It's so funny how they keep having to make shit up about us because we don't actually do anything bad.
Hey @goat@sh.itjust.works keep it up, libs, you're only helping us. Go on, keep telling people we worship modern Russia even though we clearly don't. It makes you look so good and trustworthy.
Isn't it wild how many people's job is just being rich?
Because being hot enough to be paid for it takes money (and therefore time)
I don't think my question was so much for you, as you don't seem like the type to totally defend the Dems and Biden, but thanks for answering anyway.
When it comes to the national scale, two-party, first-past-the-post shitshow that we have, who else am I gonna vote for?
That's the problem. What we have is flawed and corrupt. If you have to ask "Who else am I going to vote for?" then you need to start organizing and supporting leftist organizations and revolutionary communists, my friend.
"A fascist voted today, did you?" is a phrase I came across at some point that resonated with me, and whenever I talk to someone who is apathetic about voting it seems effective in getting them to involve themselves at the bare-minimum level of our democracy.
Understandable, but again, a fascist has voting power in a fascist system, we do not. Getting involved with democracy only works if you have a people's democracy, not an oligarchy decided by the capitalist donor class. You can see for yourself that even getting student loans forgiven is being easily stopped by unelected loan companies stepping in and threatening to sue. How is that democratic?
When it comes to primaries and state/local stuff, I vote as left as I can. Bernie, Chesa Boudin, Shahid Buttar, etc
None of these people are left. None of them want to abolish capitalism. Like, I get you're trying to vote as left as possible. But the system will never let these people win. As we saw with the smear campaign against people like Bernie (and Corbin for a UK example) as soon as they got popular. That's not me trying to be defeatist, that's just the reality of the situation, and if we continue to try to fix things that way we're going to be stuck butting our heads against a wall while the planet burns. Hell, even if those 'left as possible' candidates do get popular they aren't allowed to win. Bernie was exceedingly popular during the 2020 primaries. To put it in perspective, people outside of the US knew who he was, none of them knew who Biden was. Was anyone passionate about Biden other than the donor class? No, yet he suddenly beats everyone else? Even Warren was more popular than him. But the oligarchs decide, not us.
not that it does any good, their name recognition is off the charts.
Exactly, if the ruling wealthy donor class wants someone to win, these are the people that will get the most advertising and donor support and those are the people who will win. And like I said, even if a grassroots movement does get popular, even the mildest leftist won't be allowed to win.
Ultimately I think we need to get our elections fixed with a myriad of improvements: ranked choice (or whatever, just not fptp), automatic registration, universal vote-by-mail, replace election "day" with election week or month, mandatory voting, and better districting to mitigate gerrymandering.
That will never happen in America. They won't allow it. Even in countries that do have it, like mine, it doesn't change anything. Western capitalist democracies are simply corrupt. I mean, vote all you want, but understand that without organizing against the system, nothing will fundamentally change.
Maybe you don't know what what US hegemony is? The West answers to the US. My own country has a US military base smack dab in the middle of it. It's not strange to state a fact.
It would be like me posting about cereal or something and then saying “China bad”. See what I’m saying?
The war in Ukraine and US warmongering are very much linked. Unlike your example. Either you don't understand global politics or you're being disingenuous yourself.
American sponsored war
This is pathetic. Your people are dying, America, and this is what you do instead? Childish baby shit. So glad this empire is crumbling under its own bullshit. It's just a shame its bringing innocent people down with it.
Thank you for fixing that, friend.
Ours serve a purpose because they describe something otherwise not properly described by current language.
They're mimicking what they think sounds intelligent
This is why education is so fucking important. Assuming this person is telling the truth, then they don't know what Nazi symbols look like. That's a failure of the education of their country to protect them from dangerous people.