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  • Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X knew that voting was not the only tool to fight oppression and were killed for it

    Are you equating your criticisms to MLK and Malcolm X’s accomplishments?

    been time to march to the white house again and has been for hot minute

    And what exactly does your criticism have to do with marching on the fascist led white house?

    Again my rebuttal to your criticism is that you didn’t offer anything but criticism to the only resistance option we currently have going for us. Criticism does not equal political organizing…

    At the moment I would welcome any form of political organizing in the aims of opposing the current administration. Whether that be from Democrats, centrist Republicans , or even libertarians. I don’t care as long as you aren’t a fucking neonazi. We need a large tent opposition to oppose fascism as a popular front.

    Leftist nitpicking liberal ideology only serves the aims of the fascist. Get over yourself and lock arms with anyone who is willing to stand up to a literal fascist.


  • naming it is enough if it is apparent that most are unaware.

    Do you really think that people on Lemmy are unaware that the two party system is a problem?

    I think the problem most people are having with this type of criticism is that it’s aimed at the only tool we currently have to oppose fascism, while not really giving us any other option. All while not even really being critical of the actual problem…the fascist.

    The frustrating thing about my fellow leftist that most liberal minded on this site have, is that we seem to spend more time trying to fight liberalism than we do fascism. When history shows that the only real way to defeat fascist is to form a popular front with anyone who isn’t a fucking fascist.

    Liberalism isn’t my preferred government choice, but I’ll make nice with anyone willing to throw hands at a fucking Nazi. We can settle our differences when the guys who want to exterminate minority groups have left the chat.




  • Yeah… Because Trump has such a good track record of maintaining nuclear deals. This is just a pretense to allow Israel to invade Iran once they’ve finished their genocide in Gaza.

    The whole reason Israel felt comfortable enough to commit to purging Gaza is because Trump ended the original nuclear deal to begin with. Now that Benni feels things are wrapping up in Palestine, he’s going to need another war to keep Israel’s bloodlust going and keep his coalition together.

    International law no longer holds any water. Every world power seems hell bent on making geopolitics revolve around hard power. The US backs out of treaties every four years, the Russians haven’t ever made a deal they didn’t pretend never happened, and China is out there pretending a vast swath of the Pacific is there’s because of reasons…

    In a time where a level of global cooperation is needed greater than ever before to prevent climate change, we as a species are shitting the bed harder than ever before.





  • is there a news page that does NOT contain American politics?

    I get the sentiment, but politics and news are irrefutably intertwined.

    I feel for the victims, but only Americans can do something about it. And they never dealt with the “death penalty for walking on the street while black” problem.

    I would argue this is a lot like people in France questioning why they should pay attention to Nazis invading Poland. Nearly all democratic nations are currently being subversively attacked by right winged political parties .

    If people in your nation don’t learn from the US’s example, right winged parties will continue to grow in power.




  • you have dig deeper into local affiliated reps, not the national reps

    The problem with that is that the national party is the one who funds/endorses a lot of the campaigns for local elections, especially in battleground districts. In a lot of cases the local DNC chapters are even more entrenched in centre-right/Third-way politics than the national leadership.

    That’s how you get something like New York City who votes overwhelmingly DNC get Mayor like Eric Adams. Oftentimes it’s even easier for local institutions to be captured by organizations with capital.


  • The problem with the DNCs version of being the “worker’s party” is that the left leaning policies they do pass tend to be things that feel intangible to most workers. They pass infrastructure bills that in theory create jobs, but in reality usually take way too long to actually implement and are killed or watered down by the opposition. Even before they are watered down, they tend to largely be hand outs to large corporations who capitalize the lions share of the funding before anything trickles down to actual workers.

    Workers want to see a political party that aren’t afraid of taking direct action, they want to see tangible benefits.




  • the amount he received with govt contracts and his habit of over-promising and under-delivering make me skeptical that the upwards trajectory can largely be blamed on retail investors.

    I don’t think it’s solely because of retail investors, there are a lot of venture capital firms that are also really stupid about where they keep their money, as well as foreign investors like the Saudi.

    Imo when the market overcooks right before a recession a lot of capital holders don’t really know what to do with their money and so they end up investing in things like Tesla, the next tallest building in the world, or weird projects like Neom.