They could be organising huge nationwide protests or storming the capitol like he did. They could be telling the truth like AOC and Bernie

Aphantasia?

I think there’s more than one kind of imagination. It’s like the opposite of ‘thinking outside the box’.

Theirs is more like ‘wow this box is big! I’m gonna get inside a smaller one’.

I’ve had some good conversations with local TUSC members collecting signatures and so on, I’ve a lot of respect for them but sadly the general public don’t seem to. I think after the kicking by thatcher, unions and socialism in general are out of fashion. I do think there should be a broadly left party, allowing secondary membership maybe. Work on getting agreement on some issues, laser focus on what’s most urgent and get decent people elected. I’d support any party with decent policies and which had the most chance of getting elected.

Is this why the dems are standing aside?

Do they need him to be alive? They can use him as long as he’s not rotting too obviously. I have a strong suspicion he already stinks.

Authoritarian tactics is extremely vague. I wonder if they could name one of those tactics? Could they point out one dictator in history and criticise them? Explain why they’re different? Doubtful.

Tell us your friend is a white man without telling us

Trump will give them space in Guantanamo bay

Those voters had already been brainwashed by fascists into thinking destitute refugees and asylum seekers were at the root of their problems instead of offshore bank accounts stuffed with their taxes, which should have been used to pay for public services and housing.

Its not only that but how the left has been marginalised, as what happened with the labour party in the UK - Jeremy corbyn, the old leader who was actually left wing has been barred from the party, which he was part of for his whole life. A lifelong anti-racist on the correct side of every issue has been smeared as being a racist and that is now the mainstream ‘truth’.

The only left wing party of any size in the UK now is the green party. The only alternatives to business as usual labour/conservatives (same thing) are the greens (seen mostly as a middle class protest vote) or reform.

Labour are definitely not for the working class anymore.

Most people have an astounding lack of imagination. Its like they thing that things can’t get much worse because that would be too different to now…

It’s true, it was programmed into us by our creator Hans Asperger.

I’m really struggling with the idea that humanity doesn’t deserve to survive. Its just mind blowing how stupid and disgusting people can be.

A lot of people don’t vote as a protest. Most stupid shit I ever heard and I instantly lose respect for anyone that doesn’t at least go spoil their ballot.

The reason for this happening now is that Russia is on the verge of collapse and Putin has turned the screws on trump. If things don’t go his way the pee tape will leak

I know… I love food and have a huge thing for not wasting food too

She’s obviously too pretty to be smart /s

Do you think the realities of global heating have caused a kind of mass delusion?

I really believe it was dangerous to martyr trump by putting him in jail… His followers were so nutty that they would maybe have broken the system completely, as they tried to do last time.

I mean, right now the facade of america being a functioning democracy is kind of intact, if you don’t look too close. If a lot of crazies with guns stormed the court, the jail to rescue or protect trump… If the police or jailers released him… I mean, then what? Military coup? He tried it last time, people died and he’s blatantly supported and protected those people. There’s also that old adage about giving him enough rope to hang himself. There has to be a line that even brainwashed cult members won’t cross and he seems to be looking for it.

I really hope that someone over there who’s smarter and better informed than I am has some kind of plan and this will all be worth it in the end.

I realised that when both parties were publicly 100% committed to supporting Zionists no matter what atrocities they were committing. Even when the outcry from the left was such that committed dems were supporting other candidates.