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He's guaranteed to lose now. I can't see a universe where the mental gymnastics add up to deciding that this is a good idea. Don't get me wrong, it'd be funny as hell. But I'm really not looking forward to the idea of more Trump.

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Exactly. It's not about 'democracy'. It's about the right building a fortress within power structure of the country that excludes the bipartisan/democrat lanyard class.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

That's the sliver of vote that lives within me. From a Marxist perspective, is a state full of Democrat lanyards better than a state full of rabidly anti-worker chud lanyards, so that labor can organize with fewer legal barriers? Or would unmasking the state as an explicitly bourgeois institution help radicalize the working class and heighten the contradictions? Is there necessarily a "better" option relating to the ideological composition of the state, or is it irrelevant because of the fundamental bourgeois nature of the state regardless of who the lanyards are?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or would a state full of chud lanyards be so incompetent that organizing would be easier? I guess we'll find out since none of this is really in our control in the first place. Full machinations of capital

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't underestimate them, there are plenty of competent fascists out there. Or at least, they aren't more incompetent than the average liberal dork

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

It would have to get extremely bad wrt the NLRB to change the labor organizing paradigm to wolf-style organizing. I was surprised Biden's anti-train worker move didn't do it for that industry.

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