An improvement from Betsy DeVos at least

In the United States, there are more than 1 million people living in conditions of modern slavery, according to a recent study[1]. Annually, it is estimated that between 15,000 to 50,000 women and children are forced into sexual slavery[2]. The National Human Trafficking Hotline reported 10,359 cases involving 16,554 individual victims in 2021[4].

Citations: [1] More than 1 million human trafficking victims in USA – new study https://hopeforjustice.org/news/more-than-1-million-human-trafficking-victims-in-usa-new-study/ [2] Facts About Human Trafficking in the US - DeliverFund.org https://deliverfund.org/blog/facts-about-human-trafficking-in-united-states/ [3] What Human Trafficking Is, and Isn’t https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking [4] Myths, Facts, and Statistics - Polaris Project https://polarisproject.org/myths-facts-and-statistics/ [5] Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2022 https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022 [6] National Statistics - National Human Trafficking Hotline https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics [7] The Exploitation of Women and Children – A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/human_trafficking1.html [8] Human Trafficking from Laos: How, Why, and Where? https://greydynamics.com/human-trafficking-from-laos-how-why-and-where/

Carrots have been recalled in the US because they killed a guy, that’s on top of gun shot being the #1 cause of death for American children. I think Laos is pretty safe by comparison.

The answer is more propaganda directed towards the working class. How much could it cost to buy every am radio station?

They’re ambitious and self-interested. Would Pete have turned down an offer of VP to stay in the race - and potentially still win the presidential nomination - I don’t think so

What you are trying to say is 'fuck you for not voting for MY interests

My interests in this scenario is not having mass deportation, and keeping my gay friends from having their marriages dissolved thus kicking them off their partners healthcare

I dont support war, genocide, and fascism.

Through your inaction — you do, and have.

All you’ve done is virtual signal, while allowing those you claim to care about to be in a worse position than before.

If you can explain to me how giving the federal government over to the GOP will help any Palestinian in Gaza or the West Bank, I will go away forever. If you can’t though, then that proves you don’t give a shit about the reality of genocide, only that other people perceive you as being staunchly anti-genocide.

So you’re against candidates being able to drop out and throw their support behind one of the remaining candidates.

You were too lazy to leave the house on a Tuesday evening and are just dressing that up in a way that doesn’t make you a shamefully stupid idiot

Don’t let idealism blind you to reality.

He’s going to adjurn both houses to make his recess appointments and they’ll let him do it.

There’s pretty likely to be compromising information on Gaetz, so that could qualify.

Gabbard is a hindu facist, she’s part of that international right-wing reactionary coalition that formed after the arab spring freaked all the authoritarian leaders from Modi to Putin.

Those people aren’t on Lemmy so I can’t chastise them here. Believe me, I am writing incredible vitriol to Anita Dunn too

Why is that bad politics, but dividing 60% of the democratic centerists amongs Biden, Klob, and Pete to achieve victory good politics?

Aren’t you alienating the largest portion of the base who will feel cheated that their candidate only lost because the race was too crowded with centrists?

So do you consider what the French left change did ‘changing vote totals’ when they dropped out of races where they were splitting the vote and allowing far right candidates to win?

Biden offering people he was running against influence and positions in his government if they drop out and endorse him isn’t cheating, it’s basic politics and if Bernie had half a brain he’d have done the same thing to keep those people in the race.

Superdeligates have never once decided a primary.

Here’s a simpler explanation: Progressive voters don’t turn out, even when it’s Bernie. They failed him in 16, they failed him in 20, and now they’ve failed us all.

It’s easy to mail in vote, it is easy to donate money. It’s hard to actually physically show up and vote, so they stay at home.

Superdelegates have never once decided a primary, they’ve always gone with the person who got the most regular votes.

The man is out here talking shit and won’t show you evidence of why he’s right because it’s not his job to be a teacher and also you are disrespectful in your challenging of his assertions, am I following you correctly?

The reason for no evidence is because there is no evidence, the reason for my disrespect is because i know he has no evidence. Don’t try to pretend like if i came at this from a different angle he’d suddenly be opening the library of Alexandria for us.

The democratic party shares most of the blame, but those that withheld their vote exhibited extremely poor strategy which have made their positions and the position of everyone they claim to care about much much worse.

They surrendered what little influence they had. Instead of trying to grow their power like evangelicals in the 70s, they chose to give up and hope that the results are so horrific it creates a left-wing backlash that can sweep in and fix everything.

Hope is not a strategy, and the most likely outcome is what little progress the American left has made over the last 30 years will be completely undone and we will spend the rest of our lives trying to get back to where we were in 2014.

They’re stupid, well-meaning, idiots.

Did they take his name off the ballot?

Did they change the vote totals?

Did they forbid him from campaigning?

They just ‘put their thumbs on the scales’? What does that even mean? They did ‘everything they could to lock him out of the process’ while letting him campaign and participate in the process? All your examples are vague as fuck, bro.

If that was the case then Buttigege would have just been threatend funding wise and wouldn’t have needed to be offered a cabinet position, which only Biden had the power to give.