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    A conversation with a school teacher in the state of Florida

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  • "You might not believe in climate change, but your insurance company sure does!"

  • Mash 'em, boil 'em, put them in a stew

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  • "Your loss lady, I go terribly with starches!"

  • Don't let the bad faith actors discourage you from voting!

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  • Rejection

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  • The moment it becomes official is the surprise, ths actual context of it cannot ever be one.

  • Don't let the bad faith actors discourage you from voting!

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  • It is literally the main tool by which further democratic rights have been obtained in those western democracies, contrary to your giveaway scare quotes.

    Be it by referenda, passage of law, or by constitutional amendment, every single advancement has been made through the organization of the proletariat as a voting block.

    Stop being a fucking class traitor because you don't want to admit that sitting on your ass doesn't send any kind of message other than that you have done nothing for the working class.

  • Don't let the bad faith actors discourage you from voting!

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  • So set up cults then.

    You just said voting bad, so those alternatives are all going to inherently involve autocratic systems arising out of whatever "not voting" system you try to run with.

    This plus the displayed disdain for the greater society you're intending to separate from indicates you will inherently be more likely to establish a cult under your model, be it Waco or Jim Jones, it will end up as a cult.

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  • Yeah, that's why the people who's ideology is reinforcing the current power structure and reverting it to even worse times are so hell bent on sabotaging the vote.

    Speaking against the tool of the proletariat to enact their will without having to fight a war for it every fucking time makes you nothing but a class traitor.

  • Two things can be true at the same time

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  • Yup, a frequent refrain of there's is that the dema should be more effective since they've "been on power" multiple times over the last 50 years, during which a grand total of four of those and change featured a majority that could have actually done anything, and which alao had several members that would actively sabotage that majority doing anything.

  • Lemmy Leftys in a nutshell

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  • Tbf wealth distribution doesn't tend to come up in liberal circles, it isn't really a liberal policy in the traditional sense, and has mostly entered the liberal sphere of consciousness as of late because liberals and progressives are forced to share a single political party/coalition in most electoral eco-systems.

    Not to mention how there's a lot of different philosophies on how to go about it even among strident proponents of redistribution.

    For example, I believe in a tax bracket system which adjusts the actual bracket amounts year to year based on household percentile income, and where the actual amounts taxed relate to the share of the wealth controlled by those brackets, with lower brackets being taxed at share, and the highest bracket being taxed three times their share of the wealth.

    Not only does it provide a dynamic system of taxation that naturally adjusts to year to year economic conditions, but it also places an upper limit on how much the ultra wealthy can control before it starts biting them, and in the process, begins incentivizing them to sabotage each other to keep their overall rates as low as possible. The rich would be eating each other for us.

    Now to some that is an incredibly radical idea, while to others it's the furthest thing from radical since it doesn't involve brutally murdering factory owners in front of their families.

  • Two things can be true at the same time

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  • And the protest vote contingent will blame her for it entirely

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  • Unless you have a plan already in motion that will institute STAR voting and fully educate the public on it in the next 12 days, you get to shut up until after Kamala has won.

  • Southern conservatives surveying the damage.

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  • I swear there will come a day when a mass gun nut uprising actually happens, and in that moment the gun rights debate will die a fiery death, because in a civil war scenario rigged explosive drones will be far more effective at holding off the inevitable crushing under federal boots than trying to shoot the people who have better guns and also hold home field advantage and also their kids aren't actively ratting out their positions because they despise everything they stand for.

  • Nobel Prize in Lit 2024

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  • Honestly I think it's one of those things where the sheer stupidity of it is half of what sustains it.

    It's literally just a regional way of mimicking the sound of spitting on something, but for some reason it got enough people to snort in amusement to become self sustaining meme material.

    Plus the fact that it's blunt talk about sex stuff makes teenagers feel edgy for posting it.

  • Is it too much to ask to demand an end to genocide?

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  • Honestly what I'm more angry about is what happens when you look at the numbers for primaries.

    In nearly every instance where a progressive lost the primary, it's down to these assholes, at this point I am convinced, just looking for any excuse to call the whole thing scuffed so when they inevitably just forget when polling day is they don't have to feel bad about it.

