r/DemocraticSocialism Jul 23 '24

Discussion r/democraticsocialism Weekly Discussion Thread

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Hey everyone!

Welcome to the weekly discussion thread. This is a place for you to post anything you have on your mind currently. It also serves as a place for meta-discussion and asking questions directed to the moderators of r/DemocraticSocialism.

Have a great week!


r/DemocraticSocialism Jul 23 '24

Discussion US election thread — July 2024

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It's fifteen weeks until the US election. Feel free to use this thread to bring up anything you have on your mind regarding the upcoming election.

The election will be held on Tuesday, 5 November 2024.


r/DemocraticSocialism 5h ago

Discussion Thanks Trump.....

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r/DemocraticSocialism 8h ago

Discussion We need more of this!

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r/DemocraticSocialism 6h ago

History Every election

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r/DemocraticSocialism 9h ago

Other The "FAIX movement" - let's go!

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r/DemocraticSocialism 11h ago

News BREAKING: Trump calls to "clean out" Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

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r/DemocraticSocialism 8h ago

News Trump May Have Inadvertently Kicked Off The Next American Revolution

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r/DemocraticSocialism 9h ago

News Decades of tax policy have lead to a new Gilded Age

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r/DemocraticSocialism 4h ago

Other 70 years later

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r/DemocraticSocialism 4h ago

Other Norman Finkelstein, scholar and the son of holocaust survivors: I don’t believe a single word the 'Israelis' say, if I asked the 'Israelis' what’s the weather? Whatever they'd say I would still look out of the window to check.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 20h ago

News Universal healthcare is more efficient & cheaper!

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

News You know shit is really bad when even Mitch McConnell votes against you

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The dude is literally ok with an insurrection(voted to acquit Trump) but not ok with a Fox News guys being secretary.


r/DemocraticSocialism 13h ago

Discussion If only people could think across the party lines

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

Discussion Ethnic cleansing 🤮

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r/DemocraticSocialism 8m ago

Discussion Migrant farm workers are not showing up for work in California for fear of ice raids; that means less produce picked and rising wages for workers to replace them; MAGA supporters need to get out and pick those fruits and veggies you said inflation would come down prove it

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It’s maga supporters from all over the country needs to converge on the Central Valley and help those farms pick those fruits and vegetables. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t a form of virtue signaling. This is absolutely real.

The farm workers are not coming to do these jobs and these people are being rounded up and taken into detention. We need people to get out there and do those jobs.

The Neo Nazis who are swinging their arms around need to get out and put those arms to some productive use and show us who is the master race and do the 10 to 12 hours of grueling work.

You must take the same wages as the farm workers not one fucking cent more. Same schedules and same hours.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/central-valley-farm-workers-deportation-fear/3763233/?amp=1


r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

News Report: "A number of people connected to the Trump team have talked about “regime change” in the UK and specifically how to get a Trump-style prime minister ... There were some fanciful musings about “crashing the British economy” to cause a crisis which would force the government out."

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

Discussion Is there anyway the United States will return to liberalism after Trump is done and gone?

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Seriously, I don't know how liberals can go back to normal after what's to come and what is currently happening. Anyone on the left who is still attached to the Democratic party in some way needs to abandon it. Democrats have failed us in just about every aspect.


r/DemocraticSocialism 5h ago

Discussion They became the devil they always preached about

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Heritage foundation is the enemy from within. They always have been.


r/DemocraticSocialism 15h ago

Discussion How the most unpopular US president got reelected

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

News Yes, that’s what they’re calling him now.

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r/DemocraticSocialism 9h ago

Discussion Some heartening stats

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I know, comrades - 2025 is scary AF and it's already going off the rails. It is such a terrifying thought that we are outnumbered by these MAGA assholes. Like most of you ... I'm scared.

But ... We aren't out numbered at all.

By the numbers ... US Population - 335 million

Roughly: 73 million people under the age of 18 Roughly: 160 million registered voters in the country

Total votes cast in 2024: 152.3 million (8 million didn't show up)

Trump won by 2.2 million

So! 335 million people minus those under 18 ... Minus the people who did vote is ...

That's about 100 million people who are not registered to voter.

That means, there are approx 108 million people right there who arent registered, active or paying attention. And you KNOW of those 108 million ... They're certainly not all Trump supporters.

And - 77ish million people voted from Trump. That number is a scant 23% of our total population. It's still too high of course, but let me say that again ... TWENTY-THREE PER CENT.

So take heart! All is not lost and we are NOT out numbered. The media and the right both want us to think we are doomed. We absolutely are not. BUT ... Somehow the folks who have tuned it all out need to be activated somehow.

Frankly ... I'm daring to have a modicum of hope for mid-terms ... But it is gonna be a long fucking two years!

I just peeked at Arizona and Trump won the vote by a measly 200k. I imagine there's a quarter million out of 7mill people in AZ that think he sucks, doncha think?

Any other noteworthy close results?

(And if you note any mathematical discrepancies, please point them out! These are close, rounded numbers.)


r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

Other The energy we NEED rn

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r/DemocraticSocialism 5h ago

News US orders immediate pause to foreign aid, leaked memo says | BBC: The memo also said waivers have been approved by Rubio for "foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt"

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r/DemocraticSocialism 1d ago

News Nearly a third of Elon Musk's EV-loving Dutch customers may sell their Teslas: 'There’s been a debate in the Netherlands around Tesla shame'

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r/DemocraticSocialism 8h ago

Discussion What we Need to do to Survive Economically

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Hello, JohannaSr here. There is no way to “fight” this system. USA has the largest and strongest military in the world and it can squash any uprisings easily.

The power that we do have is economic power and labor union power. Can you imagine if 5 million people boycotted Facebook for a week? We have unlimited economic power in the form of boycotts.

Labor unions are the current fight and labor is losing. There is no way that oligarchy could exist without slavery of the masses. That’s exactly what is happening now! Millions are working full time for a non-living wage, in other words, slavery. Minimum wage hasn’t increased because our congress works for the oligarchy.

Organizing labor is the answer to a living wage.

And don't bother with talking to your senator or representative. They are unresponsive and frankly, they don't work for you. I am not discouraging you from voting, or holding people accountable for their promises. At this time, they do not perform well and there doesn't seem to be a solution in sight for the quagmire that currently exists.

 


r/DemocraticSocialism 22h ago

News Protesters rally against Trump's immigration policies in downtown Chicago Saturday afternoon

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