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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That all politicians stop playing the game starting with AOC?

If it is to be stopped, it has to stop with someone. The AOC of today is not the AOC of the first campaign, and that's by design of the game. Not faulting get that out happened, but she's been in the game long enough to know only billionaires and corpos are winning by these rules.

A drop => a trickle=> a stream=> a flood

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are we expecting her to dismantle the master's house with the master's tools by throwing away the tools? My expectation is that she will use the tools to do harm reduction so that organizing lasting change becomes possible.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Naïve optimism is blind folly.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And not embracing a diversity of tactics is leaving power at the table for the capitalists to take.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, because that's not been done since Truman...

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have some newly invented tactic I would love to hear it

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh gnoes! We keep trying what doesn't work and moving right! But trying something new certainly won't work, let's try this old thing again, surely it will work this time! 🤡

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm still not seeing anything new here. At least invent new insults.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What exactly is new about voting 3rd party?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's your rodeo I guess. We are all free to not respond if we feel our position needs no explanation or defending 🤷

In the end, we all get the government we deserve