Votes are earned.
Margaret brenner looked so pissed it had to be forced. It looks like she was told to look angry while asking that hard hitting dull whiffle ball question.
I used to see her all the time on bloomberg concern trolling CEOs during the financial crisis about their bailouts. Glad she’s staying busy defending capitalists on face the nation.
Sorry it took awhile for me to ban. I was away for a time and was sick due to my recent Covid-19 booster shot and flu shot.
I banned for 30 days just in case they might learn a thing or two, but I’m regreting it, tbh; I should’ve banned for longer.
Ah well. I’ll be more active later and catch 'em.
Personally I didn’t mind them that much, they had pretty bog-standard lib opinions except they were being slightly more annoying about it than average but I don’t really mind the ban either, the discussion wasn’t really going anywhere.
“Wait, you mean folding to right-wing fascists is making the left lose confidence in us?!”
The unions have turned against Joe Biden, which means they must be in favor of Trump.
We need to destroy them immediately.
The media totally thinks that working class people owe some sort fealty to politicians when they do the most basic theater. The big media bust so hard over theater not substance.
fascist enabler
what the fuck do you think Biden is? or did you forget roe v wade is gone?
Nothing, which is my point. There is no point in electing him because he did jack shit to address the problem, he just let it happen.
The democrats and their presidents fucking suck. They don’t do anything to actually solve the problem and help the people. They seem to want to maintain the status quo together with the republicans, they are literally the same party, the only difference is that the republicans went maskoff after Bush Jr.
It’s like Raul Castro said;
President Raúl Castro said he saw no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Castro recalled a conversation with a US official during President Obama’s recent visit. He told the official, he said: “It’s as if we had two parties in Cuba and Fidel led one and I led the other.”
And they don’t do shit to stop the Republicans. In Bolivia, when Lucho won the election against the U.S.-backed candidate, the first thing he did was arrest former dictator Jeanine and fascist leader Camacho and their allies. He also cancelled all the IMF loans she took. The same thing in Honduras. Even in Brazil, where the socdem government is a minority. 1.200 people went to jail for attempting a coup, Bolsonaro close allies went to jail. Bolsonaro lost his political rights, most of his reforms were reversed on day one, and he faces jail time for a bunch of crimes.
What has Biden done to oppose fascism other than not having an orange spray tan? Sure, he may be a senile racist, rapist, reactionary war criminal, but he lacks an orange spray tan and his dementia causes him to sound more confused than unhinged. Don’t you know fascism doesn’t have content or policies it is merely being racist on TV with a weird affectation like a funny mustache or orange spray tan.
It doesn’t matter that Biden has continued Title 42 and increased ICE activity so that he not only outstrips Trump, but is gunning for Obama’s title of “Deporter in Chief”. It doesn’t matter that he has undone any COVID precautions and is trying to get rid of any data and reporting to help the pandemic be ignored. It doesn’t matter than he and the Democrats didn’t do anything to protect trans rights or abortion rights (even when they had the ability to fight back, even if limited). It doesn’t matter that the Biden administration used the COPS program to make sure police departments get increased funding, despite whatever local governments voted to give as a compromise to BLM.
Biden is fighting fascism by being a different person than Trump. In the literal sense, obviously they are figuratively the same person.
I think the only real thing he’s done to oppose fascism is to have his justice department arrest January 6th people, but that’s basically meaningless in the bigger picture.
He’s not doing anything to actually deal with the conditions that lead people to fascism, and he’s sure as hell not fighting against any of the fascist measures being implemented around the nation.
The constant “emergency” represented by the current cycle is connected to the fact that the dems don’t just not give a shit about fascism but literally bankroll far-right candidates. They want Republicans to be as far right as possible because it lets them be “left of the Republicans” while still being far to the right, and by keeping their base in a neverending sense of crisis, of “now is not the time to seek positive change, we need to reduce harm” with no means of stopping harm or, God forbid, reversing harm, you are literally just wasting your time telling people to vote for a slow death over a quick one instead of considering how to stop the killing.
Sure, but it won’t change the general trajectory of things. Every administration of this century has had more in common with one another than in difference.
Your Democracy is a Sham and Here’s Why
We’re not going to waste energy on something proven to be a failed practice.
Your argument boils down to that of a gambling addict who doesn’t know when to stop, despite increased harm the longer you perpetuate it.
Are you trying to get me bummed out and not vote?
Drat, you’re on to me!
But honestly, I don’t care how you vote. In all likelihood, your state’s electoral college is already locked in one way or another. The point is that talking about this precise election cycle as though it is singularly important in history, as though creation and destruction hinge on it… kinda misses the overall pattern it exists in. I remember when Bush was the ultimate evil, a uniquely stupid and backward looking candidate…
Vote Biden people! The only other option will be a fascist or fascist enabler. I don’t like it anymore than you do.
First of all,
Second of all, the US is in irreversible decline. All roads point downhill, and there’s no stopping the process of collapse. Who gives a shit about damage control and lesser-evilism. The collapse of the US empire is better than trying to live under it.
Third of all, what’s your argument for electoralism and libby bibby bullshit liberalism being anything other than “rational fascism” and a failed ideology?
You didn’t answer my question, jackass.
If you want to stop being miserable. Join the fight!
We’re all miserable, and we’re all already in the fight. We’re fighting against bullshit liberalism that doesn’t fucking work so we can move onto revolution.
Okay if you believe all that then shut up.
You don’t give a shit about working class people at all. All you care about is hegemony of speech and hegemony of thought. We’re not going to bend the knee to the likes of you chauvinist liberals.
All you’re doing is spread doomer bullshit that isn’t helping anyone.
Listen, fuckface, you’ve had over 50 years to prove liberal democracy and electoralism to be a legit form of praxis. The US is a failed state, and you aren’t helping anyone with your infantile cult-like evangelizing of the existing superstructure of the state that was built specifically to enslave and oppress the working class, people of color, and other relevant minority demographics (LGBTQ+ come to mind)
Die quietly and let everyone else die fighting.
Yeah? I don’t mind meeting you on the battlefield and letting our bullets do the talking. You’re insufferable and your ideology is at an end globally. You’re the one on the ropes here, not us. You’re the one panicking and scrambling to save a system that is in complete, perfect opposition to working class interests.
Bullets are more effective than votes. This is class war. What are your class interests? What’s your income look like? How about your housing situation?
“The fight” has absolutely nothing to do with voting for Biden you jackass
dude, your idea of “fighting” is voting for a literal fucking neolib conservative ghoul and then jerking yourself off over the difference you’ve made
if you want to fight so bad, join the next BLM protest in your city and fight the literal fascists with badges in the street; disturb the fucking peace, organize direct action and stop smugly congratulating yourself for supporting the blue wing of a fascist fucking project
I thought you libs defeated fascism in 2020. If you’re singing the same song now, it just stands as proof that the dems did Jack shit to curb the rise of fascism, hence there’s no reasons to keep going along with this ‘harm reduction’ thing.
No one needs to convince libs to vote for Biden. They’re already doing that. If you feel you need to though, bother them about it instead of communists
Democrats aren’t even harm reduction at this point, they’re controlled opposition for the Republicans, almost none of them have the will to actually make strong political moves so as to not anger the fascists too much, they’re complete cowards. The ones that do either don’t have any tangible power or they are reigned in by the party so as to be “realistic” and “pragmatic”. Voting Democrat is damn near the same as voting Republican.