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Dateline, Minneapolis: There’s a new clip going around of federal agents in Minneapolis that feels like comic-book-villain-level police work. It’s hard to watch without wondering if those “targeted” immigration enforcement operations we hear so much about aren’t just targeting Good Samaritans. Source: Posted by the incomparable muckraker and multi-hyphenate actress, Tina-Desiree Berg. “Not Starting?” You […]

Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    15 hours ago

    Unfortunately the primaries are rigged, and it’s legal. We know this because the DNC was sued after 2016 and admitted it in court.

    We’re not getting a progressive anywhere near the presidency.

    • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafeEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Damn I didn’t know about that lawsuit. Apparently some Bernie supporters sued the DNC for rigging things in favor of Hillary:

      A pending order from the judge will determine whether the court sides with the DNC, which faced backlash after leaked emails showed CNN allegedly gave the Clinton campaign planned questions ahead of a debate between the former secretary of state, and Sanders, who quickly rose to prominence and popularity among liberals but failed to garner enough votes to secure the Democratic ticket.

      Sounds like they didn’t rig any votes, just didn’t give them a fair race. Which, that’s still bad, but workable. We should still vote in primaries; this just highlights the need to volunteer and make sure people know which candidate is truly the best, even when their own supposed “allies” are working against them

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        13 hours ago

        Sounds like they didn’t rig any votes, just didn’t give them a fair race

        That’s some hair-splitting right there. They were quoted as saying it’s their right to hold unfair primaries, in court, which to me is as good as an admission.

        But we know they’re rigged. It’s why superdelegates were invented, and why Bernie never had a chance despite being immensely more popular than Hillary.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      14 hours ago

      You’re not getting a progressive because you aren’t trying. You can’t get enough people to win a popular vote once. DNC doesn’t even need to rig anything, the only people who actually do political activism are those “establishment democrats”.
      Progressives either don’t do shit other than bitching on twitter, or there are so little of them so their effort is in vain. I don’t know what is worse. You can say what you want how primaries are “rigged” because delegates don’t do what you personally don’t want them to do, but fact of the matter is, Bernie also lost the popular vote quite definitively.
      In the history of DNC, there was only one time when delegates didn’t chose the same candidate as the people, and that was when Obama lost the popular vote to Clinton by almost 1%.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        In the history of DNC, there was only one time when delegates didn’t chose the same candidate as the people, and that was when Obama lost the popular vote to Clinton by almost 1%.

        lol, why is it almost always aggrieved Clinton stans?

        Incidentally, the Clinton bit is such a stretch it’s fair to call it a lie.

        https://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/clinton-and-the-popular-vote/

        Q: Did Clinton win the popular vote?

        A: Obama won more votes unless you count Michigan, where he wasn’t on the ballot.

        The fact there was a mere 1% difference in the votes she received despite her getting an entire extra state compared to him shows how wildly popular he was. Ignoring that would have been choosing a different candidate than the people were choosing; they didn’t make some incredible decision that paid off because they know better than their voters, they just knew what would have happened if both their names had been on that ballot and knew which way the wind was blowing.