Edit: - we shouldn’t drone strike our own civilians in foreign countries and their children
Good thing he got replaced, the next one would never do that right?
Oh, he did as well? Well, at least you voted him out when you found out.
Wait, you elected him back? Despite him having done so before just last time, and openly promising to do so again? And the alternative not having done so, nor promising to?
How much could you really care if you’re repeatedly and knowingly going against it?
Never forget that Obamas drone program was 90% inaccurate, and he imprisoned the person who revealed this
Well fuck me, TIL. damn obamna…
Obama convinced me that the differences are just optics and rhetoric. In the end, nothing fundamentally changes.
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Democrats somehow managed to label themselves as the “antifascist” party, while funding the worst genocide of the 2000s. Astounding
The [some of] definitions fit though
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For me outside burgerland? I’m loving it so much I’m doing memes :)
I’m sure you will proudly announce your support for genocide also in the future and not hide. Right?
“Fuck those brown people, we had no choice but commit and support genocide. We are the good guys, they needed democracy.”
I also don’t live in Burgerland. But if I did i would definitely have voted for Harris. Sometimes you only have shitty options. But it’s simple common sense to choose the less shitty one then.
I would argue that “less shitty” that pretends to be good and lulls people into compliance is worse than “more shitty” that riles up people to resist any way they can. If the outcome will always be “shitty” then perhaps the one that will result in the long term weakening of the system is better.
Huh? Is this still a thing? Next you’ll be memeing about Clinton getting a BJ? Is there nothing new going on right now you feel you have to dig back decades ago for content?
Ml users throwing around the word fascist like it’s going out of style. Surely nothing bad can come from diluting the meaning of this word
I’m actually very sympathetic to this. What the US did, and continues to do, is far worse than what the fascists of the 1920s-40s attempted.
The Nazis and Japanese fascists tried (and failed) to acheive what the US sucessfully did: the colonization and eviction of hundreds of native peoples, and clearing of an entire region for the “master race”. All under a far more stable form of government for colonialism : bourgeois democracy.
Lebensraum failed, but manifest destiny succeeded.
Not only that, but committed countless other atrocities, unparalleled in history.
I’ve been thinking that we should probably find another term then “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”. Not because it’s wrong but because people don’t know who bourgeoisie are anymore.
My proposal is “electoral dictatorship of the billionaires”, even tho it might be slightly misleading.
I agree with this sentiment. In general, I think that leftist political ideas are quite popular when you swap out the leftist terminology. “The real culture war is between the shareholders and the workers” doesn’t raise a person’s guard like “The bourgeoisie are oppressing the proletariat”. It also forces you to explain a little about your meaning to somebody who maybe doesn’t already know what these terms mean. Whenever I’m trying to talk politics with someone who is open-minded but not explicitly leftist, I try to use this tactic so I don’t immediately run into a wall of conditioned responses.
