• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    This man helped on Obama’s presidential campaigns and served as an “advisor” for Obama. That’s it.

    He’s a fucking moron and literally no one listens to him. From Wikipedia:

    When details of the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis were publicized in 2010, notably robo-signing, Axelrod was widely criticized for downplaying the magnitude of the crisis in his comments to the press

    In 2018, Axelrod vocally opposed Democratic support for impeachment, arguing that if “we “normalize” impeachment as a political tool, it will be another hammer blow to our democracy”.

    I would argue that everyone has been ignoring him for years.

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      Who ever said that? I’ve heard loads of people advocate for taking over the party, but not once have I ever heard someone seriously suggest party leadership can be reformed instead of replaced.

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    Republicans also think women shouldn’t be allowed to have abortion… until they are the ones who need an abortion, and then suddenly the circumstances matter. But surely this never could happen with immigration.

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    The rule of law don’t mean shit anymore until DHS is abolished and all involved and everyone at the top is held to account.

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    American people are too stupid and evil on average to make something prosocial out of themselves, to build something with values that respects human beings. Every American that doesn’t fit the description (like 2-5 percent?) should leave the country, for real. The main characteristics of the people who have fought and resisted American imperialism were unity, solidarity, relationships with other people resisting imperialism, and a firm moral framework and ideology, and y’all have none of those so the complete takeover of America is a reality waiting to happen, IMO.

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    Well I’m a cosmopolitan open-borders absolutist, hostile to border enforcement as a tool of domination so they can shove an entire hard boiled egg up their ass. Abolish ICE then abolish the border.

    The Earth is a shared surface that no one can justly monopolize.

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      This is the way forward. Trying to wall off countries is bizarre and speaks to oppression. Obviously most people don’t agree with this but why? Why does freedom of movement scare people so bad.

      Let’s look at places like the EU. They have open boarders. Show me why that is a bad thing. Conservatives are just irrational.

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        Well they did have open borders until those brexit fuckwits screwed everything up.

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        The Anti-Flag song “No Borders, No Nations” opened my eyes to this idea

        We’ve got to make a change
        For the good of the human race
        We’ve got to make a change

        No borders, no nations
        No flags, no patriots

        It’s always sounded so nice to me!

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        Show me why that is a bad thing

        “Evil immigrantz taking our jerbs, evil immigrants selling drugs, evul immigrantz that are lazy leechers living off big bad gubmint”, etc etc

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    This is the same advisor that said “Naw bro, we can get Republicans to vote for this shit, just drop the Public Option.” and then looked as a whopping 0 Republicans voted for Obamacare

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      Except they actually dropped the public option to get Democrats (Specifically, one Democrat who is now a Republican) to vote for it.