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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Downvote me if you must, but idiots like this won’t internalise the lesson until their parents, partners, sons, and daughters die in ICE custody.

    The same way that the vaccine conspiracists won’t learn until they watch their unvaccinated child shrivel and perish from a horrific and completely preventable disease.

    The memory of the suffering has to live on in people’s minds by having permanent consequences etched in the blood of unfortunate innocents as APPARENTLY we’re on average to fucking dumb as a species to remember otherwise!



  • As another outside observer I’d disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there’s racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.

    AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like “you’re not part of the political elite” and “you say it how it is” and “you seem like you genuinely care about Americans”.

    IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.

    If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as “Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead”.






  • I’m sorry but just going for the marginalised groups is not going to win them the next election. They have to be fighting for the working people which, includes marginalized groups, because just playing violin strings about the hardships of small sects of society is not going to bare any fruit from others who aren’t in that cohort more worried about keeping themselves fed and a roof over their heads.

    But of course, the large financial backers of the DNC wouldn’t go for that. That’s why they so aggressively pushed “support” for these groups in the first place, using their sorrows and plight as political shields.



  • It’s almost like the general populace NEED TO BE TAUGHT about what makes up the government and what it does.

    Look, whatever political philosophy you ascribe to, you need to understand what government institutions exist and what they do so:

    1. You can understand where your tax is being spent.

    2. Which ones you should contact for the appropriate service or issue resolution.

    3. When you start becoming politically aware, you can form opinions on how you think these functions should or should not be performed by your ideal institution (or individuals).

    And

    1. They SHOULD be both celebrated and criticized so the public are informationally and emotionally invested in these institutions that impact your (whole) life directly or indirectly. That, in the ideal scenario, encourages an informed and engaged populace that can work collectively to improve these institutions.

    These institutions, like anything built by humans, need to be maintained, upgraded, remodeled, or replaced effectively for human society to continue to exist. You’ll have ideas about what ones, why, and how and we should get to hear about those ideas and discuss them.

    That ONLY happens properly when people have at least some idea of what they’re talking about.

    Else this is what you get; some unelected Muppet treating it like a spaghettied server and pulling random ethernet cables out and listening for what screams.




    1. Not an anarchist, socialist democracy enthusiast.

    2. Rent my own place and contribute to society.

    3. I’m dealing with issues in my own country and therefore getting my own house in order. Sort your own house out or stop whining that you’re wallowing in sadness and garbage.

    You don’t have to take up arms, but that’s a huge risk when confronting those whom have and want to end your democracy.

    Just do SOMETHING: join one protest, or distribute one leaflet, or donate one time to an organisation that’ll be resisting against the orange fuck.