I’m envious of the way the French protest their government. They’re literally setting things on fire because their schools aren’t adequate. Because the government tried to raise the retirement age. Because their politicians are shitbags.
I think the biggest obstacle to organizing in the US is the sheer distance. It takes 40 solid hours of driving to get from one side to the other. That’s not counting any breaks. France takes about 14 hours. Doable in a day or so if you push it.
Anyway, I’d sign up for a Revolution if there was a serious contender.
Been seeing this sentiment lately, and it’s silly. At least in the decades I’ve been around, people only vote the lesser evil about half the time. What we get is the “lesser” evil fixing and/or improving things, then the other party wins and undoes it all, rinse and repeat. You’d only actually have a point if it was consistently people voting the lesser which they’re not. This is just propaganda to demotivate folks from voting and making them feel like it’s hopeless so nothing changes for the folks that don’t want it to.
Or maybe you look at what you want and close your eyes to the things that need fixing and they leave alone or make actively worse.
Want an example? ICE budget under Biden. Everyone saw under Trump 1 that he was pushing ICE to be his militarized Gestapo, and rang all the alarm bells, telling Democrats to shut them down. What they did instead under Biden is boost their budget and scope. ICE is what it is today because Democrats voted to make it that way when they had the power to kill it. Because ICE is immigration, and borders MUST be secured at all cost, don’t you know
No, they don’t. Both parties actively make things worse, one wants to move to the right faster but they both want to move to the right. Things get worse regardless of which party is in power, neither party actually fixes or improves things.
There is a bipartisan consensus on ICE, the Patriot Act, spending as much on the military as the next 9 countries combined, getting involved in foreign wars, opposing Medicare for all, etc. Biden increased military spending to an all time high and bypassed congress to send more weapons to Israel.
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even begun to pull the knife out, much less heal the wound… They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
The knife is in 9 inches, and one party wants to shove it another 6 while the other wants to plunge it in another 3. Both parties want to make it illegal to even talk about pulling the knife out.
Provably false to anyone that pays any attention at all and literally the type of shitstain garbage sentiment the post is warning about.
With the last Democrat administration we got the biggest infrastructure bill of our lifetimes, the Inflation Reduction Act, the Safer Communities Act, the CHIPS act, same sex and interracial marriage was codified, prescription drug price reforms, student loan forgiveness for MILLIONS, and more.
The Dems have a voting history PROVING they regularly vote in favor of the middle/lower classes and stats PROVE they are better for our economy.
These are all objectively good things that make things better, not worse. Maybe what you mean to say is that one party actively makes things worse and the other just doesn’t do everything YOU want them to do on YOUR timeline.
The bottom line is there is a stupid decision and a smart decision every time you fill out a ballot, but you’re wasting your time telling others that no option is a good option.
Stop wasting our time and spreading this shit sentiment. The situation is far too serious for that garbage.
I’ve discussed things with you before and know that you’re a diehard party loyalist, so there’s little point in trying to reason with you. As I recall, you explicitly told me you consider American lives more valuable than the lives of non-Americans, so I don’t respect your opinion whatsoever. Your assessment of the party is based on fascist values and beliefs that are completely incompatible with my own.
At the end of the day, as someone who believes in the principle that all people are created equal, I’ll never vote for a party that supports mass murder, even if it’s targeted at “lesser” foreigners. And you and your party can make the choice of whether that’s an unreasonable condition to being part of their coalition. If you don’t need people who believe in equality, then don’t whine about how we vote. If you do need us, give us our demands and stop supporting mass murder. Doesn’t make a lick of difference to me if you think I’m being “unreasonable” or “wasting my vote” or whatever else. And I’m not going to stop voicing my opinion or advocating against genocide, no matter what you say.
I’m not a diehard party loyalist. That’s just what you frame me as because you don’t do your homework and have no good arguments, so you deflect to using demeaning labels against your opponent. I talk shit about Dems all the time. And I also give them credit where credit is due, something you are incapable of doing.
