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“I can’t do what she [AOC] does, because we live in a purple state and I’m a pragmatist.“

= compromise with the Nazis to keep your position

“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump?”

Uh gee maybe if the rest of y’all got on the same page instead of impeding them and folding to the Republicans then we could actually have some sort of defense against him and his cronies?

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

Get more people together than a hockey game?

[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 76 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tried to get Hill Harper in last election, but centrists probably fucked us, as always.

[–] gingersaffronapricat@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hill Harper disappeared. I searched for information about him everywhere - newspapers, league of women voters, vote 411. There was nothing. He did some publicity announcing his candidacy. Then for whatever reason, didn’t follow through.

[–] MegaMichelle@a2mi.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@gingersaffronapricat @HuntressHimbo

Hill Harper had a fundraiser with reprehensible transphobe Dave Chappelle. He also did not say anything about trans people on his website. You don't count as a leftist if you're transphobic.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The website is still up and does in fact mention trans people. I didn't hear about the Chappelle appearance, that is awful.

https://act.hillharper.com/sign/ads_ms_HH_202307-EA-o98-listr-flag-em002

[–] MegaMichelle@a2mi.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@HuntressHimbo

How did you find that? I couldn't find it by navigating from the front page.

I especially couldn't find it linked from his "priorities".

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I searched it from duckduckgo, its a subdomain and isn't cross linked as far as I can tell, but he put it up and presumably sent it as part of an ad campaign.

[–] MegaMichelle@a2mi.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@HuntressHimbo

That doesn't sound like someone who takes lgbtq rights seriously, especially combined with doing a fundraiser with Dave Chappelle. When I saw he was doing that, I was like "okay, you need to make a pretty strong case that you care about trans people". And this is all he's got. We didn't make it into his priorities.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Well neither does someone who left trans rights out of their rebuttal to Trump's state of the Union, and Harper is notably less genocidal than Slotkin and likely more progessive on economics. We'll never know how much of an ally Harper would have been, but we currently have two useless senators in MI.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

It would be her most vulnerable as it's her first term, but she just got elected, so people likely won't care in 6 years.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

She gots to go.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

Served up more than lip service.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 67 points 2 months ago

I'll cut to the chase - what Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have done that so many other Democrats seem to have a tough time with, is correctly identifying the problem as wealthy businesses and individuals hurting Americans through their brazen and unchecked extraction of wealth, and rallying a broad base of people over that. The DNC has picked up the approval of everyone who is happy with the Democrats trying to become more Republican (so they're at like 29%).

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

How to keep your state purple and not blue

[–] Apricot@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago

Because seeing people actually fighting for us builds coalitions, and energizes people to take action. Seeing limpdick democrats do literally nothing has the exact opposite effect.

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck is Slotkin and why would anyone care what she thinks. POS neoliberals need to get bent.

[–] MegaMichelle@a2mi.social 16 points 2 months ago

@SuperCub @Squorlple

Alas, she's our POS senator. We need to care what she thinks in that we need to control what she thinks, because she thinks a lot of wrong things. There was an anti-trans bill in the senate, and the Democrats filibustered it, and on the cloture vote, amazingly, All the Democrats correctly voted No on cloture. Except Slotkin and, like, one other, who did not vote. We needed her vote and she did not show up for us.

https://19thnews.org/2025/03/democrats-trans-rights-test-senate/

[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if it will help at all but if she's your senator you can give her a piece of your mind here

https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/contact-your-senator/

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

It seems to have kept ker from voting for the Republican CR at least, so there's hope.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Jane, you ignorant slotkin.

[–] pappabosley@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

It's called "something" which is a thing most politicians don't want to do

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

More than you have just by voicing opposition to fascism.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago

What has this CIA asset done? She's a terrible representation of the left and I'll be sure to avoid her like the plague next time she's up for election.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

So she’s taking Russian money as well