We are at a point wherein the system can not repair itself and if things progress further in the proceeding 4 years what little we have been holding on to shall be reduced to nothing
We are at a point wherein the system can not repair itself and if things progress further in the proceeding 4 years what little we have been holding on to shall be reduced to nothing
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President of the United States, Donald J Trump, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
TBF, the red trolley runs a lot faster.
Well, yes, red color gives it a boost.
waaagh?
And kills more people in general.
I don't understand how you guys can just refuse to realize that conditions for minorities inside the US will deteriorate and people will die from it but wouldn't have under the Democrats.
It does run faster. But the blue trolley pretends it isn't running. The democrat party is a center right party we have no true left in the usa. Neo liberal democracy is inherently opposed to economic democracy and subsequently this means it is a class dictatorship. The democratic party leadership actively sabotages and undermines any attempt to move things to the left on any issues that will positively affect working class people. Their entire campaign platform has become “vote for us, we aren’t saying and doing outright evil and despicable shit and we are better at lying!”
Blaming voters for what is obviously a result of the failures of a billionaire owned astro turfed controlled opposition party is disingenuous. In reality both parties exhibit 13 of 14 traits of fascism albeit the red party does so blatantly. however the idea that the 14th trait being fraudulent elections is somehow too sacred of a line to cross for billionaires and our opportunistic bribe taking insider trade benefiting “public servants” because of Hurr Durr “democracy!!” Is just naive and foolish. I do not believe trump won this election without fraud and i do not believe sanders lost 2016 and 2020 primaries without sabotage and fraud on behalf of the DNC and Billionaire donors. Those in power have weaponized technology against us at every possible and conceivable opportunity. Things are far beyond self remediation within the system at this point. We have been the victims of class warfare since at least the Reagan administrations if not going back to Kennedy’s assassination.
Both sides are not the same and acting like they are is a travesty.
Yeah it is funny looking over the last 45 years and its like clearly we have one party destroying things and one that mostly has to go around and fix whats been destroyed and occasionally can get far enough to build out a bit more or better. Its randomly switching from better to worse because better is not perfect that has been killing us.
I'm pretty sure NAFTA has killed more people than anything Republicans have done. That and the patriot act written by Biden.
Yeah, it's more like pulling the lever slows the trolley down. It's still killing people, but pulling the lever is obviously better than doing nothing while we work on a way to derail the trolley.
Shhhh...! You'll annoy the cartoonish "purity" of whoever posted this narcissistic drivel.
"I have it ALL figured out! Consistency and patience is boring, and so is homework! I want a instant political messiah, and if I don't get exactly my way on the first try, I'm going to pout electorally, while fondling my purity then lovingly, distractedly sniffing my fingers!
To those more vulnerable than me, all I can say is that you don't exist in MY world!"
There is a way. There has been a way. The elite have spent over a century fighting it. I have no idea how to convince people to do it.
We don't even need to become truly communist. In fact our current system could work with a few tweaks.
One way is the general strike. I don't know how many unions are participating. We have 3 years.
Another effective way is stopping transportation. You all remember how much the elite freaked out when just the rail unions went on strike.
Stop the trains. Stop the planes. Stop the semis, stop the barges on the Mississippi, and the Great lakes. Shut down the ports.
The elite enjoy power because they control the money. We don't need to use violence or our voices against them, because they can organize quicker and shout louder.
Economic warfare.
Remember that comic about if a button you pushed gave you a 100 dollars but someone on the earth randomly dies ... and everyone is like if you press it 1000 times the likelihood of it killing you is so small who wouldn't press it a thousand times to become a millionaire ?
Yeah that is what we have been living the whole time.
And now the billionaires brag about the button out loud.
Weird how the trolly didn't run over women's right to an abortion due to the trolley being blue.
Both sides are not the same.
Weird how democrats didn't do a damn thing to counter what they did. Codify roe? Nope, pack the supreme court with justices that arent biased and acting in bad faith? Nope. Term limits for supreme court justices? Nahhhh we can also thank RBG for holding onto that position with a death grip until the end so that a fascist could replace her with a fascist justice.
If you think the system can just repair itself if we get out and vote harder, for candidstes that have no appeal to people with a brain because tbey are entirely owned by the same wall street military and prison industry profiteers that own and fund the right you're living in a fantasy of delusion.
Reminder that the system doesn't have to be two party. Ranked choice voting (aka single transferable vote), proportional representation - these things increase political competition by making more parties mathematically possible and give us greater control over our government.
It's already been implemented in some States and municipalities across the country. If yours isn't one of them, it could be. There are several orgs trying to get this done such as Rank The Vote. Check to see if you have a local chapter and how you can help them!
Yeah I'm sure a President Kamala Harris would be doing mass deportations, aligning the US with the authoritarians of the world, threatening to invade allies, making tirllion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy ahd would have Elon Musk gutting the federal government right now.
Yep, that would all be happening. Definitely.
FFS The cope coming from the uncommitted crowd is even more insane the cope coming from MAGAs right now.
