• semioticbreakdown [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    HAHA vulgar and reactionary tailism as always! I expect nothing less from Third Way. Oh btw if you think this is fucked up you are engaging in purity politics and you are the reason fascism is winning

    “The Democratic Party brand is toxic across the country at this point with way too many people — enough that there’s no way for us to win a governing majority without changing that,” Erickson said. “Part of the problem was that we were using words that literally no normal people used — that we were sticking to messages that were so overly scripted that they basically sounded like nothing.”

    People are going to correctly identify that your messages of justice are vapid if you do exactly nothing to actually meaningfully change things for the better and stymie any real efforts to that effect

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 days ago

      enough that there’s no way for us to win a governing majority without changing that

      I hate that this is the biggest clue in this thread as to which party is being discussed. This is indistinguishable from your average chuds in the current admin except that they actually win by doing this stuff