• daannii@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I would encourage everyone to watch the video of her speech. The title of this post is incredibly misleading. And takes points out of context.

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    Elissa Slotkin can fuck off.

    Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency…

    Oh, she can really fuck off.

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    “I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.

    This is code for not rocking the boat.

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    First part of article title is a bit misleading I think. She thinks “Kings” is a better term than oligarchy because it’s more relatable. She has a plan to fight kings. She does seem to think wokeness is weak though.

    Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the “oligarchy” on Thursday, arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans and should be replaced with “kings.”

    Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – argued that the Democratic Party needed to lose its “weak and woke” reputation and “fucking retake the flag,” adopting a “goddamn Alpha energy” inspired by Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell.

    “She said Democrats should stop using the term ‘oligarchy,’ a phrase she said doesn’t resonate beyond coastal institutions, and just say that the party opposes ‘kings,'” wrote Wren, who reported that Slotkin was planning to deliver a series of speeches in the coming months about her plan.

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    The Democratic Party is so full of collaborationists. Just shows how democracy and capitalism are incompatible. The bourgeois class just buy the politicians.

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    She’s sorta right. ‘Oligarchy’ is a big college word that Joe Bumblefuck doesn’t understand.

    Aristocrats is a good word, but again: “duh?”

    Therefore Dems just need to start harping about “rich fucking parasites”

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    Of course. They don’t want to fix things, they just want to be the ones getting the benefits.

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    The unfalsifiable orthodoxy. Moving to the far-right and appealing to moderate Republicans win elections. If a Democrat wins, it proves that this works, if a Democrat loses, they just hadn’t moved far-right enough.

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    Way to advertise what side she’s really on.

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    Elissa Slotkin IS the oligarchy. She is the Hot Dog Princess. Her grandpa owned BallPark Franks—subsidiary of the Tyson Foods megacorp. Every time someone eats a hot dog, Elissa gets more passive income than most folks earn from a year’s labor.

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      She sucks, I voted for Harper in the primaries but the Dems are full of neo-libs like her. It’s hard to see that party go more liberal even with Sander’s and AOC’s help

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        They actively work against Sanders and AOC. Both are the enemy to the average corporate-whore Dem.

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      She also is only in office because she kept district hopping to avoid getting primaried until she was up for a senate seat, whereupon the Democratic Party pushed out or made concessions to all the other better candidates so they would drop. She’s widely reviled.

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      Among the shittiest hot dogs on the market. It’s Nathan’s or Hebrew National, everything else is garbage.

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          Huh, thanks for this. I have family that swears by them, but they also make me sick. I didn’t realize they had sorbitol. I had wondered why their brand was so disagreeable to me.

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        There are places in the USA where you can find smaller, more local hot dog makers.

        The best I’ve had are Hippey’s Franks from Denver, Pennsylvania.

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            So much better than Hebrew National, Ballpark, Nathan’s or any national brand. Bigger, more and better flavor.

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              Well I just need to road trip a couple thousand miles and get a good dog. It’s been YEARS.

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                I don’t think it’s just a US east coast thing. See if there are any local butchers near you and check out what they sell. Or, look for local, independent meat companies.

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                  We don’t have indie butchers or meat companies near, anymore, but I’m going out of town in a couple of weeks so I’ll see if where I’m going does. They probably do.

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          Hot Dogs can be pork, chicken or beef, or even a combination. Hebrew National is all beef. I prefer all beef wieners myself.