The only people smoking all the copium they can are the neo liberals ignoring reality.
You love blaming leftists for not supporting right wing centrist Neo libs but are all crickets when it comes to the obvious reality that DNC leadership sabotaging bernie sanders at every possible opportunity illuminated the fact they prefer a Trump administration rather than upsetting their wall street military and prison industry profiteer donors and allowing any movement left to their platform.
But gk ahead and blame people with a brain and conscious who can’t support a party who’s best campaigning is “vote for us, we aren't as awful and only slightly fascist” “vote for us we will maybe murder 20% less Palestinians while we wave pride flags and type out #blm tweets on a fascist echo chamber platform meanwhile we ignore out of control rent prices and stagnant wages.” Federal minimum wage hasnt been adjusted in 16 years which is the longest it has gone unadjusted in since 1938 with the introduction of the fair labor standards act by FDR.
The rest of the developed world considers the democratic party a right wing party. But go ahead keep on voting for right wing centrist corporatism and cling to your delusional beliefs that one day the democrat party donors will let positive change happen even though all signs point to….. they will never let that happen at any price.
DNC could easily have put a winning candidate on the ticket in 2016 and 2020 but they said fuck that they obviously would rather have authoritarian fascism because their donors prefer that to any option that would threaten their capital.
Also Biden had stricter immigration policies than trump did in his first term.
And whats so sad is you centrists will never admit sanders supporters were right and instead just keep parroting corporate neo liberal propaganda that aims to shirt the blame away from those who are actually responsible and could have prevented this.
I'm sure the most vulnerable in a lazy and angry, anti-science and anti-reason right wing political landscape, can take great comfort in the fact that there are great keyboard warriors like you, heroically sitting on your lazy ass, heroically doing nothing of value, for their benefit.
Yeah but the blue trolley makes less noise so I can ignore it while we ride to brunch
Fuck me, if that doesn’t accurately sum up the neo liberal agenda idk what does.
What kind of mental failing do you suffer from, that millions of Palestinian, Ukrainian, and transgender lives are nothing to you?
What world do you live in that democrats have not just been complicit puppets to Netanyahu? Biden and kamala wouldnt even admit there is a genocide going on. Their pockets are bulging woth AIPAC and CUFI donations.
IF A PARTY ACTIVELY SABOTAGES ANY LEFTWARD MOVEMENT THEN THEY ARE NOTHING BUT CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. THE BALLOT BOX IS NOT GOING TO AFFECT ANY MEANINGFUL CHANGE. WAKE TF UP. MINIMUM WAGE ISN'T LIVABLE EVEN IN CALIFORNIA WHERE IT’S $20/hr FOR SOME CORPORATE FAST FOOD WORKERS. BESIDES A REVOLUTIONARY EFFORT THE ONLY WAY TO AFFECT ANY CHANGE IS A MASS SIT IN/STRIKE WHERE AT LEAST 20% OF WORKERS REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE UNTILL THINGS CHANGE AND THIS WILL BE MET WITH MILITARIZED VIOLENCE BY THE RULING CLASS.
YOU ACT LIKE IF KAMALA GOT IN NETANYAHU / LIKUD WOULD HAVE JUST STOPPED BOMBING GAZA AND MURDERING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 🤡
This is the two party system for you:
Working class poor & homeless: “help we are starving please do something😫: Republicans: “No” Democrats: “No 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️#BLM”
Also Ukraine is a proxy state and has been since the Berlin wall fell. This is a war being fought over resource and trade route control for the benefit of the same wall street military and prison industry profiteers who fund both parties. Its amazing how the side cosplaying as leftists just support whatever war the media convinces them is just. SEND MORE BOMBS TO UKRAINE, the working class can starve and live on the street. Food stamps haven't been adjusted in years and the price of groceries increases every week due to rampant corporate price gouging.
And now everyone reading the comments knows why radical communities cannot be on .world.
Neolibs will never admit they were wrong.
They are too busy licking boots and believing the propaganda they are fed that those boots are actually world class A5 Wagyu. Yummm yummm i guess a few les hospitals and schools bombed in whats left of palestine is a massive win for neo-libs?
I'd have to say any of the big oil companies. Probably Aramco, because you have the global warming combined with the human rights abuses. You want a depraved organization run by tyrants, that must be at the top.
Lets not fort get blackrock, state street and vanguard who own massive shares of all these publicly traded companies. Its called circular ownership. Collectively they own 20-25% of every legacy MSM outlet. They have their hands in military and prison industry profiteering industries (petro chemical industry being intrinsically tied to these machinations) and they run massive political donation campaigns in conjunction with PR/ propaganda campaigns. The system is rotten to its very core and there is no hope for self remediation without removing money/ corruption/ the very mechanisms of capitalism itself from the system. Western liberal democracy without economic democracy is nothing more than cleverly disguised class dictatorship.
If 20% of workers stopped participating then that would be met with militarized violence and would dissolve any illusions most people have about a free and just society. This could work or it might just be one step towards a real revolution.
#bothSides