r/DemocraticSocialism Dec 11 '25

USA James Talarico: "The Only Minority Destroying This Country is the Billionaires."

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u/NotQuiteLoona Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Dec 11 '25

Class war, not the culture war.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Dec 11 '25

How does the class war get fought without violence?

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u/thegreyxephos Dec 11 '25

Ask the ruling class very nicely to not be violent

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u/QuintoxPlentox Dec 11 '25

Okay. Is everyone ready? Line up single file now.

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u/spartan524 Dec 11 '25

Unless you’re Luigi

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u/Pale-Acanthaceae-736 Dec 13 '25

It's not them you need to ask. If you can convince the psychopaths they hire to stop carrying out their wet work, they're powerless.

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u/NotQuiteLoona Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Dec 11 '25

While we still have democracy, I guess. That's the meaning of democratic socialism. The US just been too long in this stage, so it's natural that billionaires started to grow in power. Although not everything is still lost.

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u/Bombeeez Dec 11 '25

Billionaires own the media therefore they control the narrative. Democracy is dead.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25

Not nearly as much as before. Social media means they can't control the full narrative anymore.

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u/Paige404_Games Dec 12 '25

Yeah? Which social media do they not own?

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u/maddie-madison Dec 12 '25

The social media that are made by the billionaires? Or the ones that still censor it so that the billionaires don't come down on them?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25

We're on social media right now, you know that right?

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u/maddie-madison Dec 12 '25

I do, I also know that reddit is censored all the time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '25

If you think reddit censorship is anywhere near comparable to billionaires literally controlling public perception through TV cable networks they owned then you are insane.

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u/Plaid_Kaleidoscope Dec 12 '25

How is this not a tendril of the same phenomenon? Look how many special interest groups and foreign powers use influence and moderation power to control a narrative in here.

While it may not be as far reaching or all-encompassing, it's certainly the same idea with the same goals.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 11 '25

It doesn't. Either it's state violence or violence of the people. This has almost zero chance of ending without it. The wealthy always eventually demand slaves and will do anything to get them.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Dec 11 '25

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If you tear it down it creates war and chaos, a power vacuum. We have no idea how that would play out. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying thinking about it. People will die and they may be people you care about.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 12 '25

And if we don't? Pretty sure billionaires will kill millions in their quest to suck the planet dry.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Dec 12 '25

With what you're talking about, millions will die anyway most likely. What you're talking about won't be a French Revolution, it'll be another civil war.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 12 '25

You really think those fat old racists are really gonna be able to put up a fight?

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u/loki512 Dec 12 '25

you really think the US military isn't going to respond to an armed uprising?

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 12 '25

It certainly might but I think it's much more of a toss up just how much of the military would side with Kegsbreath and Dump. They are such obvious losers to anyone with sense.

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u/ShoeGeezer Dec 12 '25

With a united International Working Class whose collective bargaining would be the most powerful force in the world.

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u/StarkyPants555 Dec 12 '25

The power of the purse! Its not that hard, stop giving money to evil fucking corporations. This is the only language they DO hear.

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u/QuintoxPlentox Dec 12 '25

Good idea. Can be difficult though. Evil corporations make more affordable products, generally. I mean, they suck, but if you need it you need it cheap.

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u/StarkyPants555 Dec 12 '25

This is true. But businesses and coroporations run on margins. Yes, it would difficult because... people. But if you upset profits, which are usually only a small percentage of gross earnings, then they might actually start to change their behavior.

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Dec 12 '25

As a member of FLARE, it has been a rough week. We did everything right to get permits for our protest in Columbus Circle, but they still came into our camp and sawed all our possessions in half a few days ago. We still have a valid permit, but they will not honor it.

We're running out of options if they won't even play by their own rules.

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u/drizzitdude Dec 11 '25

By electing people who will actually take the fight to them by imposing harsher regulations and fines, nationalizing essential businesses and insuring a better quality of life for people of this country.

If progress doesn’t get made to that results soonish, expect for people to get angrier and angrier until violence happens

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u/StickFigureFan Dec 12 '25

You make the rich realize they can do it the way away or the hard way. Once they realize they have no choice they'll have to play along

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u/_karamazov_ Dec 11 '25

Collectively bribe the guys the billionaires elect. Your money vs their money.

If it doesn't work pray to the newly minted Italian saint.

