🤷‍♂️ There’s no accounting for obsessive parasocial attachment, I guess.

Guess what a common management strategy for it is: dialectical behavior therapy. We keep trying to lead him to dialectical materialism, but we can’t make him drink.

Wow, this is peak… whatever his deal is.

Suddenly I wish Lemmy allowed mods/admins to ban a user from a specific post, but unfortunately my available options are to lock a post or to ban a user from a community.

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Reason: There’s a political memes community for stuff like this

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Really? I haven’t been paying attention (because why bother). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Socialists aren’t “centrists,” and we’ve been saying this all along and will continue to. The election cycle has nothing to do with it, and it didn’t “work with Kamala,” because there are far too few of us to have had an appreciable effect on the 2024 election. Harris’ campaign lost due to its own unforced errors.

Why are only failed liberatory struggles are depicted?

USAID wasn’t what you think it was, namely a CIA front. And Trump didn’t shut it down so much as move its operations to Marco Rubio’s State Department.

I thought we’d retired the pinhead/brainlet/drooling wojaks

uh what

i used to be with it but then they changed what it was now what I’m with isn’t it anymore and what’s it seems weird and scary to me

Right, so voting is a pointless distraction that… The oligarchs still need to use for some reason.

We know the reasons, and we know the oligarchs will dispense with the pretense of elections when they hinder more than they help. Fascism isn’t a grassroots movement; it’s an astroturfed one funded by oligarchs. They fully unleash it when they become frustrated with bourgeois democracy.

Is organizing a revolution so easily distracted that spending like, a little part of a day casting a ballot something that’ll completely undermine everything?

Not at all. Again, who is saying not to vote?

How did all that protesting the Democratic candidates work out for Palestine?

How well did Harris’ promise to continue Biden’s support of Israel despite their live-streaming genocide work out for her?

Who is telling you not to vote? What we’re telling you is: https://lemmy.ml/comment/22575324

It’s not wrong to say regulatory capture is a problem, it just doesn’t go far enough. The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The game is rigged. The election cycle’s pomp and circumstance is to divert your energy and attention from the fact that it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

There’s no “suddenly,” because nothing has changed. We’ve been here the whole time saying the same things.

And I seldom see people say to not vote. Mostly they say that voting does little to nothing, and that we can’t vote our way to socialism.

Why not torrents over a VPN, if you have bandwidth to burn?

I’m skeptical: never trust a cave fart.

Say you don’t understand the science without saying you don’t understand the science. You don’t have even a cursory, Wikipedia-level understanding. You have a 19^th-century understanding, but science has since developed better understandings of sex and gender.

i was told they ate all the dogs, before they started feeding children the mud