Good for you for being informed enough to know about all those things. They’re all good things. But they don’t move my needle. They’re much too small. Probably nothing could compare to a genocide but these don’t come anywhere near close.
Straight-up student loan forgiveness could’ve been huge. We bailout big companies all the time but Biden fumbled student loan forgiveness by going small. National abortion access would be great but there’s no way they’ll get that passed.
You assume that voting will make a difference but it won’t. Not only because most of us don’t live in swing states but also, because voting doesn’t change American politics. Biden showed us that. Hell, Obama showed us, America is still gonna be it’s ugly self no matter who’s in the oval office.
I refuse to keep pretending that a blue guy in charge is meaningfully better. They just talk nicer and give the people here a couple more things.
I want everyone to demand what they actually want, not settle for the guys who seem better than those other douchebags.
Your proposal is terrible lol
You’ve got your head on straight. Screw these attempts to guilt you into voting how someone else wants you to
Agreed bc I hate holding that thing! I only needed it to be a handheld for me to carry around the house and the ergonomics killed that possibility. Even with a grip on it giving it more bulk it’s still awkward to use the thumgsticks and hold the system
They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.
Today I learned that IBM is still a major thing
It’s corporate-speak that means nothing. The same company “focused on it’s core business” today will buy something unrelated sometime later and say it’s “poised for growth in a growing market”.
I think the poll question was about support of the new government’s policies. I can’t answer the second question as I have no idea how this poll was done.
The world is way more exploitative than you seem to recognize. I suggest researching unequal exchange.
“Beyond this, outright corruption has also played a part in maintaining the postcolonial order. Françafrique has comprised countries notorious for human rights violations, including Niger. Subservient puppet leaders ignored democratic progress in return for massive aid programmes. Bribes have been paid via arms deals and other help with security, and – of course – in hard cash that has been laundered.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/05/niger-crisis-france-empire-africa-coup-colony
It seems to me that neither side deserves support but the west deserves less. The people of the country seem to support to coup by a wide margin.
The difference is that the west outsourced the war to the Africans. It’s probably costs more than direct intervention but they get a compliant country that they can use for profits and whatever else, and none of the risk to human life. I wouldn’t call that progress, just neocolonialism
Total agreement. His message was revolutionary.
Exactly! Both parties are owned.
Did you expect different? Biden ran as an centrist establishment candidate and he’s been exactly that. Anyway, in general, trashing the environment is something both parties agree on but it’s more acceptable for Dems to do. They get to claim “we had to do this but I promise we’re gonna incrementally slow it down, next year…”
The other thinks it’s important to get along with the book burners. They think the book burners are decent people who are just misguided on a few issues. They act like civil debate will solve all problems.
It’s capitalism. Driving the economy by profit means that each company has to race to obtain as much profit as possible, or risk losing to their competitors who are trying to do the exact same thing.
In this vein, sudokuslam.com is cool too
You’re right it’s not specific to them. I’m talking about Dems because the thread is about liberals feeling obligated to vote Dem to stop Trump.
I might argue that using fear to gain/maintain power is a thing that all powerful people/institutions do. It might be a feature of all hierarchical power structures. Anyway, it’s gross every time