Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Anarchist/libsoc. If we’re stuck with a government, it should use its taxes for healthcare and education, not murdering.

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Cake day: October 10th, 2024

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  • “You had a primary and Biden won so he appointed Harris!”

    • Only Phillips had any shot above 0.1%
    • Forbidden from running on most ballots
    • Primary called before all 50 states had a shot
    • Phillips who ran was effectively blacklisted from working with them ever again
    • Biden wins
    • Phillips got so much flack for “I don’t want Trump to win” he is forced to leave office
    • Biden still is a fight of “Who can be the oldest white dude in office?”
    • Biden fucks up
    • Biden gives up
    • “Uhhh Harris is it now, the Silent Generation Dems said so”

    It’s an AR-16 to the foot and every time we try to attempt triage, they load a new magazine saying we’re the idiots for trying to stop the bleeding.


  • My eggs are more expensive too. So are everyone elses in the world. I just blame Putin for destabilising and the stores for blatant price gouging the second they felt they could.

    Exactly this. Harris probably would have overseen the shift of the prices going back down and the “muh economy and inflation” Republicans wouldn’t have had as big of an argument for 2028.

    Ukraine winning, Trump dies from health issues/arrested for his crimes (long shot on the last one), and doing her best to secure abortion and queer protections, she would have been great for her second term.

    And now we get nothing but the worst of both worlds.







    • Refuses to cover his campaign ads
    • Refuses to cover his victories
    • Internally leaving him off of nationwide polls when data allow him to be counted (CNN infamous called Sanders “Other Candidate” instead of showing him, but counted Andrew Yang)
    • Slander about him being sexist when he encouraged women to run for office and only started going in 2016 when he asked Warren to run and she declined.
    • Mass media campaign about calling the Jewish senator antisemitic for not being “pro killing children”

    So when the media is against you, people see it as a bad candidate, and don’t vote. Even when he was never a monster, but Trump got more air time saying “Mexicans bring rape”.


  • You could argue the US has always been “fascist”, just that the fascism has been focused on people outside it

    Hitler was inspired on how to treat the Jews, Romani, disabled, and queers, based on how we treated Native Americans and Black Americans. He saw the country doing so well in the world stage excluding millions from the same status and privilege as the normalized default, and thought it would work for Germany and Europe, by force.

    America was founded by rich white oligarchs, it was never going to support anything good without a lot of people letting go unless they died.

    EDIT: Sorry if you get double pinged, server had a hiccup as I was posting.




  • When you figure out that the United States was established by wealthy white males who owned slaves, had a revolution due to “no taxation without representation” but then purposefully ignored to repent the 99% until major reforms over the years, it makes sense.

    The first set presidential elections were only voted by a handful of Americans. Not the women. Not the slaves. Not the natives who were here first. The landowning white men.

    When we claimed England is a tyranny but abolished slavery and gave universal aufferage before we did, I think we lost that argument. America was built by out of touch white men, and it has always been ran by out of touch white men.