Supports imperialist projects to dominate the global south and destabilize competitors.
Supports more funding to police.
Rejects single payer health care.
Rejects nationalizing oil and gas industries.
Rejects any form of trust busting.
Rejects any measures to reign in corruption, lobbying, or corporate influence.
I could go on all day.
The only meaningful difference is that Democrats hate gays slightly less and try to avoid using the n word in public.
I'd ask you for math, but I'm just going to spend an hour debunking Washington Post links claiming dems want things they never bothered to try implementing.
Winning is authoritarian. Everything makes more sense when you understand that this is where the opposition to "authoritarianism" comes from.
It's how you can denounce movements that win, while suggesting the left uses tactics that lose. It is a meaningless word that means successful deviation from the desires of the West.
Unfortunately, most IT people are bad at marketing, which is why hardly anyone knows about these alternatives.
Developers may be bad at naming shit, but no one knows about alternatives because FOSS projects don't have marketing money, not because developers are bad at getting the word out.
Communists don't want to win elections, they want a proletarian dictatorship, one that completely subjugates the bourgeois class, which you cannot do from within the bourgeois class's state.
The hammer and sickle is what guarantees that optics will not come before that goal. No AOC will fly your flag to convince people to vote for Kamala Harris.
The goal isn't to get random people hearing about it to support you. The goal is to sabotage and disrupt fossil fuel production or consumption. Being inconvenient is the entire point.
No snark in response tho