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Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?

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DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Nobody knew the threat of Hitler better than FDR. He wanted to start arming Britain and France the day the Nazis went into Poland, if not sooner. He had to wait for the right time.

Another example. Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave. He had suffered the horrors not just observed them. When the 1860 election came around, Douglas stepped away form the candidate who wanted instant Abolition and backed Abe Lincoln, who said he would keep slavery if it meant saving the Union.

Douglas decided it was smarter to back the winner and have the ear of a sitting President than it was to back someone he might have agreed with much more.

Politics is a game, learn the rules

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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mamdani has set the standard. Read the room.

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- DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I live in New York and voted for him.
  
  Mamdani barely squeaked in. He got 51% of the vote running against a known molester and a radio host in a funny hat. Harris got 65% of the NYC vote and Biden got 80%.
  
  Don’t confuse one battle with winning the war.
  
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- theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Mamdani literally strategically avoided a fight with Hakeem Jefferies because it’s not the time.
  
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  - orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    When is? After Trump fabricates an emergency and subverts elections with some rebranding of martial law?
    
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    username123@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, no. When the country is even more in shambles, that’s when we’ll have the right where we want them. In this day and age of nearly instant information and social isolation you really gotta look to a time when newspapers, word-of-mouth, and rumors were the glue to a social hierarchy that was barely trying to remove slavery from its scaffolding. That’s what you really need to imitate, the past where brown people paid the heaviest price for not rocking the boat too much. Remember: Think of how much it upset the 1800s popular white vote, pay no attention to the popularity of progressivism, and don’t. rock. the boat.
    
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Teach me.

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- DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave. He had suffered the horrors not just observed them. When the 1860 election came around, Douglas stepped away form the candidate who wanted instant Abolition and backed Abe Lincoln, who said he would keep slavery if it meant saving the Union.
  
  Another good lesson is Obamacare. Even with majorities in both Houses, Obama barely managed to get the ACA passed. He thought that because he’d based his bill on Mitt Romney’s plan the GOP would embrace it. Instead they attacked full force. How Obama got it done is a master class in politics.
  
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