• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Can the “leftists” in the room start pushing actionable rhetoric?

    I agree that we should do something about the oligarchy too.

    Maybe the liberal leaders that keep hogging the mic every local protest should give directions to the largest group of protesters in American history.

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      12 hours ago

      National wealth cap set at 1000x the median household income. Anything over this is taxed at 100%. This would be about $80 million today.

      But for people who cheat on their taxes or try to amass a secret fortune well beyond the cap? Secretly amassing a fortune over $1 billion will be a felony with a mandatory minimum 20 year prison sentence.

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      23 hours ago

      I dont know, I think there is nothing but dead air from the liberal side. Its gross. More messaging for the DNC comes from nobodies like me then from the party itself. Sure I might be more authentic but ffs Im just one dude.

      I watch the news cycle and you can basically tell when the GOP are gearing up because its just dead silence on the platforms I visit. Now, not “dead silence”. There are your typical memes, news articles, and reposts but never anything from the dnc itself. No top down messaging; no platforming small creators; no baiting of the right. What the DNC has done is made these strile online environments where the right can constantly come in and, basically, disturb the peace.

      It has become so insane that now the far left is doing it too. Show me one leftist who will get in the same beat down brawls they do on this site, do that on Facebook, Twitter, or Truth. They cant because they’ve been expelled from those places.

      Im ranting too much and getting to in my own head. This is just what I see.

      The DNC is rudderless and has no media strategy. Their only media guys think they need to turn right wingers into left wingers and it just doesn’t work. If trump didnt flip you, youre never leaving the right.

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        23 hours ago

        We need to take the DNC over from the inside. We need to primary all of them.

        Primary elections in general have a ridiculously low turnout rate, and that’s the first place the battle must be waged.

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          When you say “we” have you charged through the walls like the Kool Aid Man? Cuz’ I was just looking up my state and county offices to possibly run for something. It’s a pain in the ass, but it’s important. I’m tired of calling my House representative and getting ChatGPT-generated Republican talking points emailed back to me.

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            13 hours ago

            I’ll be honest, I’ve been giving it some thought, but feel a bit lost on how to get started.

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            19 hours ago

            FWIW, I was there when GWB Jr. handed himself a 2nd term.

            I was caught in the sudden fray when SWAT hanging off a mil-spec troop vehicle shot a 70+ yr old Vietnam vet in the crotch point-blank for the crime of sitting down at an otherwise non-violent protest.

            I was there when four of those fascist pig-fuckers beat, zip-tied, and hoisted (by those ties, while she screamed that they were breaking her wrists) a 14yr-old, 80lb girl named “Zen” who was happily passing out handmade “Students For Peace” buttons from a wicker basket. (one that I’d handed her mere minutes before, when she told me it was her first protest and she wanted to help)

            I’ve been ardently, passionately politically active for decades in a wide array of impactful, intentional efforts, and I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t black-bagged me yet —even before the Turd Reich seized power.

            Yes. I’ve stepped up. Countless times, without fail, and with careful forethought as a change-oriented group. I’ve been shot at, chased, tazed, maced, arrested w/o cause or explanation or repercussions (for them, ofc), assaulted, gleefully threatened with suicide-by-cop, etc.

            Thafuq do I expect any of us to do, if after all that I’ve been through, and this is still where we are?

            I don’t wish any of that on my fellow thinking, caring citizens. Something’s gotta give, though. Before the only ones left are those fucksticks blithely gulping down the fetid cum-slurry of this regime.

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            Now, on a lighter note, I was working security when that random sparrow alighted on Bernie’s podium in Portland what seems like forever and a dream ago. That was the last time I felt a profound shred of hope for this country —and, by extension, human civilization’s future. 🥲