@HankDesmondPhD do you think its equally wrong to say people under 35 shouldnt be president? why not criticize that ageism which is law and its enforced rather than attack peoples opinions which seem lower priority? unless your position is inconsistent. would you support a 12 year old president?
This is why so many young people are skeptical of Phone Badism. The cultural establishment complains and complains about us being on our phones, until we get off our phonesโฆ and then they complain about that. Thereโs just no expression of young adult life they deem acceptable.
@Dodo04Mikey2@hutchinson i mean they do statistically, but if thats how every democrat is going to be perceived anyway, why not run on policies that benefit people and present an argument for them instead of conceding to the republicans on every issue and losing over and over again
@Goonmaxximus@hutchinson and immigration is a broad topic, people are unfortunately often against it but theyre also clearly against ice and ice murdering people in the streets
@Goonmaxximus@hutchinson they were always gonna be seen as being to the left of the republicans on that regardless of what theu did, they could have at least defended the position they were seen to have or prpvided some alternative narrative
@Dodo04Mikey2@hutchinson she was only perceived that way because shes a woman of color and seen to be socially progressive, she didnt support rhe left wing things that have broad support across the political spectrum like economic reform, taxing the rich, m4a, etc
@irisembury@hutchinson militaries, especially in counterinsurgency, are often harmed by lethality, look at vietnam and afghanistan, its just not a good thing strategically not even considering morality
@Musstad666@hutchinson you could just as easily say "dont blame the baby politicians for not seeing how obviously their actions would harm the country and shape political opinion, they are too dumb to understand consequences and navigate the political environment thats their job to navigate"
@PragObots@samueljrob thats not what he said, he said they dont talk about voting for stevens if she wins and talks about how things are systemic, thats what they talk about, the systemic things not haley stevens
@JonTheConGriff@samueljrob their entire lives studying and being involved in those conflicts, so as just someone random on social media you shouldnt think you know more
@JonTheConGriff@samueljrob literally experts and activists and scholars involved in the israel palestine conflict and apartheid south africa saw the deep connections between their movements and have actively compared them and drawn similarities for decades, its the opinion held by people who have spent
@the_big_put@escargotpro_ or otherwise fails and then its up to the left to use that moment to radicalize people further and work to abolish the bloody institution, maybe thats not morally pure and i see problems with it, but it might be the best strategy or only way idk
@the_big_put@escargotpro_ well i mean i agree with you generally but dsa does support abolishing the presidency. the question/problem is how to do that and running for presidency at least can draw attention to issues like that, and then either the dsa candidate gets ratfucked or wins and doesnt deliver
@JoshEakle the "environment" youre talking about is blatantly obviously massive dissatisfaction with the status quo, if you think more of the same will be popular or win youre either lying or a useful idiot for the far right
@JoshEakle youre straight up delusional and insane if you think doing the same broken moderate stuff that hasnt worked over and over again and brought us to where we are now is gonna magically work this time if we try again for the hundredth time
@wewwers@d_h_sanders i guess i just think distinguishing yourself from an unpopular political establishment is a normal strategic thing to do and not personal or anything, politics have extreme consequences and theres a lot at stake, it shouldnt be so personal