cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46703724
Opinion - Michelle Goldberg
April 30, 2026Platner spoke about the struggles of working people for whom a decent life seemed out of reach, about the disastrous wars he’d fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the need for a Democratic Party with New Deal-scale ambitions. And he spoke to people’s feelings of being abandoned to Trump’s depredations by a weak and fumbling Democratic Party. “Nobody is coming to save us,” he said, positioning himself as a leader who could help people save themselves.
Since then, Platner has used his campaign to organize for causes besides his own election. He rallied against a ballot initiative that would have required voter ID and restricted absentee voting. (It lost.) When ICE came to Lewiston, Maine, a town with a significant Somali population, he urged people to resist the agency the way that the citizens of Minneapolis had, celebrating those who, as he said in a fiery speech, “do real things to impede ICE’s operations and physically protect our communities.” He collects donations for food pantries at his events. His campaign feels, to many of his impassioned supporters, like a movement.
I have a lot of confidence that Democrats will furiously vote in more feckless corporate sellouts who’s goal is to enable the same fascist project that trump represents, but do it with nicer manners and bigger words.
Here’s what’s gonna bring down the regime: Trump attacks Greenland, Denmark cuts of trade with the Untied States, Trump has to deal with the wrath of angry LEGO fans
I was in a band called Wrath of Lego. We mostly played thrash metal and Norah Jones covers.
Are you a fan of the show “Ghosts”, cause in that show there’s a viking dating a hippie
I am! Although I had the nickname for several years before then, so it’s a fun coincidence rather than causative 😁
Also, I’m not sure that I’m thrilled with how much Thor hates Danes, since I am one 😄
I think it would be funny if it turns out Flower is of Danish descent
Exactly what I‘d expect to hear from a person called „Viking Hippie“.
That’s exactly what I do, but I look forward to the day I’m wrong.
Their solution to fury is vote harder, for the systems that created this anger
Wish I could have any fait in Dems here, but I live in deep red Missouri so the best we get is conservatives who run as Dems cause they’re not MAGA.
Everyone reading this is going to vote.
The problem is that’s not the majority that wins. Seems like those who are glued to TikTok and devout Joe Rogan fans are who need a speaking to.
I’m probably going to anyway tho. Force of habit. PTSD. Something.
