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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • “because it validates his assertion that American democracy is a sham—that there is no democracy. All that matters is power and self-interest. The rest is sanctimony and hypocrisy.”

    …I mean… Is he that wrong? We vote for who the donor/ownership class allow us to vote for. Anyone else doesn’t even show up on the radar. There was an actual socialist candidate, literally the only place they ever showed up in “the news” was here on Lemmy. People are only exposed to those that will play ball with the ownership class.

    Once someone like Bernie Sanders showed to be gaining in popularity during the primaries leading up to 2016 so-called “liberal left wing” MSNBC started running “Bernie loves Castro, Bernie loves communism!” stories to scare people into choosing someone else. One chucklefuck on MSNBC went as far as to say if Bernie was elected people “like him” (the wealthy news propagandist) would be put up against the wall, invoking the idea of authoritarian regimes and firing squads…