- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.
The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.
It will never cease to amaze me how so many people could expect things to change by doing absolutely nothing.
When given a choice between cancer and a broken bone, you pick the broken bone- every time.
But… now we have cancer- and this isn’t up for debate.
Do nothing??? Look at the DSA getting zohran mamdani into position over shoe-in and sex pest cuomo. Organise with others and dont vote newsom
I’ll vote for who I want to vote for, thanks. And for the record, that will be whoever has the best chance to dethrone trump. If that someone happens to be part of the DSA, so be it. I’ll have zero issues casing a vote their way. If it isn’t. I won’t lose sleep over it.
See?
This is the difference between people like you and I. I have no problem voting for whoever is the better candidate of the two- regardless of whether or not they align with my policies ideology. And had more of the people like you subscribed to this theory- we wouldn’t be where we are now.
Unless or course you’re all still touting the belief that Kamala would have been the exact same as Trump.
What are you talking about, after bernie got ratfucked people rallied behind killary because she is (supposedly) the lesser evil and then got genocide joe. So they rallied behind genocide joe because supposedly he is the lesser evil and then got killemalla (and he was shuffled off not because of his genocide, but because he was bad tv). So they rallied behind killemalla because she was the supposed lesser evil and now the dems are focustesting gruesome newsom. Your theory is the one that has been the mainstream since 2016 and look where you are now.
The minute you said “gEnOciDe jOe” this discussion ended. I have no tolerance to entertain ignorance.
It’s more likely bad faith tankie Stalinism. One of the chief features of Stalinism is that they view other leftists as their main enemy, not conservatives.
Yeah. I’m noticing that a lot lately. Especially here. I was recently asked what I felt the difference between Lemmy and Reddit is, and I said that from my opinion, Reddit is full of smart people that try to act stupid, and Lemmy is full of stupid people that try to act smart.
This isn’t to say that this applies to everyone, as of course- there’s nuance in everything, but it does seem to be a bit of a theme to both platforms.
Pot meets kettle mate
You do realize the error with this utility calculation, right? A few more years of this style of “pragmatic liberal utilitarianism” will have you voting for a Dem who wants 9 genocides over a republican who wants 10. You’ll find yourself voting for 2036 Dem candidate Ted Cruz as he runs against the republicans’ candidate of Mecha Hitler.
This strategy isn’t sustainable, and what you’ve shown is that there is no number of Palestinian children you wouldnt sacrifice to bide time for your crumbling oligarchy. At some point, we have a moral duty to the victims of our imperialism to simply dismantle our genocidal country.
Is your genocidal country (A) Russia, or (B) China? Its hard to tell but we know that both countries have populations so stupid that they allowed dictators to steal their entire governments. We know that Chinese imperialists invaded Tibet to annex their territory and Russian imperialists invaded Ukraine to annex their territory and they do indeed have a moral duty to dismantle their governments.