I misread you, then, my sincere apologies. Seeing a lot of defeatism and it frustrates me because that didn’t help a single bit in 2016 and only made 2020 worse. I agree on your point about the AFL CIO, which is why I’m fond of PSL, they’re very principled domestically, regarding trans rights and on firmly anti-imperialist foreign policy and they’re not part of the Washington aligned labor unions. The comrades I look up to the most are engaged in unions and organizing there.
Ok, then stay home or keep voting democrat, but stop pretending you want change without doing anything to bring it about. Individualism and conformism is exactly what got the US here and both parties would be very happy if y’all stayed that way.
Politics is what happens before and after you cast the ballot. The vote itself might as well be a formality.
Only one thing I disagree with, they’re not taking minorities for granted, they’re holding them for ransom. They deliberately refuse to codify civil liberties and anti corruption measures in case they’d like to use them.
there are already sizable third parties in the US, such as PSL, DSA and the Green Party. PSL in particular is always active in unions, protests and community programs, and lately they’ve shown they trust younger members to be out there and adjusting to the demands of the members.
“The democrats and republicans have made sure you can’t elect anybody else, the solution is to vote for them to change it!”
Americans are so fucking cooked lmao
I know american adults have the reading comprehension of other countries’ 8 year olds but I guess the democrat playbook of performative martyrdom when presented with criticism is easier than introspection.
It is exactly like this except the guy who walks you extorts protection money from you and then you learn they’re helping another guy kidnap so you don’t want to walk with them. And then when the bully shows up the other guy just watches, and when you agree to walk with that guy he beats you too, now, but says the bully would beat you like, way worse now.
Bur apart from all that, yeah, same.
It doesn’t matter where in Latin America I’m from because all of it has been various levels of fucked by the US in the same way the corporatocracy started to fuck most of y’all since the last depression. My grandpa wasn’t even born when the US was already stealing our shit at gunpoint. Malcolm X was already saying in the 60s that all the horrors unleashed by the US would in time be unleashed within it, and here we are. Good for you for campaigning for prop 6, doesn’t make your reasoning for why it failed any less fascist.
Trump supporters voted for him because they think migrants poison the blood of the country. Citing made up Nazi shit doesn’t mean everyone else has to address it like it’s true, jfc.
How dare you not get wholly genocided in time for the election
And those whose brand would be hurt by endorsing her, shut up about her worst qualities (looking at you, John Oliver, you liberal dipshit) instead of highlighting third parties because, of course, the moguls would like very much to keep this managed democracy rather than risk an actual democracy, which can get rather messy to undermine.
It is, actually, when they were running a fascist with a blue pin. A tough on immigration prosecutor hanging around with Liz Cheney and promising to continue the Gaza genocide (with trademark democrat speak to make it sound like that’s not quite what she said).
Obama bragged about being good at killing people, Hillary laughed aloud about the torture of Gaddafi for the crime of not selling his people to US corporations, Bill Clinton massively incarcerated black people labeling them super predators.
Half the US did vote for fascists, the other half stayed at home.
They’re forced to do it, as well, or risk serving their full term and lose the basic human dignity that US prisons treat as though they were privileges and niceties.
They are tired of being lied to by people like you living in a nice rich neighborhood and imagining
I live in Latin America you absolute dumbass lmao. Now who’s imagining?
I don’t care about your fascist talking points and make believe gangsters pulled from thin air, statistically, poverty is by far the biggest driver of crime and California, like all of the US, has a whole lot of it. And rather than fix it, y’all make it worse for everyone because you’d rather get your little vengeance for some kid fucking up your lawn. Americans pretend giving to charity is enough because y’all don’t want to own up to the fact that your society was built from the ground up as a settler colony only interested in enriching the rulers. The rest of the world sees you for what you are, and Trump makes it undeniable.
That’s what libs hate about him, because his policies are the same shit but dialed up a little, with no lipstick on the pig.
You know what the most ghoulish shit is about libs? Y’all stopped pretending cruel and unusual punishment was only for rapes and murders and now stealing a sandwich is enough to get you to pay with your life’s time for a few years.
Maybe demand all the media, agriculture and tech billionaires y’all have to stop wage theft, antitrust practices, rent/food gouging and outright contracting prison slaves and you wouldnt have so many homeless people that still have to eat and inner city youth desperate to make a dollar any way they can to escape their police-occupied communities.
Day one they were flaunting the largest fundraising in history, like that’s gonna play well with working class voters. If Dems push for election reform, they’re probably gonna do “one dollar, one vote” lmao.
No wonder the US is so fucked if half the voters are deluded like this and the other half might as well be living in a third reich film
He was winning in 2020 too and everybody panicked and GAVE their fucking delegates to Biden lmao. All that for the most milquetoast social democrat, imagine if it was a real socialist.
But how will they get that superPAC money then?
Real convenient how it’s always time to defeat fascism, no time to go left and once it’s a fascist in office it’s too late to go left, y’all ruined it.
I mean, Lemmy is basically a big discussion forum to share links or get an argument going. You’re obviously gonna get more confrontations.
Bsky/Mastodon/Threads is strangers yelling their thoughts into the void in between posts about their cats or pictures of themselves. Not exactly a place where most people will go in with the intention of dissenting.