I will vote for Biden if he announces a single plan that'll help the working class.
So I upbeared you, because I'm not voting for Biden.
I will vote for Biden I'd he announces a single plan
No really what is his manifesto? The election is in about 12 minutes time and he's still not said anything about his platform other than "not a Cheeto"
I’m debating if I’m going to vote for Howie Hawkins or Gloria La Riva.
If a third party ever reaches 5% democrats and republicans will call an emergency session of congress to retroactively change the rules.
After they systematically stripped the Greens off the ballot in several states I got to go for Hawkins just to defy those fucking libs
As a beer-chugging manchild, please don't lump me in with that rapist piece of shit. Anyway, thank you for this post.
I'm not happy that Ginsberg is dead, but where I may have been sad about it 4 years ago, now I am angry.
Mostly angry at RBG for not fucking retiring when she was already 80 fucking years old.
The thing is, I actually don't think a lot of them want a theocracy, per se. They genuinely believe that you can't force religion on people.
What they DO want, however, is our country to "bend the knee" to them and to their religion. They want us all the recognize they're the ones in charge; that their religion isn't some ancient superstition. Just my 2 cents.
I guess I'm splitting hairs a bit. When I think of theocracy, I think of the state only allowing one religion and/or requiring everyone to be a part of that religion. What these Evangelicals really want is to feel that society respects them and holds them up as the "big men" and there are laws that reflect that. It's like that law in Alabama or Mississippi that requires "In God We Trust" posted in every classroom. It's not about trying to turn more people into Evangelicals, it's a flex that's supposed to make Evangelicals feel like they still have a position of privilege and get to call the shots. But again, I'm probably splitting hairs to finely here.
95% of them have never even heard the term "theocrat" but will think its cool as shit once they know what it means.
This is slander of the early medieval era. It was a better time to be alive for the vast majority of the population than today is
Is that worth working a job more alienating than any in the history of mankind for poverty wages
there's literally only one thing i want to see during my life, and it's the american empire crumbling into a massive heap, forever to be seen as the massive stain on human history that it is
I've been pro-Balkanization for a little while now. There are obvious downsides domestically but in the end I think just by breaking America's imperial vice grip on the world, it's a net positive.
And then when things like RBG dying happen, I'm just reminded about how awful our system is and how far it is from actual democracy. And it will never change unless by revolution or balkanization, because it serves the interest of capital as well as folks in small states, white people, etc. And frankly I think balkanization is much more realistic possibility than revolution.
Agree 100%. I needed Bernie to lose to finally shake me of any ideas I had of real change happening electorally. I'd like to think that was Bernie's final gift to us all - showing us that voting will never bring about the change that needs to happen.
I live in the EU, but was pro-Balkanization when Trump was first elected.
That said, if separatism takes hold in the USA, then I honestly expect the US military to become like the EU military, just a shared army, where they have some new effectively capitalist controlled governing body to decide where it is deployed.
Those are the only conditions under which I think the US military itself could agree to allow significant balkanization to occur. Most of the USA is not practically or psychologically prepared to do anything like civil war against the US military.At this point I think many of the liberals could be overjoyed with a bloodless '"'revolution'"' of that kind.
It would let then have their cake (various rights in blue states) and eat it too (imperialism and white supremacy).It is something the liberals (and perhaps even leftists) could want, but is certainly not what the capitalists or republicans want.
The only thing is, it would serve Republican interests for California or the entire West Coast to leave, similar to how Scotland leaving would cement Tory rule in the UK. But at the same time it would NOT serve the interests of capital, creating a rare rift in objectives between the Republican Party and the capital class.
it would serve Republican interests for California or the entire West Coast to leave,
Not it wouldn't. The Republicans already control the seats of power, and might well be able to maintain that.
The West Coast provides massive amounts of tax income, economic resources, and military personel that are also used by Republican majority states:
https://apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c/AP-FACT-CHECK:-Blue-high-tax-states-fund-red-low-tax-states
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVPVd5YXnIThat is not to say this "blue states tend to subsidize red states" phenomenon is a bad thing, it simply follows from the fact that most of the richer people living in cities pay more taxes.
I don't disagree, you're probably right that at least in the short term, they have all the power anyway. And they'll rig it enough to keep that power in the long term. So I'll back offmy original point. But a different point... if the west coast wanted to leave, I can't imagine there would be the political will to actually start trying to physically force them back in. Now other measures to make west coast folks as uncomfortable as possible? Yeah, very possibly.
The other issue with Balkanization is that Flyover CHUDistan (the Dakotas, Nebraska, Montana, Utah, etc.) have most of the nuclear arsenal (well, ICBMs, anyway). And those who have played Fallout: New Vegas should have an idea of how the New California Republic is going to play out...
I've got my window open because it's hot and someone just rode their horse down my street and they kept telling the horse it was a good boy as it walked along. It sounded like "step step step good boy! step step GOOD boooy! step step step step you're doing so great!"
Idk I thought it was cute and wanted to share
Pete Buttigieg walks out of the Supreme Court building in justice robes: "Mr. Trump, you have shocked the nation!"
If there's anyone who's not completely jokerfied now, I guarantee that you will be by the end of the already accelerating RBG replacement saga.
RBG be like, are you sure Fidel and Chavez are dead? Because can't find them down here
You're not wrong, RBG dying seems to even be Jokerfying libs which is a new one, not sure why given that she was like 150 and had cancer for ages so it seemed completely inevitable but hey ho
I'm just full joker mode myself, but doing a decent job of reigning it in to comfort my scared lib friends
I'm doing a decent job of spinning it into "yeah this is why we just need to abolish the supreme court... it's not fair that someone who didn't win the popular vote is going to give a lifetime appointment to people who decide our rights"
Thinking that libs will blame Bernie for RGB's death in less than 48 hours.
if he had had not spent the whole primary weakening HILLARY she would be president right now
So I'm sure someone has done a better analysis of this, but the liberal-progressive fascination with rural life--a sort of modern pastoralism, but even more idealistic than its predecessor--that led to "Cottage-Core" is really fucking weird
Conservatives don't seem to have this idealism because they're--at least by association--more familiar with the mundane realities of rural and homestead life, and it's not like "I want to fuck off to a cabin" is a new phenomenon for the people of the cosmopolity, but it seems like this version is someone more sterilized and commodified than ever before
Its convergence with New Age nonsense and pseudo-pagan fetishism is not a particular surprise either, it's just odd how a people who are so utterly dependent upon the Internet, social media, takeout, and one-day delivery to their doorstep have created such a carefully curated fantasy that is contingent on not having those things
The fantasy of not having dozens of steel deathtraps almost turning me into a bloody smear whenever I run up the street for milk is kinda real tho
COVID has definitely created that sort of impulse in cosmopolitan PMC libs. Privilege is when your mode of survival is an aesthetic choice rather than a necessity.
everytime i see cottagecore i imagine some hardcore punk folk/bluegrass fusion and then realize that genre probably actually exists.
Folk punk? But less crust more banjo I guess. Days n daze has a broom handle bass player and a washboard player.
Avail occasionally had a steel guitar and called themselves "redneck punk" sometimes not sure if that's as sweet as washboard + handle though
I don't log on for a day and one of the top yank libs just fuckin dies
Wasted crabrave opportunityBefore we continue, does anyone know the current date and if Biden remains a rapist?
