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None of them worth voting for. They will continue the same policies as Reagan, Clinton, GWB, Obama, Trump & Biden. I'd prefer a radical non-racist FDR agenda to redistribute wealth before there's a revolution and many people are killed to achieve that outcome. Supposed to be a warning:
During the universal (primarily male) suffrage campaign in the UK a conservative peer (can't find source) said "Give them the vote, but we will choose the candidates the vote for." First-past-the-post, single-seat constituency democracies will always be captured by the rich and powerful. Always.
Labour are incensed Reform stole their policies.
If correctly written: "Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage" Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.
In the last 20 years most parties in North America/Europe countries have converged on slightly different anti-migrant policies. I've wondered - is this them building walls against the inevitable flood of refugees from climate collapse caused by the same countries building the walls?
No quicker way to a block from Blue MAGA than to tell them support for abortion is a purity test too far.
unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort
For over 30 years I've watched Dems and their hacks advocate for these policies in opposition, sometimes vaguely nod in their direction when campaigning and then implement the opposite in office.
My nation's politics, I've always assumed has been irrelevant to most people in the world. I rarely ever find any purpose in talking about it because I find it hard to believe that anyone but ourselves would care, but Indonesian police brutality is truly incredible.
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/... The libs would vote for Hitler himself if it stopped trump or the Republicans. The Democratic party is a fascist right wing party now. They're already running a campaign of going to the right of trump. If they can woo the more reasonable moderate fascists.
The pro Wall Street Democratic Leadership Council in the 80s foisted its members Clinton/Gore onto the party. Since then it has systematically destroyed all Union, Left, Progressive elements. Even milquetoast "left" Sanders won't be an official member. Clinton was Reagans legacy.
The US is working hard to supplant the UK as the world's greatest evil empire, so anything that reduces, damages US power is good for the rest of the world. If anyone is going to suffer from US policies it should be Americans first. Looks like Trump was the lesser evil not Harris.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Ms... he of course was absolutely correct. Libs would talk of peaceful protests&common ground as the correct way for the people fighting for their lives to convince the American empire to stop ethnic cleansing Vietnamese people. Ho chi Minh had no choice but violence.
#OtD 1 Sep 1920 a mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8156...
I assume it doesn't need to be pointed out that they're putting up these flags in the hope that they're taken down, allowing them to play the victim. It's the 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵 same strategy being employed by their mates in the UK www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Add a flag of another nation right alongside each one showing Ireland is friends to all countries. Excluding of course those countries committing crimes against humanity or wars of aggression.
Bravo Ireland
We had to put tremendous pressure on the government to do this. For 2 years Martin/Harris did nothing until they were swamped with too many scandals such as #JusticeForHarvey. What they've delivered is a watered down version of the complete BDS demanded. The pressure will continue for full BDS.
They're both genocidal, settler-colonial, slaver states. Don't forget the real reason for the American Revolution was the Brits would not allow the 13 colonies to expand west and the cotton/tobacco farming was making the infertile.
Dead right! Irish police force (unarmed) established DURING the Irish Civil War. Growing up they were what police are supposed to be. When I came to the states in the 90s the cops here were power drunk fascists, worse than the RUC/UDR. For minorities it's always been a police state.
Apparently Rolling Stone isn't aware that the US already is a police state for everyone that isn't white. Also, if your biggest worry is whether or not your state's military forces are going to war against those of another state, consider yourself extremely privileged.
I know I’m relentlessly harping on this eugenics thing and I’m gonna take a break from it but I’m just so tired of watching ableds discover eugenics for the first time and drawing all the wrong conclusions when literally many of us disabled folks RIGHT HERE explaining it and have been for YEARS
I have a mild Irish accent (grew up in Dublin) so when I travel people think I'm British or American. The moment they find out I'm Irish there's this moment of joy as they realize we are on the same side. Irish revolution of 1922 inspired many UK colonies to fight for their freedom. They remember.
Those Dem taunting the Left with "enjoy the camps" are really not thinking this through. Either the camps are run by Trump and they'll be going into them. Or the camps will be run by the Revolution and they'll be going into them. Not a fan of camps, environmental remediation for life is my choice
Nope. I just pay attention to where the budget spends its money. The price increase in basics such as bread, milk, meat, gasoline, rent compared to minimum wages. If you did that you'd realize how full of shit you are. You and the rest of you middle class scum are the problem. Kindly die now.
lol
You just did it in your first engagement with me. Praising Krugman and Biden's economy. You are just as informed on the benefits of Democrats to the wellbeing of the poorest 50% of this country as Kennedy is on vaccines.
