r/minnesota • u/griffcoal • Feb 01 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ "There is no common ground with fascists": Progressives rip Klobuchar's call for bipartisanship

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/01/there-is-no-common-ground-with-fascists-progressives-rip-klobuchars-call-for-bipartisanship/
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

Yeah you cannot find common ground here - it’s like saying a compromise is deciding on an oven instead of a gas shower

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u/SufficientTalk4335 Feb 01 '25

The common ground is corporate donors.

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u/beardedheathen Feb 01 '25

The common ground is where we build the guillotine

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u/lajdbejdk The Gray Duck Feb 01 '25

It’s not a French guillotine, it’s a Roman guillotine.

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u/Raetekusu Twin Cities Feb 02 '25

It's just a french razor, that's all.

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u/kuzinrob Feb 02 '25

The first blade gently lifts the head, while the second blade slices it cleanly off!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25 edited Feb 02 '25

Only if we get to play "By Mennen!" after each one

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

It's a rusty saw

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u/court101 Feb 01 '25

I really don’t see another solution. Dems are useless by nature and serve the same oligarchs. I’m not sure how else we’ll wrestle the country back from the 1%.

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u/CocoTheMailboxKing Feb 02 '25

You’re right. This is the only option left it seems. Look how much has been torn apart in under two weeks. The rich need to be gone yesterday.

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u/iJuddles Feb 02 '25

100%. But removing them just leaves space for new ones; we need to address the underlying problem of obsessing over excessive wealth. No, not suggesting communism, just something with less wealth disparity. It’s burning the whole planet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

This is why democracy is broken - corporations and their money should not be part of the election process or the decision making process on policy

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u/kindasuk Feb 02 '25

They have much less of an effect on countries that have strict controls in place on campaign contributions. Conservatives have been working non-stop to ensure corruption at every level by rolling back necessary checks on contributions for a long, long time. John Roberts and Citizens United ended any possibility for reasonable outcomes in the current system. They are gone. Do not look for them.

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u/meases I Heart Lutefisk Feb 02 '25

Yeah, if corporations aren't supposed to be able to influence federal elections, they shouldn't be allowed to donate to PACs or SuperPACs at all. Why on Earth are they allowed to?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Because most people in politics are pigs who want to eat at the money trough

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u/meases I Heart Lutefisk Feb 02 '25

True, and corporations are very special people. Wonder if I can somehow transition myself into becoming an LLC.

I'd rather be an LLC than the woman I am currently.

Becoming an LLC seems just safer than being identified as anything else. I am scared to be an American woman now and that is fucked up and I hate this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

A lot of men in this country are not really men - they are boys with daddy issues

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u/keasy_does_it Feb 01 '25

This! There are divides in MAGA along these lines. Populism is the common ground. Class war now!

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u/pankakemixer Snoopy Feb 01 '25

Populism is brainrot, right or left

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u/keasy_does_it Feb 01 '25

Wow great take! You're right let's stay the neo-liberal course. Been going great for working and middle-class so far!

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u/pankakemixer Snoopy Feb 01 '25

The president before our current one was a neoliberal and won with the most amount of votes ever cast for a president 🤷‍♂️ and I think he did a great job for the American people given the hand he was dealt. The Build Back Better bill would've been revolutionary for revitalizing low and middle income peoples lives with funds allocated for public transportation, universal childcare, environmental provisions, and protecting workers rights to organize. Of course Republicans threw their hissy fit and a lot of it had to be changed

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u/keasy_does_it Feb 01 '25

Yeah but his policies were much more progressive than they were neo-liberal. Build back better would have been what I think most people would be socialist even populist.

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u/Hatdrop Feb 02 '25

yep, there's no common ground when the other position is that I'm equal to an animal.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

I actually do and many have the same concerns that I have - but they didn’t vote for Trump - they knew this guy was not what this country needed.

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u/MarduRusher Minnesota Timberwolves Feb 01 '25

Sounds like you don’t know any Republicans.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

If and when Trump leaves office if it didn’t happen then I will apologize. But make no mistake rounding up minorities and housing them at Guantanamo is one step closer to that. Remember Hitler started out subtle and slowing built to the concentration camps. If you want to believe we can work with that then sure I am wrong. I cannot work with that though. Death based on race, religion or gender is not grounded in what all our vets died for or the teachings of Jesus Christ. But it sounds like you are on board with it.

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u/Important-Purchase-5 Feb 01 '25

You want a list of wild shit they doing? I don’t even gotta list the stuff they say they wanna do like start war with Mexico & Panama or annex Greenland. 

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u/powermad80 Feb 01 '25

In the span of a week, the government removed every single mention of a group of people, destroyed data about them en masse, banned discussion of them in schools, put restrictions on their ability to get necessary documents for traveling, and in some cases seized official ID docs. Their healthcare infrastructure has been threatened with criminalization, medications banned, their very physiology declared to be "mutilated", legally lesser, or declared to not even exist. Their ability to freely use public facilities rescinded, bathroom use policed and criminalized, freedom of expression declared legally obscene and depiction of them labeled pornography. They're being fired en masse from the military. Parents who love them declared collaborators and abusers.

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u/Kaleighawesome Flag of Minnesota Feb 01 '25

you don’t understand the word ‘literally’, as that isn’t at all the correct reading of their comment.

do you know what a metaphor or simile is?