117th United States Congress: #CancelGate

[Gredival]

We're being specific about which gerrymandering tactic we are using, not trying to hide the fact it is gerrymandering. Or at least I am. I'm for anything that will make the red votes irrelevant.

The reason "impartial" anti-gerrymandering is a leftist cause is because impartial maps would, in fact, favor the left since the left does in fact outnumber the right (see: popular vote).

[Gredival]

If the tables were turned, and the Dems were in the position the GOP is in (the party of the minority but with power to wield disproportional influence by gaming the system) I would be all for getting into the mud just like the elephants did.

Instead of the old requirement to be a landowner to vote, we make a new one that you have to hold a college degree?

[Krandor]

Ah yes I'm sure disqualifying 60% of the population from voting is the way to go.

[Andalusian girls]

ya but it's the dumb 60%

[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...CzNsMr6xw&s=19

[Gredival]

That looks like a solid blue win every cycle. But I also didn't use the white qualifier. I'm pretty sure that swings some of the borderline states.

Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

[archibaldcrane]

That looks like a solid blue win every cycle. But I also didn't use the white qualifier. I'm pretty sure that swings some of the borderline states.

Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

If it's all college educated it gets even more lopsided obviously

[Kaslo]

Haha apparently the Trumpets are going after Dan Crenshaw because he called Marjorie Taylor Greene a grifter.

[mallister]

Devin Nunes resigned today to be Trump's chai boy

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1477685705367330820

https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1480615494604537857

[Gwynplaine]

File this under more GOP in disarray. South Dakota Republican Mike Rounds commits the sin of saying the 2020 election was fair and invites condemnation from daddy chimp tits. He won election in 2020 so his seat is safe until 2026 and he is wisely reading the room, seeing that Donald is a fading entity who will not be around by then.

https://twitter.com/SenatorRounds/st...393927684?s=20
https://twitter.com/hugolowell/statu...569968130?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/st...108123139?s=20

[Koyangi]

If there's so much evidence, how come they haven't shown any of it in the countless court cases that have occurred since the election?

[arus2001]

I wish we actually had a radical left. It'd be rad.

[kuronosan]

If there's so much evidence, how come they haven't shown any of it in the countless court cases that have occurred since the election?

Dude is so used to litigating people into bankruptcy he doesn't realize he didn't win cases because he was right. He's a toddler at best.

[Kaslo]

I wish we actually had a radical left. It'd be rad.

We do, but they don't get elected

[Xno Kappa]

I wish we actually had a radical left. It'd be rad.

Lol

Maybe one day you guys are finally going to become self aware.

[Gredival]

We do, but they don't get elected

They are too busy criticizing AOC for being a moderate.

Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

[Athas]

If there's so much evidence, how come they haven't shown any of it in the countless court cases that have occurred since the election?

They were a PR campaign, not a legal strategy.

[Xno Kappa]

They are too busy criticizing AOC for being a moderate.

Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

lmao

[Gredival]

lmao

It's wild man... They are using AOC as evidence to not participate in electoral politics or work with the Democrats:

https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/...for-dual-power

Getting a candidate elected takes resources. The New York chapter of the Democratic Socialist of America mobilized members to register 20,000 new voters, rallied around traditional
campaign promotion, and in the end successfully propelled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a successful election win. If the end goal of the socialist movement in North America is simply to get candidates who identify as socialists elected, then this was a success. Ocasio now has a place inside the imperialist state institutions, now will be able to use some marginal amount of bourgeois sanctioned power to push her agendas, and has become a public face of socialist organizing in the united state. While a single democratic socialist will obviously not be capable of enacting systemic change from within the state, she might be able to use her platform to push socialist politics.

So what has Ocasio done with the platform she was elected? She has denounced the attempt to end deportation, and argued that #AbolishIce means nothing more than replacing ICE with a new deportation agency. She has critiqued the republicans for failing to be tough on crime and to uphold family values, typical right wing talking points. She has refused to call the settler occupation of Palestine an occupation. In short, she has consistently publicly abandoned the principles of international socialism in favor of maintaining the imperialist deportation institutions, catering to right wing buzzwords used to
criminalize people of color, and has failed to denounce the imperialist and settler colonialist Israeli state in concrete terms. And so, we are left with a simply question: did the hours and hours that the New York DSA chapter dumped into electing this coward and imperialist do anything to further the aims of international socialism?

The answer is obviously no. Ocasio has proven herself to be an opportunist who used the naivete of American socialists to win an election before immediately abandoning any socialist principles. Let me state this clearly: American socialists who rallied around Ocasio made a huge tactical mistake by wasting their time and energy (which could have been used elsewhere) and by allowing the mainstream media to conflate socialism with the politics of the left wing of the democratic party. This whole undertaking has been a resounding failure for the socialist movement in North America.