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[–] arymandias@feddit.de 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

To vote for the yellow line, use a brick as a ballot and [redacted] as the ballot box.

Although in practice a general strike would be most effective, it’s just very hard to organize and reach critical mass.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

WDYM why would she tweet that? To show how fucking clear the choice is.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe trying to stay relevant after to failed presidential bids? Nobody fucking wanted her. Bernie would have won in 2016

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Writing in "target" on my ballot

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe she's low-key implying that she could've been the yellow line

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago (16 children)

I doubt anyone could be the yellow line. But better than Biden is definitely possible

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Gore could’ve been the yellow line

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

According to the graph, certainly not the matter of hitting that target. Are there any candidates that have a plan for “target”?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 7 points 7 months ago

Biden tried to do quite a lot better than the blue line initially, and Manchin unexpectedly blocked the first bill in the senate after it passed the house. They had to go back and redo a whole scaled-back version that was the actual blue-line-predicted version.

Here's a pretty good overview of what made it into the second bill, and here's a recap of how it worked in practice after a couple of years in action.

My overall feeling is, even the yellow line is nowhere near enough, but our current political class is bent on self-destruction because they don't actually grasp how bad it is (and will not, until it's even more too late than the too late it already is). But still, reducing it to the blue line is fuckin amazing within the current environment in Washington. The question should be "how do we get it lower than that now" as opposed to "how exhaustively can we shit on the guy who got the first round of changes done."

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