gayposter69420 [she/her,they/them]

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  • gayposter69420 [she/her,they/them]toMainAOC is an op
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    4 years ago

    the difference is all of those countries had established left-wing parties, cultures, and institutions

    America has absolutely none of those institutions right now (not even as a hollowed-out shell, since anything remotely resembling the New Deal has been purged a very long time ago from the Democrats) and basically has to rebuild them from scratch; there is no electoral or organizational capacity that is stable or extant; you have to build all of those institutions to actually be able to do literally anything, and sorry, you’re going to need to appeal to deeply propagandized people who probably have no fucking idea what a labour union actually is or what socialism means

    this isn’t entryism because you’re not really expecting to change the party, it’s just impossible to be elected as a third party in America with how ballot access works

    you can’t just look at Europe and apply it to America


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    4 years ago

    ah yea man it's really smart politics to lose committee assignments (which, to be clear, are your runner's up prize that they'll still give people in safe seats) for pointlessly attacking the nominee when it's clear they're not moving on that file, and the majority of the party now opposes a fracking ban thanks to Biden's actions

    I mean also, once again, she still pretty clearly opposes fracking and wants to legislate that, but her wing of the party lost, so they... don't get to do that now? that's how losing works

    if you're expecting more from the House I don't know what to tell you, socialism was never going to be built totally by professional politicians, real radicalism is going to have to come from outside of that structure

    this is also before he's taken office - you can criticize once, y'know, the President does something bad and still have justifiable cover; the Democrats are just too insane until Trump is gone


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    4 years ago

    political capital, time, sheer fucking mindpower, what's the point? they're not going to listen, so why even fucking bother? the media probably won't pick it up for anything but an attack piece on your movement somehow

    it doesn't matter what's right or wrong, it matters "what can you get out of some engagement" that you're making politically; you need a way to not get sucked into every stupid media cycle fight that everyone constantly litigates and that don't fucking matter

    she's not even changing her personal stance on fracking, she just realizes the obvious fact that a Biden admin doesn't give a shit about the environment and isn't getting drawn into attacking the (very likely) future President on something from her own party



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    4 years ago

    you just used two paragraphs to assert things aren't going to happen but you don't outline any of the historical cases you're talking about, or any sort of fundamental theoretical underpinning; sorry but just asserting something six times in a row doesn't make it true or guaranteed

    that's pretty telling