MrPiss

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[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

That unfortunately can't be successful without major country wide electoral reform to remove first past the post style voting. I could only really see that happening if the capitalists think that they need to destroy the current two party system to get better control of worsening conditions. Basically asking the masses to calm down and they can vote some greens and libertarians into power as a treat.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Also worth noting that the Greens (despite their poor performance) appear to have done better than the Libertarians, which I don't think has ever happened. They did better than RFK as well. So at least there's that.

Based on the ramblings of my brother and a kind of dumb coworker, rfk was probably a spoiler for the libertarians. The dumb non Trump voters just couldn't get behind a candidate and the greens got to show them up.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

This must be a fix and this is unprecedented

Blueanon is real, and it's going to get worse and more annoying.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining a guy starting a union of himself to collectively bargain with his wife for more sex and less nagging.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Europe doesn't have the ability to go it's own way. Without energy sovereignty, which was denied to them with the ukraine war and the Nordstrom bombings, and with neoliberal austerity they won't be able prevent deindustrialization. The world is still addicted to dollar denominated debt so I don't see a way out for anyone else either. Also, China unfortunately just sits there keeping to themselves so they won't be build a robust alternative to the US for a good while. Those are all short term outlooks though. I'd like to be proven wrong though.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Just looking at it we can clearly see it was riding higher than usual during covid and then quickly dropped down lower than it was before covid. People will feel that and understand that Biden was president for that entire reversal. It's not even a complicated argument. You literally only have the one graph.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's reactionary fascism instead of neoliberal fascism this time around. Generally in Europe they seem to favor business as usual neoliberal fascism right now but the Americans just have to be different.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

The only thing in that list that changes if Kamala won is that Elon would be sad. There's only limited changes to the nature and shape of the evil of this empire between which demon gets elected.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

They are a party of losers completely disconnected from reality.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

It has the chance of being a black hole that absorbs so many chuds that other states eventually turn purple/blue. It would take a while but it might happen. Really a race between that process and the combination of neoliberal rot and climate change destroying those states first.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

My real name has few too many n's and m's near each other and at a certain point it just becomes however many little humps I draw that time. I write my signature two times a year on average and have dogshit hanwriting so they'd be able to get rid of me no matter what.

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

It's like that clip from the show mythbusters: I reject your reality and substitute my own. They do think it matters in their reality.

A lot of people will not know about or understand the electoral college because it's a stupid institution and easy to forget. A lot of people will think they still need to vote because it is a civic duty to vote because a lot of Iraqis died so that we could get our freedoms back from Saddam Hussein. And a lot of people will see their vote as a moral action to show support for their side regardless.

They have a different reality and the motivations for their actions need to be understood on the terms of their reality and not ours. It's also beneficial to understand how their reality is formed but that's a different conversation. It's especially beneficial to understand their reality if you're having a real conversation and trying to convince someone and change their mind.

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