GOP flipped all 3 offices in VA today.

If this trend continues in 2022, then Republicans might fully control enough states to unilaterally change the US Constitution.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    this was scarier back when I thought the US constitution was something besides dogshit

  • Fredward [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Fully expecting the next cycle to be an unfettered victory for the most extreme forces of reaction

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      who could have saw this coming :whywhywhywhywhy:

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The stuffed animatronic corpse of Joe Biden is electable if you vote for it.

    • winterchillie [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Oh god the lib seething is going to be SOOOO annoying! It's gonna be like back when every other thing from libs was Trump Trump Trump Trump PLEASE shut the fuck up

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    California writes a strongly worded letter to President Tucker Carlson that it's wrong to execute everyone with a degree in the humanities.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You know, I used to think if this country took a very hard and sudden turn right (like getting awful new constitutional amendments passed), it wouldn't be inconceivable that CA would leave the union. But after I saw the frankly tepid reaction libs had to TX effectively banning abortion... I think the libs would just sit back, write angry letters, and take it. US Americans - libs and chuds alike - are such docile cows that will take so much abuse from the ruling class then ask for seconds.

      • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        It might fully break the idea that Statsians are 'couragous defenders of personal freedom' in the minds of people in the world that might still believe it.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      I, for one, am excited about living through the Khmer Rouge era run by some HOA out of The Villages.

  • Azarova [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Really feelin like its time to fuckin leave if you're a part of literally any minority. Too bad that costs money though :agony-deep:

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Back in the day Cuba gave asylum to a few US refugees who were black resistance fighters who were about to be fucked over in show trials. The evil empire is still butthurt over this btw. Today I think you have to bring a lot of money with you before they will let you settle.

          • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Capital flight except it's non-capital owning workers with money fleeing to socialist nations.

        • OldSoulHippie [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          We need to start an identification swap program with the cuban refugees. Give them your SSN and driver's license and they give you whatever documentation they have and then you just switch lives.

          The ones who want to come to the capitalist hellhole can have fun going to the dead malls here and we can have fun sipping rum out of a coconut on a sugar sand beach

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What's fucking weird is that in California the urban centers are largely minorities so what the fuck are we supposed to do lol

    • hauntologist [comrade/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Seriously though, accelerationism as any kind of 'ideology' is horrific shit, but when hellowlrd just keeps getting worse and worse and worse with no indication it will change course, it's like accelerationism is the only last ditch hope left. If things truly get bad enough, maybe the pendulum will finally just have to swing back in the direction of anti-suffering, anti-hell.

      Sorry I'm drunk and stupid to begin with even when not drunk.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Accelerationism, not what you hoped for but it's all you have left to hope for.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        yeah. that's essentially where I'm at. like, it wouldn't be my first choice ideology on its own. but it helps me feel a little less miserable about things and kind of gives me some small hope. like, maybe if Miami gets washed away unexpectedly soon, we'll actually mobilize to tackle climate change for real or something.

        • hauntologist [comrade/them,he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Exactly. Be careful of that hope, though. Because then that leads down the rabbit hole of asking exactly how bad does it have to get? If Miami goes under and millions die and the whole landscape, literally, figuratively, politically, economically... is washed onto shores that were never meant to be shores (or choose any other capitalism-caused barely-comprehensible megadisaster) and what if the result is the libs all just go straight, unmaksed, unapologetically fash? Does the pendulum just keep 'a-swingin' further right? How deep does hell go before the only other way is out of it?

          But fucking hell, it often seems that the only direction left to fucking go.

          • newmou [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Well, I don’t think we have any sort of control over whether that happens, and what happens next. Like 0

            • hauntologist [comrade/them,he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Oh, totally agreed! If we had any control, accelerationism wouldn't be the winning ideology. That's the scary part, maybe it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.... (now that's doomerism!)

