All Politicians Are Bastards
All Politicians Are Bastards
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Neoliberals, not Dems.
Don't let them convince you that they're the only option with a D by their name
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I dunno man, seems like the DNC only lets you get the D if you are neolibed up
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Obama abandoned the DNC when he was in office, out of spite because they were working with Hillary against him. Because they were still her and Bill's people.
So the DNC was literally bought and paid for in 2016.
They didn't know what the fuck to do and stuck with the same neoliberals for 2016-2020.
Biden won, but he nominated the neoliberals again.
Then, 2024, for the first time in decades, the voting members of the DNC picked a nonbiased state chair instead.
Like, I criticize the past DNC all the time. It's still worse than most people realize, but today's DNC is a completely different animal. Most people just don't understand all this shit so think today's DNC is in any way similar to the DNC a year ago.
The chair has complete and total control, and it's a new chair
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Things must be getting bad, seems like a big uptick in "both sides" memes lately
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Just in time for mid term elections to sway the independent/on the fence voters away from voting Democrat.
While Democrats deserve their fair share of criticisms, it is nothing compared to how Republicans shifted their ideology to fascism/nazism. A vote for a republican is a vote for nazi's.
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As per this meme
"I want to be on the side who murders children for fun"
Or
"I'm too.chickenshit to stop people murdering children for fun"
If I have to be on one side I'm not picking the willfully murdering children side
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Are the Democrats going to start acting like their colleagues are Nazis? That would be cool. To be fair, I do like Newsom pushing for redistricting and the Democrats not backing down on the shutdown.
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The shutdown prevented the last jobs report from coming out. The payroll company ADP released theirs and it's not good
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You're "overthinking" it. There are only like 8 states that count votes anyway
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Hint: They're both republicans.
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Anybody who doesn't explicitly oppose FPTP actually supports the Republicans. They are playing dumb, and DINO voters are dumb to keep falling for it.
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We need to try to pass these ballot initiatives for alternative voting systems when it’s an off-election year.
Too many people that aren’t checked into the voting process vote against any system changes during Presidential election years. Our best bet is to get a big movement going now so that we can vote for a different system during midterms.
All we need in half the states is to get citizens ballot initiatives going, which just require getting enough signatures to put it up for vote.
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This sounds like more "Don't bother voting" propaganda.
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I would still rather have the coward cops in charge than the active shooter
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Having the coward cop In Charge means that the shooter will eventually be in charge. Because the coward is a coward
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I want more options. The coward cop is perfectly willing to compromise and work across the aisle with the shooter to kill fewer kids because the idea of zero murdered children is a radical idea to the cowardly cop. He's like "I'll get to the bottom of this situation find out how many kids he needs to kill. If he says five I'll get him down to three. Then we'll work together with the parents of these kids and find out whose kids will live, together as a nation."
People who want no kids killed in the situation are exremists, according to the cowardly cop, who want him to pass a purity test like "stop the shooter before he kills more kids"
So I want an option that says "I will actively stop school shooters frol shooting schools" but people who want the cop aren't willing to betray the cop's legacy and admit he needs to be fucking fired yesterday, so the next shooter, if there's a school left, will actually be stopped or the new cop who isn't a coward can be actually held accountable for failing so horribly without an army of unthinking drones defending them.
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I totally agree.
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Unfortunately unless we as citizens are dedicated (investing the time too coordinate and act) and educated (about the topics at hands, including the ones we do not care about) enough for anarchy we do need representatives.
If we are not ready for anarchism then we need a system with representatives. They do not have to be professionals and they could be temporary (e.g. max N years/mandate) or part time (e.g. max 10hrs/week) or whatever other rules we deem required.
If we are not ready for either then we leave a power vacuum that will be taken by whomever is more powerful, including those ready to use power in the most unethical ways, bribing, coercion, murder, etc.
So... even though 99.99% of politicians might be corrupt, maybe 99.999% even started uncorrupted (funnily enough not even a word in my browser dictionary) but the system itself in order to reach and hold power did corrupt them, the alternative is IMHO even worst.
That being said don't ask me to point out a .00% of uncorrupted politicians. I do have some ideas but even there I didn't do the background check necessary so I might be biased.
Finally why do I bother writing this? Well because I worry that the power vacuum can be created and then abused by political actors outside of democracies.
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Anarchy doesn't mean chaos, a lack of social order, Mad Max, or a power vacuum. Depending on which flavor of anarchism we're talking about, political power is distributed among the population evenly.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
— Buckminster Fuller
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I'm not sure what you are clarifying for but I can at least make my point more explicit : I didn't use anarchism in a derogatory manner, on the contrary. I was trying to highlight that anarchism, like democracy, is demanding because it demands of its participants to actually take part.
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I think he addressed that though. Anarchy requires knowledgable participation in small sections of the responsible governance that would normally go to representatives.
To put it in simple terms, people don’t need to know how to build bridges, but they need to understand they, as with every other person in the village, are each tasked with carrying one boulder to a piling in the river.
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I don’t see how that would happen/function in reality though.
“Just want you to ask yourself: when you gain results the wrong way, what are you left with in the end? Only dark regret and a deep emptiness that have nowhere to go.” - Suzaku Kururugi
You can work within a system to change it and peacefully push for change from the outside.
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Where does that put everyone who didn't vote?
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Reading the news saying "how horrible. There is nothing we can do."
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They're in the short bus parked outside.
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Dead politicians are mostly ok, though.
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We need more of them more often
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Isn't the government shut down? I dont know what magical powers you think they have. Give them a majority, I guarantee things wont be as shit as they are today. Won't be sunshine and rainbows either but if you want to eat the turd sandwich over smelling a fart, thats on you.
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Yup.
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And the dbzer0 shits are the ones criticising on the internet while doing fuckall.
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Republicans are Jimmy from mouthwashing.
Democrats are Curly.
Leftists are Swansea.
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They all work for Israel anyway https://www.trackaipac.com/congress
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Israel and the USA are two arms of the same entity. Both are entirely controlled by the capitalist hegemony.
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Kinda off topic, but I hate seeing this picture.
So maybe let's not post this any more?
Yeah that’s a tough situation, man. On the one hand you’d risk anything to save your wife’s life. On the other hand you have to guarantee above all that your kids don’t lose BOTH their parents.
The job he took should demand he focus first on saving all possible victims. No, he should not have to guarantee that above all, he's paid to prioritize saving victims.
I think it’s more about the stress and ability to perform in that situation. Saying leaving isn’t his decision.
It is the best possible example how useless the police are, and why they should be changed/removed.
But that cop was only useless because he was prevented from taking action by other cops. It's not his fault
Such a coward he wouldn't even save his wife.
See the documentary and get back to me:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/inside-the-uvalde-response/
It'll take an hour, and it will fucking hurt. Man the fuck up and have a look before you mouth off. SPOILER: It doesn't make excuses for the cops. But it ain't what you think either.
EDIT: Seems some pussies aren't able to handle actual evidence. Huh. How very conservative.
What would you have done?