP@lemmy.zip 95 points 1 week ago

The Epstein class includes Democrats

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can get AIPAC money or my vote but never both.

[–] overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can represent your own citizens or you can represent the interests of a foreign nation.

I’m still not sure how swearing fealty to another country isn’t political suicide.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago
  • Decades of Israel and their lobbyists screaming antisemitism any time someone was critical of Israel
  • "Christian's" groomed by The Heritage Foundation with a hardon for the kicking off armageddon as laid out in the book of revelations from their bible
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

How can one party be that stupid?

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're just doing what they're paid to do. Your mistake is assuming they work for the people, just because their official job title says they do.

99% of politicians work for their donors. That's where enough money to actually campaign comes from. That may match what the people want/need, or it may not.

The depressing part is how little money that actually comes down to per politician. You want to assume it's millions, but it's not for most of them. For most it's under 50k per year to buy their votes.

This isn't specific to one party or the other. This is universal across US politics.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago

It's their job.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

They're not a party. They're a marketing company

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, slap my ass and call me Sally, I swear I was just reading about how the DNC has been reformed and now it's no longer the same worthless sell-out bunch of triangulating weasels it used to be.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

GAARGH WHY DO YOU LOVE TRUMP SO MUCH!?!??!!ONE?!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@someguy3@lemmy.world how are you gonna explain this one away?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Congrats you've reached one year of the same weird stalking message.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 week ago

Probably by blaming the voters or punching left

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These motherfuckers see reports about how the Iran debacle is tanking Republican support, and they panic like "oh shit, how can we make sure to lose anyway??"

[–] billybob@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s all intentional right? It has to be

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What would they do without Republicans? How would they fundraise?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would they need to fundraise so much of they actually had policies that help people?

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Because they aren't motivated by doing work for the people, they're motivated by the privileges of wealth and power.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 26 points 1 week ago

DNC is full of AIPAC shills and simps.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Dog stays on leash, news at 11:00.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

THIS is why tippingpoints matter:

Once one is owned, then one cannot undo being owned.

Northern Mexico, being owned by the drug-cartels, is another, different-domain, example: they didn't prevent being ruled, & now they cannot undo being owned.

It's actually a fundamental principle: symbiosis turning into reverse-takeover always costs one the owning of one's self.

Country, political-party, business, not-for-profit, community, charity, language, culture, it holds consistently.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Once someone gets some hooks into you, your only choice is to rip that hook out.

If it's a small hook, you might be able to recover your political career. if it's just a few small hooks, maybe a medium sized hook, you might not go to jail.

but AIPAC is using anal hooks from hell. they started with the small ones, and they've been getting progressivley bigger and more numerous, and now... well. I'm not into that.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’re gonna lose then.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

The party leaders don’t care, as long as they maintain their proximity to wealth and power.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

All the blue no matter who simps prominently absent from this thread…

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dems who support Israel don’t have my support. That said, our system is so f’d I’d rather vote for supporters of genocide than supporters of pedophiles.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it's not an either or situation. It's support the party of genocide, or the party of genocide and paedophilia. Easy choice. Even if it's distasteful.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That’s true too.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It’s almost like they care more about their donors than the voters they allegedly represent.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Democrats have always been a center-right party with a few outliers like Bernie, Sawant, and AOC.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Nah, the DINOs are the good Democrats. They're the party outsiders trying to realign the party. The real Democrats are these AIPAC shills. This is the true nature of the DNC as it stands and has stood for a long time.