this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
1385 points (98.6% liked)

politics

31360 readers
2546 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles. Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to US politics and contain quality and original content. Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and re-hosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing other users of being bots or paid actors.
  3. No memes, trolling, misinformation, or low-effort posts/comments (including reposts). If you see posts like this that anger you, do not engage. Report, block, and live a happier life than they do. Any slap-fight is subject to comment removals. Fights full of rule violations will result in temporary bans to cool off.
  4. No manipulating votes via bots or alt accounts; this will result in permanent bans. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in an account ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be permanently banned.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules and use critical thinking when reading, posting, and commenting. Users that repeatedly have comments or posts removed, weaponize reports, or violate the code of conduct, will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. The reason(s) behind moderator action(s) are publicly available through the Modlog.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

• Register To Vote

• Citizenship Resource Center

• Congressional Awards Program

• Federal Government Agencies

• Library of Congress Legislative Resources

• The White House

• U.S. House of Representatives

• U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

• News

• World News

• Business News

• Political Discussion

• Ask Politics

• Military News

• Global Politics

• Moderate Politics

• Progressive Politics

• UK Politics

• Canadian Politics

• Australian Politics

• New Zealand Politics

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and she is old enough for presidential nomination now. do it, aoc.

[–] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The US is simply too misogynistic to elect a woman as president, especially a woman of color.

The unfortunate reality is that our best bet for the White House is a progressive white man with AOC as VP.

I believe that even AOC knows this.

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You will get Kamala or Gavin and you will like your Trump 3rd term. - Dems

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

🎵it's sad, but true🎵

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's true tbh. The Dems have never managed to nominate a popular woman as their presidential candidate before. Clinton was almost universally disliked by the public (for lots of good reasons other than her gender), and ex-prosecutor Harris's campaign was hamstrung by Biden, as well as being seen as an other pro-corporate Democrat stooge. AOC might actually have a fighting chance compared to her predecessors. But she'll never be able to be the Democratic candidate until the old guard of leadership is replaced, let's face facts.

[–] match@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think we're still doing elections? I cherish your optimism

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey now there will for sure be "elections", they'll just be 100% kayfabe instead of just 50-75% kayfabe

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when will the heels get magic chokeslammed through a steel table 😔

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

When we get the real-life political equivalent of Stone Cold... Ironically the most popular wrestler per event in history who's whole gimmick was fighting the authority of the wrestling promoter who didn't believe he was an acceptable face of the company and constantly wanted to push their own handpicked corporate champions. It's actually a lot more spot on than I meant it to be...

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You can’t say that because there is no reliable data to go off of. Kamala and Clinton were terrible candidates.