It should be over soon. Please let it be over soon.
Chairman Daou is planning a revolution. Biden is ahead enough to get 270 if the remain vote isn’t for Trump he’ll increase his margin by small amounts. But where did that bring you? :back-to-me:
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The 🇱🇷 2020 🇱🇷 American 🇱🇷 Presidential 🇱🇷 Elections 🇱🇷 are the single most important political event since The Last Fascist was VOTED 🔫 OUT 🔫. We on the admin team see it as our duty to enforce the views of our audience by any parasocial means necessary.
As a nacho-socialist cabal, we see no path to revolution other than by focusing the majority of our leisure time on consuming bougie media. Media that is obsessed with the details of an election we decided our preferences on months ago, if not years ago. Here’s the bottom line: Voting makes you a good person and not voting makes you a bad one. Don’t believe us? Just ask Lenin:
A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell (through the Palchinskys, Chernovs, Tseretelis and Co.), it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.
We must also note that Engels is most explicit in calling universal suffrage as well an instrument of bourgeois rule. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously taking account of the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is “the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state.”
See? We can’t let capital take control of this “very best shell”! Turtles belong to the people! And the way we do that is by voting for posts.
Link to Megathread Part 1 and the rest of ScreamoBMO’s incredible manifesto
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 1
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 2
Link to Megathread Thursday 5th
But remember comrades ABP, always be posting! All power to all the people! :chavez-salute:
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I hope for no more talk about the alt right in 2021. Steve Bannon got fired in 2017 and after that rally in 2018 they went silent. All those guys are twitch streamers now, their envisioned position in the Republican party is taken by Qanon.
i guess it hasn’t really occurred to me the way the “intellectual” underpinnings of the post-trump right have developed/unfolded. def pretty funny that their self styled political vanguard were made redundant by nonce conspiracists. no need for any intellectual foundation for those idiots, nothing deeper required than riffing on the pizza-gate loons.
a logical result really, and yet, i really bought into political landscape that seemed to be coalescing with the bannon boys back then. do ya’ll have a good theory about how they pivoted? i suppose trump never really embrace the alt-right’s ideological project (classic republican talking points like law & order and no socialism and political corruption replacing the fear mongering about the migrant trains following 2018) – easier to build a coalition against social obligation/ idpol than one premised on an ethnostate.
I bought into it too. I guess they seemed very organized, and Bannon presented himself as Trump’s puppeteer (with all news media boosting that juicy framing to get concern clicks). Neither of that turned out to be true to put it lightly. I think we could have seen that the broader base would never care for them, but assessing if them taking over the party machinery was a realistic outcome is difficult in the moment.