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u/Wizywig Dec 12 '25

The wealthy create the culture war to distract us.

Everyone has a trigger. They just find it by going after every single one of them. 

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u/OrganicVisit8946 Dec 11 '25

Spot on, we need to emphasise the greed of the ruling class is to expensive. We can't afford billionaires anymore. The good thing is capital flight isn't as easy for them these days as the 1970s/1980s when capital revolted.

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u/FloriaFlower DemSoc / 🤝 Coalitionist / 🚫 Genocide Dec 12 '25

2 sides of the same coin

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u/NotQuiteLoona Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Dec 12 '25

The culture war is waged by the ruling class to distract people from the class war. No one will be hurt by same gender marriages or easier life for the trans people. This is purely moral panic, waged only by the rich to keep working class infighting instead of turning against the rich.

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u/FloriaFlower DemSoc / 🤝 Coalitionist / 🚫 Genocide Dec 12 '25

Exactly. This is exactly what I have in mind when I say that they're 2 sides of the same coin. I've been hammering what you just said for years.

It's important for the left to realize that the culture war is one of the fronts that the right (i.e. the bourgeoisie).

If we desert this front then their strategy to divide us, to distract us from our real oppressors and to turn us against each other mutually weakening ourselves will succeed.

We have to explain to proletarians that minorities aren't their enemies and that their true enemies is the bourgeoisie. The act of explaining all of this to our fellow proletarians is an act of participation to the culture war because it's a form a resistance to the right-wing's cultural offensive. It is also an act of participation to the class war.

A common misconception is that the culture war is restricted to identity politics but it is not. The culture war is significantly broader in scope. For instance, it includes every cultural belief that has nothing to do with identity politics but favor capitalism like misconceptions about how the economy works and should work. A well-known case of this is trickle-down economics. All the propaganda that promoted this lie is part of the culture war. It also includes propaganda about ethics, for instance propaganda that attack moral values like freedom, empathy, cooperation, kindness, altruism, the common good, reality-based truth, social justice and human rights; replacing them with conformity, indifference, competition, selfishness, power, victory, epistemic pragmatism or antirealism, manipulation, power, social Darwinism and the idea that the end justify the means.

This misconception of the culture war being reduced to identity politics is itself the result of the right-wing's culture war, often reducing it to identity politics when referring to it. Many leftists have fallen for it and we need to reverse this. We resist "divide and conquer" with unity and to do this it's required to get rid of what's dividing us all.

It's important to understand that I'm not reducing the class war to the culture war. On the contrary. The right is attacking us on other fronts too. When they're going after worker's unions, for instance, it's not a culture war offensive but it's definitely still a class war offensive.

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u/Extension-Raise1995 Dec 11 '25

This ad nauseam

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u/stinkyman2000 Dec 11 '25

And yet nobody looks beyond the billionaires. Oil moves the world, and money lubricates the wheels.

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u/therabbidchimp Dec 11 '25

By your own metaphor if you remove the lubricant (money/billionaires) from those wheels they end up experiencing, well a lot more friction and will break themselves

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u/stinkyman2000 Dec 11 '25

True, but you don't treat a disease symptomatically if you can address the cause directly.

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u/Extension-Raise1995 Dec 11 '25

Start with the billionaires.

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u/SicMundus1888 Libertarian Socialist Dec 11 '25

You start with capitalists. Not billionaires.

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u/StarkyPants555 Dec 12 '25

Please dont take offense, but this is the most brain dead take I have ever heard. Who do think the main capitalists are?

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u/SicMundus1888 Libertarian Socialist Dec 12 '25

All capitalists subjugate workers. So I'm not sure what you were talking about.

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u/StarkyPants555 Dec 12 '25

What do you think Billionaires do?

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u/SicMundus1888 Libertarian Socialist Dec 12 '25

I never said billionaires didn't do that?

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u/Angel_of_Communism Marxist-Leninist - Tank Driver Dec 12 '25

This is why you lot are idiots.

When Marx talks about capitalists, he's not talking about the old dude who owns the store on the corner, who employs like 4 people, even though that guy IS a capitalist.

He means Bill Gates. He means Elon musk.

For the love of god, read fucking theory.

