Again, rhetoric is cheap. But access to spread rhetoric from the media requires money, Money requires you to do things that people with money like, which is at odds with your rhetoric. Rinse and fucking repeat. This isn’t hard.

Correct, I will never vote for a far right ‘thug’ which is why I won’t vote for Joe Biden.

Oh no, the happiness wouldn’t be yours, it would be mine, because you would be in pain.

You literally do not get it. It’s literally confirmation bias for the Dems however you vote. If you give them votes they will think ‘hey moving right is clearly working!’ if you don’t vote for them they think ‘well dang we need to move more right!’. They’ve been doing this song and dance since the 60’s, you cannot affect them by voting or participating in their electoral sham.

It’ll do more good for you to stick your ballot up your ass. From a utilitarian perspective it will result in a higher net-gain of happiness.

I honestly think that Perot (whose politics outside of his anti-war stance are just as idiotic and self-serving as every other politicians) gave the DNC and the RNC enough of a scare to lock everything down and ensure that a third party would never even taste national election success again.

Lol no they don’t. Rhetoric chases people’s votes, the material outcomes are predetermined by the systems of capital ownership, because the solicitation of donations is still the largest determinate of election outcome (outside of incumbency). Regardless if you win or lose, you have to enact policies that benefit your donors, or potential future donors, and given that we are living in the largest historical wealth gap, the material interests of politicians is to rhetorically chase the populace, but actually enact policies that only benefit the wealthy.

As you have so aptly demonstrated, the absolutely piss-poor political education that people in the U.S. receive insures that we will continue to be taken on the ride again and again.

Also, we don’t need to use any thought to reply to you, when you demonstrate so little insight.

And they still never got compensated properly lol

So Gavin is a California Democratic party machine baby. Which means that he is essentially a Republican, but used to say he felt bad about having to dispossess the homeless, and won’t outright say that trans people need to shut and commit suicide already. And this is besides cozying up to literal techno-fascists.

On the dimly bright-side, the California Democratic party machine is a very different animal (because California is essentially it’s own country) than the DNC/DC party machine. For example, while many DNC-based Democrats are very heavy on their China-bad rhetoric, Newsom is not because California thrives off of trade with China. Besides the fact that California is loathed by the populace of almost every other state (for good and bad reasons), that would be the only other reason they wouldn’t choose him, because he does have his own independent power base that exists outside of the DNC circle-jerk.

As per usual, Natalie is just upset that our old white men (including Mao) are better than her old white men.

Knowing where the funding for foreign NGO’s comes from is still a good idea, regardless of the affects on the rights of LGBTQ people, which you can pretend is inherent, but it’s not. The primary contradiction is still imperialism, not gay rights. It’s a shame that they are the political football, but wanting to know where the money is coming from will never be a bad decision for a government to make.

This is some illiterate bullshit. If you listen to the rhetoric on both sides, they are literally both claiming that if they don’t win, then fascism wins and it’s the end of American democracy.

Nobody is even thinking about ‘will fascism take thirty cents off my eggs’.

Ah yes, the known liar definitely wouldn’t have lied about what she would do while in office.

It’s more complex than that. It is the idea that, because we are all equal before the law (as opposed to before where legal privileges were inherited, bought and sold) those that have more have earned it righteously and are therefore liberated in their ability to negotiate contracts with other citizens. This, of course, is nonsense thought from a historical materialist standpoint, but from an idealist standpoint it makes total sense.

Yeah, there are a million lib essays on fascism that don’t understand that there is a material root to fascism and it’s contradictions. They get so caught up on ‘authoritarianism’ usually though, and get into comparing Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, which gets them way off course.

The real key as well, imo, is to study the rise of Japanese fascism, because it mirrors the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, but it does it without having a singular massive ‘authoritarian’ leader (because that is not how the histories of Asian people are written in the West). It’s a little different because it was a continuation of the Imperial system, but you will notice that, for the most part, the Emperor himself was not a singular driving force, but that it was a collective emerging capitalist/noble class decision. It really drives home the idea that fascism is just when you are on the pointy end of capitalism.

Yeah as long as nobody does the dumb thing of asking for a definition, you can always say that you thought it meant ‘changing the jury’s verdict’. But never be the one to bring it up or mention it, it will immediately disqualify you from both the defense and the prosecution because then you are generally working outside their comfort zone.

“If Biden is a patriot…” Christ Almighty, imagine being so cooked that you think the elites think in the same stupid way that they have convinced the plebs to.

Yeah, there is very little incentive to do well. Especially for U.S. graduate and doctoral students. Even if you do do very well, the best thing that will happen for most of them if they stay in the U.S. is that they will be taken and paid alot of money to not do research for the competition, because no-one really works on anything interesting anymore. All of the cool chemistry and industrial technologies stuff comes from China and Europe.

The problem is that the assumption is that if you had to go do a doctorate, you weren’t smart (or connected) enough to dropout and become an entrepreneur. It’s a really really bad system that creates huge disincentives from learning about things and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Instead it the incentive is to learn how to do marketing and graft better.

It’s definitely possible, the at the door photo and immediate ‘go home’ meme definitely made my ‘well wasn’t that convenient’ radar go off. I am 50-50 on it right now. Either way it is good to see that the people have protocols in place for another right-wing coup.

The mistake he made was thinking that ‘everything is for sale’ especially in small towns. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective), in these small towns you have to earn friendship through years of casual sexism and racism, and if someone comes in and starts buying up property but not interacting with the community, they will find themselves having all kinds of ‘trouble’ very quickly. The real key is to buy something in the dilapidated downtown, then renovate it completely, make it look nice, and sell, idk, ‘antiques’ out it. Then the city won’t care if you use your property outside the town as a hazardous waste site or whatever.

The liberal narrative is usually ‘Thank god we killed all those people before they killed anyone else.’

Ah so they are finally admitting that Iran’s attack was successful?