JohnBrownsDream [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agoHillary Clinton endorses George Latimer in challenge to unseat Jamaal Bowmanwww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10 cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkHillary Clinton endorses George Latimer in challenge to unseat Jamaal Bowmanwww.politico.comJohnBrownsDream [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square10fedilink cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareProletarianDictator [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·5 months agoIt’s easier when you think of them as the required “good cop” for the good cop, bad cop routine. She is the conservative force for some progressives find tolerable enough to abandon more radical measures. She doesn’t want to be progressive, she wants to be conservative, but sees her role as selling that to liberal minded people.
minus-squareElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-25 months agoAnother analogy I like is that they’re the boxer in a fixed fight who’s paid to take a dive or the heel in a pro wrestling match who does just enough to be villains for all the slobbering hogs watching the fight and thinking it’s real
minus-squareZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agothis is a good one. ive seen ppl (i think chapo) use “kayfabe” in a political context and i like that a lot
minus-squareFrogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 months agoFunny because I remember people angrily saying that she was more left than Bernie and had real plans for change.
minus-squareFunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 months agoThe change in question being carpet bombing Syria.
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 months agoLand war in Iran
It’s easier when you think of them as the required “good cop” for the good cop, bad cop routine.
She is the conservative force for some progressives find tolerable enough to abandon more radical measures.
She doesn’t want to be progressive, she wants to be conservative, but sees her role as selling that to liberal minded people.
Another analogy I like is that they’re the boxer in a fixed fight who’s paid to take a dive or the heel in a pro wrestling match who does just enough
to be villains for all the slobbering hogs watching the fight and thinking it’s real
this is a good one. ive seen ppl (i think chapo) use “kayfabe” in a political context and i like that a lot
Funny because I remember people angrily saying that she was more left than Bernie and had real plans for change.
The change in question being carpet bombing Syria.
Land war in Iran