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Cory Doctorow

As unbearably cringe as the hunt for a "leftist Joe Rogan" is, it is (to use a shopworn phrase), "directionally correct." Democrats suck at getting their message out, and that exacts a high electoral cost.

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The front page of the Davenport Democrat newspaper, with a bold headline celebrating the ratification of the sufferage amendment. Centered below the headline is a late 19th century newsboy, winking. To his left is a suffragist on a bicycle. To his right is the hindquarters of a bucking Democratic party mule.
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Simon Brooke

@pluralistic as I understand it, 'the Dems' look to the #Billionaire #Kleptocrat class for their funding, and he who pays the piper calls the tune. Never trust any political party which accepts any donation that the poorest voter could not afford to pay.

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Simon Brooke

@pluralistic I don't think there are any leftist commercial media in the UK. The Mirror is pro-Labour, yes, but #Labour ceased to be 'left' in any meaningful sense when Blair rewrote #ClauseIV. #Starmer's modern Labour party is technocratic neoliberal, which places it firmly on the right.

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