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they’re fucking nuts. one of them said “climate change isn’t real, we need to keep extracting as many fossil fuels as possible”, they all talked about how we need to break up teacher’s unions, how we need to abolish the Department of Education, how we need to spend billions on our border like Israel, etc.
The amount of cheers was unsettling.
there’s no hope for this country, it should just be abandoned honestly
Can we just throw the whole country away and start over?
Maybe we could call the process a “communist revolution” or something?
Pointless foreign war going badly? ✔
Worsening internal proletarian conditions? ✔
Popular distrust in government and its fundamental philosophy? ✔
Encroaching police state and murdering of protesters? ✔
I could see the USA going the way of either 1905 or 1932 sometime soon. Obviously I prefer first, but it's the Yankees, they probably will go for the latter. But it's not like this hasn't happened at least once every decade for the past 70 years and no revolution materialised. The true sack of potatoes were the American Tubers all along.
Honestly a general strike might be a cool idea at least for basic things like healthcare, rent control, guaranteed sick leave and other things like that, that basically every other stable country already has. Socialist parties are missing out on the opportunity.
Yeah, it’s a shame any left movement is crushed so methodically that fascism feels like only a matter of time in the US… :(
The hope is they have won the popular vote once in 8 elections and that was only because the entire might of all news outlets was cheering for bombing Iraqis.
What an amazing democracy.
God I wish we had a representative democracy. Then we could have fascists in power like Italy.
Aspetta ... forse non c'è mai una democracia perfetta?
Sì, infatti ogni democracia ha I suoi problemi: meglio che uno stato autoritario.
How about we renegotiate the Civil War? Is it too late to give them the southern states and tell them to leave us alone?
it would be far better to finish what reconstruction started.
I don't go 12 hours without cursing Andrew Johnson's name and the names of all his descendants
Bruh
wHy DiDnT tHeY jUsT lEaVe ThE pOoR wIdDlE sLaVeRs AlOnE!?
Sherman didn't go far enough.
Pence even said like “we need to deal with the problems of Social Security and healthcare” like are you kidding me? Retirement at 65 has god-awful benefits, you basically have to retire at 67-70 to actually get OK benefits that can afford you to barely retire. Healthcare is essentially not a thing here, more specifically AFFORDABLE healthcare that most people desperately need