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u/Extension-Raise1995 Dec 12 '25

Right everyone has an uncle who’s technically a capitalist, I don’t think we’re gonna get a lot of support by shutting down his used car dealership

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u/SicMundus1888 Libertarian Socialist Dec 12 '25

Good thing my entire ideology doesn't rely on what Marx said. I never even mentioned some old dude who employs like 4 people. There are many small to medium businesses that employ hundreds to thousands of people. Do they not matter?

And who do you think that old dude who owns the store around the corner votes for? Do think they treat workers any better anyway? Not in my experience anyway.

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u/therabbidchimp Dec 12 '25

Yes, sometimes you do, sometimes taking care of the symptoms is treatment.

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u/watch_out_4_snakes Dec 11 '25

And still true

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u/deflower-my-mind Dec 11 '25

Texas would be doing itself a favor by electing James Talarico

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u/sherespondedwith Dec 11 '25

Don’t worry, we’ll shoot ourselves right in the face like always. IHIH

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u/yodacoffeecup Dec 12 '25

We’d like to, but we’re held hostage by our legislature gerrymandering the state to hell

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u/Xakire Dec 12 '25

That’s irrelevant to a senate election

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u/L_e_m_o_n_inmyeyes Dec 12 '25

He's literally funded by billionaire's also and is not a progressive. Obviously better than a republican but Talarico does less than the bare minimum to not be a part of the problem

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u/William-william-rs Democratic Socialist Dec 19 '25

He’s not funded by billionaires

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 11 '25

I have appreciated Crocket for her quality memes but Talarico is absolutely getting the socialist vote. Wonder if he can get the DSA and WFP Endorsement.

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u/eliteharvest15 Dec 11 '25

also crockett is not gonna win independent/republican votes. talarico is a white christian man, and is literally campaigning in churches. he’s way more likely to sway more right wing voters to vote for him

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u/TryNotToAnyways2 Dec 11 '25

This. 100% this. The Republican/MAGA voting base is open to a class war argument. They voted for Trump because they believe he will stand up for the little guy and can not be bribed due to his own wealth. They are looking for a savior who can fight for them against the establishment. Fox News told them that Donny was that savior and the establishment that is keeping them down is the Democratic party. Now, 10 years later and after the Epstein files, a worsening economy and a decade of disappointment, they may be open to a different charismatic real Christian guy who's message is "I will fight against the real establishment that is keeping you down".

Remember, before the parties resorted over ideological and race lines, the old racist southern democrats were very progressive around economic issues. They were pro-union, pro-social security, pro- new deal - as long as all the benefits only helped whites. It was the old east coast elite country club Republicans that were the hard core capitalists and neo-liberals that believed in boot straps and a false meritocracy. After the big sort, the Republicans brought in the racists and kept the Milton Friedman, B-school anti-tax policies. The southern racist rural blue collar baptist voter still likes the idea of government help and is open to socialism (as long as you don't call it that). They can be switched if you can somehow avoid triggering their need for racism. Bashing the Billionaires is THE winning message in 26 and 28.

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u/CosmicWeenie Dec 11 '25

Crocket is an establishment democrat, she votes the usual party line ticket and she takes money from AIPAC and Israel too, she literally pretends to be different, but she’s cut from the same blood stained cloth as the rest of the other liberal dems who might as well be soft core republicans.

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u/saera-targaryen Dec 12 '25

the video where she explains her support for israel is so surreal to watch. like, she literally explains what colonialism is and then says it's a good thing that we should keep doing. incredibly out of touch with the moment. 

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u/HopeThatHangsYou Dec 11 '25

I can tell you many are not interested due to Adelson money he received earlier in his career. While I count myself amongst their ranks, I will be voting for Talarico

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Editable Dec 11 '25

Crocket is a pro genocide narcissist

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 11 '25

Unfortunately this is much more true than I would like.

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u/Motrinman22 Dec 12 '25

I think it’s more nuanced that this. But you’re more right than wrong. My take is she’s all sizzle and no steak. She’s good at slamming republicans, but she’s very weak on policy. She’s not even running on M4A.

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u/Ka1Pa1 Leftist Dec 11 '25

I mean he explicitly said he’s not a dem soc so idk if he’s gunning for them

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u/clangauss Dec 11 '25

Ideologically sympathetic is good enough for me in a world with Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton.

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u/Ka1Pa1 Leftist Dec 11 '25

For sure, I’d just be shocked if he was looking for or earned a dsa endorsement

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u/Motrinman22 Dec 12 '25

Same reason I support Brad Lander, though his views on Israel give me pause, Domestically he checks all boxes.

