genocide this year so genociding continues to be a thing
- weak liberals who are too comfortable in their ill-gotten wealth and would do anything to protect their falling apart fascist state
Obvious information warfare is obvious. Get a better act.
It will be Project 2029 after this election. Yes, vote for the democrats, but if you think positive change will happen just by voting then you haven’t learned anything from leftist predecessors.
Actual, meaningful change can only happen when the state is at a legitimate state of strain, from outside revolutionary pressure, whether that be from mass worker strikes, protests, or other such upheavels of the status quo.
While I disagree with plenty of the Biden administration’s actions, including the recent Title VII FISA and especially the support of Israel, let’s look at the positive change that has happened that you say won’t happen in the future:
- Expanded overtime for workers
- student loan debt relief
- returned net neutrality
- the first otc birth control pill
- the inflation reduction act, which also pushed green/renewable energy (there’s a LOT of environmental stuff in this act)
- more anti-redlining rules
- crackdown on junk fees and overdraft fees
- ability to audit Chinese companies (nod to trump on this one, too)
- reform electoral count act, hopefully preventing more shenanigans like trump initiated to pressure officials to change the count.
- conservation and preservation of the Colorado River
- support for small farms and food producers
- penalties for some schools leaving students in debt
- the CHIPS and Science act to bring chip production back to the US and boost US tech R&D
- boosting cancer research with ARPA-H
- made it harder to bust unions
- approved billions in infrastructure improvements and repairs
And plenty more improvements such as protection of land from drilling, strengthening alliances, boosting cybersecurity, etc.
Incremental, slight concessions and tweaks to the decaying Capitalist system will not improve things. It’s a slow, stagnating death.
For example, there is no meaningful reason that America does not have a robust system of high-speed rail other than lobbying from the automotive industry. Same with Universal healthcare and the pharma industry, same with public housing and landlords.
Biden tossing scraps while people starve and continuing the US Capitalist project will not result in meaningful improvements. Even if Biden had unlimited power, America would continue stagnating as wages fail to keep up with productivity and the third world is super-exploited for domestic super-profits.
I feel like this argument would have worked a lot better before Trump.
Do you want slow incremental positive steps forward, or massive bat-shit crazy, weaving-all-over-the-road while toying with destroying democracy, self-serving, ultra-rich benefiting and fuck-the-little-guy theocratic “reform”? Hm… that’s a tough one.
Stop spewing slogans
What slogans am I spewing? I’m a Leftist, I am going to advocate for Leftist beliefs and criticize Capitalist beliefs.
I don’t care if you’re left.or right. To each their own opinion. You, however, are very clearly not spewing your opinions but slogans you were told to use, or thought sounded cool.
Nothing I said was a slogan, lol. They are my opinions.
For example, there is no meaningful reason that America does not have a robust system of high-speed rail other than lobbying from the automotive industry.
That’s not fair at all. There’s also lobbying from the airline industry. And probably greyhound.
The distances involved, NIMBYism, etc. are contributors as well.
“Hey, if we let Republicans destroy our country, it will actually help us in the long run. Trust me bro.”
Yeah fuck that bullshit.
When did I say that? Never. I said Biden isn’t a positive change, you cannot get positive change electorally, so you need outside pressure.
Voting Democrat is what I am most likely going to do, I am just not delusional enough to think he will reverse Capitalism’s decay.
meaningful change can only happen when the state is at a legitimate state of strain
I took this to mean that you want the State to get worse so people will start a revolution. Maybe I misunderstood.
No, the state will get worse regardless. I want people to strike, unionize, organize, and pressure the state as best they can, and I do believe revolution is the best way to get there, but I don’t think the path there is to intentionally vote for bad policy so everyone suffers even more, lol.
Like I said, I will almost certainly be voting for Biden, but the idea that Biden is “slow, positive change” cannot be the prevailing thought process if we want actual change to occur. Biden is slow, negative change while Trump is fast negative change.
You think Biden is making the nation worse? Seriously? Have you paid attention at all?
You’re remarkably bad at reading.
Capitalism is in decline. Continuing Capitalism continues this decline. Slight bumps upward on a downward trend line does not reverse the dowmward trend. Make sense when put that way for you?
Would it kill you to actually engage with leftist ideas, rather than run away the second you don’t have an actual response, by the way?
Biden is slow, negative change
Verbatim. So Biden is not bad for the nation? It’s an upward trend? And this is…bad?
You should vote in every election so we don’t end up in this situation.
This. Leftist candidates won’t be viable until far right candidates aren’t. We’re choosing between “I’ll be a dictator” vs “democracy will continue” and the fascist is a likely outcome. The window has to move left to “democracy will continue” vs “maybe we can make things better”. If you’re holding out for a communist to be elected, that ain’t happening in our lifetime. The revolution is not coming. Revolution only comes when life is utterly intolerable and the capitalists know better than to let that happen.
Our only real hope is to shift things that way over generations.
no, if your “democracy will continue” involves supporting a genocidal maniac regardless of your other options, then your hands are just as stained as that of your government and that of the nazi-zionist state it’s supporting
to rephrase, if you a Leftist (socialist, communist, anarchist, not a liberal) stoops so low as to vote for a genocidal or imperialist government to preserve fascist and inhumane values you don’t share, you’re just as responsible for the policies these governments enacts, be it land-grabbing, systemic discrimination, imperialist and genocidal foreign policies and the rest
those same policies would later be used against you, as when there’s no outer group left to stomp on, they’ll turn on you, case in point, draconic spy laws once used against brown ppl, muslims and other foreigners are now being used against americans
revolutions aren’t painstakingly planned, you prepare for it and embrace it when it happens
to op above, you must be quite priviledged to be in a position where “life isn’t utterly intolerable” that little minority…
Your delusion: social upheaval where workers unite and form a glorious socialist revolution where we fill the reflecting pool with billionaire blood and everyone just magically agrees to get along afterwards.
What actually happens: millions suffer and die under the thumb of local fascist warlords while foreign powers balkanize the US to ensure we never get anywhere close to the progress we have now.
I’m ignorant because I’m getting old. I also feed the capitalist machine by working too much. What is project 2025?
Yes I could look it up, but I want to hear it from people not fucking biased shit bags.
To avoid charges of bias, how about direct quotes from their own manifesto:
Environmentalism “is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue. At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human
The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensi- tive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.
Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s `radical chic’ to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening”
Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household’s food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its “countable” income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients.
the USDA should not provide meals to students during the summer unless students are taking summer-school classes. Currently, students can get meals from schools even if they are not in summer school, which has, in effect, turned school meals into a federal catering program. Restore programs to their original intent and reject efforts to create universal free school meals.
Eliminate the Head Start program. Head Start, originally established and funded to support low-income families, is fraught with scandal and abuse.
Those grievances really peter out at the end. Seriously? You think america is turning into a totalitarian shit hole bent on literally destroying humanity and you’re also worried about a marginal food stamp benefit loophole?
Yes because they’re not serious thinkers, they’re reactionary idiots who grasp at straws and gets mad about the smallest things they hear about
