• AllNewTypeFace
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    24 hours ago

    The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.

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      23 hours ago

      Why are you depending on the Democrats to “empower” you? There’s your problem, right there. Yes, they’re mostly shit, with a small handful of exceptions. I think you mean “shareholders” instead of “stakeholders,” but what you’re saying is mostly true. The point that I’m making is that it barely matters anymore.

      If the fire chief is a cokehead, and we’re trying to figure out how to get the fire to stop now that it’s in 5 buildings in our big wooden city, I think we should focus on “what the fuck to do” as the OP article is doing, not purely focus on how the fire chief is a cokehead and if we could just get rid of him, things would be okay at last.

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        19 hours ago

        I feel like getting rid of the coke head is probably a pretty important step in the overall plan though.

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          unlike fascists, we don’t all agree we need to “get rid of” our political opponents but I do take your point. i would say they quickly become irrelevant once a movement latches on and changes the prevailing political winds. politicians, especially Dems, are cowards. they are like a flag in the wind. they will go wherever the fuck the wind tells them. and we, collectively, make the wind.

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            22 minutes ago

            One party is filled with actual Nazis, the other party believes in appeasement at their best and outright collaboration at their worst… They are our “political rivals” the way the Nazis were the political rivals of the Jews.

            They are not our political rivals, they are the enemies of the peasant working class. Their deluded peasant supporters are our political rivals, and I’m not advocating for removing them… Except in self defense

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            31 minutes ago

            I wish that was true, but I think the Dems have made it clear that for them, the oligarchy makes the wind