When we have a side that rejects the corporate bribe take and has an overt agenda to fight the capitalist profiteers in defense of the people, sure.
Until we dig ourselves out by rejecting private profit/growth/metastasis at the expense of the people at the bottom of society, nothing can improve.
Since Reagan got his former opposition party on the take, all we've been voting on is the speed of decline as good cop(D) and bad cop(R) encourage us to hate one another and be divided over the social issue symptoms of the captured economy we don't get a vote on.
I vote blue out of harm reduction. But democrats still don't give a shit about mass murder for private profit, mass homelessness, income inequality, on and on. They affirm your identity instead of scapegoating you, which is nice, but is also free for their mutual donor's quarterly profit expectations.
What good is being free to be who you are when you're dying of exposure and police brutality under a freeway for failing to produce enough value for the owners?
If there's another real presidential election, and if a democrat gets elected, we'll get four years of relative quiet but the situation will continue to grow darker as the DNC will not allow the capital markets to be reigned in, which means even if we avert this fascist march, the table will still be set for them to continue their march in four years. Wall Street must end. And it will, by our hands, or capitalist made climate change in a couple decades when it no longer matters for our species.
In 1999 Blockbuster video had a contest, giving away 1 full size episode 1 Yoda made by Industrial light and magic in every state. I didn't know about the contest until the last day, put in my entry, and he's been looking over my room, now office, ever since, keeping me contemplative ever since.
Either that or a trap used in Ghostbusters 2 that I had signed by Dan Aykroyd. But probably Yoda.
Yet another thing that is beyond our willfully ignorant American Republican's comprehension.
Adults cooperate with others who are open to mutually beneficial cooperation. Babies (and largely seniors past 70 as we become very similar to our sunrise at the sunset of life) kick and scream demanding to get their way the way they want it.
I'm a 40 year old manchild who collects movie props and even I know that.
They were right to be talking down on us and we have been trash since at least Reagan though.
Most European nations are societies. We're a bunch of deluded fools playing pretend we're rugged individuals at each other's throats for oligarch scraps.
We can't even agree as a society to feed or invest in educating our kids. We let millions of our worst off neighbors die of exposure out of economic tribalist spite. We're a loathsome country worthy of ridicule. Honestly if we weren't so good at marketing, the art of bullshit, we could have saved a lot of potential immigrants time, shown them who we really are, and they never would have crossed a desert to come here. This is a cesspool.
Because we glorify and often lie about what individuals can do, and literally villanize cooperation as somehow wrong and evil in western society.
You can't build a skyscraper individually, yet we applaud the owners of them for their asset, when it took a collective of hundreds of laborers and engineers to build it who will never benefit from the fruits of it commensurate with they work put into the collective project. Which works for the sociopaths pushing individualism as they can create a collective through capital to accomplish what they want credit and profit from and then be dismissed, so they can propagate it's their skyscraper that "they" built. cue Steve jobs coming out on stage to take credit for the new kind of phone HE implies having made without a drop of humility.
Then they use that as a cudgel to tell individuals without their greed disease, who don't have the means to call on flash collective employees, that if they're struggling they must be lazy or incompetent because the right people built skyscrapers all on their own by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
Toxic individualism is a virus. Anything worth anything our species has accomplished has been the work of many, but the self-serving sociopaths that control the means of production and propaganda and state violence want you to be hostile towards the concepts of a social contract, and social equity, and society being judged by how it's most downtrodden are treated. It's destroying us, and it's murdered millions of neighbors we betrayed to die under freeways of exposure for the crime of not producing value for sociopaths, aka "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." Easy to say as a nepo baby on a mega yacht barking dictates at assistants.
I'm aware, that's my Fandom, I know the lore intimately.
Being a "battery" is in the vernacular though, and most understand what a capital battery means.
I even see the Architects nod to the supposed answer requiring a "lesser mind" albeit a more human curious mind in the oracle was a nod to that original idea the studio mandated the Wachowskis change, from bioprocessors to batteries. Would have worked on so many levels, even with the machines falling victim to repetition loop breakdowns without processing from imperfect minds, but that was on the Studio, the writers were vocal they didn't like the change, which makes it easy for me to look beyond.
We have one habitat we're terraforming against ourselves. As much as I'd be willing to lay more blame at the feet of this shithole called the US, the same doom is coming for all of us, accelerating beyond models of years past, and none of the global superpowers are going to use their power to stop it.
Your owners need your kids to be exploited into an early, miserable grave to run up their nepo kid's ego scores. The doting ones at least, the owners toss kids that don't become little nepo clones of themselves as bad investments.
Luxury climate bunkers are boring, are you really going to deprive a future billionaire child that matters the joy of watching line go up powered by your worthless peasant offspring's life force, you monster?
Maybe stop being so selfish and think about what you can do to further enrich your betters. Priorities, my fellow batteries, priorities!
