And why am I getting pickpocketed half a world away... I don't even watch the puppet show...
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You're literally reading about the puppet show right now.
Wow so deep…
/facepalm.
No matter how they dumb it down, americans still won't get it.
Yeah they should make a drawing out of this, make sure you clearly label each component of the drawing so you don't leave any doubt about the message. /s
so memes then
And even if we don't go to the puppet show, we still get pickpocketed.
Ah it's voter disenfranchisement season here comes the "don't vote" machine
People who look like me were murdered for the right to vote. I'm going to exercise it. These don't vote types have to be privileged for things to be the same no matter who is in office.
It's not "don't vote", it's "don't be fooled into high expectations for the Party of Betraying the Left"
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Is this more 'both sides the same' nonsense?
Do we think dems will save us? Let's say a huge blue wave happens. A Democrat wins every election for the next 2 years. What would they do?
What have they done so far? Ofc I'll vote dem but thinking they will be the ones to save us will only lead to disappointment.
Nope, unless we get involved in the primaries and push for proper progressives like Mamdani. Candidates without AIPAC or super PAC money. unless we vote for them in the primaries, then dems will just keep screwing us.
I think it's not that "the dems" will save us, but that the structural flaws of our system mean that progressives getting into power at the federal level need to do so by winning democrat primaries.
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Yes
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This, but it's raping children and bombing innocents
They don't care about that.
Gas prices and putting their baby killer's lives at risk.
A country of navel staring selfish scumbags
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An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other because one of them is going to decide how good your future is. And when people start to notice their life is getting harder for working people most of the time, they're told they can stop the decline by cheering louder for the puppet that's not currently in power.
The reality today is one of those puppets is going to be in control. Would you like the one that tries to clean the wounds and put on bandaids or the one that keeps playing with knives?
You can sit at the puppet show quietly, but whether or not you cheer, they're going to pick a winner. If you want to leave this circus you better hope the puppet that is open to the idea of changing how we pick a winner starts winning a lot.
If you are paying attention none of our lives are getting easier. The one you are trying to claim is applying bandaids and attending the wound are the ones that caused the cut.
You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches and say you are making progress. If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it out all the way, then that’s still not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t pulled the knife out, much less healed the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there
Malcolm X
So would you rather the knife be pulled out or would you like to be stabbed 20 more times? This both sides nonsense fucking reeks of being planned opposition, especially with how you treat posting about it like it's your fucking job. Were it just a random account saying this, I wouldn't even think to make that assumption, but I see you here all the time beating the same shitty drum.
Like, is your entire personality just stirring up shit with "edgy" takes on Western society. Wake up, have your coffee, and immediately flock to the keyboard to talk about how much imperialism sucks and how everyone that lives in it sucks (except of course for you, the special little boy)
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you know, the more divisive politics is, the more it benefits those in power. because you continue to support your team, meanwhile the other people support the other team. this ensures that all politicians are strongly supported by someone. all the politicians need to do is to pretend to fight each other, meanwhile they actually don't. they just have to pretend to fight each other sothat you continue to support them against the so-called "enemy".
yeah it's a divide a conquer scheme
The term divide and conquer in politics refers to an entity gaining and maintaining political power by using divisive measures.[1] This includes the exploitation of existing divisions within a political group by its political opponents, and also the deliberate creation or strengthening of such divisions.[2][3]
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