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      Yeah, these dumbasses still haven’t realized that they can’t do this shit themselves. Someone should tell them they have to pay other people to do it while pretending they’re not affiliated.

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        Yet enough of the population supports them, that with the help of he media, and the right wing and corporate interests that interfere to help them get the nominations because they can be beaten/don’t pose a threat to their interests, that they can force them through again as the nomination, maybe not her but Newsome for the lose this time, to run as status quo, because they aren’t the other guy, nevermind the rigging in plain sight.

        Seriously without organization it’s hopeless and we all are already lost, because these controlled opposition figures will continue to waste all of our efforts and frustrate any attempt to prevent the existential threats the right is pushing from coming to fruition.

        Their sheep are not that many, but with the media, the influence operations, the right that manipulates us online in their favor, it seems to many other factions of the democratic electorate that they are the safe choice, that they are the inevitable choice. And throws the election, and as we saw with biden, winning changes nothing.

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    Oh man, the “how do you do, fellow kids” energy is absolutely off the charts here. Headquarters 67? That sounds like a discarded plot point from a bad YA dystopian novel or a generic villain base. If the establishment thinks they can just build a “digital media hub” and suddenly Gen Z will start liking them, they are even more delusional than the polls suggested.

    It is just so exhausting. We are constantly buried in these manufactured attempts at “organic” engagement while everything else is falling apart. A year after losing and she is still trying to pivot to being some kind of digital influencer. It is peak Not The Onion material. It is pure cringe. Please, just let us exist without another desperate, curated media blitz.

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      I love how you have to clarify that it’s not a compliment because this is lemmy and most centrists think that “Pokemon go to the polls” was a brilliant thing to say.

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      They don’t have any to lose. They are so unpopular their only chance at meaningful wins on a national level is the Republicans being so profoundly incompetent it hurts swing voters.

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    Shut your stupid face and crawl back into your AIPAC hole, you worthless piece of corporate Democratic trash.

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        Newsome and Pritzker had their chance in 2024 and declined to take the nomination, there for the taking.

        What is wrong with the party, we have zero challenges? Only token challenges for president by an old leftist, that still almost wins. No challenges for house or senate. Then 2024 not a single challenge for the top spot, 4 plus months to go, proposed anointee the most unpopular person possible, that never breached 30% approval for a deeply unpopular administration at 40% approval for 3 years.

        Then didn’t see fit to offer any reform running as that deeply unpopular status quo. No health care, no drugs, no calling out business interests openly cheating us. Broad empty platitudes, we aren’t the republicans.

        Everyone in the party needs to be replaced with maybe a few exceptions. They were chosen to be weak, chosen because the donors fear someone taking back the license they’ve corruptly garnered through captured government, fear a populist government would modestly impair their record profits from their companies.

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      the same thing happened to millennials. they got blamed for being stupid teenagers when they were in their mid twenties. it seems it takes about a generation for the old folks to catch up what’s the new word for the youths nowadays, by then it’s often barely accurate anymore

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        The generational concept is also a bit weird, like if huge waves of children would be born every 10 years lol

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          yeah it’s a bit weird agreed. i think it attempts to describe more a culture of the youth of a certain decade rather than the people on their own? idk

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          Well, there was after WWII. And a smaller wave when boomers came of age. Though boomers have been trying to shoehorn us into generational boxes ever since.

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    I’m pushing towards 50 and this feels cringe to me. So logically this should be the coolest thing ever for the kids, right?

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      My nephew told me about how a kid at school got punched for doing it on the playground because so many kids are fucking sick of the meme.