AOC/Sanders aren't even that leftwing.
It's just an optical illusion looking at them from inside the burgeoning fourth Reich of Stupid Hitler's crazy town.
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We haven't had a vote on the shape or priorities of our economy since 1980. This is an economic dictatorship, and has been longer than most of us here have been alive.
We just get a vote on how/if to address the social wedge symptoms that economy either causes or exacerbates.
And only IF addressing them won't meaningfully harm quarterly earnings expectations for our sociopath class. Example: you know what would drastically reduce the number of abortions without any kind of ban? A living wage that can support a family. But that would cut into corporate metastasis and is therefore a non-starter by either party in anything more than rhetoric.
You can have scapegoating(R) or affirmation ribbons(D), so long as you vote for for profit prisons, legal murder for profit, millions of Americans dying of exposure on the streets, crumbling commons, public education in utter ruin.... Freedom!
"Hey, I saw someone doing something illegal to a capitalist!"
No you fucking didn't.
I appreciate the comment, we made our bed when a gun wasn't to our head. Twice.
And I'll argue to the end of the world that Reagan did more harm to this country and the world than Trump can ever hope to. You don't get to Trump without the Economic betrayal, getting the people's opposition party permanently on the oligarch take, and the war on science/knowledge/facts/education that get in the way of short term private profit without the Reagan/Welch revolution, that infected Europe too sadly, notably cooperation of message with that bitch Thatcher. The UK is basically a little Forward Operating Base for our greed disease and conversion of nation states into exploiters of their people now.
Trump is just the latest rot of the corpse of the shitty nation Reagan killed. He just isn't remembered that way because feigned statesmanship as he sold us off piece by piece and set this slow coup in motion.
Don't. Give. Your. Economic. Elite. A. Single. Centimeter. It's too late for us, but you can be saaaaaaaaaaaaaved.
I say this as an American.
You're all better than us, a lot of people here voted for the Trump, and most of us are so successfully deluded by oligarch propaganda that many blame our powerless, homeless neighbors that we abandoned and betrayed for what the owners inflict on us.
We are gaslit beyond all hope. We can't even agree as a society that our children should be fed, and this madness of greed and demented levels of toxic individualism didn't start with Trump. It boggles my mind that people have actually wanted to immigrate here in my 40 years living inside this cesspool, only good at being an exporter of death and state mandated avarice.
Unless you're wealthy, or are sociopathic enough to become so because sociopathy is what we reward, this is a garbage place of largely garbage people. Most here would rather burn ourselves and the world than disempower our capitalists, as that would be "socialism," a word our captured government rebranded as a boogieman and that, by design, most Americans couldn't actually define with access to one of our underfunded libraries and a gun to their head.
I went to one of the conservative drone echo chambers and their big line on this is "What grounds does she have to claim asylum in Canada?! She should be sent to Gaza to die!"
No point trying to reply in those spaces, they're all too far gone, but I want to reply "what grounds? The grounds that Canada hasn't abandoned their basic humanity or decency in exchange for nothing, as we Americans have."
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This has all been theater for a long time.
Our owners just don't care to pretend otherwise anymore, because they no longer need to. They're even starting to cut out the former "opposition" party they got on the take in the 80s to accomplish this coup.
Welcome to the party most have willfully ignored, hoping to be a big winnah in a sea of exploited losers.
Sad most just want to back this off to the neoliberal policies that set the table for this and call that victory, when we need a new framework, something between the New deal and Norway. Unless we socially enfranchise our society from the bottom up with tangible, economic support, and start judging the health of our society by our worst off members, we'd meet right back here after another 10-15 years of the well bribed good cop party(D) being just dandy with murder for profit health insurance schemes and our most betrayed neighbors dying under our crumbling freeways.
Centimillionaire and proud neoliberal Nancy Pelosi spent the months before Trump took power safeguarding the levers of Congressional power... From AOC.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/aoc-pelosi-oversight-committee-connolly-raskin
This constitution has failed. It failed decades ago, but few were willing to acknowledge the ugly truth. If you don't accept that as a starting point if you're American, you're still digging.
What an embarrassing way to go extinct.
Sometimes I tell myself this must be one of those "great filters," then I just can't believe that it's common for a species capable of terraforming their world would be dumb enough to do it in reverse eyes wide open, like crawling towards a cliff shouting "nooooooooo!"
I can't picture the future dolphin people doing it.
Glad I went Emby.
This capitalist coup started under Reagan. Trump has been courted by Putin since the 90s.
If people realized how serious this shit was, Wall Street and the capital markets would have been righteously burned to cinder years ago.
Instead they laughed at those protesting it, I was there.
