• Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If the Democratic Party had half a brain they too would be calling for the immediate prosecution and abolition of ICE for violating the constitution. Instead we get seven house dems voting to approve their budget and we’ll get some limp dick gesture from Senate dems before they cave like always.

    We need more people like Kat primarying complacent party-machine dems in every state and at every opportunity. Take back the party from the DNC and shape it into an actually progressive party until we can get ranked choice and drop the current two party paradigm entirely.

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      7 days ago

      If the Democratic Party had half a brain

      Reverse Hanlon’s razor. Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice. They (kind of) know what they’re doing.

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        Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice

        Greetings, fellow cynic. I use this one quite a bit myself.

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          Hogg left the party after he tried to undemocratically tip the scales of primary elections using his seat as VP on the DNC board and he was removed from the seat but not the party after it was brought to light that the election that put him on the board failed to follow longstanding anti-discrimination policy. He chose not to run for the seat a second time.

          DNC Chair Ken Martin tried to compromise with Hogg before his removal, stating the DNC would remain neutral in all primary elections, and that Hogg could continue to support candidates in primaries as long as he did not do so using internal DNC records or funds, and Hogg refused.

          Hogg was extremely moderate, saying his strategy was “winning back young voters who have drifted from the Democratic Party to Republicans”.

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            Hogg left the party after he tried to undemocratically tip the scales of primary elections using his seat as VP

            Things you didn’t have a problem with until Hogg. You certainly didn’t have a problem when it was Cuellar.

            DNC Chair Ken Martin tried to compromise with Hogg before his removal, stating the DNC would remain neutral in all primary elections

            Which lasted until Mamdani ran against Cuomo.

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              You just cover your lies with more lies, its more effort for me to reffute you than you to just make up additional bullshit.

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                  You accused the DNC of kicking Hogg out, then you accused me of supporting undemocratic actions in primaries, then you accused the DNC of primarying incumbent Cuomo with Mamdani which is an absolutely wild claim with no basis in reality.

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                    You accused the DNC of kicking Hogg out

                    They did.

                    then you accused me of supporting undemocratic actions in primaries

                    You do.

                    then you accused the DNC of primarying incumbent Cuomo with Mamdani which is an absolutely wild claim with no basis in reality.

                    No, I’m saying that party leadership put their weight behind Cuomo when Mamdani ran against him in the primary. Try to pay attention to something other than the party’s apologia.

                    You must be so disappointed that only 7 democrats voted with you on ICE.