We need a new party and if that is impossible collapse or revolution and a new constitution, as this one is too far captured. The DNC at this point exists to take the oligarch bribes and stoke social issue division while defending the economy that bribes them and their partners accross the aisle from us. It cannot be reformed, because it's primary function is bribe courting.
Harris was my last vote for an economic right wing candidate. I have very little confidence there will be another honest election, so why would I continue to vote for the fascist enablers as I have for 24 years? They march hand in hand with Republicans in for profit prisons, massive homeless populations that's more expensive to maintain than simply housing the homeless without condition, mass murder for corporate private profit that make up entire economic sectors, etc.
And no, I sorry, I'm for respecting everyone's rights and calling everyone what they want to be called out of basic respect, but millions of our neighbors dying in the streets for the crime of producing insufficient value for our oligarchs dwarfs a lot of social wedges neoliberals fight for but are ultimately not about meeting the basic needs people need. They make those their big issues because they don't cost the capital markets a cent.
From a humanist perspective, it's more important for a homeless person not to die of exposure, starvation, disease, and police brutality in our name than telling someone with a full belly and a roof who's LGBTQ that we affirm who they are. Both are important, but even our "left" has been paying no attention to the former and all to the latter, because the former would cost their wealthy bribers money and talk and ribbons are cheap. Kids need lunch. Hungry anyone needs food. Priorities.
And no, we can't do both, because we've proven we can't do shit. Want less abortions? Riot for a living wage that can support a family and if you win there will be fewer abortions with no bans required. It's the economy stupid, that thing we haven't gotten a vote on in 46 years.
I'll vote for a candidate promising to repurpose big corpo's record profits to rebuild society, no less.
Rofl no. Supply is kept artificially low to maintain prices. The global capitalist greed diseased oligarchs got bored with supply and demand a long time ago. Doesn't metastasize their quarterly earnings fast enough.
OPEC and DeBeers don't even do it in shadows.
You're thinking of the doe eyed days when capitalism was giving you it's talking points in grade school, deluding you. We're in the terminal stage, all that mickey mouse bullshit of supply and demand, capitalism breeds competition, and participation is optional have been shown for the confidence scheme sales pitch to suckers that they are.
At least to everyone but Americans, who've been so propagandized against anything that isn't toxic individualism most of us couldn't define socialism with a library card and a gun to our heads.
I'm part of the left and I'm armed. I just don't glorify my arms, name them girl names, or fall to sleep stroking them like a lover.
I think it's the only position I share with our rightwing. I wish I didnt need them, but this is a cesspool of toxic individualism, avarice, and prideful ignorance. When in Nazi Germany, you might need to shoot a Nazi.
In the Nordic countries, societies, they have freedom to roam, here our bootstrap buckaroos fantasize about murdering anyone (who doesn't look like them) that rings their doorbell for walking up their sidewalk.
Id argue Americans are even more gaslit and deluded than they were with modern for profit media combined with captured government pulpits.
I truly think the average American would sooner burn their own children alive than protest/disempower their capitalist fascist oppressors gutting their very lives for an extra nickel. For profit media says the fault of our problems are all the powerless homeless neighbors we've all collectively betrayed lowering property values with their continued immoral existence as they produce no value other than to scare everyone else back to their jobs every day.
Wouldn't want to be accused of being a filthy SOCIAList that wants to be part of a SOCiety after all. Why live together when we can die alone at each other's throats hoping the next lottery ticket or third side gig will make us a big winnah!
I will never, never forget all the domestic politicians using their pulpits when covid hit to assure everyone that they will do everything possible to protect our beloved society people children future economy, with basically no pushback 🤮
When we have a side that rejects the corporate bribe take and has an overt agenda to fight the capitalist profiteers in defense of the people, sure.
Until we dig ourselves out by rejecting private profit/growth/metastasis at the expense of the people at the bottom of society, nothing can improve.
Since Reagan got his former opposition party on the take, all we've been voting on is the speed of decline as good cop(D) and bad cop(R) encourage us to hate one another and be divided over the social issue symptoms of the captured economy we don't get a vote on.
I vote blue out of harm reduction. But democrats still don't give a shit about mass murder for private profit, mass homelessness, income inequality, on and on. They affirm your identity instead of scapegoating you, which is nice, but is also free for their mutual donor's quarterly profit expectations.
What good is being free to be who you are when you're dying of exposure and police brutality under a freeway for failing to produce enough value for the owners?
If there's another real presidential election, and if a democrat gets elected, we'll get four years of relative quiet but the situation will continue to grow darker as the DNC will not allow the capital markets to be reigned in, which means even if we avert this fascist march, the table will still be set for them to continue their march in four years. Wall Street must end. And it will, by our hands, or capitalist made climate change in a couple decades when it no longer matters for our species.