I do know and it is stupid but I also know this is so local election in New York City and won't make a damn bit of difference anywhere else in the country
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nancy pelosi hard at work fighting big finance while also consistently outperforming the S&P500
jul 19, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Since you might as well be a republican you can stop trolling me now
jul 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This is exactly what the article describes. Progressives wanting the party to do better is seen as an act of deeply disloyal treachery. It's really not fucking hard to not want politicians be compromised by stock trading.
jul 20, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
All my life when Democrats fight among ourselves we lose. We're not in the majority in the House or the Senate and cannot put forth legislation or really do anything except vote no to Republican bills. Joining Republicans in criticizing Democrats doesn't get us more votes
jul 20, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
responding to criticism with self improvement is what gets votes, numbnuts
jul 20, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
like that’s literally the main way of showing somebody you’re listening to them it’s incredibly basic politics
jul 20, 2025, 10:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Please stop trolling me
jul 20, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 20, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I hear this defence all the time, and it's frankly quite pathetic. It's exactly what Republicans do whenever Democrats call for tightening gun legislation after a school shooting; "now isn't the time to talk about this". It's what moderates say no matter what whenever people offer feedback.
jul 20, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
For some reason, and very conveniently so for the party leadership, the time is never right to hear constructive feedback and remodel the party platform, everyone should just shut up and clap louder no matter what happens.
jul 20, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Like the Labour Party in the UK, the Democrats have refused to listen to feedback for the better part of half a century, and now it's starting to cost them, because people are tired with the same platitudes, the same nonsensical soundbites, and the same excuses.
jul 20, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Part of the problem is moderates seem to have internalised their position as the "lesser evil", so they respond to any suggestions, feedback, or criticism from the left with self-preserving defensiveness, and from the right with haughty smugness.
jul 20, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
They criticise the left for being myopic and uncompromising (not entirely unfair), but they themselves are just as unyielding and unwilling to bend. They speak of the Democrats being a "big tent", and it feels like they're open to a wide spectrum of views, from moderate, all the way to centrist.
jul 20, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view