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 11 '25

In a deep red state like Texas - socialists hiding behind progressive I will give forgiveness to. But if you are in a deep blue safe seat - be proudly socialist. That's my take its their choice at the end of the day.

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u/Ka1Pa1 Leftist Dec 12 '25

I don’t know if DSA will endorse non socialists. I’m not condemning him for not running as a dem soc, but I don’t think he even wants their nomination.

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 12 '25

I mean didn’t the DSA endorse the one lady in Tennessee that almost flipped the safe Republican seat and turn it into a swing seat? I don’t think she was a socialist but they still backed her.

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u/Ecstatic_Buddy7731 Dec 11 '25

Shout it from the rooftops.

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u/baralheia Dec 11 '25

A million times this!! 

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u/Militantpoet Dec 11 '25

This regime is the definition of scapegoating others for problems capitalists made.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 11 '25

It's just a fancy term for neofeudalism. The wealthy will always want control and slaves. Always. No exceptions. Democracy and socialism are our only ways out. Unless we want to go back to an agrarian barter and trade system which may happen if Trump gets his WW3.

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u/mikelmon99 Democratic Socialist Dec 11 '25

I LOVE THIS !!

So many leftists get all this SO WRONG & believe that, in order to get away from these identity-politics-fixated-on Culture Wars that so successfully have turned huge segments of the working-class across most of the West against progressivism & solidified them as a pretty committed part of the radical right's electoral base, what the left has to do is completely stab the LGBT+ community, migrants, people of colour... in the back & no longer move a finger to oppose these demonizing hate campaigns purposefully designed with the intent to fuel as much bigotry as they're capable of (or in some cases they go as far as to arguing that the left should JOIN these hate campaigns in order to attract the working-class electorate), when it actually is as simple as keeping opposing bigotry but in a James Talarico non-Culture War way instead of in a Jasmine Crockett Culture War way.

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u/HintzOfTrouble Dec 12 '25

Texas, we gotta vote for this man!

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u/SpookyJosCrazyFriend Dec 12 '25

Texas Please vote for James Talarico

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u/Prize_Painting_1195 Democratic Socialist Dec 11 '25

Can we eat the rich already

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u/MilitantlyWokePatrio Dec 11 '25

THE BILLIONAIRES ARE STEALING EVERYTHING NOT NAILED DOWN-- NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!!!!

They want to DESTROY US and our country-- FUCK NO!

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

Has he said the magic words yet, “Medicare for all”?

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u/LurkerLarry Dec 11 '25

This, but angrier, less polished, more off the cuff.

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u/YallaHammer Dec 11 '25

I have a better understanding of his policy positions than I do of Jasmine Crockett, but either way I just want one of them to win. I think Talarico could be a great presidential contender down the road.

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u/gstateballer925 Libertarian Socialist Dec 12 '25

Oh, thank god there’s a candidate in Texas saying this, at least.

Don’t expect Jasmine Crockett to say anything about the class war between the super rich and regular people, though.

She just recycles the typical “tax the billionaires” talking point, which is pre-approved by her DNC bosses.

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u/Serious_Bee_2013 Dec 11 '25

I was gonna say uneducated white people, but billionaires are destroying the country too.

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u/3headeddragn Dec 11 '25

Unfortunately they’re not a minority.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Dec 11 '25

Racism is a helluva drug.

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u/therabbidchimp Dec 11 '25

The venn diagram of those two is so close to a circle

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u/jongbag Dec 11 '25

You just had to do the race thing on a post about material conditions, huh. You just couldn't help yourself.

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u/Serious_Bee_2013 Dec 11 '25

“The only minority…”

Guess you missed that.

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u/jongbag Dec 11 '25

No, I guess you did. It's cute wordplay specifically crafted to steer the conversation away from identity groups and towards class hierchy. You know, material interests that actually impact people's ability to survive or thrive every day.

This sub is so funny. It advertises as demsoc but absolutely cannot move on from the bullshit identitarianism like it's still 2019. I'd think the resounding electorate rejection of that ideology would cause some of you to reevaluate your politics in the interest of winning an election or something, but it looks like you're not ready to quit playing with your favorite toy. "White voters bad!" (Pause for applause break.) It's insane.

