EmpireInDecay

@EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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In my case shes not wrong

*Milton Friedman

And every president since Reagan, including him.

He better hop to it, hes only got 7 more months.

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No one gives a flying fuck what he says.

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed

Karl Marx 1850

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Same capitalists trying the same failed tactics of voter suppression.

Every one of his perspectives of capitalism and it's bourgeoisie governments still rings true.

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For what it's worth I say no

That reads, and their entire feed always reads as if it's written by some teenage fangirl

Your solution to defeating the duopoly is continuing giving them power and participating in it?

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With weapons and money provided by the US. This must be what Harris meant with 'Joy™'

Then promptly sends a few billion more in money and weapons.

Especially when their donors are the same donors to the GOP

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Rings true in practice

It's not just teens, this old fuck is making good money doing it

It's always next time, like a carrot dangled in front of voters to lure them to the polls, only to be shit on, again.

Building on that comment, we don't need a president who likes to stomp out students right to free speech by implying that those students are pro- Hamas, backed by Iran and Anti Semitic.

we suck at picking candidates.

The issue is voters don't pick the candidates, the DNC does. Then the party will rally behind the hand picked candidate and the public follows behind

won't notice

Implies future tense. It's been gone forever

It is selective because those are pretty significant issues to be selective about. When she is in a position of authority like she was in California, she is very right-wing. She's very Draconian she's very authoritarian.

Dems have always been more dangerous, they hide among the marginalized as allies until they are ready to strike

Lesser evil is still evil, and small acceptable levels of evil over the last 50 years has grown into an enormous evil. It has produced people like Biden and Trump as being viable options.

'lesser evil' relies on a constant hypothetical worse future so you dont focus on the horrible present. It keeps you fighting for a mythical future so you don't demand better now.

The bill has already been drafted and ready for a vote since 2003. Barbara Boxer in the House and Jerry Nadler already had the legislation drafted. PELOSI refused to bring it to a vote.

This is the epitome of why Democrats hate Trump. He says the quiet things out loud. He has said 'I dont care about you. I just want your vote.'

This article confirms this, the Princeton study from 2012 confirms this. Several sources have confirmed politicians don't care about us, only the monied class

And the enormous sums she taken from AIPAC, and refusing to prosecute one of the architects of the 2008 housing crisis, opposing body cams on cops, locking up parents of truant children, etc. etc.

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W E B DeBois in 1956

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a "Socialist" Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform. If a voter organizes or advocates a real third-party movement, he may be accused of seeking to overthrow this government by "force and violence." Anything he advocates by way of significant reform will be called "Communist" and will of necessity be Communist in the sense that it must advocate such things as government ownership of the means of production; government in business; the limitation of private profit; social medicine, government housing and federal aid to education; the total abolition of race bias; and the welfare state. These things are on every Communist program; these things are the aim of socialism. Any American who advocates them today, no matter how sincerely, stands in danger of losing his job, surrendering his social status and perhaps landing in jail. The witnesses against him may be liars or insane or criminals. These witnesses need give no proof for their charges and may not even be known or appear in person. They may be in the pay of the United States Government. A.D.A.'s and "Liberals" are not third parties; they seek to act as tails to kites. But since the kites are self-propelled and radar-controlled, tails are quite superfluous and rather silly.

They use the same tactics for decades and liberals fall for them every single time

The general public opinion is there, but people feel trapped in a two-party system and they fear that if they were to vote outside of that two-party system they may lose the few table scraps that they currently get

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You only have so many options. Democrats created this mess and punched left the entire way. If Biden loses, that's 100% on liberals hubris

It's nothing more than an election here, pandering.

Because anyone that vocally opposed war was quickly silenced.

Brought to you by the same people that said, 'We need to protect democracy,' by installing the handpicked candidate of a private corporation thats been forced on the public,

Facts are not propaganda, you may believe that everything you disagree with is propaganda. She has a well-documented history of an being authoritarian right-wing cop

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It's not like your vote matters now. Money has all the power in this country, voters have none. When 1 billionaire has more political influence than entire states you have no power. You've surrendered your power to the donor class.

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And only 1 is being addressed

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Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

Karl Marx 1850

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I'm talking about the hypocrisy of both parties, crying that the other team is doing something while ignoring their team doing the same thing.

By young people they mean the donor class. We all sure as fuck know they dont listen to us, she directly has called pro-palestinian protesters Hamas supporters. And opposes our first amendment rights to free speech and protest.

Politics is

They only had 50 years to nuke the filibuster, all it takes is a simple majority.

I don't bother trying to decipher sarcasm anymore when a majority of the bullshit isn't sarcasm.

If they were speaking at the DNC, they were not socialists. They had more Republicans and cops speaking at that convention than marginalized communities.

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