You know nothing about me, other than that I pay more attention than you to current affairs and know what actually gets accomplished and by who.
No shit, Sherlock. Your own affairs in your own nation absolutely take precedence over the affairs of others in other parts of the world. How can you effectively help anyone anywhere else if you aren’t keeping your own house in order and it starts to collapse (descend into fascism)? You made this comment like some kind of “gotcha” but it’s just common sense, something you appear to be extremely short on.
You spend all your time on this platform whining like a baby, providing no facts, calling everyone genocide supporters, and accomplishing exactly nothing, other than maybe convincing others through your incessant whining to not vote or vote for candidates that cannot, under any circumstances, win.
You are less than worthless and provide nothing of value to the conversation.
Don’t care, didn’t read your fascist bullshit. Already said all I have to say to you.
Tonight @ 10: Loser Continues Losing
Just to confirm. First I was a genocide supporter, then a loyalist, now a fascist. Every time you open your mouth, you lose credibility.
I guess go somewhere else where someone might actually listen to your whiny bullshit. So long.
You’re all of those things at once. I only “lose credibility” in the eyes of genocide supporting, fascist party loyalists like yourself. The sort of people who view foreigners as inherently lesser beings because of where they happened to be born. I don’t want to have credibility in your eyes, I’m glad that you hate me. Hate me more, fascist. You’ll have to if you want to catch up for how much I hate you.
Yo dipshit, I thought you weren’t reading my comments anymore.
Hey look, a loser who slings random derogatory terms (genocider/loyalist/fascist) at people now resorting to putting words into someone else’s mouth to make up for having no valid arguments and nothing valuable to contribute. Nowhere, in any of my comments, which you can browse through as it seems you have no life, did I say they were lesser. I said Americans should prioritize American affairs over Palestinian affairs.
Why?
Because a bunch of dipshit losers like you got so big mad over what was going on over there that they refused to vote or voted for candidates with ZERO path to victory, and we got stuck with a felon rapist pedo traitor who’s dismantling our government and fucking up our economy and, surprise surprise, is worse for Palestinians.
Again, how can we help Palestinians if we let our anger dig us into a deeper hole and give the keys to the kingdom to a criminal, and his constituency, who REALLY don’t give a flying fuck about Palestinians?
You are not a smart person. And you have yet to provide a single fact or valuable insight in any comment you’ve left thus far. You’ve only succeeded in broadcasting your ignorance on every subject you’ve attempted to speak on.
But I’m sure you won’t read this, lol.
We know you read it. You just have nothing of value to add to the discourse. “muh both parties bad the cOntRoLeD duOpoLy”. Just insane out of touch privileged takes
Lmao. Yes, I care so much about what a fascist who views foreigners as lesser beings thinks, that I couldn’t help but read it! And his beliefs in the inherent superiority of Americans is just so compelling and persuasive, I just couldn’t think of any possible counterargument!
No. I don’t lie. I dismiss everything he says out of hand because he is a fascist. And if you agree with him, then you are too.
If you reject the very notion of equality, why on God’s green earth would I give a rat’s ass what you think?
It’s utterly insane for you to call me “privileged” for believing in equality! If you reject equality, then by that logic what the fuck would it matter if I’m “privileged?” By your logic, that just means I’m better than you. Because fuck equality, right? Don’t try to co-opt left-wing language while rejecting the fundamental premises of leftism.
Blah blah blah. Words in people’s mouths because you’re too ignorant to speak intelligently on any subject.
You just alter what people have said to fit your narrative. So…lying?
It’s funny because anyone that actually cares could look through my comment history and see that I regularly defend Palestinians and voted to try to limit their suffering as much as I could.
Reviewing those comments would prove that you’re a lying sack of pathetic shit that has to rely on lying about people’s past comments, hoping that others won’t go digging to confirm that you’re a lying sack of pathetic shit.
You’re a perfect example of why .ml users have the reputation that they do.