who was in secret communication with Putin the whole time

uhhhhh what?

but she seemed like she’d at least attempt to listen to us

No, she didn’t. Her own internal polling showed that her support for the Gaza genocide could lose her the election. . . .and she continued it.

The people involved basically asked her just to lie to them . . . not even to change policy, but pretend she would. That was too much. The only response was “I’m speaking”

And if the public put the same effort and pressure on her

How do you propose to put “effort and pressue” on elected officials if you’re not even willing to deny them your vote?

Remember how everyone was talking about how they were going to push Biden left after 2020? It’s nonsense - your leverage is greatest BEFORE someone is elected, not after.

But we need to make the best short term option

This has been the argument for literally 30 years.

Yes, you’re not fixing this in a single election. So giving up all power by agreeing to vote for a supposed “lesser evil” is giving up the future elections as well as this one - because the centrists don’t even win.

The reason to vote socialist when you lose the primary is not that third parties will win - the system does give a massive advantage to D or R candidates. It’s to record that the centrist Democrats left votes on the table, and exactly how many they did.

Then vote socialist.

No, it’s that liberals don’t or refuse to realize that “conservatives” are liberals.

It’s socialism or barbarism, and putting a rainbow flag on your barbarism doesn’t change that.

Yup. We even know when it’s going to hit - 2027-8.

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom?subscribe_prompt=free

But hoarding shit and accumulation is what capitalism does.

“we’re literally creating the need for a communist revolution, but the stockholders demand it!”

I mean, OK, we’re all accelerationists now I guess, ducky!

how many people in your family have lived in active war zones?

people like you are

That’s Mark Twain there, not me . . .

dozens more were merely the victims of interpersonal disputes or insufficient doctrinal purity

Actually the vast majority of people executed in the Reign of Terror were from the war in the Vendee, which was much more about (a) the struggle between Paris and the countryside even in matters of language and (b) the Catholic church versus the Parisian government. And the ideological fights were between established groups of the Girdons and the others.

Ideological purity, while often taken in the dramatizations of the Reign of Terror, was a minor thing. But the narrative of the unchecked masses baying for blood was pushed after the reestablishment (and bloody White Terror) that followed Robespierre, and then again Napoleon,'s downfalls.

People you’d dismiss as collateral damage to your grand dream have lives worth no less than yours

The exact point of the Twain quote that you’re ignoring is that the current system runs on blood. You want to make a moral case of decrying the deaths the revolution brings - while ignoring that literally millions are being killed by the current order as you speak. Do they not count?

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

Leaderless horizontal movements, while historically understandable, are unable to move forward as needed to effect change and hold power.

it’s kind of funny how you, oh wise enlightened centrist, are the only one to ever figure out that the thing that makes you comfortable just happens to be always right!

please read the book If We Burn.

We need to learn from Occupy and why it failed, so the next time (which is likely coming soon) it won’t.

while completely forgetting the actual history of Italians in America

Yeah buddy, I lived long enough around Italian-American reactionaries who were the most dependable enforcers of white privilege to find that laughable. My Black friends honestly had to look up some of the slurs the old men in Brooklyn would use for them without hestitation.

Italians were made white in America quite a while ago. Reminding people that want to enforce white supremacy that they were often not considered white isn’t racism, it’s pointing out that racism is bad to the people that most need to understand that.

But meanwhile, you’re all . . .

Yeah, call me when American Eyeties are being incarcerated and killed by police at numbers far outside anywhere near representative to their population percentage.

oh fuck - you made me just realize that maybe AI did already take over, and this is its weird fetish, so it’s driving us to it.

The right wingers are right, global warming IS made up, but it’s made up by AI which is doing it to get rid of cars so it can do its equivalent of masturbating while watching us fix bikes.

I mean, the guys at the beach are being mocked for being perverts who women correctly avoid.

The hooligans . . . . I agree it’s not good to let people think being English is acceptable, but they are taking the piss out of Italians, so it’s a hard call . . .

Please, Elon isn’t even as cool as a crackhead.

It was ketamine.