"retired Wall St. derivatives trader." defends transfer of trillions from workers to the 1% No better nor any different from Reagan/Clinton/GWB/Obama/Biden/Trump policies. Blue MAGA are Red MAGA with slicker PR.
"eVeRyOnE i DiSaGrEe WiTh Is A tRuMp SuPpOrTeR!" I've been reading Krugman since the 90s. He's a craven apologist for Dem's capitulation to the 1%. Biden/Harris great economy only benefited the top 10%, and brutally fucked over the poorest 75% of the country. Blue MAGA are Red MAGA clones.
I hope that will be the case. But the optimism I had from the fall of the Berlin wall to the fall of the Twin Towers is long gone. So far each great empire has died in a great war. The next great war will be nuclear, if not immediately, then eventually as the empire faces defeat.
I always enjoy this particular criticism of China: "question marks remain about how effectively China's armed forces could knit it all together in a future conflict." 50 years of not waging wars against poorly armed and tech inferior enemies, while slaughtering millions, is a bad thing.
Today's MJ position is that it's only fascism when it happens to white people. 1990s MJ would have blasted this article out of the water. 9/11 destroyed any vaguely left wing, anti-establishment press - NPR, The Nation, Atlantic, MJ. Today they are at best Blue MAGA organs. At best.
If you want a preview of what Dems are likely going to do the next time they're in power, just look at what Labour is doing in the UK right now. Pretty bad stuff.
Clinton was a continuation of Reagan just as Blair was a continuation of Thatcher. As Obama of GWB and Starmer of Cameron/May/Truss. 30 years of two cheeks one arse, with the crack narrowing each iteration.
Trump continuing foreign policies of Obama, GWB, Clinton and Reagan. Except today these policies are catalysts accelerating formation and solidification of BRICS and anti-US/NATO sentiment globally. Fatally damaging the evil US empire.
They're Lying About Venezuela While Moving War Machinery Into Place As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-lyi...
Blue MAGA NEVER support any vaguely Left candidate (see Mamdani) & DEMAND the Left support any right wing ghouls they nominate. Blue MAGA are eternally online, middle class, white collar workers with leisure time, disposable income, health insurance and 401ks. They are their nominees. Fuck them.
Good to see, our government may be afraid to act but plenty of us are willing. A boycott was fundamental in breaking the Apartheid state of South Africa and the freeing of Nelson Mandela - we need the same thing now against the Apartheid (and genocidal) state of Israel. buff.ly/J56BRXV
This guy is a fraud who will continue the same policies as Trump, Biden, Obama, GWB, Clinton, Reagan. This is performative as by '29 he will never have to follow through on this because Israel will have finished their genocide. Do not be duped by this douche.
Ask anyone outside of NATO their opinion of the Brits and you'll get a radically different answer. Much more than 25%, Con/Lab/LD/Reform are 70% in polls and their policies are essentially identical. From Paddy/Paki bashing in the 70s/80s through Muslim bashing today, this is who the Brits are.
As a middle class, white American that would be your experience of the Brits. Be Irish, or person of colour, or not Christian and this is who the English have always been. Head of UK Justice in the 80s called Irish people "White Niggers". Tories/Labour identical foreign policies.
"One of the many problems with the slogan Make America Great Again was that America already was great." Ahh Krugman, always viewing the world through the lens of what's great for the wealthiest 1%.Because it certainly wasn't great for more than half the US living in poverty.
donald trump might get some short-term wins out of his trade war and aggressive foreign policy, but in the long-term he’s accelerating the decline of the US empire
In '24 one could see the damage Trump would do to the US economy, foreign relations, alliances and NATO, while promoting BRICS. He's bad for the US but good for everyone outside NATO. For the world as a whole he was the lesser evil candidate in '24.
Hadn't heard that at all. I despised that slimy scumbag when I first came across him 30 years ago (when I emigrated here). They really are aiming for 1789. Fleeing to Europe is little better, especially with the AMOC about to shut down. I'm seriously considering embracing Epicurus & Hedonism.
I've noticed in the last 2 to 3 months this place has become swamped with these accounts I think the outcome is the objective - driving wedge between Libs & Left. It prevents Libs seeing the truth of the system. Prevents a coalition that might overturn the 1%. I think they are funding it.
