Republicans are an afront to God. So I’ll exploit their economic anxieties to win in red states and give everyone Medicare for all, pay reparations to Iran, and end all aid and support to Israel.

Maoist Larpers: “No! Electoral politics are bad!”

IRGC: “Vote blue mother fuckers”

We aren’t there yet. But anyone that calls them a Maoist that doesn’t want the imperial power of the empire reigned in, is not a serious person.

The mod filters are still running on woke 1.0 apparently.

Nixon wasn’t a cult. There isn’t a real comparison in past presidents on approval ratings. Cults don’t usually shrink slowly. They have splits that occur. It’s in a hardened defensive state right now. They moved to private land and built a fenced off hideout. Breaking out takes a larger event. But the complaints are open secrets. The sewage is backed up. The crops aren’t growing. People are getting sick. But everyone is too deep and too far in to say anything. We have to wait til the leader asks everyone to drink the Koolaid.

The cult. Yes. But the cult is shrinking and it’s leader will be dead in the next 5, maybe 10ish, years if we’re unlucky.

The cult henchman (politicians) do care and are having a hard time right now dealing with the backlash. Complaining about trans girls in sports doesn’t really work when people can’t afford gas to drive to their job.

The 30% cult is still filled with the most out of touch and uneducated Americans. They are still reachable in a way, at least their children and next generation with the right education. But there is at least 15-20% that are just old, privileged, and upset that their children won’t talk to them. And that problem will solve itself with time.

Democrats are afraid of missing out on the use of acceptable bigotry. They love to be biggots for largely acceptable bigotries when they can. It is the easiest way for them to guard against leftist policies. They have never been there to move the needle. They are there to take credit for the move when forced to by decades of civil rights movements making progress. They mostly serve as a filter that makes sure that those policies are as diluted and ineffective as possible.

They don’t offer any real material improvements from their policies; so their entire appeal rest on the idea of inclusive and progressive policies. They rarely actually fight for them and quickly push away minority groups when they think they need to to win. Harris 2024 immigration ads being the obvious one. Or the awful immigration policies they tried to push before the 2024 election that basically gave Republicans everything they wanted. And now just openly transphobic Democrats running for elections.

The most acceptable bigotry in this country that reaches further than immigrants or LGBTQ people is rascism towards arabs and Muslims. The Democrats have always reached towards what they perceive as “the center” to portray themselves as “reasonable” when the bigotry is more largely accepted. In this country, rascism towards arabs and Muslims is very much the center, unfortunately.

Democrats won’t actually stand on the principles that they pretend to have. When, a Muslim man starts talking about policy that has actual material impact and improvements, their donors can’t have that. They’ll associate them with 9/11, they hold the place of the acceptable bigotry in order to do their actual function. Which is to serve the interest of the capitalist class that line their pockets.

Money has always been fake; but it’s never been as fake as it was today; and will be even more fake tomorrow.

The list is so long he doesn’t even make the top 50 worst. So, he’s got that going for him. Is that how you keep healthcare? You send us all your awful politicians, artist, and comedians as a sacrifice? Touche Canada. Touche.

Fucking Canadians. Stop sending us all your reactionary conservative shitbags! I bet they voted for Trump.

I will never forgive you for Ted Cruze.

The irony of the Zionist comedian that’s used her “racial identity” to justify genocide being “white” in this. The continuous confirmation that “white” is a made up social construct that is either used to signal to hate for an outgroup; or in her case, remove it as an identity when it’s convenient to use her Jewish “racial identity” as a shield for an emotional support apartheid state.

Also, relevant louis ck from before that video was made; that was basically what the video you linked was ripping off. Kind of blatantly.

https://youtu.be/7AbxHo9ybD0

Still, appreciate the sharing. Not directed at you. But, fuck Sarah Silverman. And Louis CK is also a weird sex pest.

Though both the video and his standup are pointing to white privilege and racial constructs as comedy. So both are good in a vacuum.

Dude, white Republicans must be fucking depressed. Like, the bigotry is still their, it’s clearly the only thing left fueling them. But God damn. Having to cope with the gas prices, the economic failures, a datacenter poisoning your lungs and ears. Listening to your president talk about his ballroom and golf course renovations on social media all day.

Can we get some “it’ll be ok white people” ads? That’s what Paxton is projecting right now. His entire voter base is too depressed to get off the couch. These red state Republicans never have had to actually try to win an election.

There there Pax. It’ll be ok. We just need some DEI for old white rascist shitbags.

The fairy tale is the doomerism that keeps you from action.

There is no alternative thought here. Not from you. Not from the original comment. It is acceptance of loss and nothing more.

Your criticism is that I am not pre-accepting of defeat. It’s not of AoC as a candidate. It’s not offering a better alternative. It is that I am frustrated with someone repeating reactionary talking points but just saying they are bad.

We know they are bad. I care about working to change them. And accepting defeat as the “inevitable reality” is not helpful.

I’d rather live in a “fairytale” trying to change things than living in a “reality” of doomerism that is nothing more than the last part of your liberal individualism refusing to die.