    Bernie could have won both times and ridden in on a progressive tsunami.

    He only didn't because those fucking brats pulled the football, again.

    I would be shocked to find a single election where fauxgressives finding any fault to justify having the turnout energy of cosmic background radiation wasn't the reason an unpopular liberal won the primary, or an unpopular conservative/fascist won the general.

    If progressives had even half the energy for showing up that they did for pitching fits about the people that did not doing the revolution for them, we'd have a country that was at least on the track to be what our boomer parents and teachers tried to insist it already was.

  • Is it too much to ask to demand an end to genocide?

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  • Just completely ignored the spelled put reason for all of this on your way to this comment huh?

    Not voting does nothing but say that your opinions are not worth listening to.

    That is the entirety of what that action says.

    There is no other message that gets recieved.

    Because under FPTP, there is no other message the Dems can afford to receive.

    The math literally works out that you are either supporting them or that you are not, and that the best spent energy is on consistent voters who are able to be convinced, not on morons who think that saying maybe they'll vote this time if all of their demands are met by election day with a divided house and senate, swearzies.

    To party planners this stunt you're pulling looks like nothing but Lucy with the football saying you swear you aren't gonna pull it away this time if they took a run at it like that really old guy did in '16 and '20 before being completely abandoned at the polls.

    Dependability and consistency is what gets names on primary ballots that can make change.

    You have to show up and do the bare minimum work, consistently, or you are mathematically not worth the trouble of trying to please.

    The time to make this stand was in the primary season, and y'all told the democrats that being even low-key anti-genocode is nothing but running at Lucy's football yet again, after the most vocal members of the progressive flank about it all got knocked out in that stage of the election.

    You had your chance to send the message and you fucking wasted it on the "none of the above" bullshit.

    You literally saw the knife coming down on the people who were listening to you and instead of showing up for them you stood there and then scratched your head over why nobody's around who's listening to you anymore.

    Fuck you.

    You created the current crop of Dems that have to be convinced even harder now that pursuing a cease-fire is worth anything electorally, and the only reason that'll even be possible is a once in a century replacement of the candidate for head of the party.

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  • Show up at the primaries for anti-genocode candidates, y'know, like fucking nobody did this year because half the most progressive members of the party got ousted by israeli funded pacs, who's messaging should have had zero impact on this supposed very dependable voting base that the democrats should really spend more effort listening to.

    Wanna know how radicals took over the republican party? They established themselves as a major voting contingent, and then they hijacked all the primaries.

    They would laugh in your face for suggesting that the way to push the Republicans towards their goals is to just not vote at all and then loudly declare it was due to insufficient trumpiness. Not even they are that stupid.

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  • Trust me, drama is worth a lot more when seen than it is when experienced.

  • Is it too much to ask to demand an end to genocide?

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  • Let the guy who wants to do even more genocide into office! That'll show the genociders!

    People really out here wondering how the dems could have such right wing policies while also never showing up during primaries or generals to indicate that moving left will pay anything back.

    Fosters electoral climate where the people who at minimum are sympathetic to the genociders are the majority of likely voters.

    "Why won't the dems go against the genociders‽ How dare a major political party adopt policy positions that upset a contingent of voters who have consistently demonstrated they can't be trusted to show up even when you do take the positions they want as evidenced by how they completely abandoned Bernie during the primaries BOTH GODDAMNED TIMES!!!!"

    Now to speak as a Palestinian American, your supposed stand for your principals is actively putting my people in even more danger, so quit acting like you're their ally while you basically use them as a hostage to demand leaders stop letting them be held hostage.

    If you think the answer to Dems being soft on Bibi is to let power back into the hands of the guy who handed him West Bank, East Jerusalem, and The Golan Heights on a silver platter, you're either a covert zionist, or an unwitting agent of them, either way, you need to sit down and shut the fuck up before you get the people you're talking over into even more danger.

  • Cheeky

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  • The wording here makes it sound like we hunted horses for the specific purpose of having sex on them, and honestly, I'd probably be running as fast as a car if that kept happening to me too!