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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Nancy Pelosoi and fuck corporate-owned democrats, and fuck the DNC.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All comes down to $$$

AOC is fine when she's getting trotted out on Twitch-Plays-Pokemon to beg for dollars. But actually giving her power? Fuck that. No business interest would ever donate to the party again if they thought she was what they'd be buying into.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're... not making me say fuck the DNC any less with this comment, I hope you realize.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

No. But its worth understanding why AOC has survived in her seat longer than Cori Bush or Jamal Bowman did. She's been following the Sanders entryist playbook, thinking she can eventually get a seat at the table. But every two years, she gets played as a sucker - raising the party a ton of money, then getting stuffed back into the box when her usefulness has passed.

Bush and Bowman couldn't bring in that kind of coin, so they've been punted from the organization and replaced with more doctrinaire loyalists. AOC gets to hold her seat just so long as she finds enough people to keep bankrolling the consultant fees.

At some point, she needs to recognize she's being strung along or she just becomes another part of the problem.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Harris bring in half a B with non-corporate donations within a few weeks of getting the nomination?

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[–] thekerker@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

Wow I can't seem to figure out why Democrats keep losing elections

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 35 points 6 days ago

Pelosi is as bad as Mitch. These corporate backed dinosaurs have no business representing the people.

Sounds like an endorsement then... enemy of my enemy and all.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Look, I found the problem with the DNC. Yes, it's rotten to the core and you will never change it.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Never is a long time, though I think the route to meaningful change is not through the Democratic Party. It's too ossified and is too deeply captured by corporate interests.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 19 points 6 days ago

Old fucks clinging on to power relentlessly

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

"We should do a post mortem but first, fuck you specifically AOC."

[–] zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago

I'm glad she broke her hip. Genuinely, she deserves worse for constantly sabotaging any efforts to actually represent the working class in the Democratic Party.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Why the fuck won't that old bitch just get the fuck out? Her and Feinstein, two fucking peas in a pod. Dragging the entire democratic party down into the dumpster fire that it has become.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Oh, an old guy, super surprised. But yeah if you haven't seen the other committee seat fights; there is a real fight going on right now for the future of the Democratic Party. The committee seats are probably the most outward expression of it.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

[indecipherable] you Nancy!

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Can Pelosi just sit her big ass titties down and let us move on?

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