Grow the fuck up. The fascist are as unpopular as they have ever been right now. Show some backbone and give more than just “it won’t work”. If you got a better path I’m all ears.

I want to end wars and support for genocide. Gimme a better candidate to support. I’ll wait…

Doomerism is just the final stage of liberal thought. It’s reactionary bull shit. It also wasn’t written as a joke beyond just doubling down on reactionary ideas. It was written as a means to give up. I’m tired of that useless type of shit and it’s past 12am here so I’m cranky, unmedicated, and not able to sleep.

I’ll stand by the frustration even if it wasn’t warranted to the specific comment.

We are at the point in which the rascism and sexism that fills the 30% of this country that still supports Trump is convincing the other 70% that a good candidate is impossible.

Stop just repeating the same garbage that they believe as if it’s the reason we shouldn’t support the best candidate with enough name recognition and support to actually win AND create a material change for people in this country trying to pay for groceries.

You’re just being MAGA by proxy.

Mexico has a socialist, Jewish, female president. Mexico isn’t some “woke” fucking country. And it’s definitely not Jewish.

Americans (70%) wants a president that doesn’t fuck them over at every turn and actually offers them something that isn’t tax cuts to the rich.

Grow the fuck up. Don’t tell me we need another fucking Biden or a Neoliberal zionist from California or fucking Georgia. Fucking put me in a camp first.

Honestly, it’s why we are where we are. Why fascism hooked itself to the Trump admin. The capitalist class know. They are preparing.

If we get the point in which AoC is a candidate and we have a fair election. I’m all for it. I’ll keep working towards it.

But, fuck. I feel like any DSA related candidate is gonna be in prison or assassinated by 2028. Half the media is trying to get a random mentally ill American to assassinate Abdul and Omar.

If we get to a 2028 election with AoC able to run, we’re in a better place than I’m expecting. I’ll keep pushing towards it though.

Thanks. I previously worked for Microsoft during a a genocide in which the tech work I did contributed to the Palestinian Genocide. Previously worked. I was fired for speaking out against it. I respect those that are able to be vegan.

However, that being said. The mortality of many vegans that like to grandstand againt someone mentioning “duck fat” does not come from a perspective of the systemic structures that cause the cruelty. They instead see it as an individual moral choice that is apart from the the privilege of the conditions that allow them to be vegan in the first place.

It is, unfortunately, mostly virtue signaling and not based on perspective.

I was fortunate enough to be able to not be at risk for my daughter starving when I spoke out against my companies contribution to genocide. But, I don’t judge the individuals that remain working for Microsoft as “the problem”. I understand that the structures of power force those, even with the same understanding, to remain silent.

This is not to say that I’m not a hypocrite. That I’m not aware that my privilege lets me talk about how I like to cook fries in duck fat because they taste good. I do know that.

But, we all need to prioritize and understand the awful things that are a part of modern western society. I think that “grandstanding” veganism and making it the core of ones personality comes from a good individual moral compass. But, it shows that that person has anchored to a specific harm in order to ignore others. As we all do. Because, if that person had the perspective to understand larger issues, they would be more understanding.

I don’t scream at the college student excited they got a job at Microsoft and yell at them for their support. I understand they are an individual. I don’t treat them as the problem.

Vegans that act like this often are the perfect example of someone that views the world and its problems as a result of individual choices. It is often from a perspective of peak individualism. Which, ironically, is the reason for most of the cruelty that comes from our current social and economic structures.

“Both parties are the same” is incorrect if you are viewing the parties based on their messaging or from a perspective of idealism.

“Both parties are the same” is correct if you are viewing the parties based on the material outcomes of the actions they take and who they serve to benefit.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

-Stafford Beer

The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them

-Julius Nyerere

There may be no “after Trump”. At least not in the way people mean. Meta is currently disconnecting and suspending accounts related to US elections as we are only weeks away from the midterms. From large Senate races like in Florida with Angie Nixon. To local city races in Arizona. They also just did this on the world stage before Lula won in Brazil. Taking down accounts related to his campaign and promoting the other candidates.

Our president is the allowing the son of the fascist dictator in Brazil to be accepted with open arms when fleeing to Miami; and just posted that we need to “save Brazil from Communism” just after a democratic election.

Facebook/Meta has been doing this for decades. But the boomerang has returned. ICE is the boomerang of our direct military actions; especially when it comes to Israel. Our police departments train in Israel with the IDF. The crimes and genocide done to the Palestinians is “training ground” for the brown shirts we have now.

And the broader “left and liberals” in America have less solidarity and resistance in their entire sum population than a single Palestinian child does in their pinky finger.

The left in America needs to realize quickly that our “philosophical victories” will not be praised by the history books.

This is why no one takes Vegans seriously. Like, I don’t really have a problem with being Vegan. I actually respect it. But, do you honestly feel like comments like this do anything to help people understand the cruelty? Seriously. Because it just makes you sound like a crazy person. It doesn’t do anything to help your cause when you respond like this to someone talking about how they like to cook fries.

No, it’s childish and dumb to take a comment about food like it’s an attack on someone’s personal choices around what they eat. I was literally just talking about my favorite way to make fries.