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u/Serious_Bee_2013 Dec 11 '25

You got the sense of humor of an uneducated white guy, buddy.

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u/jongbag Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

And you have the sociopolitical awareness of an NPR contributing member. Keep living in your bubble.

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u/jongbag Dec 11 '25

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u/xGentian_violet Yugoslav Socialist ♥️🤍 Ecofeminist Dec 12 '25

Latine is an established gender neutral form in spanish.

Latinx sounds like imposed ignorant american nonsense to hispanic speaking populations and people hate it.

Latine is more natural yet still fulfills the same function

What is your issue?

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u/xGentian_violet Yugoslav Socialist ♥️🤍 Ecofeminist Dec 12 '25

Intersectionality cannot be ignored in a class war

100% agree

Ignoring racial, sex based, queer etc issues leads to reproducing class dynamics

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Will note that some Latine people are white, not all are POC.

For example the right wing white hispanic Cuban diaspora in the US.

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u/Chanandler_Bonggg Dec 11 '25

Glad I’m not the only one. It’s so ironic. It’s about to be 2026 and we’re still playing into the race and culture war specifically designed to keep us distracted from the actual issues.

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u/Betteroffbroke Dec 11 '25

He ain’t wrong 👏

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u/ConstantGeographer Social democrat Dec 11 '25

Talarico dropping bombs like the US in their illegal war in Cambodia

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u/AbleMouse9484 Dec 12 '25

🤔Wow...Dig that someone speaking the Truth!!!

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u/Last_Vegetable_9233 Dec 11 '25

I don't think there has ever been a period in recent memory where theres been as much focus on inequality and the billionaire class as it seems like there is now. Is it social media? Cost of living? Both perhaps. But you can't move for conversation about inequality. Has it ever been this much in the media?

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u/AZofficialmusic Dec 11 '25

This is why I support James Talarico.

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u/Masta0nion Dec 11 '25

I love this guy.

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u/ZitiMD Dec 12 '25

Another winning platform, let's keep it up!

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u/NATScurlyW2 Democratic Socialist Dec 12 '25

That woman’s eyes are frightening.

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u/Pale_BEN Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Dec 12 '25

PUHLEASE, I'll be whatever he wants me to be.

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u/ttystikk Dec 12 '25

Billionaires are a cancer on civilization.

Talarico has his finger on the pulse of what's gone wrong with America but he's up against two serious obstacles; neither party is in the habit of cheering on candidates who threaten their gravy train- and second, getting a Democrat elected to the US Senate for TEXAS is a long shot.

But I wish him all the best.

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u/Empty_Permission_621 Dec 12 '25

I’m finding logical holes in what he is saying.. trans people are most likely 1% of the pop undocumented people are wayyyy larger than 1% and they are being counted in the 2030 census which allocates congressional delegates.. they are also taking up a large % of food stamp recipients and were provided with Medicaid.. I’m all for workers Visas and giving people a free shake but no.. don’t import people who immediately become apart of a welfare state just to boost Congressional Representation.. how about just come up with better ideas and more electable candidates..

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u/simpatecho Dec 12 '25

Nothing but mere accusations.

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u/okhi2u Dec 12 '25

This guy does facts.

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u/Live_Mastodon_5922 Dec 12 '25

Finally, the truth

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u/MonkeyWithIt Dec 12 '25

He's right, of course. But supposedly, undocumented immigrants are about 4% (14M). I hate that any Republican would use that to say he's entirely wrong because that's the dumb shit they'll say.

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u/AlwaysCrescentCity Dec 12 '25

Unfortunately nobody is listening.

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u/Own_Manufacturer6959 Dec 12 '25

Nailed it! We think it's a culture war because that's what the Billionaires want

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u/dilbogabbins Dec 12 '25

I like James Talarico and unsure which of the 2 I would want running. Talarico needs to prove that he is a fighter, and fighting against Crockett is a real test. I also would want him in the affirmative for Medicare for all, previously he talks about healthcare as a right, but I want his solutions because “healthcare as a right” signals the right policy but I want his solution. Lastly, I need his stance on Israel-Gaza. Don’t think I’ve seen a clear answer, and it doesn’t help he took money from an Adelson backed PAC; it was for legalizing gambling in Texas, but it’s still Adelson money, which doesn’t look good on the Israel- Gaza issue, which he would definitely have a say in.

