• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    17 days ago

    Show

    Remember when we thought he was hosed and were laughing about how he totally wasted this moment?

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      17 days ago

      The thing is, he DID waste it.

      And then Kamala hired Hillary's campaign advisers, got rid of her 2 most popular slogans (We're not going back + They are weird) and started hugging Dick Cheney's right-wing daughter. Kamala's campaign is somehow more embarrassing and incompetent than Hillary's, and that's saying something.

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        17 days ago

        I choose to believe that it’s the happy birthday tweet that did her in

            • SSJ3Marx
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              11 days ago

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            • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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              17 days ago

              I'm going to put the Assad meme on a material analysis, because I do think it has predictive power.

              There are only two types of people in the West that know about Assad. Those two are (a) Leftists, and (b) fedposting So if you are bringing up Assad in a general conversation, those are by and large the only people who would care. That begs the question whenever Assad is brought up by a politician: "Who is your audience?" For politicians the audience is overwhelmingly for Government and their corporations. That means politicians are ignoring domestic issues like (for example...) 40MM Americans are in poverty or school shootings or that all basic goods shot up 20%+ in price in a few years. Those are hardly the only issues, but you must put all of them on the backburner to care about some leader in the Middle-East. Thus the meme, and the attention on Assad in general, is an excellent display of disconnect from actual living breathing people. As such, Assad-obsessed politicians generally lose to other politicians that focus more on their electorate.

              tl;dr: who-must-go is code for politicians ignoring domestic issues with the inevitable consequences assad-must-stay

    • REgon [they/them]
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      17 days ago

      This was the easiest election to win for both parties, yet they kept fumbling

  • AtomPunk [he/him]
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    17 days ago

    Imagine still being correct 100 years after your death

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      17 days ago

      Oh, wow, I haven't visited r/politics in so many years. This is something else. A real blast of nostalgia.

      Seeing these awful, smug people so lost and confused and angry almost makes me feel good. They have no idea what's going on.

      • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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        17 days ago

        You see, the chapotraphouse subreddit was big supporters of Bernie Sanders so when he lost the Dem election in 2019 there was chaos there mostly coping and the most upvoted Post in that time became a Picture of Lenin saying "and were did that bring you? Back to me" and the MLs started talking about the failures of electoralism in liberal democracy and radicalising the bernie people

        It was a fun time

      • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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        17 days ago

        Lenin was the man who pushed for the socialists in Russia to rise up in active revolution when nearly all other socialist leaders wanted to collaborate with the bourgeois government. He single-handedly made sure the October Revolution was launched an the USSR was created. He also spent lots of years arguing against other socialists who thought working inside electoral systems was the "right" way to bring about progressive changes.

        • real [he/him, comrade/them]
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          17 days ago

          Oh yeah, I know Lenin is based as fuck. I was just talking in terms of this meme, someone else explained it.

  • Saleri [any]
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    17 days ago

    bernie can still win actually

  • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]
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    17 days ago

    I don't know how it's possible that both Lenin and Schwarzenegger remind me of my dad, but here I am I guess.