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She called it the pied piper strategy and it isnt exclusive to 2016. Once it failed Democrats doubled down and funded right wing extremists nationwide.
Cool, does WikiLeaks have any other emails from the 2016 DNC?
Probably? Is there a point or just whataboutism
The point is WikiLeaks produced the DNC email leaks after being given them by russia, which spawned the "grassroots" Qanon pizzagate theory that swung a lot of formerly sane people into extremism and if you're using that leak as the source for the DNC screwing over Bernie, it's important to have the full context.
Sure, and ill add that Sanders made similar allegations and the emails were verified. [Shultz stepped down over them].(https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wasserman-schultz-to-step-down-as-dnc-chairwoman-amid-email-fallout) it is not a conspiracy, it is a fact.
Absolutely the fact that DWS altered the rules to benefit Hillary is a fact.
So is WikiLeaks' conspiring with russia to support trump. Also a fact.
Second link:
Nothing to do with Clinton, fwiw
NPR went 4 extra years back, but Clintons campaign did it for trump in 2016. It is the same pied Piper strategy
Ick. It seems to be an issue with the DNC/her campaign though. I didn't see any evidence of this coming from her. Which isn't much better, either she didn't know or just chose to do nothing. All because the DNC was left vulnerable to financial influence because they were in debt from Obama. They needed all that funding to get a reasonable human being in office. Uggggggh it always just boils down to money. God I wish Bernie had been president. He would have worked to get the rich out of our government. I gotta take a break from this, it's just fucking depressing
We also could have had Bernie but Debbie Wasserman Shultz rigged the primary and got away with it.
Democrats are not a viable alternative to fascism, they have been working to legitimize it for well over a decade.
So your link says the lawsuit was dismissed because they couldn't show Bernie lost because of DWS's fuckery. Which is the case. Bernie lost because Bernie lost in addition to DWS's fuckery. He lost in other years without the fuckery too. And to put too fine a point on it, he's an Independent, not a Democrat.
What a load of shit.
Sorry but what do you call donating money to fascists, buying their ads, supporting their PACs, and voting for their platform if not legitimizing fascism?
Overly simplistic and deliberately misleading.
I guess in your mind there is no reason why multiple concrete actions taken to slide us into fascism and support right wing extremism should be considered nuance.
"actions taken to slide us into fascism" is nonsense.
You can describe in detail one of those actions, and that'd possibly be valid - depending on the action you're describing.
"supporting right wing extremism" is deliberately miscontextualized. Presuming you're talking about the 'pied piper' strategy. If "supporting right wing extremism" is referring to something else, then it's just miscontextualized.
It is an accurate assessment of the result of the pied Piper strategy. The context in this case is a distinction without a difference. Feel free to claim good intentions all you'd like on their behalf. It is a waste of breath considering the results.
Whether the dems manslaughtered their way into it vs Republican murder, the veneer of legitimacy the government had was killed off. Whatever strategic excuse is drummed up, the DNC funded the campaigns of right wing extremists and are clearly culpable for their wins alongside the Republican conservative base. I blame the DNC with my whole chest for their hand in creating the conditions that enabled a fascist populat movement while stifling the left.
Yeah, it's a good thing Trump won and is going to cancel elections. Now that people don't have any hope through traditional channels, we can have a communist revolution.
I am not so optimistic that socialism will win in an American civil war. Its all bad for this country
This sadly isn't going to happen.
The american people will stand around and hold signs like the neolibs tell them until their bank accounts run out and then they'll slither back to their wage slave jobs because all the food in town is sent in on 3 trucks that are controlled by Kroger executives
Your GRU channels are overextended, what with having to attack Canada and France too.