I don't see how creating an "independent socialist party" will fix that. AOC and the Squad veer towards imperialism because they are social democrats engaging in a bourgeois democracy in the world's largest imperialist power. If you created an independent socialist party, you would still just have social democrats engaging in that same bourgeois democracy. They might call themselves something different or use some different rhetoric, but they'll be subject to the same forces that make "the Squad" incapable of actually posing a challenge to capitalist power.

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this is the worst defense in america's capital since Adam Dunn

guys this isnt funny

i am horrified that putin will see this as a sign of weakness and launch an attack on american troops

because that is absolutely a thing that happens

Im fucking dead this is hilarious

millions of brown people bombed overseas and thousands of poor people executed at home in the name of profit every year: i sleep

chuds break into our "sacred" government buildings: real shit

worst case we get an open war in Iran

best case we get "targeted" sanctions that make it harder for civilians to access basic necessities, but we don't actually start a war so Biden doesnt need to pay any domestic costs for his actions

Western intelligence alleged he was the man in charge of Iran's nuclear programme, Project 111. Western powers claim Project 111 is or was an attempt to create a nuclear bomb for Iran, though Iran has proved on usual occasions via IAEA observers that its program is solely for civilian purposes and that the information provided by Western intelligence agencies is fake or forged

more like he died trying to provide civilian nuclear energy for his country lol

little bit of both. your typical republican voter is some old boomer guy who has election day circled on his calendar two months in advance, so you don't need to convince him to turn out. Republicans know that, which is why they always try to make it harder to vote. I can't imagine the "vote "rhetoric did anything but help the dems, who always lose in low turnout elections.

on the other hand, you're right that just maybe turnout would be higher if the dems had any actual issues to run on, or any motivator other than "its the most important election of your life and if you dont vote you are a terrible person"

as a pennsylvanian, i can confirm we love our poisoned water, don't we folks?

i am complicit as someone who only comes over here for major events

They're definitely smarter imperialists. If getting rid of the draft was the biggest stroke of genius for US empire because it removed the domestic costs for starting a war, then being able to conduct your interventions solely via remote airstrikes is the next biggest. And it's awful because the NATO-led bombing campaigns of Libya were absolutely just as devastating in terms of humanitarian consequences on civilians as the Iraq war was.

the aesthetics are good tho

the "talk" happens regardless of class or income

ummmm... yeah.....

kristin welker was spotted at gitmo fwiw

because the substance of american politics in 2020 is more wild than the spectacle

i love that the litmus test for healthcare is this shitty law that hasn't done a single thing to control healthcare costs, which are really the only thing that matters

dems love to beat you over the head with "we gave 20 million people insurance!" when people are still going bankrupt with medical bills lmao

is anyone kicking non black people out of the march? idk i'm very sympathetic to what this post is trying to say but conflating this with literal segregation just seems like exactly what a chud would say in response to something like this

say what you want about RBG but its not good she died. So just when I'm thinking I might be able to share some common alarm with the illustrious libs of r/politics, we get nuclear takes like this and peak russia brain lmao

inb4 Joe Manchin says "we have to respect Mr. Trump's ability to nominate a justice" and votes for the ghoul

There was nothing Obama could've done to push through Garland, it was totally up to McConnell. The real reason they are controlled opposition is because you can bet your ass that no democratic senate majority leader would EVER think of doing that under a Republican president.