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  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • First, you were never asked to vote for Biden last year. He literally never appeared on any ballots. Not a single person voted for Biden last year. So your entire point here is fucking moot.

    Second, nobody is asking you to get married to who you vote for. You aren't required to support every word they've ever said. You aren't even required to support a single thing they do. American elections are a binary choice between the lesser of two evils. That's how they've ALWAYS been. You pick the least bad of two bad options, and Harris was objectively less bad than Trump in every degree. If your candidate wins, you get to work fighting against the lesser evil that defeated the greater one. I've been voting for 21 years now and every single election I had to hold my nose and vote for someone I didn't like because the other option was worse. This election wasn't about you. Get over yourself and grow the fuck up.

    Third, electoral politics shouldn't define your life or even the extent of your participation in politics. It's a single theater of political action among MANY. I was out there before the election in the streets protesting the Democratic ticket's support of the Gaza Genocide. I also recognized that putting Harris in the White House over Trump would have been better on MANY other issues (women's healthcare, trans rights, the economy, jobs for federal workers, cost of living, etc, etc). I'm not so petty and self-centered to delude myself into believing one single issue was the only thing that mattered in the entire election.

    Nobody is saying Democrats are great or even good. They fucking suck. We don't have good options in our electoral politics. We never have. That's why you need to engage in other forms of politics, too. Your entire "I couldn't vote for genocide Joe" bullshit is just self-indulgence. It's childish.

  • ‘What the f*** happened?!’: Jon Stewart unloads on Democrats

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  • I don't believe it applies to the entire party. There were Democrats (mostly in the House) who are actually opposing the fascists. The problem is that none of them are in leadership and the Vichy leadership is actively fighting the few Democrats who are trying to oppose the fascists rather than fighting the fascists.

  • ‘What the f*** happened?!’: Jon Stewart unloads on Democrats

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  • The letter pretty clearly says "I am a member of the Democrat Party".

    Show me a letter from Vichy Democrats that says "I am a member of the Republican Party." Show me where Republicans put any Democrat in Senate leadership or gave them chair of a Committee.

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  • And he's also repeatedly made statements that he runs as an independent in Vermont because he promised his constituents he would always do so in his first Congressional race. But he's also said that he considers himself a Democrat, and the party also clearly considers him one seeing as they put him in Senatorial party leadership and gave him chair (when they had the Majority) of one of the most powerful Senate committees: the Senate Budget Committee.

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  • Here's a notarized letter signed by Bernie affirming he is, in fact, a Democrat.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Like I said, you have some very serious problems with reading comprehension. None of what you posted here is defending Biden at all.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Please quote the part where I tried to protect Biden about anything. The whole point here was to criticize people who voted for Trump while believing the clearly demonstrable lie that he was going to be better for the people of Gaza than Biden.

  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • If Marshalls ignore an order from a judge, what does the judge saying "I compel you" or "I hold you in contempt" do?

    Everything you're saying is just judges saying words at people. The administration has already shown they're willing to ignore words coming out of the courts.

    We're very close to the "don't quote laws to men with swords" territory here.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Where am I trying to protect Biden on anything? The hell are you talking about? You have some very serious reading comprehension problems.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • You seem to have an incredibly mistaken understanding of my personal politics. I was out in person protesting the Democrat's Gaza policy before the election. I'm not claiming or pretending like Democrats were good in any way at all. In fact, if you read my above comment closely, you'll notice that I pretty clearly said:

    Yes, we all know the Democrats are absolutely fucking awful.

    Nobody here is claiming that there was no genocide while Biden was in office. Of course there was. What I'm criticizing is people who believed the genocide would stop or that Trump would be better for Gaza. There is actually a difference in degrees and the Republicans are actually far far worse for Gaza and all Palestinians. Again, that doesn't mean that the Democrats are good. It means that the Republicans are even worse.

    Also, I'm not a liberal.

  • ‘What the f*** happened?!’: Jon Stewart unloads on Democrats

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  • told Vichy Democratsic leadership to become more Republican

    FTFY!

  • ‘What the f*** happened?!’: Jon Stewart unloads on Democrats

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  • I think there are actual elected Democrats who want to oppose the fascists. Look at Bernie, AOC, Crockett, even Pritzker and Walz. Hell, even Seth fucking Moulton and Nancy fucking Pelosi criticized Vichy Schumer over his collaboration and capitulation.

    The problem is the Democrats, at the national level, are all led by the Vichy caucus of the party. Schumer, Jeffries, Newsom, etc who actually agree with the fascists on a number of issues.

    We can't write off everyone elected with a (D) next to their name. History has shown us time and time again that the only thing that has ever defeated a powerful fascists movement is a popular front of leftists and liberals working together. We need to eliminate the Vichy wing of the Democratic Party. I'm not going to pretend like I know how to do that, but we're never going to defeat the fascists if we keep lumping everyone in with the collaborationists. That just fractures our side and strengthens theirs.

    And electoral politics can't be the only thing we do. It's one tactic, but it's not the only or even most important one. Most importantly, we need to build connections and networks within our communities so that we can support each other against the fascists. We need to establish the relationships now so that when the fascists come for the marginalized in our community people (especially those less engaged with politics) are more willing to side with the victims of the fascists who they've come to know against the power structures.

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  • Can we start using "Vichy" to describe any Democrats who collaborate with the fascists?

    Jon Stewart slammed Vichy Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...

    Stewart argued Vichy Democrats avoid proposing real alternatives by pretending Republicans will compromise.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • With public ownership of the means of production (in any public sector industry) it is by definition socialist. By every definition socialist.

    It's only socialist if you accept the framing that the state (ie the government) is the manifestation of the will of the people. This is demonstrably untrue in China given how regularly they suppress protest movements and attempts by workers to organize. They are NOT the will of the people. They are the will of the party, which has always been the case in every state communist country that has ever existed.

    And I don't get my information on China from western media sources. I get it from people I know who live in China and from my own experiences in China.

    anyone can join he government and take on the boring admin work, there are checks at every level to reduce corruption and no one person ever has absolute power. Technically “the evil dictator Xi Jinping” could be ousted with a single vote, or multiple lower regional votes. The same is true for all positions. Appointments are democratically placed, so corruption is minimal.

    Replace "China" with "The US" here and it sounds exactly like it comes out of a grade school civics textbook in the US describing the American political system. This is the exact same line every single elected government around the world uses to describe how democratic they are.

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  • I meant, how does one run it locally. I see a lot of people saying to just "run it locally" but for someone without a background in coding that doesn't really mean much.

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  • Over 60% of the economy by GDP including all essential services, is owned by the people state

    FTFY

    If the state represented the people, why does the Chinese government kill workers who try to organize so damn much? It's because the state =/= the people. What you described is just capitalism where the state is one of the capitalist class. The difference with the US is that the US government is owned by the capitalist class rather than being one of it.

  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • They're cops. They don't get training. Just a gun.

  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • I don't believe a single cop out there has ever taken their oath seriously. ACAB

  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • They won't but even if they hypothetically tried to, I doubt they could. We're talking about Marshalls who have spent their career in the DoJ working alongside and for the Executive Branch. The courts try to tell the AG to order the Marshalls to do something and the AG refuses. So the courts try to deputize the Marshalls and give direct orders and we're to expect the Marshalls will go against the people they've been loyal to their entire careers?