In Republican’s fever dream scenario, they’d consider splitting the nation up to be marooning 200 million people at gunpoint stranded to die standing room only on a military embargoed Puerto Rico. They’d call that perfectly fair and not mass murder.

Get your logic out of here as to why that isn’t possible.

I’d still go. I’d find it macabre and funny, it wouldn’t make me anxious. Private plane!

Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.

They’ll need to use an electron gun to carve the face on the regular sized head if they want to make the scale accurate.

Don’t give him that much credit, He was a lt colonel in the imperial navy at best.

But Im something of a rebel myself so…

Why would non Israeli Jews have to denounce the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians?

The conductor was Israeli.

Liberals for the lasf 50 years: “we just need to concede to our esteemed opposition to the right HARDER. Then they’ll be our friends and we can be a society!”

I’ll vote blue out of harm reduction, not out of hope.

IF there’s another real election, and IF the Neoliberals win, they’ll do NOTHING to reign in the capitalists that fund the fascists because they’re bribed to protect the “free market,” just as the Fascists are.

All them winning in 2028 might do is buy a little time before the Fascists are on the march the following cycle. That’s why it’s ignorant when people claim the only reason we’re collapsing is Trump. Reagan set the table for fascism and every president since has furthered that outcome. Whether this happened in 2020,2024, 2028, this was happening.

So vote for the Neoliberals all you want. I do it out of the starfish parable, to one delayed fascist action, it matters, but we’re still in a capitalist fascist hell, and until we have something to vote or riot for that will bring the capital markets to cinder, nothing can improve. You should feel like throwing up after voting here.

That’s what a nation state is.

We’re all one species, we’re kept hostile towards one another to protect the hoards of the respective nation state’s elites.

We wouldn’t be destroying our sole, shared, COMMUNal habitat if we were cooperating as a species instead of undermining ourselves at every turn.

So funny that Doctor Who has made mastering dimensional folding the domain of a race called “Time Lords.”

I think what this alludes to is the reality that the time and resources to self-actualize are still largely the domain of the owner class.

And many to most still seem to just chase a bigger hoard rather than do that.

Republican Fascists are the Neoliberals “esteemed opposition.”

The few leftists with power are spoiler candidates, because both parties only promote candidates on the basis of their ability to get bribe checks, and are the Neoliberals enemies.

If you want to see the Democrat party treat a President as a threat to the nation that must be resisted at every turn, just elect President AOC. They’re in a power sharing agreement with the Republicans.

The country gave them a supermajority and then the bar became “Well you didn’t give us every seat in congress so womp womp.”

Just more bullshit. In no universe does either major party want to lose out on the health insurance confidence scheme bribe money.

The county met them on their nearly impossible terms which a supermajority is, we met our end. they’re just bullshit artists running a con just like the Republican fascists.

As an American, I wish they won.

They outlawed slavery looong before we did.

Not like we have a left with any power to stop them.

Im sure the fascist light(D) party will have very furrowed brows though.

Oh so furrowed.

Until you choose to become a centimillionaire, then it’s open season.

Just verification that they know their views are despicable at some level, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves.

I wish we could get such policies. At the very least there should be codes that wealthy people that leave to avoid taxes will be barred from doing any business in the US, which should extend to global partners that choose to do business with them if they then wish to expand to the US, nope you partnered with asshole McGee after they ran away so fuck off. It could be done, it would just require the agents and resources to do so.

But just as our elected officials won’t vote against their own interests, they will defend the interests of the robber barons that pay their real salary in bribes, which is effectively legal post citizens united, so nothing can change under the current system, a new one would need to be made in its place.

I’m all for chasing them away.

If taxation is what they won’t accept, They always saw your nation as something to be exploited and sucked dry, which means they were never on your society’s side, which with such resources makes them incalculably dangerous.

If they fail the taxation test, the nation should be relieved when they run away.

Oh I think the capitalist “grown ups” as you say only concerned with quarterly GDP and their own individual hoards in charge are doing fine on their own. Don’t you?

They don’t need some idiot commie child as you say like me getting in the way of this great society’s trajectory. This bull is loose!

I lost, we leftists lost, and since the capitalists are destroying the very COMMUNal climate we rely on from one breath to the next, it’s too late for us to ever turn it around, as civilization hangs by a thread on the easy baby “just don’t shit where you sleep” climate mode we enjoyed and are eviscerating as we speak in the name of year over year metastasis.

What does winning feel like? Is it awesome? Do you feel victorious in your capitalist society?

(for me the main one are the tankie scum devs)

This right here is the crux of the problem and why the problem goes back so much further than the design and algorithms of platforms. We teach kids to focus on individual achievement, to celebrate the self, and we don’t teach empathy, something that needs to be taught young and can easily be taught but the west increasingly considers weakness and a dirty word.

When we fail to teach citizens of a society collectivism, because being a member of a society means you are part of a collective whether you decide to be a good collective that functions or one that operates against itself (herp derp competition!) that does not, you get communication between members like this.

“I hate these people fuck them they should me more like MEEEE” “their opinions suck because they aren’t more like MIIIINE” and we act as a bunch of petulant infants that resent each other’s very existence in OUR world.

If we were taught that it is our responsibility to lift one another up, if we rewarded people in society on the basis of who and how many others they’ve helped and not how much they hoarded for THEMSELVES, this wouldnt be as much of a problem. We could, now that we don’t have to survive in nature, orient our mindsets to the positive, which would have to be encouraged young. Instead we’re made to be like… This. A useful state for killing a rival in YOUR hunting area when there’s only enough game in the region for one tribe to survive the winter, not so much when trying to build a civilization up. And don’t get me started on the counterproductive mindfuck that is nation states and super serious imaginary lines between them, meant to protect hoards of INDIVIDUAL wealth of respective elites.

The problem is, how do you start such a virtuous cycle when everyone from the owners down are only concerned with “ME ME ME MINE MINE MINE?”

Then again you hate tankies, so go ahead and cuss me out for calling out the reality that capitalism, especially when it has effectively conquered the culture, turns people into selfish little gremlins more likely to shoot a stranger than help them.