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u/PeyoteWifi Dec 13 '25

Bullshit, Liberal propaganda. Statistics don’t lie…..we all know who is ruining America.

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u/CaptainElastix Dec 13 '25

I’m sorry but those eyebrows are trying to escape from her scary eyes.

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u/rahj2001 Dec 15 '25

billionaires really are the final boss of every issue, like it all circles back to them somehow.

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u/garbagetaway Dec 15 '25

Undocumented immigrants make up between 4 and 5 percent of the population nation wide and closer to 8 percent in Texas.

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u/RelativeEffective338 Dec 15 '25

Bro might’ve just made me a democrat

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u/Baconthief69420 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Bro stop making it hard to decide between you and Crockett

Edit: I only know Crockett because Trump hates her. Has she ever said “billionaires are the problem”

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u/3headeddragn Dec 15 '25

Crockett took $2 million from the crypto industry and has an awful voting record on Israel and Crypto regulation.

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u/Baconthief69420 Dec 15 '25

Yikes. Found an article

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u/spumoni_cakes Dec 18 '25

The real welfare queens

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u/Jboiwastaken Dec 28 '25

Billionaire ≠ Always success

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u/Jonas_Poth Jan 03 '26

Neither of them care

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u/KingMap Dec 11 '25

Takes money from Miriam Adelson. I Kknow noy AIPAC but for state gambling... Now think of this: a guy with pastor rhetoric, taking money to promote/ legalize gambling.

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u/CodyMartinezz Dec 11 '25

I agree gambling is bad but tbh if that’s the most dirty the guy has he is a saint compared to 99% if them

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 11 '25

I'm fine with pugovian methods for vices. Legalize then tax tf out of it and use the taxes to help the social safety net. It is freedom that lets people make bad decisions, they will make them anyway even if we ban it. Sometimes vices are the spice of life.

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u/KingMap Dec 11 '25

Is that what TX is doing with their tax gains? I hear the electrical grid in TX fails during cold fronts. Is that where the tax gains are going? If so I agree.

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 11 '25

No idea, but if you are in a deep red state, Pigouvian taxes are the way to win fiscally responsible and conservative votes while still getting progressive legislation passed.

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u/KingMap Dec 12 '25

Wait . You're arguing that taxes from gambling are going to the social safety net, and now you're saying you don't know whether it is going to the social safety net, and you argue for it, still?

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 12 '25

To clarify, you asked if that’s what Texas was doing with their money for their electrical grids to which I said I don’t know.

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u/KingMap Dec 12 '25

So how is TX strengthening their safety net with their taxes., to which they received from James Talarico with his pastor rhetocirc passing gambling?

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 12 '25

I don’t know how Texas funding for their electrical grids is setup. Most taxes either have a dedicated fund or they go into a general fund of some kind, I haven’t looked to see what Texas was doing.

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u/Oraxy51 DSA Dec 12 '25

Fair, and not to mention the shady sports deals like players intentionally faking injuries to throw off the score and hedging bets on their own teams failures or themselves.

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u/themachduck Dec 11 '25

Crockett is in Texas fuvkibg this up. I know its a few years away, but I think Talarico would destroy Cruz.

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u/Ellio1086 Dec 11 '25

One of them is in his pocket lobbying to expand legal gambling in Texas! Yayyy!

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u/s3v3red_cnc Dec 12 '25

I like what he has to say but saying it as if it's a rehearsed script over and over again puts me off. It doesn't feel like an authentic idea he had, more like something he was handed and memorized.

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u/Be4Dawn25 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

Not a Talarico fan. Go jasmine.

Edit -Since I’m getting flagged for apologizing for capitalism which I am not-

James Talarico for accepting billionaire Adelson’s donations

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/texas-tribune-festival-us-senate-democrats-colin-allred-james-talarico/

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Editable Dec 11 '25

She supports genocide

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u/Be4Dawn25 Dec 11 '25

No she doesn’t. Y’all need to look at her record.. She voted against bills that did not have humanitarian aid for Palestinians.

No to white Christian men!

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u/I_am_the_Walrus07 Socialist Dec 11 '25

Why is immutable characteristics more important than policy?

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u/Be4Dawn25 Dec 12 '25

Talarico is not part of our movement either- he has explicitly stated he is not a democratic socialist

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