Fuck yeah
blindbunny 27 points 2 years ago
blindbunny 11 points 2 years ago
¡Saludos desde Albuquerque!
ZILtoid1991 9 points 2 years ago
If you replace "democrat" with "mainstream liberals", and "republicans" with "conservatives", then you got a meme about politics in general in most of the developed world.
I don't like them, but it was still heartbreaking to see Demokratikus Koalíció, a mainstream liberal party that was probably the most progressive in the whole Hungarian opposition block at that point, is cozying up to anti-trans ideas.
Wes4Humanity 6 points 2 years ago
Tried this with Bernie... The DNC rigged the primary... first goal needs to be to take over the Dem party. Which would actually be pretty easy since like 5 people show up to those elections, but only insiders really ever know about them.
If you're curious, every state, and many towns/counties have their own Democrat party... Find yours, figure out who the shills are and get like 10 people to vote for you to replace them during their next elections. The DNC leadership is elected by the state Dems, so once you've taken over your state you can start taking over the DNC.
ShadyGrove 1 point 2 years ago
Local and state primaries are a thing, and local politics probably affect you more anyway. It's better to start a movement from the bottom up rather than top down.
Sasha 41 points 2 years ago
Innuendo Studios has a good video on this in their alt right playbook series. Republicans will gladly appeal to the far right, Democrats want to distance themselves from the left as much as possible and are instead focused on also appealing to the right...
Ultimately, while a lot of the parties policies are different on the surface, Democrats still win when Republicans are in power because they're part of the same class, hoarding wealth works for both sides. Democrats seemingly only exist to make the system vageuly stomachable (is that even a word?) to the rest of America.
wildbus8979 30 points 2 years ago
Ohai!
I'm glad someone improved it though, I was on my phone when I did it and couldn't get the finger to overlap the sign!
wildbus8979 10 points 2 years ago
At your service, comrade 🫡
imPastaSyndrome 22 points 2 years ago
So what you're saying is that we only need to push down on the Democrats lever and we'll fly to the left
imPastaSyndrome 4 points 2 years ago
I don't think anyone here said just vote for them and don't put pressure on them. I'm fact I'm pretty sure everyone says exactly that
imPastaSyndrome 2 points 2 years ago
I don't know why you think you have to say any of this
Gradually_Adjusting 21 points 2 years ago
To be clear though, it's not a "fake" two party system, it's a very real systematically entrenched duopoly.
agamemnonymous 3 points 2 years ago
And I doubt most of us are "duped". We know this is how it works, and the best strategy is still to keep butting back up against the catch until we have reach the conditions to lift it. Every Dem victory is like a pause button on the rightward slide while we boost candidates for the next primary.
Gradually_Adjusting 3 points 2 years ago
I don't even live in the states anymore and I still vote. The rightward slide affects the whole world, can you imagine what will happen to Ukraine if Trump wins? And after Ukraine, it's war in the Baltics. And then there's Taiwan. And South Korea is probably about to be in trouble too, I'm sensing.
I have full clarity. When the devil is going to take you unless you play the game, you keep playing. He knows you know it's rigged, but you keep playing until maybe you can pull a fast one. It's the only hope.
carpelbridgesyndrome 18 points 2 years ago
You want Trump? This is how you get Trump
carpelbridgesyndrome 5 points 2 years ago
Just don't come whining to me when he bombs Mexico as he's been promising. You helped.
Keeponstalin 16 points 2 years ago
Voting Harris is the right thing to do from a lesser evil standpoint. I think everyone should, but I understand those who won't from an anti-genocide standpoint and won't blame them for it, unless they vote Trump, that's unacceptable. You might as well write in Bernie if you're thinking Green, they got the same chance of winning. Ultimately, it's on Harris and her campaign strategy for failing to part from Biden on Israel. They are taking that risk, which I think is very dumb and dangerous considering the sentiment of voters, it's on them whether it pans out or not.
What's far more important is for everyone to vote down ballot. Find out which options support progressive policies and vote for them.
spankmonkey 7 points 2 years ago
The primary way that the Dems keep it from going left is by keeping the stupid filibuster around, hamstringing the ability for them to pass legislation when they hold the senste, house, and oval office. They can achieve the same goal by holding only one of the three and it isn't like the Republicans respected the completely voluntary filibuster when it was time for them to stack the courts.
jaggedrobotpubes 6 points 2 years ago
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Ranked choices, bitches.
Tinidril 1 point 2 years ago
It amazes me that so many people are oblivious to how far things have moved towards the right and towards authoritarianism over the past 50 years. Sure, we've inched forwards on a handful of social issues, but corporate power, the prison system, the military industrial complex, privacy rights, and the social safety net are all in much worse shape today than 50 years ago. "The era of big government is over" came from Bill Clinton, not Reagan or Bush. Income inequality has soared thanks to both Republican and Democratic policy. Republicans have been worse by a long shot, but they both have moved us in the same direction.
OprahsedCreature 1 point 2 years ago
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We encourage alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
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When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
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- af = AF
- ok => OK
- lol => LOL
- bc => BC
- bs => BS
- iirc => IIRC
- cia => CIA
- nato => Nato (you don't spell it when talking, right?)
- usa => USA
- prc => PRC
- etc.
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Also: This is not a place for the Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), for that please visit c/AnarchismVsMarxism.
2. Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such
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3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries.
That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Socialist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" (read: Dengists) (actual ML's are welcome as long as they agree to the rules and don't just copy paste/larp about stuff from a hundred years ago).
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The only dangerous minority is the rich.
5. Don't demonize previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
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6. Don't irrationally idolize/glorify previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
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