the post of tom joad

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  • the post of tom joadtopolitics @lemmy.world•Progressives Have the Answers to Transform the Democratic Party
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    15 days ago

    While it’s nice to dream, even the author of this piece acknowledges he is doing exactly that.

    It’s unlikely that the insiders who built a system that enriches themselves—guaranteeing profits whether the party wins or loses—will willingly dismantle it. Yet that is exactly what is required.

    If he knows it won’t happen this way It kinda boggles me what exactly he’s laying out here. He identifies the issue, then he hides from the implications of his own assertion.

    He goes on.

    Unfortunately, one of the first major tests of whether the Democratic Party was prepared to take progressives seriously—the vote on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to be the ranking member of the Oversight Committee—revealed troubling signs of continued resistance to the grassroots wing of the party.

    If he hadnt mentioned this, i woulda. This is a huge sign of the partys intentions, further indication he is right.The fact the Democratic party fresh offa loss this bad… changes nothing, in fact signals their intentions are to lose rather than changea thing.

    Why does he then tell progressive to 'get the establishment to listen? Listen to what? Are progressives to assume, after author explicitly tells them otherwise, that merely talking to the establishment dems (who only care about enriching themselves) will do a 180 and help reform democracy?

    Give me a break with this crap man! If he’s gonna acknowledge the Democratic party is rotten to the point where they don’t care to win, how can he write the rest of this daydream with a straight face? It feels like he lost the thesis he started with

  • the post of tom joadtoPeople Twitter•No comment, just interesting
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    17 days ago

    E.g. if one group of parents have enough cash on hand to enroll their children in tutoring when they need it, and impressive extra curricular activities when tutoring is unnecessary, then the children of those parents will have stronger university applications than the children that have to work part time jobs. This perpetuates racially inequality

    (Repeated cuz it’s good, and i believe in helping people with special requirements)

    Gosh, you’re pretty arrogant huh? Ignorant peeps usually are.

    Is “systemic” racism, where the parents have less money because racism is systemic too high a bar for your iq to clear?

    Sheesh.

  • the post of tom joadtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Voters
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    17 days ago

    K blaming voters is for the puppets in the media not cool places like lemmy.

    Maybe im taking a joke to serious but I’m tired of hearing the excuses of failed politicians on the fuggen TV, so OP?! Maybe dont buy everything people are selling, k?

    This country, gotdamn

  • the post of tom joadtoNews@lemmy.world•Shock poll: 41 percent of young voters find killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO acceptable
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    18 days ago

    There’s a teensy bit of data massaging to make the approval rating appear lower… in my opinion of course.

    The respondents were asked to rank “acceptability of the killers actions” on a scale of 1 to 5.

    Assumin’the average “young voter” views gunning strangers down as:

    [1.very unfavorable]

    (You would, if asked about murder, say it was bad As a rule. right? I would too. Ya know, unless it was justified.)

    Looking at it that way, the same data looks a lot different suddenly.

    33% young voters still think the killer is completely unjustified.

    7% think there was some justification

    19% are undecided if the CEO deserved to die for what he did

    24% think the killer was mostly justified… But have reservations

    17% believe he was 100% in the right

    I got a little free with the interpretations but you get the idea, You could decide to frame the data this way too. there’s a saying: statistics don’t lie but statisticians do. Here’s my 100% true alternate title using the data but presented with the story I want to tell:

    67% of Young Voters at Least Partly Approve of Killers Actions