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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is partially right but really the issue is non voters. There are a lot of sexist and racist people that won't vote for a black woman but will vote for a white man.

I really don't have any hope for humanity. Whether we kill ourselves from global warming or nuclear war it ends with the same result. It's too depressing to actively worry about. Better to live in the moment and ignore things I can't control.

Hopefully we will have another election but somehow I think the military and policing agencies will be turned against the general population. The first step will be removing Congress, both senate and house, and using violence to enforce it while restricting free speech and freedom of the press. Then the imprisonment of political dissenters in modern day concentration camps. After the consolidation of power is complete and free speech is truly restricted America as it was will be gone. I expect a civil war during this transition, and while that happens China, Russia, and India will all make moves to expand, with wars erupting throughout the world.

Our only hope is if the military truly believes the oaths they swore, to serve the us constitution. But really I'm not holding out to hope for that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

waiting for a chance to elect the least shitty candidate every 4 years is how you got into this mess.

If we don't organize and start taking direct action then nothing will change.

People need to join organizations in their community or labor unions and begin to directly sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes should be something that the American left are actively planning right now.

Don't sit down, stand up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Right. If we’re organized we can cripple this shit in week. Don’t need guns. All we would need to do is withhold our labor. Put our hands in our pockets, call in sick. If nothing is functioning all of a sudden we have our power back.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They didn't ignore this reality. They tried to move to the right, and woo right wing voters, trotting out Liz Cheney, acting and talking like Republicans. And it accomplished nothing: R's voted with their party. It was a total failure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

wow I can't believe Republican voters preferred to vote Republican rather than Republican Lite. you can't expect even career politicians to see this coming.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Liz Cheney was a great get on their part. It's the rest of it that was the issue. They should have gone hard left and still had Liz up there, for the full-spectrum effect. "Even this crazy conservative woman thinks Kamala's great" but then everything else: left left left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They're both working for capitalists. Democrats bank on getting the support of capitalists that have morals. Unfortunately most capitalists, and the wealthiest capitalists, don't. When both parties appeal to the same group but one gives them more of what they want unsurprisingly that's the one that wins.

The working class is invisible because the working class is not organized.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

DNC Leadership: Is "left" your people's way of saying "status quo?"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Unless anyone here has spent time on other social media platforms that are unfiltered you really don't have a clue what a cesspool of troll farm propaganda that has been pouring out for the last several months.

And it all stopped last night.

Non-stop made-up bullshit blaming Harris for the last four years for some completely undefined fault, high fuel prices even though they're down, grocery prices, inflation, cost of housing, etc. etc. Just a steady sewer pipe drain of dreck for months. I bet Putin got his money's worth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So Dems don't turnout to vote and this is the Republican propaganda machines fault? The day the Dems actually take accountability for their continual fuckups is the day I might vote for them again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People act where they think their actions will do something. The fact that you intuitively channel your rage at the democrats is a kind of proof that you understand the republicans are beyond hope and infinitely, infinitely more at fault.

This is something the left has to start getting right. Pointing the rage at the right place. It starts here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What the fuck are you on? I'm mad at the Dems for refusing to play the game properly and actually gain wins.

Shut the fuck up with your psychobabble.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but it's not.

its about 20 million voters throwing a tantrum and fucking us.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

For a second time!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Bold of them to assume there's going to be a Democratic party.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Democratic party is stuck on this idealistic platform of unity and appealing broadly to the American people. The Left, however, recognizes the fact that the Right has forsaken unity and is more than willing to irradiate the Left in pursuit of its own goals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

The Democratic party is stuck on this idealistic platform of unity and appealing broadly to the American people.

That's the marketing for "moving right every chance they get."

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