We're hopeless. We'll be breathing capitalist climate change made dustbowl fumes, drinking unregulated leaded water, and still showing up to our jobs running up the owners' ego scores even as said owners retreat to their luxury bunker complexes to bark their orders remotely in an attempt to pretend everything is fine.
We're a pathetic people. Not entirely our fault, the capitalists have been sabotaging public Ed to keep us stupid, willfully ignorant, largely hostile towards critical thinking, and cut their taxes for a century, but we are a pathetic people.
Now the French, There's a model of how a society needs to act when their greed class gets out of line.
You get it. The last, last, last, last, last stand to have any rational hope of righting the current constitutional framework using its own mechanisms would have been to soundly rebuke the Reagan/Welch give away the store Revolution as a society half a century ago. Even then the hour was late and unions were being systematically attacked, but getting the former supposed opposition party on the take, today's neoliberals, was the ballgame, and Citizens United was just a capitalist victory lap pissing on the corpse.
We surrendered the active class war with no terms and began our class occupation in 1980 with nothing more than the false promise that the right people would become the wealthy fuckers living large on the backs of their exploited neighbor fuckees. There are still pathetic fools waiting for that golden shower of Prosperity any day now.
This collapse is brought to you by the people that would have been running away from town to town selling piss snake oil to marks had they been born a couple centuries earlier. Capitalism made them our kings,and they don't have to run anywhere, everyone else has to get out of their way.
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I'm anticapitalist and it's inevitable conclusion of fascism when the unrestrained capitalists finally gets their way.
X is literally owned by a fascist, basically the stupid Goebbels to Trump's stupid Hitler. And sadly, they represent the general malice of the US and our toxic hyper-individualism perfectly. Sounds like you just lump everything you think is bad together.
No world superpower isn't drenched in blood, but China actually seems to care about there being a future for their people and future generations beyond the next quarterly earnings call. Why wouldn't a humanist root for that over this dog eat dog rigged race to the bottom with no plan, actively eviscerating any future to goose the next rich fuck earnings call as our neighbors die of exposure under and
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If empathy is the weakness to my species, I'm glad we're committing suicide by capitalist made climate change.
Without empathy, we have no redeeming characteristics and nothing of value will be lost.
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I was actually still surprised to see that some Luigi praise has been getting through on TikTok.
Rednote is still better though.
Donald and Ivanka Trump.
Shit, sorry, same thing.
Modern conservatives lack the creativity to imagine plausible damning accusations.
They must draw from life.
When they hilariously try, we get "Jewish space lasers" and "pizza parlor child fight club rings."
Then they get angry that basically every creative and artistic field is dominated specifically by not them. When they get handed a budget to attempt creativity, we get preachfest garbage like "God's not dead 23" that spends 2 hours basically turning to the camera lecturing viewers about conservative grievances in the form of repetitive gotcha strawman scenarios like it's Festivus.
That's the problem with only hating, with only negativity, with only being against change. It's like trying to grow a flower by watering it with vinegar.
It's a fast track to power over others without having to first gain significant knowledge/wisdom to wield responsibly.
A surgeon is a allowed to cut you open and rearrange your insides because they have been through the intense trials and scrutiny to be trusted to do so.
Cops are just a few weeks of training. Who does this fast track to power without commensurate burdens of responsibility attract? BULLIES. The kids that stole your lunch money are the ones handing out speeding tickets and on drug dealer bribe takes.
That's the paradox of power, the harder someone seeks it for its own sake, the worse a candidate they are to possess it. Maybe if Law enforcement were part of some kind of mandatory national service where everyone has the option to hold it for a year or two would help, but this sociopathic place is too selfish for such ideas.
Anyone else on Rednote?
The Chinese citizenry at least is far more eloquent and seemingly educated than Americans are. Our higher Ed is going the way of the utter ruins of our K-12. They speak their second language more fluently on average than the lower half of our country speaks its first language. And the social empathy? Holy shit they're practically Canadian. It's almost a shock to the system as an American living in this encouraged sociopathic cesspool of glorified hyperindividualism 🤮 where we work against one another to try to get moar oligarch scraps for ourselves.
It's US President Putin's goal I'm sure, but all this does is make the US less relevant. I'm all for that to be honest, so long as they continue to stand for the wellbeing of their people, I'm rooting for Europe. We should lose our global influence. The planet is dying(as a habitat for humanity, it'll be fine once we've finished our capitalist made climate suicide), our people are miserable, and we've been exporting that hypercapitalist misery for decades using our hard and soft power using that global influence. No one in the world should be doting on us. We're hostile to a future for humanity, our geopolitical interests start and end with our oligarch's short term ego scores.
He'll be literally all those things now in Republican echo chambers.
The Right wing eats its own.
Should have kept better company.