...such as?
MarxMadness
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Now if we can convince that side to then use the victory to change the rules, then so be it.
What if Democrats not only don't change the rules to improve the democratic process, but they also fail to even talk about significantly improving their constituents' lives? What if they also can't be bothered to take climate change seriously? And what if -- after all that -- they do genocide?
I used to think like you do, but at some point in the last decade or two Democrats stopped being a worthwhile option. The party will have to be either radically changed or smashed in order for any major progress to happen anytime soon.
There was also a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, and Trump immediately forcing Israel to accept it torpedoed the "we don't actually have any influence over them" excuses.
Before the election:
- The U.S. was funding, arming, and providing unqualified political support for a genocide.
- Democrats had no significant plans to address climate change.
- The U.S. was deporting huge numbers of immigrants, using the same agencies and facilities that are in use now.
- Democrats had no significant plans to address wage stagnation or the cost of housing, healthcare, and education.
You don't get to do a genocide and then say the other guy is "100% concentrated evil."
It's the drop rule but for capitalism
It's also helpful to highlight the relationship between imperialism and fascism. Fascism can be described as turning the tactics and violence of imperialism (that are initially reserved for the periphery) inwards, on "undesirable" parts of the imperial core. Usually this follows on the heels of closing imperial horizons.
Egalitarian ideals are very new compared to Christianity
Run that one by Jesus and I think he'd be surprised
No one is buying your bullshit. If you have a more informed opinion besides Communism Bad, let’s hear it.
If you have a more informed opinion besides Communism Bad, let's hear it.
So you haven't actually read about the topic. You just have a vague notion of "Communism Bad" that no one around you has ever seriously questioned. When a specific topic (career choice) comes up, you feel free to make up negative claims that reinforce Communism Bad instead of putting in the work to have an informed opinion (or simply acknowledging that you don't know!). You couple this with thought-terminating cliches (whataboutism!) to avoid anything that might upset the conclusion you've already reached -- Communism Bad.
I brought up the comparison of career choice under capitalism because the fundamental question is which political system is better.
You voted for genocide and are now trying to absolve your conscience by claiming you had no choice, and that in reality everyone did what you did.
No, a lot of people didn't do what you did.