              • newmou [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Idk if it’s accelerationism or doomerism. Like the book is only so long. What comes after doomerism? Is there like an accepting deathism or something

                Edit - this is a privileged comment, nvm. Others would be suffering more than I would

                • hauntologist [comrade/them,he/him]
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                  I'm not 100% sure I know what you're getting at, but I see it as accelerationsism leading to one of a spectrum of possibilities. On one end of the spectrum, you have a good, positive outcome, where shit went really bad but as a result, humanity somehow opened its eyes and saw the potential of what we could do and how we could live, and thus embraced socialism and then communism. But the other possibility is accelerationism just gets us all the quicker to a true hell, albeit non-Marxist/Hegelian, as it would be all contradiction all the time with no synthesis. Just abject despair for everyone and happy happy joy joy for the minuscule subset of the most sociopathic of sociopaths.

                  Edit: What comes after depends on where on that spectrum we end up. Doomerism is that it's all fucked. Do what you want, what does it matter? It's just boring old nihilism. Accepting death happens a lot of ways, countless ways. Accepting death, how or if that is done depends on culture and on the individual, I'd think. Maybe I misunderstood you though.

                • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  Dune's Sardaukar sacrificing failing recruits to anoint the remaining passing recruits level death cult? I found that scene pretty unsettling.

          • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Good thing China has hypersonic ballistics missiles. Sure, they aren't like the USSR circa 1940 but... they're the only counter hegemonic power. There's also Russia who I guess is like the US in WWII as being the very similar in politics but still counter force (US not really disagreeing with Nazi Germany politically) who is fairly backwater, economic power wise (like the US was prior to WWII).

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          What would CHYNNAAA even do? It would be them versus like, CANZUCK and The 1776th Reich.

    • Octagonprime [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Class conflict now is like a fistfight , obviously the best way to escalate it is to get shot against the wall

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If I were republican, I would jiggle the Supreme Court nomination to state legislatures, as well as those lower court thingies :thonk: maybe something about citizenship as well? Ah, tie taxation to voter rights, and then remove taxes from people earning less than x. Would work quite nicely

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This has been a russian psyop time, gotta get my vladbucks

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      dont forget women arent allowed to travel without a male chaperone like back in the good old days at the racism factory

      • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If God wanted women to travel on their own, he would have made them better drivers. See? Race has nothing to do with it.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          you see i have a woman friend and she agrees that women shouldnt have rights. racism is solved already

          • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            She gets it. What's so hard about getting in your place and doing what you're told? Like, seriously, thinking about it: aprons look totally better on a woman. That's not on accident. God invented aprons because aprons exist, and aprons are designed for women. As God intended.

            Also. Black people should stop being so lazy and really shut the fuck up about slavery. We let them kill themselves in the NFL. What fucking more could they want?

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        But see, that’s the genius of tax bracketing, you can tie all sorts of rights into it, and then pull the rag from the other direction of labor rights

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It is okay to be gay. The separate but equal system just means that you have to pay to turn your McMansion into a private sodomite reservation. If you can't, you have to go live in one of the state-operated secure sodomite and sex offender reservations.

  • FidelCastro [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Doesn’t matter, government is already owned by the bourgeoisie.

    • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Eh the bourgeoisie don't act as a unified cohort, that's part of why the state exists. Texas has been pushing all its insane shit not as voter bait but because the ruling class there is legitimately insane.

      All I'm saying is there is room for things to get worse.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      None of these bourgeois movements deserve the inflated mandate. Tipping the scale between factions will not bring us any closer to power. It will only bring us closer to the blame. Let them win with 20% of the electorate.

      • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I don’t think abstentionism sends any kind of message to the ruling parties. They don’t give a fuck. They’re perfectly happy to win with 5% of the population voting for them as long as they get to use the full power of the office.

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          They will use any pretext to rule. Not voting doesn't send any more of a message to the ruling class than voting blue no matter who. It's more about sending a message to the masses. Chipping away at the legitimacy of the "democratic" institutions and making it blatant that they actually rule by force rather than by consent. For the same reason, it is not a program for revolution, since they rule by force anyway. You won't dismantle their police forces and armies by chooming on the couch. But it does make the whole media commentariat look like fucking clowns when they celebrate their mandate garnered from 5% of the population. It makes insurrectionary movements look that much more legitimate by comparison.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Do you think comrades in Europe and South America would take us in if we had to flee the country?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I would welcome you with open arms. The chuds running this place migh not be OK with it though once they discover you're bad leftists and not just good western non-muslims.