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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1740294
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1740285
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf
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Sing it with me now, folks: 🎶... o'er the laaaaaaand of the freeeee🎶
I do see value in harm reduction, TBH. Dems are shit but, statistically, anti-electoralism is functionally equivalent to voting for the far-right. So, I see it as a way to at least make it take some work for politicians to pretend that the tenets of neoliberalism and fascism are supported by as wide a group as claimed and attempt to reduce their influence in local elections (ex. the coordinated efforts to subvert school boards and have [further] right-wing propaganda taught as fact).
Don't mistake this as actually thinking that Libs are going to help unless forced, though. They're absolutely Lucy in the picture.
Relatively speaking, it really still is. It can always get worse. And it would currently be much worse for LGBTQ+ people under a further right-wing government.
This is why I'm a leftist not a lib. I vote Democrat bc no choice but I want more progressives in office....
Better than voting for gqp. I vote progressive in primaries and forced into the other bc no one has the spines to fix the system to ranked elimination voting. I'm leftist bc at least they're not actively trying to unalive me like the right
I'm leftist bc at least they're not actively trying to unalive me like the right
They'll just kneel in Solidarity with you as the right tries to unalienable you.
Progress.
You probably believe a bunch of countries are communists or socialists despite their leaders preventing them actually going there fully. Once you have a dictator or similar leader it defeats the purpose 🤣
Hahaha no. The moderates are conservatives in sheep's clothing. Nice try tho
They're progressives and if you think otherwise then you're helping the fascists win
Fully aware, but it's either that or allow the other party, which has become increasingly more fascist, back into power.
Bruh Republicans are open about backing trump even if he goes to jail. Trump has openly talked about how he wants to get rid of the constitution. They could have prevented him from running again after his failed coup attempt and they let him off the hook.
At least some good has come from the Biden presidency, which tbh I didn't expect at all. Some progress is better than no progress. 15 min wage for federal contract workers, an NLRB that is more pro-union than ever in my lifetime, an actual attempt at student loan debt reduction (which he should just nix via executive order but I digress), a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, bring back microchip manufacturing, and there's more that I can't list off the top of my head.
Babysteps sure, but it's better than nothing and way better than the backwards trajectory we got during the trump presidency and beyond the trump presidency due to his SC appointments.
Perfect? Hell no. But something. We need to take the wins we can get while still hammering him from the left to do more.
Jesus Christ might as well just give up on everything with your attitude lol
We came to the conclusions because we want to avoid giving up. Once you realize that settling for "harm reduction" is also a form of giving up, you learn to think strategically and read people who think strategically about these things for real improvement. Like Lenin.
Being a leftist is coming to grips with how bad the situation is
We don't 'got' them. They're the enemy. This is a post about them showing you that they're explicitly hostile to you, your politics, and the concept of democracy.
I've been trying to come up with a term to describe this phenomenon for a while now. Privatewashing, maybe?
Westerners are programmed to not accept certain things if done by the government directly. Publishing propaganda? Bad. Laundering government propaganda through private media outlets? Not a problem. Interfering with a foreign election? Bad. Sponsoring a "Private NGO" to do it? Totally fine. Foreign government influencing domestic policy? Bad. Multinational companies paying lobby groups to do the same? Democracy.
In this case, the government telling people that their votes don't count and that rules don't have to be followed would be flagrantly undemocratic. A private organization doing that though? Well we can't do anything about it even if it's directly relevant to the outcome of elections and national policy.
I don’t like “privatewashing”. It sounds like the longest part of my shower, and I’m not thinking about Bernie’s 2016 primary race during it.
You're right. Privatewashing does sound like a chapter in a Jordan Peterson book.
Truly AMERICA is the freest state on earth cuss you can vooooooooooote right? ...Right?
Ok, I get this, but let's take a closer look:
Have you ever seen such a high resolution Pikachu meme? Such a shame it's been wasted on more political rhetoric that no one asked for. More pixels in the damn quotes text, how wild!
