• @Isthisreddit
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    147 days ago

    The sad part is anyone with half a brain knows conservatives won’t fix these issues (the capitalist class are having record profits as they squeeze the working class like this, and they are now in full control).

    What we are looking at is a dead democracy - a zombie really, it died years ago when it became an oligarchy (or maybe the death process started years ago)

    • Optional
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      37 days ago

      (or maybe the death process started years ago)

      Fox News started October 1996. Or you could point to AM radio being unleashed by Reagan’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

      Propaganda works. Everytime. And it only goes in one direction.

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      7 days ago

      The sad part is anyone with half a brain knows conservatives

      Both parties rule as conservatives, so there really is no choice unless you’re pulling the lever for the Green Party, and we can look at our history and see that they have no real shot either outside of local elections. Look at how Biden’s presidency went, for example: Abortion became criminalized, massive inflation (and record corporate profits), record numbers of new homeless every year… and his major focuses seem to have been keeping his scumbag son out of prison and funneling as much money as possible to war.

      My advice to people is this: Don’t donate your money to political parties. Put it in stocks instead, and at least your investments will have some measure of representation. There are even ETF’s you can invest in that follow the stock trades of notorious insider-trading federal legislators. (Tickers NANC and KRUZ)

      • @Isthisreddit
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        217 days ago

        Oh fuck off, this is your typical “both sides are bad” argument to keep people from voting - we know it’s the conservatives in SCOTUS that shitted on Biden, the corporations are price gouging us (the corporations are the true masters btw, and we know it) and the Hunter shit was the usual conservative media shit they do every cycle (email servers, laptops, Hunter).

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          97 days ago

          Two things can be true. The Democrats can be an absolute shit show of conservatives masquerading as a party of hope and change. And you absolutely should vote for them instead of republicans, because despite that, they’re still better, and at least they won’t be throwing us all in camps.

          But it doesn’t mean they’re good, or that they can fix any of this shit. It means they’re, at best, a minor stop gap for us to get organized around something better. The Dems aren’t going to save us, they’re corporately controlled and have a vested interest in making sure things don’t improve too much, lest they lose the easiest way to gain money: by being the slightly better alternative to literally fucking dying. Do I wish Kamala had won? Absolutely. Do I think we’d have gotten anything out of a Kamala win? Nope. I think we would have sat stagnate for 4 years at the federal level while republicans continued to chip away at any and everything they could at the state level. But it would have given us 4 years without active decline in the Fed and potentially allowed us to rally behind an actual progressive and build a progressive wing in the Democratic party that could have helped us in the long run.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          -137 days ago

          Wait a minute: Biden pardoning his son after saying he wouldn’t was made up by the conservative media?

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        17 days ago

        Both parties rule as conservatives, so there really is no choice unless you’re pulling the lever for the Green Party

        That’s some stinky borscht there. Cripes.