Being an ardent accomplice to Israel's genocide of Palestinians defeated her. Dems own internal polling tells us that.
Dang it I stayed calm and kept asking why perfect candidate Harris was beaten by Hitler and failed to bite on any of his taunts about camps, or LGBQT+ marches in Gaza, etc. Then the inevitable block. Oh whatever shall I do? I'm just devastated.
Brain trust I live in California.
What complaints or excuses? I'm asking why the Dems couldn't find a candidate to beat Hitler? You say Harris was the perfect candidate, but she was beaten by Hitler. That implies Hitler was unbeatable, at least by the Dems. But it's everyone else's fault. OKAY then
He's a riot: 1 Harris was a perfect candidate. 2 Why did she lose to Trump? 3 Becuz U Fux didn't vote for her against HITLER! 4 Why couldn't the Dems find someone to beat Hitler? Was Trump unbeatable? 5 FUCK U NJOY CAMPS FUXOR. ALSO STOP COMPLAINING!!!! 6 return to 1. Truly a bizarre sequence.
What complaining? Just wondering why you're so mad? iI mean if the best candidate Dems could come up with failed to beat Trump. Then Trump was always going to win. It's strange you are mad at anyone when he was unbeatable.
So the Democratic party could never have found a candidate with the ability to beat Hitler?
This guy is quote posting my every response. Must be scared of a thread, perhaps his mommy sowed him into his blanket at night.
Are you saying that no matter what candidate the Dems ran Trump was always going to win?
Shouldn't you guys have run a candidate that could have beaten a senile, racist, rapist gameshow host? Are Dem candidates just that awful that the best you could come up with was unable to clear that impossibly low bar? Was Harris the best you had?
Guess you regret running a candidate that lost to a senile gameshow host?
The reality where you'll be in the camps first?
It is such a deranged taunt. Know enough Niemöller that the Left was first, but forget the Libs followed. So bizarre. If they believe the camps are coming why aren't they out there effectively opposing Trump? LOL Memes, MAGA Burns and donating to the Dems aren't going to cut it.
You do realize you will be going into the camps first, not the Left that voted third party? Right? You Blue MAGAs loathe and are loathed by the Red MAGAs. You are their primary targets. Remember that next time you are taunting us with torture and death in the camps. You are a Nazi just like them.
#OtD 30 Aug 1976 riots broke out at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, after carnival-goers, sick of police harassment, attacked officers with stones and other missiles stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1026...
The tragedy is all of this could have been avoided if the Democratic party hadn't been bought by the 1%. You can only grind down half the country into abject poverty before that rage ignites.
With military swamping cities the Sammy Devenny moment is only a matter of time. Then we are ALL truly bollixed.
Have you seen Derry Girls? There's a scene where the girls are out having a blast while the adults are staring in shock and horror at the news of a bombing. Every day, turning on the news at 1,6,9 you didn't know if there'd been a shooting, a bombing, how many injured, dead. Violence is a horror
in a similar boat to DDG as far as Gen AI is concerned. But you do have to pay $5/month or so to use it. web.archive.org is surprisingly effective and also by orders of magnitude the most ethical option. People archive the webpages they really care about. You should do the same so...
archive.org respects robots.txt, and to combat AI many more sites are now implementing blanket robots.txt rules, indirectly rendering archive.org less useful, if not useless, going forward. LLMs are ruining everything, at least until the bubble bursts.
Okay Gavin hates trans people but you've gotta compromise Okay Gavin hates poor people but you've gotta compromise Okay Gavin loves ICE but you've gotta compromise Okay Gavin podcasts with fascists but you've gotta compromise Okay Gavin deploys goons to terrorize neighborhoods but you've g
Black death under his last term. He got a taste for it. We refused to give ‘em the opportunity to slaughter us in the streets, kept it civil, didn’t take bait, so he couldn’t take authoritarian measures to move the military against us…but they did it anyway. This time next year, it’ll be too late.
Growing up in Ireland during the Troubles I had a front row seat to how a force of several hundred forced the British empire to the negotiating table: 1. Handbook For Volunteers Of The Irish Republican Army: Notes On Guerrilla Warfare 2. War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare
The sole purpose of the Trolley Problem is to rationalize supporting the "lesser" evil. Also, if it's 6 Blue MAGA and 1 socialist, the 6 can get run over. Etc.
Why won't Republicans save the British colonial remnant in Ireland?
So many punchable faces and so many laws stopping me ...
