His win was far from a lock, and I feel like it would have been so easy to bomb a building and then have someone claim there was residue of whatever. By late 2004 the war was not popular, for a lot of libs "finding" WMDs would have probably justified the most evil thing the US had done in decades, I'm sure.

I was so sure they would serve up an October surprise. When they didn't it really shook me, like I didn't understand politics at all. Maybe I still don't.

Thoughts?

  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    And of course the two parties don’t have anything to offer in terms of substantive difference, because they both serve capital. The poles I see arise from to whom to assign assign blame for the declining material conditions; one pole blames the queers/jews/illegals and the other blames those they see as “anti-progressive”.

    I am in agreement with this and have no objections or nuance to add. Got ya.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, I think sometimes the Pride Parade comment initially strikes people as anti-queer or dismissive of queer marginalization. I am militantly lesbian (the trans-inclusive flavor, though). I'm just really angry that my identity, and I'm old enough to have existed in a time long before being gay was ok, has been appropriated by capitalists to sell more things.