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  • If, in 30 years, when the choice is between a democrat who wants 20 genocides and a republican who wants 21, will you still be voting blue? This is why people call you blue maga. There is no red line. You all will sacrifice however many Palestinians or Ukrainians it takes to bide time till the next election cycle when the Democratic party is definitely going to have a liberal Renaissance led by AOC and Bernie, and fascism will be defeated and we can all dance for joy. Never mind the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian children it took to get you there.

    Do you think Germans in mid 1930’s Germany had a duty to vote liberal despite democracy having already been thrown out the window? As people were getting sent to death camps and there was zero hope of fair and free elections, did Germans have a duty to vote blue? Or did they have a duty to start getting organized with vulnerable groups, learning sabotage, and getting armed?

    Your “pragmatic” utilitarianism has resulted in a genocide and an incinerated planet. Your empire is over and devolving into fascism, and it’s time you start realizing that.

    In democracy, politicans represent constituents. Biden and Kamala ignored constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. This is how democracy works. This outcome was more American than apple pie.


  • Soooo, was there “standing” to weaponize ICE and start deporting US citizens? Was there standing to weaponize the DOJ? Was there standing to cut funding for NPR and PBS? Was there standing to pardon all the Jan 6 rioters? Was there standing to cut all government programs via DOGE? I could go on and on.

    Taking the stance of “well, Trump won’t be able to do this because it is illegal” is naive as hell given what we’ve seen in the past 100 days.

    This utterly blind faith that the liberal institutions will somehow halt Trumpian fascism is exactly the same blunder as was made by liberals in early 30s Germany during Hitler’s meteoric rise.

    Take a step back and realize the American political experiment is over. Given how it’s gone genocidal and incinerated the planet, we have a duty to dismantle it from within.




  • You say “perfection”. What I think you meant to say was “principled anti capitalism”.

    I’m not asking for perfection. I’m asking for literally any semblance of solidarity or anticapitalism.

    Regardless, until a truly anti capitalist party gains power, the devolution into fascism will continue.

    In 30 years, when the choice is between a dem who wants 15 genocides and a Republican who wants 16, yall will still be bleating this tired ass “perfection as an enemy of good” motto. Think of a new one, please. Or even try to start defining what your idea of “perfection” actually is.



  • https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/24/mpeq-a24.html

    It is from this standpoint that the World Socialist Web Site has exposed the fraudulent “Fighting Oligarchy” campaign mounted by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The large turnouts at their rallies, as well as the huge participation in the April 5 and April 19 protests against the Trump administration, express the social anger among millions of working people and their desire to fight back. But Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez never indict capitalism as a system or call for a struggle against it. And they supported and hailed the Biden administration even as it was presiding over the greatest-ever accumulation of wealth on the part of the financial aristocracy.

    For all their fulminations against the oligarchy, they carefully avoid advancing any demand that would deprive the billionaires of their ill-gotten riches. They pretend that society can be changed without a drastic redistribution of wealth, which requires the expropriation of the billionaires.







  • This literally goes against the very underpinnings of communism…

    From each according to his ability, to each according to his need

    I. Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.

    II. Every citizen will be a public man, sustained by, supported by, and occupied at the public expense.

    III. Every citizen will make his particular contribution to the activities of the community according to his capacity, his talent and his age; it is on this basis that his duties will be determined, in conformity with the distributive laws.



  • The argument is right there in the article.

    But Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez never indict capitalism as a system or call for a struggle against it. And they supported and hailed the Biden administration even as it was presiding over the greatest-ever accumulation of wealth on the part of the financial aristocracy.

    For all their fulminations against the oligarchy, they carefully avoid advancing any demand that would deprive the billionaires of their ill-gotten riches. They pretend that society can be changed without a drastic redistribution of wealth, which requires the expropriation of the billionaires.

    Tldr: critiquing the system only insofar as to not question capitalism.





  • What are you talking about? The amendment makes no mention of VP or succession.

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

    This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.