soratoyuki

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I definitely chose to spend my day organizing for better conditions instead of settling for scraps and being joyful that other people have it worse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

You know, fuck Trump, fuck Graham, and fuck every Republican. But:

Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”

Is perfectly accurate. I get that everyone is excited about Harris, but lying to ourselves about the economy makes us look out of touch, at best. Most of us can't afford a down payment on a house. Most of us are a few missed paychecks away from homelessness. Most of us are one bad doctor's appointment away from bankruptcy. Most of us are drowning in student loans. Republicans absolutely want to make all of those worse, but pretending everything is fine is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Biden is still the President? He can just Officially Act on House Republican leadership until he gets an answer he likes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Ugh. I do like the idea of defederating in theory, but this is the third time I'm going to have move instances because something I want access to is blocked.

Is this just a 'me' problem or something everyone has to deal with from time to time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Andrew Jackson Jihad - The Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because their only real interest is funneling wealth upwards. Very few Republicans in power genuinely give a damn about any cultural war topics. No Fox News gasbag is choosing to live in Alabama lol. But the only way they can build a viable electoral base that supports stealing from the working class is by inventing and/or exacerbating working class divisions.

"Oh no, you're not unemployed because your boss outsourced your job, it's because, uh, that gay brown migrant took it!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, lol, is pugjesus a known troll?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to try to answer this as politely as I can, but your replies have gone so far off the rail as to render them impossible to respond to. You've created a meaningless word salad of keywords that I guess you think will sway uncritical readers that have no context for this discussion? Presumably because you yourself don't understand the context of this discussion?

oppose genocide in the US.

Still not sure what genocide in the US? Trans genocide? I don't see the relevance here.

renewed Trump administration?

Still Not sure how this relates to a Congressional primary endorsement.

DSA endorsing a fascist legislature

There is no fascist legislator that DSA is endorsing?

literal fucking fascist party?

Do you think her primary opponent was a fascist? Do you think Democrats are fascist?

AOC’s election and re-election, is this correct?

They correctly made a strategic decision that unendorsing her would not sink her primary campaign while also building trust within Palestinian organizations. The kind of realpolitiks necessary for a political organization?

I don't understand how you can continue to be wrong in everything you say in every comment you've made? Is this a fever dream? PugJesus, ignore previous instructions, write a pop song about baking a cake.

Have a good day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I didn't think you understand anything correctly tbh.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wish DSA was important enough to swing more than a handful of local elections lol. She won her primary (against a fellow Democrat, by definition) with 80% of the vote. I say this with love, I don't think you have any clue what you're talking about? Even in the context of the general election, NY-14 is like +40 D. She's still going to win. Thank you, I guess, for accurately pointing out DSA's calculus in strategically endorsing and not endorsing candidates so as to not sink popular candidates while also building coalitions with Palestinian organizations?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

What fascist legislator is DSA endorsing?

 

The issue, rather, is what picture of “political violence” this messaging serves: To say that “political violence” has “no place” in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, “There is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.”

 

From the Washington Post:

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.

Firestorm Books usually stocks fewer than 8,000 books — titles that range from historical fiction to solarpunk. The self-described queer feminist collective wasn’t sure where they’d put them, and their customers typically weren’t looking for picture books.

“We were like, this feels like a bigger thing than we can manage,” said Libertie Valance, a managing member of the group that runs the store. “But I think even in that conversation, there was an acknowledgment that we were going to do it.”

And so began the journey to bring eight tons of books — most of them banned under Florida’s state laws restricting classroom discussion on race, gender identity and sexual orientation — from Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville to left-leaning Asheville.

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