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[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

There are damned few heroes, and no, Cory Booker isn't one of them.

I liked him before he came to Congress, but in office he's been a blah, one of many worthless Dems, and dead wrong on numerous issues — including Gaza.

I'll give him kudos for the longwinded speech, without even any snark, but it only added up to a day's delay. To actually be effective, he should've yielded the floor to another Democrat who'd filibuster, and then another. Where are the rest of the Dems? For that matter, where was Booker until Monday night?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Leftist purity culture is the best tool the fascists have.

He did more than you ever have, and that's saying.. well, practically nothing I guess.

Get over it and enjoy the fact that someone is doing anything.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

What did he do exactly? He gave a speech right? Is that groundbreaking? What has he accomplished exactly?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pretending to be leftists is the best tool fascists have.

Are you glad he cost you the election?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I didn't realize he made 15 million previous Biden supporters not vote for a black woman. How'd he do that?

[–] Hafty@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

It’s really hard to care a ton about a war a world away when Trump is quite literally melting our government and economy from the inside out. I guess that’s part of the plan, but the people that didn’t vote for Kamala because of Palestine are partially to blame for Trump returning to power.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

I fear that may be part of the point. In truth, we're all just Trump's victims

[–] leverage@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah ok... blame this on the people with a conscience. Liberals stay losing.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml -3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

you can't afford things and parents in gaza are collecting their children's body parts in ziplock bags so that they have something to bury; they're totally on the same level and fuck those people who didn't want to be complicit with that genocide.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 33 points 20 hours ago

The right most of all want to be recognised as centrists, so when the overton window eventually shifts they can safely genocide everyone else without being labelled directly as fascists

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I also saw that while he was on his feet making himself visible, the committee that he normally chairs was digging into the same tech bros who put money in his pocket.

It's no wonder that American voters didn't want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's no wonder that American voters didn't want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.

Well, they're proud now. In the time we have left.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The Democrats have constantly misread the situation very badly. For the typical voter, not the bourgeois liberals, not the MAGA brain-rotted dummies but the average poor working class voter the choice was:

  • Vote Liberal Bourgeois and maybe things might tick along for another couple of years with the rich bourgeois liberals profiting off you and telling you how good you've got it

  • Vote Trump, you'll definitely be fucked but all the bourgeois liberals will be fucked as well.

I mean sanity suggests that the first offer meets the self-preservation criteria better but it's not what you call an attractive offer, is it?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

The "offer" was sane, competent, if not luxury-gay-space-communism government vs. chaos, insanity, and death.

That was the "offer".

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

If sane and competent gets you a decline in living standards year on year then it ain't all that attractive.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social -2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If your definition of a 'sane, competent' government is one that continues to rabidly support an ongoing genocide, I want none of it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Good news for you then

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

luxury space capitalism for the rich; the global south (especially the gazans) were never intended to be with us in the future and the democrats proved it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And he's still better than . . . well the so-called-left has no one, so- better than no one.