Thank you for your service! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Translation: “most Americans will not be represented by our party”

Democrats and Republicans both seek to represent billionaire interests more than any other. The Democrats see billionaires unhappy with the fascist order not being totally under their control, so they seek to reshape the party to attract them.

This is why I say we need to leave the party behind; they are dead set on abandoning popular policies and that cannot go unanswered. By continuing to vote blue, we’d be embracing apathy. The dream of a better future dead in the water. Land of the slaves and home of the cowards.

Absolutely not. They were systematically shaped into cowardly yesmen before Trump reascended to the presidency. It’s why he drove out Kevin McCarthy out despite his loyalty, and why he chose JD Vance as his VP. It’s why billionaires and capitalists feel “politically homeless” right now; Trump is the party and no independent power is allowed. If they seriously threaten him, he has the full violence of a dictator with his own personal police force. He’s burning through America’s imperial power to solidify his own position, and that well is far too deep to soon run dry.

Assassination or more likely death from old age are the only way this nightmare ends.

Bold to assume this nightmare is still tied to 4 year election cycles anymore. He’s never leaving office alive, and after him there’s a gaggle of oligarchs who will be looking for new strategies of pillaging.

people with imposter syndrome are certainly valid to post here ;)

post about your imposter syndrome?

I don’t need to get in; I only want to keep you healthy and warm until…

The only difference is how much damage each is currently capable of doing. The former would be just as bad given the means, while the latter currently has the means. I personally think it’s better to simply silence and shun fascists without means, while fascists with means should be dealt with in whatever way leads to the most success. That all depends on your own circumstances in relation to them. I suspect harming the interests that support fascism is more effective, as the fascist movement will probably only be strengthened by hurting foot soldiers.

I’m fairly confident these are the Nazi type antisemites, not the "anti-imperialist-genocide “antisemites.” Israeli fascists dislike both equally of course, as both would be against subsidizing their bombs and guns.

Probably because they’re cultivating a readership of rich liberals who actually have the money to donate and pay. The media cannot be representative of popular sentiments under a capitalist system, and it only becomes worse with increasing wealth inequality. Economics bend the news to be a propaganda arm of wealthy interests more than a way to provide accurate news. Those with money pay to print what they want to hear and want other people to hear. The world is only built for those with power.

No you can’t. Rules only apply to those with money and/or a willingness to commit violence based on Trump’s orders.

You misunderstand Trump. He might be a symptom, but he is not a sustainable strategy. He rode the wave and no one else will be able to; that is how strongman dictatorships tend to pan out. Everyone from billionaires to normal people will be sick of fascism after this. The billionaires will want a yes man who doesn’t extort them or make business volatile, while everyday people will want peace and safety.

In that environment, everyone will want the return of liberal democracy, only US institutions will be permanently weakened. We can’t know how the situation will unfold, but oligarchs will seek to solidify their gains while only restoring what benefits them. I personally think a feudal era will occur, with a weak central government that eventually allows for fiefdoms, which could eventually lead to actual civil wars.

I say this shit knowing full well the cost of third parties. I know they vote split and I know our system punishes it. Yet I’ve learned a valuable lesson from the death of our liberal democratic system: the Democrats will never change. They lost the election by ignoring the youth, assuming they would always have that support even if they repeatedly told us that our opinions don’t matter. They pretended the economy was fine and that people shouldn’t complain because their measure for a healthy economy was far beyond what people could actually tolerate. They chose capitalism over democracy; simple as that.

Call me an edgy kid, but I’ve been a voter from the day I was eligible; someone who never missed an opportunity to fulfill my civic duty. And yet I’m the now the one saying that the Democrats are not people we can work with. I’m the one saying that they’re closer to the Vichy government than the resistance. We need to break from them because working with them will bear no fruit. They only do good things to serve their own interests, not as payment for left wing support.

If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven’t learned. They’ve taken the wrong lessons from the last election, and doubling down on following fascism rightwards. They kick out people trying to reform the party while dismantling environmental protections at the state level where they still have power. They’re increasingly throwing minorities under the bus and serve capitalism harder than ever because they’ve taken this loss as an excuse to be worse, not a call to improve.

I’ve been a long proponent of damage mitigation, which is why I don’t advocate not voting. Unfortunately, the Democrats’ response to this has actively made the situation worse by making people believe that voting for them can change things. Even with a large majority in both houses, Trump is already equipped to override their will using everything from the yesmen courts to his personal Gestapo.

I’ll repeat the sad truth of our situation till the day I get shipped off to a death camp: Trump’s death is the only thing that will stop him. We’re in the endgame, and there is no snapping the people he’ll kill back to life.

I guess I should’ve been more clear: Going to jail and earning less blood money are both extortion, but they’re not comparable

Who? Oh, that’s right, I actively don’t care what a murderer’s name is.

Except that the company wants another merger, not simply to exist. They wouldn’t go to jail, they just wouldn’t pad the pockets of certain execs and/or shareholders

I’d rather vote 3rd party than for a Corprocrat. They’ve done nothing but shine the shoes of fascists, which is even less than I expected of them. They normalize pure evil and pretend that they haven’t already lost America, because without the illusion of liberalism, they have no power.

Unless the Democrat has the guts to take a stronger stance against fascism than democratic socialism, they’re less than worthless. They’re not even liberals at this point, but spineless neo-feudalists with no soul or heart.

no, but it is possible to find them on here