• Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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    In Australia we’ve just essentially criminalised climate protesting. Climate protestors now risk a huge fine and even jail time. A lot of people suspect it’s because governments are preparing in advance for what might become a huge movement that they can’t control. So they’re trying to disincentivise people before shit hits the fan.

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        I’m liberal, but holy shit the division from that happening would make Obama and Trump seem like warmups

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          No… Don’t you see?

          No matter how centrist or moderate democratic candidate is, the Republicans call them communist, socialist pedophiles.

          They’ve painted themselves into a corner. We could nominate a full-on Marxist flag-burner, and they would have nothing left to say about them that they didn’t already say about Obama and Biden.

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            1 year ago

            Let’s be fair, Nancy P is about as much a back slapping old school politician as you can get, and AOC fell in line to her leadership. AOC and the squad haven’t been as left as promised

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              AOC pulls the party to the left with her rhetoric, and then lends her support to strengthen the party as a whole.

              In this political environment, when the opposition is literally a fascist cult, it’s great that she’s being a team player.

              Also when she eventually does run for president, she won’t have alienated the party.

              She has handled it perfectly.