• EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space
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    This is as close to factual reporting as we’re likely to see for a minute. This isn’t satire; it’s sociopolitical commentary.

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    People should be realizing it’s all been bullshit. They don’t care about us.

    It’s all the same game, left, right, business, drug dealing, street life and mainstream life… It’s all the same game, getting “mine” and fucking all other lives over until you do.

    They are never going to help you and if they say they will it’s not genuine.

    Except Bernie.

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      The Democrats and Republicans only purpose is to protect the capitalist class. The GOP is going too hard in the wrong direction will will hopefully upset the working class to invoke real change. Any day now…

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      People should, but you’ll still see die-hard shitlibs in comments sections on .world defending the Democratic party, defending the Harris/Walz campaign, and blaming anyone to their left for their defeat. 45% of the Democratic party think the problem is that they haven’t moved far right enough, and the concept of a third party is still met with constant derision.

      I honestly no longer think Americans will ever get out of this. I don’t think most of them even want to. It seems like the average American doesn’t want democracy.

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        Lots of people have been brainwashed to not want democracy. They want a 2 team system because it gives them the good feelings of 'im better than the other guys" regardless of how factually true that is. And when there is an other guy that they explicitly aren’t better than, like a third party candidate, its all kinds of rationalization as to why actually its better to choose the shittier option because otherwise you might get the feally shitty option. As opposed to just not choosing a shitty option.

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        For real. It’s dead.

        It’s wild from my perspective. It’s dead as fuck.

        The population really was indoctrinated to be passive servants of evil. Marketing… Capitalism…

        It’s wild. Even hip-hop went dogshit. It used to be a culture about the people and it nows it’s been raped by the same old bullshit. It’s either left, right, or street which isn’t any different then left or right anymore., it’s just bitch men raping lives sucking all they can out of innocent people like the ceos or politicians. No one is living for humanity.

        It really is people who love humanity vs people that want to control humanity. And it’s world wide. Nations and organizations or businesses can be disregarded in this war. It’s far bigger than that. Even the dumb Nazi shit is just a blip on the map of the evil humanity is against. All these people get power from the same source… Their need of ego, power, influence, and money.

        USA already has suicide bombers but they blame it on isis, or other groups. I saw someone put it right, “America is a third world with guchi belt.”

        Poor people and minorities already know what’s up. Immortal technique had it right,

        "I laugh at America’s fears

        Of a new world order controlin’ the hemisphere,

        Because my people have been livin’ that

        for the past 500 years."

        This war isn’t new for many of us. It’s everyday life.

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      A huge percentage of the problem is what people think is left.

      https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

      Hilary was right of Trump, just less authoritarian. The whole caravan spectacle was basically fallout of her time as secretary of state under Obama.

      Liberalism coopted equality from socialism. Rainbow capitalism will underpay and shrinkflate all the poors equally in the name of the shareholders.

      Conservatism coopted a man being entitled to the sweat of his brow. Profit is what’s left over after reinvesting in the business and wages. Every cut corner of quality and penny of retirement savings denied is more riches for the ruling class. Workers eagerly defend their bosses entitlement to the sweat of their brow.

      Media plays the masses that deserve both against itself.

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        You should check out some Adam Curtis Documentary.

        The century of self; It’s about frueds cousin understanding psychology and starting the type of marketing we see today and how it’s gained traction in politics and government.

        The Trap; I haven’t finished it. But it seems on point. its been awhile but I believe this one is more about geopolitics. Proxy wars and stuff like that. Manipulating other countries for our (us) profiting.

        Hyper normalization was good as well. i dont think it was the main plot or talking point but it mentions Trump’s tactics in NYC in the 70s. Buying up the poor and selling to the rich.

        There’s a channel on YouTube that has all them for free. I think it’s official.

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    “Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we do something."

    Egg-fucking-zactly

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    It’s cute how people want the dems to put on their cape and save them.

    They offered a crime fighter instead of a felon. They offered someone who can identify with four separate disparaged groups and who held 2-3 college degrees. They offered America’s mom and dad.

    People couldn’t come out and vote. America doesn’t want them.

    Those who voted at all chose an elitist 34-time felon who victimized women, who tried quid-pro-quo for aid relief, incited insurrection and then pardoned people collectively guilty of terrorism and felony murder, stole and hid secret documents, and engaged in keystone conspiracy to avoid prosecution and return of those docs – and some are still missing. You voted a lock into two branches of government when they already controlled the third. Like, just, how dumb are you?

