archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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Lmao

I feel like we're watching some sort of brawl between different factions of liberal and conservative rags trying to decide which foreign adversary is going to be our boogeyman this cycle

corporate capitalism

That's just capitalism, babe

Why would he even say this? Usually there's a pretty clear motivation to his lies but this one just seems suicidal

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

When i saw the mark clone in the first 10 minutes of the episode, I thought, 'this one looks pretty trippy, I bet it'd be fun to watch a little stoned'

And then it was

The easy answer is to follow fashion topics on socials, since trends pretty predictably follow whatever the brands are selling

Kinda begs the question as to why you'd want to do this, but that's not really for me to ask

That actually surprised me - they said it was because there wasn't enough weight at the front to let the bearings take the torque, so the wheels just dragged instead

I learned a surprising amount watching that video

Ok but can we at least appreciate that he did this in the funniest possible fashion?

NOW WHAT BITCHES

There’s no reality in which the U.S. was going to seriously jeopardize its relationship with our closest ally in the middle east

Maybe you just suffer from a lack of imagination - and anyway what good is having allies if they're on the genocidal side of things? Seems like maybe we're the baddies.

Because they showed up to this campaign with receipts of their accomplishments and focused on talking policy and avoiding blatant propaganda and it clearly didn’t work.

Lmao, is that what they did?

Hell, they should have just lied that they’d break ties with Israel so they could win.

If you're gonna emulate what the republicans are doing, why not say 'fuck the parliamentarian' and just plow through actual, substantial reforms? Why pick the deception part and not the complete disregard for the rules in service of achieving your agenda part?

Because they didn’t cut ties with Israel?

Because - far from 'cutting ties' with Israel - they actively shielded them from international accountability and continued supplying them with the bombs they were (and are still) dropping on Palestinian children

It is okay to be wrong

That's a healthy attitude, good job

The majority of the fault is squarely on voters, not Democrats. Because they didn’t fucking inform themselves responsibly.

A little less than half of all eligible voters don't vote in any given federal election - multiple factors more than the margin of every race; can we blame those people for every atrocity conducted on our behalf, too?

The outcome of every election since our founding was determined by how many people the candidates can get to turn out for them -that didn't suddenly change this time. Democrats chose to spend their efforts trying to disabuse their constituents of their moral objections and deny any real domestic reform, and they lost because of it.

Lenin actually described this pattern, theorizing that "fascism is capitalism in decay."

There are a lot of marxists of a variety of bents who have their own theories on how to achieve a socialist state, but most of them guess that an advanced capitalist state has very little likelihood of transitioning without a revolutionary vanguard or violent class conflict.

It's a reason why socialist projects almost exclusively appear in pre-industrial parts of the world - but a classless communist state is only really achievable in more advanced post-industrial societies because they'd actually have the infrastructure to get to post-scarcity. So what ends up happening usually is either a protracted socialist "dictatorship of the proletariat", or a social democratic state that is slowly undermined by austerity until it returns to a more conventional capitalist organization.

All that to say: no, I do not think the US even meets the bare minimum of class consciousness required to avoid a fascistic collapse. The only good news is that, historically, fascist movements tend to burn out fairly quickly unless they have a competent leader. So, there's that.

Biden tells Netanyahu it's time to end Gaza war

This one is kinda funny to me because people interpret trump saying nearly the same words is evidence of his genocidal intent.

But none of those 'statements of disapproval' conveys the severity of their literal fucking war crimes and genocide, which would be a minimum (I would think) to convince a skeptical zionist voter that maybe some intervention is justified. Not to mention that Harris repeatedly refused to commit to withholding lethal aid every time she was asked during her candidacy.

Certain non-voters attitude became [...] "I’m just not voting"

Ok, now apply that criticism to those who (hypothetically) wouldn't have voted if Biden had stopped supplying military aid to Israel.

The Democrats created that block of voters by repeatedly lying about their knowledge of Israel's war crimes. Not only could they have done the right thing by withholding their offensive aid from Israel, they could have also not lied about it.

Democrats tried obscuring the scale of devastation in gaza with their own involvement, and then lost because they got caught and then doubled down. You can't treat your constituents with that much contempt and expect not to lose those voters, and then post-rationalize the lie by claiming that they would have lost more voters had they been honest and intervened.

They could have defended the lives of Palestinians and acknowledged that the genocide was happening.

It was Biden's press secretary and SOS who got up on a podium everyday and assured the press and those "other voters" that Israel wasn't doing anything wrong. They drew that line themselves, not anyone who was protesting the genocide.

I find arguments that the non-voters shouldn’t be blamed [...] idiotic

Please elaborate what the party leadership could’ve done differently to not alienate the other voting blocks

These two sentences are in contradiction

Here, see if you can spot the double standard:

"The [voters] suck… You know who else sucks? [the DNC] who didn’t stand up against [Israel]. Those people are grown ass adults who actively helped a fascist by doing nothing but bitch."