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  • They don’t discuss the progressive policies of the candidate at all, Ken Martin just plugs his strategy of focusing on smaller races.

    Because this is a “smaller race”…

    just like how they always try to make Mamdani’s popularity about his personal charisma instead of his policies, reinforces that they’re trying to ignore progressivism’s popularity.

    That’s not true either, and luckily I have a print quote for that one so we don’t have to argue over timestamps:

    One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

    And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

    But, if you think his opinions on policy matter, then you don’t understand how he’s running the DNC, even tho he’s very open about it.

    If these candidates were piece of shit neoliberals, they’d get all the same support from the party, minus a few nice soundbites in interviews

    That’s the strength of Martin, that he’s legitimately non-biased. All progressives need is a fair primary, and that’s what Martin gave Minnesota for a decade.

    If you’re focusing on what he says on policy, you’re just not looking at the right thing.


  • Well, I was saying Dems “as a party”…

    You’re referencing the House and Senate leadership, who notably got elected a week or two before Martin, when the old DNCs threats of “vote neolib or we defumd your state party and let Republicans take all the seats” was a valid and well proven threat.

    They’ve been lame ducks this entire congress and everyone knows it. The media just won’t say it because they’re still trying to prop up neoliberals as effective and in control. Just because that will depress dem.primary turnout and help neoliberal candidates.

    Like, Jeffries and Schumer are literally trying to be as terrible as possible intentionally

    If a progressive Dem becomes president, they name the next DNC chair and neoliberals lose the party for good. They’d 100% rather a Republican wins 2028 if it’s not a neoliberal, because that gives them a chance to take the party back.

    Like, I dunno man. I overestimate people a lot, but I really feel like all of this should be common sense and easy for people to figure out on their own.

    But it’s seems like despite most people realizing billionaires are the problem, they still only listen to what billionaire owned propaganda says on the TV



  • Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

    Here’s the DNC chair talking about it two weeks ago:

    https://youtu.be/J9Nk7RcZh7k?t=46

    We’re not “over performing” this is the natural result of undoing the damage of 30 years of neoliberalism and especially the “victory fund”. Up until a year ago the goal of the party wasn’t “as many seats as possible” it was just to have a neoliberal president and at most House or Senate, but never both.

    It’s like going from a pitcher who wants to win but not cover the spread, to one who just wants to win by as many runs as possible.

    Dems aren’t intentionally holding themselves back, so we’re going to keep seeing massive gains.




  • Wealth can’t be “created” it’s finite.

    The things we say represent wealth are infinite, that’s how inflation is a thing.

    So the extra 33 trillion dollars the 1% have hoarded over the last ten years wasn’t pulled out of a hat, it’s money that used to circulate thru the economy in wages and purchases. It’s what made our capitalist society work.

    Eventually the system will fail if for no other reason than no one can afford to buy anything or go anywhere. We’re getting close to that, that’s why Epstein was emailing billionaires about the best way for the majority of the world population to die off.

    Once they bleed us dry, they have no use for us.

    But we’ve never had a use for them.






  • It’s not as rare as people keep acting…

    He was on a hit TV show 20 years ago, but it was his breakout so he probably got no residuals

    He wasn’t broke, he was a landlord that made like 12k/month off rent. But if his net worth was in the millions it was probably just like two LA houses that most likely still had mortgages. If you’re going off websites it’s probably reported wrong.

    Like it’s applicable to everyone because insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment now that wages aren’t capped due to WW2 anymore, but it’s not like he was the 1% either. You gotta be well over 10 million for that.

    Which should make us realize how bad wealth inequality has gotten. To the actual oligarchs Dawson and the rest of us are the same.