I still can't get over Beto O'Rourke sinking all his credibility in his home state by guffawing "Heck frickin yeah we'll take your AK's."

Monologues are usually where they give comedians free range to be funny.

Not to be a lib, but a Trump win would definitely embolden some of these psychos. I don't know if either has a clear "worse" option.

I always thought the Southern practice of a father giving a chastity ring to his teenage daughter and doing a "marriage" ceremony was fucked up. It's only fringe psycho Christians, but it's real.

Of course there's the BTK Strangler, who scoped out his victims by installing home security sensors. I always thought the concept of "home security" industry was a good representation of WASPy distrust of others.

Basically somebody was talking about how socialism is when everybody gets paid the same and so nobody would want to work hard

I love this logic. Nobody would want to be a doctor without financial compensation, of course. If you paid a janitor a living wage, he wouldn't be a janitor anymore. Duuuh!

State and Rev is way to cool for a fresh liberal. Literally tried that with a book club and the one guy who hadn't read theory before was too intimidated by it and skipped.

It'll be when libs are trying to whitewash Senator Ivanka Trump-D in her run for president.

Cuz I just learned that fact recently, idk.

It's almost like any attempts to change the status quo through "legitimate channels" get's met with right wing violence.

I just rewatched Hocus Pocus for the first time in a decade or two... man I did not remember how ruthlessly this children's movie made fun of a 15 year old boy for being a virgin. Even his 9 year old sister slams him. In the last frame of the shot during an emotional reunion between characters, the ghost literally ascending to heaven digs him for being a virgin.

Zoroastrian Persians literally didn't even have the concept of virginity, this shit is stupid.

Is this after Mars finds oil?

Please don't meme this into existence. I don't want Musk to ruin my favorite game by unironically quoting it, not realizing it is criticizing him.

They knew it was stupid at the time but they just didn't think they could get away with open racism. Now they see they can get away with it.

Chapo: Oh my god, libs overreact about Trump so much smh.

Also Chapo: OH MY GOD RUN THE ELECTION IS COMING AND IT'S GONNA KILL US AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL

play space-monkey

Right the politicians themselves are opportunists and we cannot expect to "pull them left" other than in cases of extreme solidarity where they fear for their positions (like MN after George Floyd). However, radicalizing regular on the ground AOC fans and Berniecrats is a viable tactic, especially right now. A huge group of young people just got involved in politics for the very first time this election cycle and got FUCKED by both parties. I know I personally lost faith in electoralism after dedicating hours of my life to a guy who endorsed the enemy, so I expect there are others who feel the same.

Anyway four dollars a pound, I'm not gonna die on a hill for entryism since most people don't even fucking vote.

Personally, I have found history can be a good way to break through liberal propaganda. Most people (except "history guys" who only go on youtube) will acknowledge that they don't know history the best. If you challenge them on their assumed notions of history they are much more likely to accept that over challenging current political status quo.

"Huh, no I did not know that the original intent of the Senate and Electoral college was to stop poor people from gaining political power. Really, attaching medical benefits to your workplace was designed as a Depression era tactic to pay people less?" etc.

Then you can draw them to the conclusion that the oppressive forces of history are still in place today. "Prison IS the new Jim Crow" and hope for the best from there. I'm not gonna say I've completely pulled somebody from the apolitical--->left pipeline, but I have greased the wheels for many people who were somewhere on that process.

Remember we are the ones with compassion, that's why we came to the left. If we lose that compassion, we lose what makes us genuine.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s hiding her power level, or just organically moves further left in the coming years.

You're gonna be disappointed, man. We thought the same thing about Bernie and he had a much more openly radical past. People don't move left once they're in Congress.

but as Marxists we shouldn’t reinforce or encourage their delusion that AOC is going to pull Dems to the left, or legislate a transition from capitalism to socialism.

This is why the phrase "critical support" exists. Support her for good intentions and the good results she actually helps produce, openly criticizer her bad foreign policy takes and votes. AOC's followers are definitely closer to radicalization than the Khive or Warren stans, it's our job now to move them away from electoralism. Same as Sanders, she is useful to a point but not th end goal.