Dumb ass was trying to act like Putin, but didn’t understand who Putin steals from and why

I reject that framing. It’s a loaded question, it’s loser bullshit and I won’t have it

I’m not saying vote every election. I’m saying win every election.

How do you win? Not by betting on the lesser evil. You do it by putting in the work to have a candidate you believe in. You do it by starting today, so that when the election comes your vote will not be a compromise.

You should feel proud of each and every vote. And yes, you should vote every time… But now is not the time for voting, it’s time to campaign

So quit with the defeatist bullshit and pitch in. You’ll feel less pessimistic when you’re surrounded by winners who work for a better tomorrow

I didn’t say “no”

I said it’s loser talk. It’s weak. Just like the Democrats. Which is why they’re the enemy - they’re in the way, and if we don’t sweep out the Schumers and Jefferies the DNC will continue to collaborate with the Nazis against populist progressive candidates

You can’t adopt their framing. Not maga’s framing, or the DNC framing. Reject it, just like I reject your premise that voting is just harm reduction.

If you want to win, you can’t talk like that. You can’t bet on “safe” candidates. You can’t settle for “not a Nazi”. You have to demand more, you have to have fire and speak of hope for the future

You’re missing my point entirely.

That’s loser talk. That’s how you lose elections. That’s how Trump won, twice. It barely got Biden in the door, because Trump was currently in office

You don’t have to be the less bad choice. You have to be the good choice. You have to stand for something. You have to have a message. You have to fight. You have to make enemies.

A Democrat will win the next election, no matter what. But in 2028? It very likely will be 4 more years of fascism if all we can muster is “well, it’s our guy or another fascist”

The only way to stop this is to get populist progressive candidates in office. In every office, in every election.

The Overton window needs to be moved left, or this never ends.

Quit with the loser talk and get involved with local elections. Go join your local DSA or phone bank with progressive victory. Help pave the way for a good candidate

No they fucking haven’t.

The uniparty thing started with like Clinton… Throughout our history, we had choices. Very meaningful ones. Maybe not the ones we wanted, but we had different courses for the county. It was always towards something

Click through some of these. This was the first rise of a fascist movement in the US, one that went on to influence Germany.

Did we hold the line and insist everything is fine? Fuck no, if you click back you’ll the Republicans held everything, the other two candidates had zero chance. Click forward and you get the largest wave of progressivism in our history, it took generations to tear down those safety nets, and they’re still not completely gone

That’s where we are now. Harm reduction doesn’t win, movements win.

Is their media any good?

He worked really hard to thread the needle between capitol and some actually progressive policies

Which, in the effort to avoid making enemies, just basically pissed off everyone, because it took a nibble of the profits for the tiniest wins possible

But I’m sure it was a lot of work

I think you’re kind of comparing apples to oranges, we’re pretty fucked over here right now

I’d call him a progressive. He has socialist ideals, but he’s operating as a populist - he can’t get out there and say “we’re going to do free healthcare” because we’re not there right now

It seems to me that he’ll be as left-wing as the moment allows, but what he’s actually pushing for is pretty tame IMO

Yeah… IDK, this guy’s eyes aren’t great. Plus, waiting for pelosi to retire? Sounds like some “wait your turn” ratfuckery

Well, making someone disappear could be all kinds of things depending on the context

Disappearing someone is something done by spooks and special police. It has specific implications

No, disappearing someone is a way worse subcategory of kidnapping

When you disappear someone, no one knows if they’re alive or dead, where they are, or what’s going to happen to them. They could be dead immediately, or dropped off at home in 3 years. Or they could be dropped off in Somalia with no ID and no money

Who said it was strategic? He went to camp David and totally flipped his position

Someone sat him down, and drilled this plan into him. Then he lost his shit when it didn’t go like they promised

What he wants hasn’t changed, but it seems like they convinced him a quick bombing campaign and a “mission accomplished” banner could stop this war

I think you’re looking at this the correct way - these people are totally impulsive and incompetent, but they’re not acting randomly

I think Trump genuinely wants to be peacemaker, he was advancing talks and holding back the MIC (who have wanted was with Iran for decades)

So he goes to camp David, and in a matter of hours “Iran can’t have a nuke, they’re close, they can’t have it”

I don’t know what they told him, but I think Trump’s plan was to do a big bombing run, declare success, and force Israel to back off before working towards a peace deal

And yes, Trump just tweeted out a cease fire and expected it to work, but the US does have that much power over Israel’s ability to wage war… He told Netanyahu to cut it the fuck out, and we’ll see

The MIC wants this to go forward, they love supplying arms to Israel, but theoretically Trump could cut off arms shipments to them

But to be clear, this is not about the nuclear program itself one way or the other… It doesn’t matter if the sites were destroyed or moved beforehand. Peace talks were ongoing, Iran wants back into the fold

What matters is if a peace deal can be reached, and I think Trump genuinely wants it. The money behind both Israel and the US definitely want war

We’ll see who’s in control

OMG really? That must have been so hard for you

I’m also very sick of the clickbait titles. But in the case, he did actually lose it… I was doubled over laughing, the whole sequence is amazing

Wdym? These pictures are going to go down in history. Why would they want to avoid their natural place in the history books?

I’m going to skip the Italy bit and jump to Trump.

Trump has been a fake all his life. He took a real estate empire and managed to develop it into a smaller real estate empire.

He called the news under fake names to talk himself up. He convinced Forbes he was a billionaire to get the label, but it’s very debatable if he ever got to that point

Until now. He is actually a billionaire now. He’s also a convicted felon. He’s the most powerful man in the world, but his brain is soup now, so he actually is just a voice for whoever spoke to him last

He wants to be feared and respected, but even at the climax of his power he’s still being mocked to his face

Yes, Trump hasn’t faced “justice”, but justice was always a lie. From my perspective, he made a monkey paw wish. He’s got everything he ever wanted, but I think it’ll all taste like ashes in his mouth

Not like that helps the rest of us, but it is satisfying to watch up close

Hard to sell secrets when you keep leaking them for free too

It’s probably related to our complete inability to keep secrets secret right now

UNSC flash clones… They come out like the original, but quickly degrade due to the process