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woke is what republicans use to attack whatever they dont like, if a democrat uses woke, they arnt really a DEMocrat, alot of them have a veneer of being dem or progressive but they often use buzzwords of right wingers to justify thier positions.
I am sure this slide to the right will surely work.
No, she can fuck off.
The oligarchy is killing us, and spinning language won’t change that. Meanwhile, ‘woke’ just means ‘social empathy’, which is ironically the solution to many of the problems the oligarchy is causing (and they’re not shy about this – Musk recently said empathy is bad).
We need more ‘woke’, not less. And being butthurt that the fascists are using ‘woke’ as a slur against us is childish and easy to ignore if you’re not too simple to get it.
Fuck this. I’m woke and proud of it. We all should be.
Woke means understanding we live in an oligarchy in my mind. MAGA calls people sheep while complaining about them being woke in the same breath. They don't even understand the language they use.
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And this is why we need more decent folk around the country like AOC to run for any and all offices.
Outsider opinion: There are two sides who haven’t voted for you, one side who says they’ll vote for you if you change, and another side who says they’ll never vote anything but red. There seems to be an obvious vote to go after.
Capitulation to the right hasn't worked for 20 years. The Third Way is dead and no one respects it.
Not only do we not respect it, we hate it with the heat of a thousand suns
Yep, I voted for the Green Party, for this very reason, and all I get from people is criticism. Democrats who don't oppose fascism aren't worth voting for. If they want to be Blue MAGA they can go after Trump's voters and see where that gets them.
Good for you. What people from the "a vote for third party is a vote for Trump" camp don't understand is that the two-party system is exactly how fascism was able to become standard Republican Party policy in the first place.
A decent multi-party democracy would have enabled traditional non-fascist conservatives to break off into their own party whilst still holding seats in Congress, but instead we've got a whole party full of people who denounced Trump as a fascist way back in 2014 but have now kissed the ring. Likewise parties like the Greens would be able to enjoy votes from the millions of people who agree with all their policies, and be able to have members speaking and voting in Congress.
But the only way any of this can happen is if people stop being so short-sighted about every single election, and stop trying to whip each other into toeing the line of a demonstrably pisspoor party.
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The only reason the party has the woke reputation is that empty lip service is really all they had left. People like this need to get a fucking clue. If people want to vote for republicans, they will never ever ever get confused and accidentally vote for democrats just because you mirrored their policies from 12-20 years ago.
empty lip service is really all they had left
That’s all there ever was. They never did jack or shit to help LGBT people in southern states.
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Elissa Slotkin IS the oligarchy. She is the Hot Dog Princess. Her grandpa owned BallPark Franks—subsidiary of the Tyson Foods megacorp. Every time someone eats a hot dog, Elissa gets more passive income than most folks earn from a year’s labor.
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"Not resonating with voters"
Bernie and AOC's "Fighting Oligarchy" campaign is pulling in more people to their rallies than attended Obama's in 08.
Don't peddle that horseshit you Liberal traitor.
She's so full of shit. The number 1 issue in every 2024 poll of swing voters was the economy and inflation. That's why Trump won. When people think the economy sucks, the incumbent party almost always loses.
All this bullshit about "woke" is just another attempt by the ultra wealthy to distract from economic issues, because they know the solutions for them hurt their bottom line. She and her GOP allies will do anything to stop us from improving labor rights and economic conditions for ordinary people.
She's a lying weakling backstabber.
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American number 1 priority would be to get out this 2 party system with ranked voting or something.
If they quack like a republican and walk like a republican, they're a republican
Ratchet effect at work
Was looking for this. One of the many many many problems the US has is spineless cowards terrified of trying to fix the underlying problem because every single election they ever have is always "the most important election in history", that if they can just keep the bad guy out this once they can fix the systemic problems in their democracy later. And yet, the Democrats won in 2008, 2012, and 2020, with a congressional majority accompanying four of those years, and y'all did nothing during that time to fix matters.
Lol wow..
Her name is: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
Just so you don't accidentally vote for her.
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We don't need more "pro-israel centrists"
The reason Dem turnout in generals is depressed, is our choices are CIA war criminals like Slotking or a republican.
She is the problem, not the 99.9% who don't want an oligarchy
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At least she's honest about throwing in with fascism.
The rest of the Democratic party is pissing on our leg and telling us it's raining.
She ate the onion, I have never seen the word "Woke" used in a conversation without it being extremist politics or a comedy routine.
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Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but she is right. I think the people upset with her in the comments do not live in red areas.
As stupid as it sounds, that is all people seem to care about. The right used to have abortion as a drum to bang. Now that Roe is overturned the right needed a new social cause, and they found 'woke' which is WAY more effective than abortion since it seems to excite both religious, and non-religious.
If you go and talk with people in rural areas you will be shocked by how prominent this issue is in their minds, and I believe it will always beat economic issues for them.
The problem is the electoral system. In a system that allows for voting for smaller parties without wasting your vote, the US would probably have 4-5 parties at least. Red state moderates would not be lumped together with progressives, and main street Republicans with the evangelical wing with MAGA
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Slotkin says she wants to take the focus off of Oligarchy and Putin's smile just gets a few inches wider.
Yeah if she wasn't CIA I'd perhaps understand her perspective of wanting to focus on just attacking Trump as the King
But.. this issue is so beyond Trump that focusing it on him will just make people go back to normal when he's gone - which is not okay
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Here's who her donors are, if that's of interest to anybody
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/elissa-slotkin/summary?cid=N00041357
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Maybe the democrats need to ditch pro-oligarchy anti-woke members 🤷♂️
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Willfully or blindly ignorant, but the result is the same.
Man I figured this was paraphrased because I can't trust a headline nowadays even if it used quotes but nope. Used those exact terms in that way. Says to retake flag energy. Fuck that nationalist shit. Definately need to redefine patriotism around the constitution and civil rights but sure as shit not around the flag. The flag is a symbol of the ideals that should be respected not a thing itself to respect.
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I can’t do what [AOC] does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist
"It's pragmatic for me to avoid making my Republican donors upset." What an idiot.
What are they going to do, ask MAGA to stop calling them "woke"? MAGA is all about bullying people, so saying "we don't like your name-calling" is only going to make it worse.
Grow a spine. Respond with "I know what woke means, so are you arguing against it from the racism angle or the ignorance angle?"
Hey stupid you're doing it wrong. Going even more to the right isn't going to change jack shit. Listen to the people who are already willing to vote for Democrat if only the Democrat wasn't an idiot.
Elissa, stop running your mouth and do it yourself if you have a better idea.