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I'd rather send mine, after what he's advocating doing to unhoused people, but I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and I know it.

do you know anyone who'd choose joe biden? like honestly, if there was a better option?

do you know anyohe who'd choose Donald trump, other than brainwashed fanatical cultists who literally worship him?

over 60% of Americans, and even a majority of republicans, want, according to polls: single payer or otherwise socialized healthcare-no more insurance, federally legal cannabis, abortion access. I suspect the numbers are similar for: tax the rich, net neutrality (once explained), do something about climate change, stop all the bridges collapsing, gimme public transit(maybe), and 'don't give the military obscenely expensive shit they've literally said they can't use', maybe also 'stop cops killing randos in their homes while they sleep what the fuck'.

weird how none of that is happening and we have the precise opposite being done on most of that.

its not the same, you need to pretend more, but for me, sitting here? its not different enough that I can really throw stones.

almost like direct (action) democracy is the only thing that matters and all this bullshit is just tricks to tell us we already said our piece and were overruled, so we need to shut up and just do what most people want, which everyone agrees is a bunch of dumb and bad things if you ask them or look at polls.

from California, and I fucking feel you.

in from California. its not quite as bad, but the electoral college means my vote is ~ 1/5-1/500th (depending on the specific thing) of someone in Missouri's vote (constitution said slaves count as 3/5), and the states presidential votes (where mine matters most; the 1/5th place) always count for whoever the blues run, even if I hate the bastard; my vote literally gets thrown away. first election I remember, 2000; they did count them, then appointed the loser after his friends threw a fit.

also, good job getting out. wish you luck.

one could argue that the Russian revolution failed after they beat back the white army when the Bolsheviks killed all the communists, because killing communists is all the USSR ever really did, except the one time it killed communists by grinding Nazis into a fine icy paste with them, which admittedly was pretty cool.

one could also argue that theres math about centralization that shows you necessarily get worse information to a central source, even with 0 inefficiency, because physical limits and compression and junk, and that a highly centralized body literally cannot make good decisions on purpose at that kind of scale. but then the tankies would stop cuddling their body pillows long enough to threaten to kill you.

basically the thing Russia had before the Bolsheviks killed all the communists, the thing they promised. just listened to a six part podcast on this if you want a link.

lol nobody cares about n'taxpayer money' and conservatives haven't been a real thing in decades. stop pretending to be in honest dialogue with them; they font exist, you just see Nazis wearing their skin

this shit is really moderate and centrist, not even left. just, like 'I want a society and to not be exploited'.

honestly in most places this would be sufficient, but in america I think we need to just ban it all for a few decades first.

yeah. we've been creating more and more eficiences, or so every single tucking source has told me; through technology, economies of scale, and expertise. just like non fucking stop for the past 200 years.

so if we're working at least as much as people did 200 years ago, some heads need to fucking roll.

yeah I'm down for some ol fashioned neighborhood community guillotine building.

and nobody fucking wants it but the billionaires! its great.

direct action or nothing.