Congratulations, you have been promoted from "terminally online Leftist" to "Leftist who understands the basics of American elections".
The whole crux of leftism is collective action. It's embarrassing when the fuck-you-I-got-mine individualists are better at collective action than the socialists.
Not my party, not my wing. I categorize myself as one of the "Leftists who understand the basics of American elections" mentioned above. I vote strategically, because a Leftist isn't one of the top two names on the ticket. The name with an R next to it is significantly detrimental to the advancement of Leftist policy, the name with the D next to it is also detrimental, but to a far lesser degree.
Until an effective Leftist's name takes one of the top two spots on the ballot, the math is simple: D > R. Even if both are negative, so long as D > R, the choice e is D, every time.
I'm talking to you about the practical benefit of voting for a particular candidate, not blame. Leftists comprise maybe 5% of registered voters. Centrist Neo-Libs comprise probably 30+%. Leftist turnout is significant in tipping a close election, but not enough to carry it without the Neo-Libs.
Neo-Lib candidates are better for Leftists than Fascists are. On every single metric, they are better, or at the very worst equal. Even if you consider the Ratchet model, the keep-things-the-same party is objectively better than the ratchet-to-the-right party. At least it gives you time to popularize Leftist policies and candidates. The further we ratchet to the right, the harder it is to promote the Left.
Centrist Democrats will. Leftists who understand the basics of American elections will. Fence sitters will stay home, and terminally online leftists will vote third party out of protest, and thus the God King will ascend his golden throne.
Where do you expect those leftist policies to come from when low voter turnout gives the Republicans enough seats to veto them all?
It's funny I just made this one the other day
No one said it was grassroots, just that they worked together.
It's like when someone says something like "Oh if men could get pregnant there'd be an abortion clinic on every corner". Not getting pregnant is the core attribute that makes "men" a concept.
It was a giant hostage situation, to force papers to publish his manifesto so people would read it. That's definitely a discernible purpose. Not a justified purpose, but certainly discernible.
He's rich from a long and successful multimedia art career. And I can't find any source that says he bought it, it seems to still be owned by James Zigras, the mineralogist friend. He just carved it.
Not sure about the racist bit. DEVO definitely utilized racial stereotypes, but the consensus seems to be that it was very clearly satirizing systemic racism. I dunno if Mothersbaugh has any other history of sincere racism, but I can't find anything.
Additionally, its more likely that the camel is a mistranslation, since the words for "camel" and "rope" are nearly identical both in Aramaic and Greek.
Y'know, I started a gym membership years back at a gym which was where a bunch of people in local bodybuilding circuits worked out, and one of their selling points while they were giving me a tour was that they had neck machines.