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Washedupcynic @lemmy.ca

1w ago

Sometimes you just get it wong

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bamboo @lemmy.blahaj.zone

1w ago

Sometimes you just get it wong

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Oh look, it's yet another one of those socialist <-> Trump "anything but the status quo" crossover voters that neoliberal Democrats deny exist. Tell me again about how Bernie couldn't have won and it was essential to laser-focus on the "moderates."
- Mamdani showed us what works. If the Democrats don't listen it's their fault if they lose
  
  Just replace your "if"s with "when"s and you've got a solid prediction of the future
  
  But we’ll all pay the price, just like we are now.

Shirley Wong isn’t much of a critical thinker, it seems.
- She seems pretty critical of immigrants, does that count?
- For her, it's just who ever most recently said a thing she liked vs who who ever is in charge and can be blamed for all the things she doesn't like. She's probably never met a government official she couldn't blame for a cloud blocking her sunlight, and never met a politician that lies if the things they're saying sound nice.
  PS. That's not aimed at Mamdani, just Shirley Wong and those who behave like her.
- It's almost like conservatives have spent decades chipping away at education specifically so that people wouldn't have critical thinking skills and could be treated like cattle.
  
  She's 70 so it would have to have happened 50+ years ago to have an effect here
- More likely she grew up in an environment where this type of thinking was normalized, and to think otherwise was met with social consequences. Outside of a few breakout individuals, most have to be taught early not to take what they're told for granted.

It's not surprising...
When "moderates" run one party, the other party goes further in the other direction to compensate.
So when neoliberals took the Dem party to the right. And people stopped getting helped by them, they turned to the only other option.
Biden and Kamala doubling down and insisting that everything was great made that even worse.
Because for the vast amount of Americans, shit is not ok.
It was harder to believe Biden/Kamala lying that everything was fine than it was to believe Trump's lies about whose fault it was. To a lot of people what mattered is trump admitted shit needed to be fixed, and Biden/Kamala couldn't (or wouldn't) do that
- Democrats spent four years fixing shit and the American public fell for lies from the guy who wrecked most of it.
  There’s no way to fix that kind of stupidity.
  
  Democrats spent four years fixing shit
  That's not how the vast majority of Americans viewed 2020-2024...
  
  Weather it was Trump's criminality, COVID, or Palestine flubbed the big questions of his time

Wong. An immigrant, or at least the descendant of. They’re so quick to pull up the ladder.
- Aren't most US Americans immigrants if you just go back in time long enough?
  Hell, even Native Americans must've immigrated somewhen.
  It's all about 'I got mine, fuck you!' attitude.
  
  Colonization and immigration are meaningfully different though
  
  Yea. All of us except the Natives, and even then if you want to be even more pedantic they migrated here too.
- Of course! Do you know who was also an immigrant? Mary Anne MacLeod who was married to, and had children with, Fred Trump who was himself a first-generation American.

More like Surely Wrong, amirite?
- This is the most hilarious comment in the thread. I appreciate a good pun!

In her defense, she’s been Wong most of her life.
- white people resist making puns off Chinese last names challenge (impossible)
  
  Shirley it's impossible
  
  Internet guy not assuming all people on the internet are white challenge (impossible (you will lose))
  
  To be fair there are people out there named Dung. How the hell are we supposed to just overlook that!?
  
  Meanwhile, Vietnamese people are like "I Nguyen".
  
  So that’s bad but calling someone a Karen is ok?

I hate how it can take literally having your choices fuck you over to get some people to change.
I despise how more people have their choices fuck them over and then double, triple, and quad down on them.
- I think what's really sad about Trumpism and similar surges of right wing support in other countries is that I get where it's coming from — many of these people were already thoroughly fucked over by things they had no choice over. And then they're so desperate for change that they vote for things that fuck them over even harder. We need more politicians like Mamdani
  Edit: typo

A lot of people will just support the populist in the race regardless of their ideology or whether their proposed policies make any sense.

"yes, i voted to suffer, but you must understand, it made people i hate suffer too"

his support for education and affordable housing.
~~WTF? When has Trump ever said anything even close to that?~~
Edit: I can't read.
- That's not what she's saying in that sentence. "...referring to Mamdani."
  
  who has time to finish reading the first sentence before commenting?
  
  Oh yeah, I missed that. I'm still a bit groggy.

This is good.
Odds are she 8s the kind of person who has spent most of her life voting for Democrats to save her from Republicans and Republicans to save her from Democrats when they're two sides of the same coin.
The sooner people learn to break out of that, the better things will be.

"Wait, now this affects me!"

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