    Please ask yourself what you’re entitled to at this point, and maybe change your fucking tone. Start with “sorry” and end with “how can we help”?

    Release the downvotes. Begin projecting. Just stop the fucking bleating.

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      What I want Dems to do right now is identify and call out the unprecedented actions of Republicans.

      I want them to loudly say “we will not sign any budget bill that doesn’t address Elon”.

      What I want them to do is introduce bills to protect the federal government.

      Just because the party isn’t in power, doesn’t mean they are powerless. The Republican majority is paper thin. Now is the time to exploit that and to make the case to Americans “this isn’t normal”.

      Instead they are being silent, which is the exact wrong move. Did Republicans ever STFU as a minority about CRT, DEI, woke, or hunter’s laptop? No. Dems need to take a page out of that playbook.

      They and you are acting like it was a landslide lose. It was not. Now is not the time for a pity party and a vacation.

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      They offered a genocidist, who campaigned with the Cheneys. Maybe next time, the Democrats could offer a candidate that the people actually want.

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        I liked Kamala Harris. But getting the Cheneys on her side made me wonder if we were the baddies.

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          I’m not a Democrat, so take this with a grain of salt: I think the Democratic leadership are indeed the baddies (just like the Republican leadership). I think most Democratic voters are well-intentioned people, who’ve been suckered into beliving the lies leadership.

          It’s OK to be suckered in. I’ve been suckered into a lot of things. To broadly paraphrase: The best time to realize you’ve been suckered is yesterday. The next best time to realize is today.

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        What the people wanted:

        an elitist 34-time felon who victimized women, who tried quid-pro-quo for aid relief, incited insurrection and then pardoned people collectively guilty of terrorism and felony murder, stole and hid secret documents, and engaged in keystone conspiracy to avoid prosecution and return of those docs

        Better than that genocidist bitch!

        “You can have an American cheese sandwich with mayo or eat literal shit and elect a fascist. What doncha want?”

        ^This asshole: I wasn’t given a solid choice!

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          I’m not sure most people did want Trump. His approval rating is terrible, and the majority of people didn’t vote for him.

          I think a better analogy would be: Do you want a shit-sandwich, or a shit-sandwich with rainbow sprinkles.

          Are the rainbow sprinkles better? I guess yeah, techinically. But I’m still not eating the sandwich. Maybe next time, the Democrats should leave the shit out of the sandwhich.

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      They’ll do anything but accept blame for the situation we’re in.

      Democrats aren’t great but lazy non voters are worse. Or those who choose to feel smug voting for third parties who don’t stand a chance instead of accepting that things can’t be perfect but can be better with a very imperfect choice.

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        I’m curious how this translates into a strategy to win elections. I want Democrats to be realistic. Running as “better than Trump” lost 2016 and 2024. If Democrats don’t show strong leadership, then we’re all lost.

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        Democrats are far from great, in fact they are pretty evil. I don’t see how voting for a party that gets more evil every election is going to make anything better.

        I think it’s pretty fair to blame the democratic leadership for being evil, and running a terrible candidate, who ran on a terrible platform, rather than blaming the voters who loudly told them what to change to earn more votes.

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          Yeah, because reality now is soooo much better. /s

          Accelerationists are either insane or stupid.

          Democrats could change if people voted for them every election and every primary. But that requires work. It’s the one thing Republicans did and you can witness how right batshit insane they are because they did just that. AOC put in the work. Shame the bulk of left leaning voters don’t do the same.

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            Who said reality is better now? I certaintly didn’t. I’m also not sure why you brought up Accelerationists. Maybe you’re replying to the wrong post?

            The Democratic leadership has had the chance to change, and have chosen not to. They had a majority, and spent the entire time bitching that there was nothing they could do for their voting base. But they sure had the ability to do things that their voting base expressly didn’t want. I think voters saw through that, and when the time came to put their faith in the Democratic leadership, they couldn’t. And I don’t blame the voters for that, I blame the leadership.

            I don’t understand what you mean by AOC putting in the work. I constantly see her talking a big talk, but I’ve yet to see her walk a big walk.

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              Razor thin majority, biggest climate change bill ever, canceled student loans, navigated covid. Sure, they didn’t do anything. /s

              Was it a metric ton? No but it’s better than the alternative.

              But hey, why not let Republicans back in to dismantle all that and more. Surely that’s better.

              If we’re this stupid then we deserve all this and more.