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  • Marximus
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    • Woly [any]
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      4 years ago

      I'm just going to start calling them The Virtual Left - it's appropriate in both senses of the word. It sucks so much that this is 'the left' that gets all the exposure.

        • Woly [any]
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          I honestly roll it over in my head again and again. I want to believe that the majority of these people really have good intentions, so why are they putting so much time into something that is not only giving them zero results, but is taking place on a platform designed, designed by capitalists, to monopolize your attention? I feel like under all the arguing and posturing and vitriol, in the end it's just a bunch of people who don't know what to do and can't admit that to eachother. It's not even radicalizing to see these fucking arguments, so you can't make the excuse that "at least we're bringing people to the left."

    • Spinoza [any]
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      4 years ago

      brie literally brings it up on every single episode. i agree with her for reasons but holy shit she's so online and can't let it go

        • Spinoza [any]
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          4 years ago

          nah it won't. i supported them voting against pelosi because she was pelosi, because we need more wrenches thrown into the machine, and because you have enough people screaming for it you might as well see if it helps keep the dems on their toes

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Because there's a pandemic and dems control congress and the executive

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      • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Believing capitalism is the fundamental problem and class struggle is the fundamental issue at hand.

        Hypothetically, supporting Bernie because you agree with his policies, left wing or no?

        Sorta? I mean de-privatizing (to a certain extent) a major industry causing people harm can in part be seen as anti-capitalist.
        And yes, podcasts and popular left-wingish media can get libby. That's how they bring in a lot of people.

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  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    Chapo were right in remaining agnostic on this. Both sides have good points. Holy fuck move on. Jesus. Everyone on both sides acts like the other killed their dog.

    • longhorn617 [any]
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      4 years ago

      FTV isn't about passing M4A, it's meant to try and bolster the MPP, which is why the discourse continues among the media figures that work with the MPP.

  • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    FTV is 100% a creation of left lib media members to pump up their views as the space becomes saturated.

    Some try to get views as proponents. Some try to get views as detractors. Either way, it's not a real issue. If you talk to people who haven't made politics a hobby, you'll find out that they have no idea about FTV.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      I know politics more than most people do day to day, and i still don't know what "ftv" is beyond it being an acronym I've seen more frequently..

      I assume it's some sort of vote to identify who is establishment or not, but I don't know the issue. Is it impeachment related? It seems symbolic but ultimately useless in reality?

      Then again I'm not American, so...

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's a porn site that specializes in solo action for lesser-known pornstars.

        • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          :sicko-yes: :party-sicko: :sicko-yes:

          I'm aware of that FTV...

          :sicko-yes: :party-sicko: :sicko-yes:

          • ElGosso [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I honestly can't believe it still exists, it's like a decade old now, from the pre-Porn Hub era. I have no idea how it consistently made money that whole time. Is it a money laundering scheme?

            • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I like to imagine the person running it is doing it for pure love of the game. Maybe it breaks even or turns a small profit or whatever, but ultimately its just a passion project to provide solo stuff to all the sickos of the world

              • ElGosso [he/him]
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                Just one dude with a passion for women fucking uncomfortably large objects

                "you don't understand bro this is my life's work bro"

      • LonMabonJovi [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The Medicare for All vote is the issue, there was some disagreement over how hard to press for a formal vote and whether to vote for Pelosi as speaker without concessions.

    • unlibbedcunt [none/use name]
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      this is just a really bad over simplification. you can literally say that about almost anything that happens in the political sphere. using uninformed americans as a barometer for what has substance and what doesn't is super shitty.

      force the vote was as decent as anything electoralism could produce, and the only people against it were fucking libs.

      • garbology [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        and the only people against it were fucking libs.

        There are arguments for and against, don't be like this.

        • unlibbedcunt [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          nope. that's how it is, and it was even agreed upon to be the tactic to use before the squad started doing fucking photoshoots with "mama bear."

  • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    A lot of enlightened centrists ITT. The fact is Brihana has consistently been right on this and - even if they were right about Dore - the antis have been shitting their pants arguing against her with easily dismissed lies and hysteria. Nobody right-minded could watch her debate with Seder and come away thinking these were equally valid positions

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Here's how AOC can still win

    I wouldn't say this conversation is irrelevant. This boat left the dock a long time ago but the question of whether AOC should try to force a vote on M4A might be important going forward.

    Personally, I'm pretty convinced they'll start passing shit like M4A when they're convinced we're going to get our guillotines out and not just joke about them. Not one day before that. That's what it's going to take, and we shouldn't just take M4A and go home if we get to that point.

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Imagine calling yourself a socialist and thinking that a forced vote in bourgeois electoral politics on something we know the outcome is going to be anything besides a waste of time, waste of organizing, and a lot of schocked pikas.

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That’s pretty much my take on it. Once again it is the circumstances and conditions that effect politics. Who would have thought?

    • NotARobot [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I agree.

      Withholding congressional votes to enforce concessions is good. An m4a floor vote isn't a particularly valuable or worthwhile concession to us.

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We know who would and wouldn’t vote for it anyway, or at least have good assumptions. Plus what will this prove? That democrats are hypocrites?

  • abdul [none/use name]
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    Force the vote is good. Get these people on the record as being for or against M4A when the dems have a majority so they can’t pull the shit biden did when he ran and a ton of people just assumed he supported M4A for no real reason.

    Edited for clarity and also to add: there is a reason every candidate that ran on being pro M4A kept their seat. Put these MFs to the test.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Without getting too much into it FTV (ForceTheVote) that was being pushed to get a floor vote for M4A. The whole thing blew up on leftist twitter and apparently people are still going at each other over it. Really shouldn't have been as serious as its ended up being and I haven't really followed it aside from a few posts on here.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don't understand why this became such a massive thing.

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    People seem skeptical whenever I say this has to be some sort of op - not like cia shit, but still. It’s been super effective in starting fights in left media sphere that erode any common unification against other things.... just sayin. Pretty clear

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      not like cia shit, but still

      Then it's not an op. People being dumb is not an op. It's just that the online American "left" is super obsessed with twitter quasi-celebs who are consistently confidently clueless.

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        If the DNC paid a PR firm to plant the idea, it would be a terrific op. Doesn’t have to be spooks doing it