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  • 100%. And I think such a status quo would be much more easy to organize voters against. Picture AOC talking to a crowd and saying how the oligarchs have 2/3 of politicians in the form of those two parties and we need to close the gap by electing more of ours - 15-20 more. Now it’s like - the oligarchs are buying politicians. OK, which ones? OK, what do we do, run independents or primary them within the Democratic party? What other shit can the party pull to fuck us over? Could be totally wrong, I’m just thinking here.


  • o asked not to be named. “We do not recognize ourselves anymore in Trump’s administration. There is a strong movement out there in the party to reclaim the values we were raised on and reclaim the middle ground.”

    Translation: “Omg can you believe this leopard is eating my face? Now that I’m perso

    But getting fucked by 51-49 votes is I think much more difficult to solve than getting fucked by 65-35 votes. When there’s 1-2 votes diff, people don’t know why they’re fucked and what needs to be done to stop it. When it’s 65-35, it’s much more obvious what is to be done and what campaigns have to do to organize voters.







  • No it doesn’t. It only does if those are the majority of the Democratic party. And they’re not. I don’t think many are finding this meme to mean there aren’t Democrats that toil against the majority of the party. I find the constant purity testing of memes and critique of the Democratic party serves much more to shield the part that shouldn’t be shielded from critique. Oh no, this critique isn’t 99% accurate! Yes. It’s 80% accurate.






  • “I try to explain to manufacturers in third countries that these components — especially a list of 50 joint priority categories we prepared closely with Ukrainians — may seem harmless. These include optical readers, integrated circuits, microchips, flash memory cards, which are found in our phones and computers. But when they get to Russia, it becomes weapons of war,” O’Sullivan detailed.

    Yeah, good luck with blocking those items. They’re used in way more than weapons. Probably even in medical equipment and such. Not to mention how many manufacturers there are and how many distributors there are. This isn’t the late-stage capitalist consolidated landscape of the EU or NA where very few firms are responsible for all these widgets. And that’s before you even broach the substantiated unwillingness of Global South countries to go against a country they have had a more reliable relationship with, devoid of colonialism, classic or neoliberal. All the while they see that the Europeans and Americans have fucked Ukraine by being an unreliable partner, from leaky financial sanctions, through chronically insufficient weapons supply, to taking huge parts of their resources in exchange.





  • Mamdani added in his response: “I have already had to start to get used to, get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am, ultimately, because he wants to distract from what I’m fighting for, and I’m fighting for the very working people that he ran a campaign to empower, that he has since then betrayed.”

    Goddamn, this reads like a response that came from a real socialist playbook. Don’t take the bait on the culture war bullshit, say it’s distraction from helping workers. Wow.