• FE80@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This guy is auditioning for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

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      dont think he needs it, the DNC likely determined already. hes just giving himself more exposure so that people vote on him based on recognizability alone. thats also how trump won too, being in MEDIA alot helped him.

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    Let’s all be clear, this is him campaigning for president.

    What, the, fuck. What goddamn idiots are advising Democratic candidates?

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      Not idiots, or well not just idiots. Representing the interests of the rich is his job with everything else being secondary. This is the default state of a neoliberal regardless of intelligence. The target of this message is American billionaires, not you.

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      Shocking, the guy who was caught at a 2020 dinner party at French Laundry during the pandemic when he had asked Californians to avoid group gatherings for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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    People like him, HRC and DWS are the reason Bernie wasn’t the DNC candidate in 2016…and are why we’re in the mess we’re in right now.

    Trump didn’t win in 2016, HRC lost.

    They were too scared Bernie would expose their crimes and corruption, and now we’re living in the Turd Reich.

    EDIT: DWC should have been DWS

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      13 hours ago

      He reminds me a lot of HRC. We know he exists to run for president, but we know very little about what he actually stands for. We know what he’s against.

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        At first glance I thought “he” was referring to Bernie and my brain started to melt.

        On second read, I think you’re talking about Newsom. I hope you’re taking about Newsom.

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          Sadly Bernie’s brain has also started to melt. I’m a fan of the guy, but not a fan of him in the Senate any more.

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            He is simply too old. Even if he is the best example of someone who wants to bring people together, after a certain age you can’t really understand what the young people are about.

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              Soft disagree. A very old man can “get it” without being “Hey fellow youths! 76 skippity toilet bees knees.” But the efforts needed to connect are harder as they get older (like everything else), and Senate is so old, insular, and entrenched its definitely not the place to understand up-to-date issues beyond being spoonfed talking points by an orchestrating team.

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                Yeah, i was more talking in general terms of old people. Nowadays we also have the added complexity of how fast the world changes. Bernie was born in 1941. He went from computers being practically nonexistent in public life to our modern times, and most of that change was in the last 3 decades - he already was over 50 when windows 3.1 launched in '92.

                Not many people that age have the mental acuity left to keep up at all.

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      Social democratic policies were also just not as popular in 2016 as they are now. In just a few weeks, a full decade will have passed since 2016.

      In 2016, people more or less took American democracy for granted. The voters never knew about the danger that Trump’s ideology posed to the republic. This was following eight years of Obama, so right-wingers were thought of as fundamentally just people with bad policy ideas and not people intent on destroying democracy.

      Only since then have people really started coming around to social democracy, democratic socialism, and other left-wing ideas. Over time, people have begun to realise, Bernie was right.

      It really is too bad that Bernie is so old. He deserves a good retirement, but given the current political climate, he’s going to keep fighting for the working class until the bitter end.

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          Traditionally, when times are good economically are when people find time to advance social policies. That’s why the Civil Rights movement found success in the 1960s. I’m sure had King marched across the South in 1929, the voters and political class would have had no appetite for it. Democrats through the economy was fixed forever once Obama was elected, but they were evidently wrong.

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      Bernie wasn’t the candidate because got beat, resoundingly at the ballot box across the entire primary.

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      LOL. Bernie wasn’t the candidate because, brace yourself, he is/was unpopular with the general public. Hillary lost because most people are morons and cannot think for themselves.

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    he was always there to serve the rich nothing more. even his own father was defending rich people as a lawyer. and thats why he had no influence out of moteray, when he was still in the state congress for a while.

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    As long as there are different socio-economic classes, it will always be class warfare. Everything will be done to veer the fight away from class warfare. Legitimate causes like feminism and equal rights will be used as distractions to veer away from class warfare. It will always be the mega rich vs everyone else.

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      id say hes further right than biden, he makes him look tame in comparison. newsom was willing to entertain right wingers like nick fuentes.

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    Gavin realizing he will never be president, so he is trying to secure his future as a Silicon Valley lobbyist.

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    The one good thing here is he’s made it clear who’s his boss (and it isn’t the people)