Money buys elections - period. Money buys the news. Money buys influence. Money tells a significant portion of the population what to think. Money keeps people ignorant. Money makes people believe lies.
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The party of like under 10 useful people and the rest are NPCs that forget to resist Republican initiatives.
Calling people "NPCs" is always fascist.
In my opinion, some far-right terms is very useful even for anti-establishment leftists.
Wot in tarnation...
Just be aware of the users post history - they're Russian and a putin supporter.
FYI on voyager you can make private tags for users.
"Oh no! Clearly we're too far left!"
- DNC, probably.
"With polling numbers like this among our base, we're going to need to triple our efforts to get votes from Republicans. It's the only option."
I know you’re joking but that’s almost certainly where they are gonna go with this information.
Let’s move more towards the right! Call up Dick Cheney!!
Clearly the problem is that Dick Cheney wasn't far enough right. Maybe if someone started a podcast and invited Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon - wait, shit - uhh I guess they weren't far enough right either. Who's next, Richard Spencer and David Duke?
Too late for that, somebody dig up Kissinger!
Might as well give him a shotgun while we're at it
We need a shake up that includes multi parties and ranked choice voting system. This two party system isn't working anymore. Now would also be a good time to start a new party with some of these Dems that actually care
Whats fun about this is that AOC's individual popularity... is not trash.
Same with Crocket. Al Green. others.
I mean people pretty much have always liked individuals over the collective.
The 10 who voted for cloture do not enjoy comparable levels of popularity.
Nor should they
Burn it down and rebuild with progressives, going further right isn't going to win.
How is this Possible? They've been trying SO HARD to appease REPUBLICANS!
"But we've done nothing at all!"
Maybe they should try hiring some more panel experts
The Democrats are clearly not going to save us. We're gonna have to save ourselves.
Cooked I tell ya.
What's your plan?
When the Republicans had this problem, they developed the Tea Party.
We need a Guillotine Party to perform the same role.
You've already been shown that the modern guillotine fits in your pocket or backpack.
The billionaire class has given us no choice. It's us or them
Billionaires astroturfed the Tea Party
Brian Thompson fertilized the guillotine party.
The Tea Party had a bunch of billionaires behind it. Organizing takes money.
I love this idea.
Mutual aid. Community gardens. Community mesh-networks that don't connect to corporate internet.
In other words, building parallel systems to support one another. Gotta get mobilized on a local level and build systems outside of capitalism for support leading up to (hopefully) a General Strike.
The violence is coming, that's almost assured. We don't have to invite it before we have a plan and ways to take care of one another.
The Black Panthers and the community work they did need to be used as a roadmap. There will be infiltrators and agent provocateurs trying to dismantle it from the inside. We need to be smart like Afeni Shakur.
Your solution is to wait for the violence and then play defense?
The Black Panthers got a lot of headlines and got wiped out without the Establishment breaking a sweat.
You're completely dependent on the electrical grid, the internet, the roads, and the rest of the infrastructure that Trump is going to control.
And, as you pointed out, the entire Movement was riddled with spies. Think Blackwater is really going to let you have your little garden?
Almost like the Democrat's strategy of pointing at the Republican's doesn't work for getting votes
It would be nice if Dems had someone who could identify both a cohesive vision AND a path/plan for execution. You know. Actually governing.
71% of Americans are Russian bots?? 🤯