not voting for trump but low key hope biden doesnt win so the material conditions of a failing America will be on full display
Voting for Biden because I understand harm reduction.
Free Tibet!
This is an active fuck you to people in the LGBT community and minorities and an incredibly privileged position. We are the ones who will suffer and be killed by an administration and judicial system run by trump for another 4 years. We are going to be the ones who will be denied care and refused business. I don’t want to suffer any more than I have to and I don’t want my brothers and sisters to suffer more either.
I’m gay and poor as fuck.
Another centrist neoliberal degenerate losing to Trump would prolong his failure for another 4 years, but surely logic dictates the average democratic voter wouldnt resort to ANOTHER centrist neoliberal degenerate to defeat whoever the next republican slimebag will be?
This is what I would say if I believed the average democratic voter actually gave a shit about anything but in reality nothing will ever change because poor people are disenfranchised and we will continue to settle for the “lesser” of two evils until finally our planet dies and we all live happily ever after.
edit: wishing it would get as bad for these people as it does for us is not really a privileged opinion and fuck anyone who actually tries to argue that shit.
China good
I think the discussion about any revolutionary state hinges on three questions:
- Is it better than what came before it?
- Is it better than its contemporaries?
- How much better could it reasonably be given (a) its starting material conditions and (b) capitalist opposition?
In short, what’s the point of comparison?
China bad
This might be a bad take, but I think both the US and China are bad. Honestly I really can’t believe how some people here dont have the nuance to understand that maybe both countries are bad.
What about defending China (as an American or Westerner) because the US obviously wants negative sentiment against them so that they can justify several more decades of wars all over the world and is willing to lie and exaggerate to do so? Maybe your defense can at least be against those lies and exaggerations, but perhaps it doesn’t need to be a conclusive defense of every one of its flaws? Perhaps we also save the discussion of China’s flaws and downsides for when we are with socialist and/or communist comrades, so that we aren’t stoking the fires of liberals’ complicity with western imperialism?
This is generally the majority of the materialists’ approach to the situation, but yes there are some others who will be happy to argue “China good” to the end of time, and you can take that up with them.
Applying “good” or “bad” labels to any non-revolutionary country is a bad take IMO. China is too large and entrenched in the global status quo to be considered revolutionary and/or good, I think. They just are what they are. I can say with plenty of conviction that even with their drawbacks in their domestic policy, and their non-internationalist “socialism”, they are far “better” than the US (not necessarily “good” or “bad” still). The easiest thing to point to is that they don’t have 600 foreign military bases
