Chairman Daou is planning a revolution. Biden is ahead enough to get 270 if the remain vote isn't for Trump he'll increase his margin by small amounts. But where did that bring you? :back-to-me:
It should be over soon.
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The 🇱🇷 2020 🇱🇷 American 🇱🇷 Presidential 🇱🇷 Elections 🇱🇷 are the single most important political event since The Last Fascist was VOTED 🔫 OUT 🔫. We on the admin team see it as our duty to enforce the views of our audience by any parasocial means necessary.
As a nacho-socialist cabal, we see no path to revolution other than by focusing the majority of our leisure time on consuming bougie media. Media that is obsessed with the details of an election we decided our preferences on months ago, if not years ago. Here's the bottom line: Voting makes you a good person and not voting makes you a bad one. Don't believe us? Just ask Lenin:
A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell (through the Palchinskys, Chernovs, Tseretelis and Co.), it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.
We must also note that Engels is most explicit in calling universal suffrage as well an instrument of bourgeois rule. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously taking account of the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is "the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."
See? We can't let capital take control of this "very best shell"! Turtles belong to the people! And the way we do that is by voting for posts.
Link to Megathread Part 1 and the rest of ScreamoBMO's incredible manifesto
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 1
Link to Megathread Wednesday 4th part 2
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A lot of the "Bernie would have won bigger" argument is based on the assumption that he could have actually spoken to working class people in red states / rural areas. And his arguments would have had merit, and his advantage as an outsider is indisputible. But I'm struggling to synthesize that with this phenomenon of a fox news / OAN / facebook echo chamber. It doesn't feel like this audience lives in the same intellectual reality any more. How can you reach out to people if they insist on such a rigidly dictated interpretation of current events? And they think the same of blue states. Our worldviews are becoming completely incompatible. I fear you can't sell anything across the "aisle" in this climate.
You're assuming that hicks in the rustbelt consume Fox News. Bernie had massive popularity in WV and KY. I can't say if he actually would have won these states, but just the fact that he was so popular shows that he probably would have won swing states more easily.
I don't really think that's the case. He was popular in those states in 2016 because people just hated Hillary Clinton that much
Yeah, lesson learned that we should hesitate to categorize any bloc as a monolith...but they do be looking kinda monolithic. There's a -lot- of chuds out there. We can't just chalk this up to "Biden doesn't speak to them"
In the case of the US electoralism, I think Bernie would have done alright. The country is close to a 50/50 split and it wouldn't take much to tip the scales one way or the other - even if a small number of people can be appealed to, it changes the outcome.
Regardless, you are correct, it does seem that people are starting to live in entirely detached bubbles. The noosphere and how people interact with it has changed. It has become more polarised, and it's far easier for people to be fed exactly the kind of information they want to hear.
We aren't immune to this, not at all, however, marxism is somewhat unique in that it is mostly lens to analyse the world for ourselves rather than purely being fed the answers we want to hear.