I was always against the two lists: Re-education Camps & Lime Pits. Preferring those eligible for the lists would instead be put to work in reconstruction, environmental remediation. The wave of Blue MAGA taunting us with "Enjoy the camps" is changing my mind. But I refuse to become them.
If you vote for a candidate that is an accomplice to genocide, you are a Nazi. If you attack someone for telling you this then you are actively defending Nazism. Opposing genocide and candidates that enable it is the moral and ethical action to take. Source: History
Throwing homeless people's property into landfills does not reduce homelessness, it only serves to make it less visible. Solving homelessness requires giving the homeless homes. So why isn't it being implemented?
I realize this has been memory-holed & nobody is allowed to even mention it. But I was there when this was happening. Roberts critics (including me) were scoffed at, mocked, ridiculed & eye-rolled by most Democrats. They were busy praising him & then voting to confirm him.
Vote no. Once this is gone, it is gone for good and there will be a GOP governor that will absolutely screw us. With Schumer and Jeffries at the helm 5 congressional seats will not make a difference, they will always capitulate to Trump as the last 8 months have demonstrated.
As long as democrat leaders seek bipartisanship with nazis they are part of the nazi system. Nobody has legitimized nazism more than moderate and centrist democrat politicians.
I agree. I HATE when people say "my friends across the aisle". I refuse to be friends with murderers and fascists, sorry not sorry.
Voting for the Democrats is an absolute waste of time.
*eyeroll*
This is a fantasy to rationalize voting for an accomplice to genocide. I am not voting for any "lesser evil". If the Dems nominate an evil ghoul like Newsom/Buttigieg I won't be voting for any of their candidates in any race. #VBNMW find Left candidates or lose. You've got 3 years.
#VBNMW logic says they should nominate a candidate the Left will vote for. Not a candidate the Left won't vote for. #VBNMW is a lie. They won't vote for a Left candidate, even if it means losing to Trump or Vance. See 2016 & 2024 primaries. If #VBNMW want to beat Vance, pick a Lefty or lose.
What did I lie about?
When you have a green card you have to visit the US annually. I could see the writing on the wall during the Biden admin, so I finally became a citizen. There's never going to be anyone in the Dem/Rep party worth voting for. The only solution is revolution, and I don't want to be here for that.
Easy solution. Nominate a candidate that isn't a garbage fire. If your sole argument is "vote for whatever scumbag my party nominates" then I will be voting 3rd party. You have 3 years to find someone who isn't evil. So miss me with that "lesser evil" because I'm not voting evil.
Or you could, you know, nominate someone who isn't a nazi. Just an idea. Nominate scum like Newsom/Buttigieg and you will be living under a dictatorship, because we are not voting for your brand of evil, just as we aren't voting for Republican's brand of evil. Make your informed decision.
I didn't vote for an accomplice to genocide. Democrats. In the primary and in the general. Both parties are accomplices to genocide. Both parties are Nazis. Hope this clarifies it for you.
Being an accomplice to genocide makes you a nazi. Voting for an accomplice to genocide makes you a nazi. There are two nazi parties - Blue MAGA and Red MAGA and you are both just evil.
I'm not a Dem and I won't be voting in your primary. I'm one of those voters that voted 3rd party because the Dems nominated an accomplice to genocide. If the Dems nominate another garbage fire like Newsom or Buttigieg I won't vote for any Dem in any race anywhere. Can't say you weren't warned.
A guide for activists that explains Marxist concepts in non-technical language. Terms like "imperialism," "self-determination" “dialectical materialism” and "socialism" are defined and illustrated. Please check this out if you want to grasp Marxist concepts www.workers.org/books2016/wh...
Many, many, many people live in the same places where a majority of those who voted, voted for Trump. This meme that Trump is screwing his own voters is incredibly offensive. Trump is screwing everyone. And the Dems are doing precisely nothing to oppose any of it. Both parties are complicit.
So the candidate has no obligation to listen to voters? If you want to win you need a candidate people want to vote for.
It is an unending series of: 1. "Dems are doing the acceptable genocide, Reps are doing the unacceptable genocide." 2. "If you don't vote for MY fascism you will get THEIR fascism." 3. "Moral and ethical red lines don't exist, and claiming they do makes you EVIL!!!!"
Fascists claim opposing genocide is a purity test.
Educate everyone you know about "Jury Nullification". No one is required to indict nor convict anyone, regardless of the law. Be the one to cause the mistrial.