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    I don’t disagree that those things have happened, exist, and are bad, but you again seem to think that change comes from a grassroots movement to tear the whole system down. We are wayyyyyyyy past that. This isn’t 18th century Europe. We have satellites in space that can connect to anywhere in the world in milliseconds. Without a full destructive reset, there is no tearing the system down. It has to change from within and it has to change over time.

    Oh come on. You can’t be serious right now! ALL of the evidence is against this claim.

    Who are you even comparing the Democrats to? Again… a 2 party system… So if we have to pick one, which yeah we fucking do because we are the minority voice, yeah I’m picking the one that’s not going to ship my friends to camps and try to become a dictator. That’s the comparison. It starts there and stops there until a 3rd party puts their hat in and uses the law to fight Corporations.

    Civil Rights were put into law by Democrats. (HUGE grassroots movement from the civil rights leaders of the time, but it’s the politicians who codified it so that we have what we have today)

    LGBTQ+ Rights? Democrats.

    Healthcare? Democrats.

    Social Security and Social Services? Democrats.

    Technological security and advances? Democrats.

    The U.S. sees the most jobs under Democrats.

    Just give me a quick list of what Republicans have done for America when they are in power. Seriously, you keep railing on America and Democrats, you keep saying that both parties are the same. Give me a rundown of all the good things Republicans have done for Americans when they are in power.

    I will legitimately bet you can’t. Maybe Roosevelt, but hell that was a long time ago wasn’t it? Where’s the party gone since then?

    Kamala had no plan to prevent any of this. If she had won, the BEST case scenario is that it would have delayed this chaos by 4 years.

    And maybe we could have had some progressive policies as well too which would have been nice. A few less deaths. Again, I just don’t know how you’re not comparing this to the Republicans. Like, like it or not, American is a 2 party system and to say that Democrats and Republicans are the same is completely missing all the progress Democrats have done. and how much destruction Republicans have done and/or tried to reverse.

    We don’t know what ICE would have been like under Kamala, but I sure hope it would have had less actual Nazis and less actual white supremists leading them. I’d like to think that we’d have the Jan 6th people still held accountable. A lot less pardons of real criminal fraudsters. Yeah, it’s really hard to say what the U.S. would have been like under Kamala.

    It’s not a question of 3rd party leadership, it’s a question of fascist dominance.

    We can’t have a 3rd party leadership.

    We can’t have Democratic leadership.

    We can’t have Republicans leadership.

    All we can have is fascist dominance.

    If that’s is to be true, then why not try to pick the fascist dominance that’s going to do the least harm? A non-choice is always a choice for the worse of the two fascists - there’s no getting around that. The people who want the fascist that will do the least harm votes so, and the people who want the fascist to the do the most harm votes so, and it’s the people who don’t vote that unintentionally give the fascist who wants to do the most harm an edge/advantage. You may dance around it morally all you want.

    On a sidenote, shoutout to both Biden, Obama, and a number of other Democrats for not being in the Epstein files. We all knew Clinton would be, that sleezy fuck, but I haven’t seen a single comment defending him - it’s all just “burn em all” which is cool.

    They literally talked about Trump being bad, and we watched them do absolutely fucking nothing about it except blame voters for failing to vote enough.

    Yeah, that does suck. Difficult to put myself in their shoes in this situation. The U.S. was a powder keg for J6 - psyops in full effect. The next 4 years should have been preparing for the worst. With how strong of an influence DJT and the psyops had on Americans, would arresting DJT and more been seen as a political power play and caused a civil war then? Would it have had been better for the Democrats to try to show America who DJT really is and have them choose, to get a room temperature of the U.S., then prosecute him? They were telling us all along: Hey, this dude is a real POS. Hey, here’s Project 2025 that he’s going to put into place if he becomes President. Hey, this dude has strong ties with known Pedophile Jeffery Epstein.

    The fact that all of this was out in the open and many states were still Red shows just how effective the psyops was to begin with and how entrenched a real [bad] fascist opposition had become. Now that things are running it’s course, the Epstein files are being released. We are seeing how DJT is dismantling every aspect of traditional America (from Social Systems to International Support to Education). Now that we’re seeing Project 2025 put into action, there are folx who are changing their tune. Is them not liking DJT going to stop bombings, prison slavery, or genocide? No, but we’re a long ways off from doing that now. America is one step forward and 2 steps back because of division politics.


    I can’t tell if you’re Anti-America or Anti-Humanity. There’s no country the size of the U.S that is any better and arguably they’re all much worse and have been for a lot longer.

    All the things about bombings and collusion are true, but you’re not changing it from the outside. The civil rights movement had leaders and organization and from it came change. If you want to see the same change, then that’s how it has to happen: Leadership and Organization. At that point you either join in as a 3rd party to fight the system politically or you fight the system physically. Politically has the best chance to promote change. Physically has the best chance to be dominated by a separate, and worse fascist regime.

    What practical solutions do you have outside educating people of the flaws of the system?

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      you […] think that change comes from a grassroots movement to tear the whole system down. We are wayyyyyyyy past that. This isn’t 18th century Europe. We have satellites in space […] Without a full destructive reset, there is no tearing the system down. It has to change from within and it has to change over time.

      This is a hypothesis without any analysis. There is no logical reason to believe that satellites make revolutionary change impossible.

      Between the 2 parties, the better leadership comes from the Democratic Party

      Oh come on. You can’t be serious right now! ALL of the evidence is against this claim.

      Who are you even comparing the Democrats to?

      Republicans are clearly better at leadership. They know how to use power, execute their plans, understand the threats ahead of time. Democrats have good PR, but they suck at leadership. Except when it comes to preventing any move towards the political left. Then they’re suddenly the most cunning, intelligent operators in the country.

      a 2 party system… So if we have to pick one […] I’m picking the one that’s not going to ship my friends to camps and try to become a dictator. […] It starts there and stops there until a 3rd party puts their hat in and uses the law to fight Corporations.

      This is the fundamental problem. Democrats increased funding to ICE, increased the use of solitary confinement (internationally recognized as torture) on immigrants, including children. Solitary confinements went up under Biden/Harris. You’re still talking about good cop/bad cop, though. The good cop says “Hey, sorry about my partner. Listen, I won’t ship your friends to camps and won’t act like a dictator. You can trust me.” But the good cop never stops the bad cop. Why? Because there isn’t a two party system in reality. There is a one party system with a good cop and a bad cop. Do you know why, despite 250 years of this country, a third party has never been viable. Why a third party has never used the law to fight Corporations? Because the “2 parties” literally collaborate to prevent it. They are friends. They break bread together. They have reasonable conversations with each other. They send each other Christmas gifts. They donate to each others campaigns. Stop basing your entire argument around this idea that the 2 party system is legitimate. It’s not. It’s a totally illegitimate, undemocratic, dictatorial system by which the elite and ultra-rich run the country.

      [List of Democrat achievements]

      These are called concessions. This is literally the job of the Democrat party. They are the Good Cop. The Bad Cop is not allowed to give you a donut (most of the time) because it breaks the effectiveness of the psychological arrangement. The Good Cop gives you a donut and a coffee and then turns around and expenses it back to the precinct. Because the concessions are part of the process of managing the population. This is why EVERY time fascism has emerged it’s emerged from a liberal democracy, and why every single time a social democrat in South America or Africa made some progress during economic high times, the progress was always rolled back by the right wing in economic lean times. Because the function of the Good Cop is to get you to legitimize the system, to believe there is nothing outside the options provided, and that the Good Cop is worth fighting for and sacrificing yourself for.

      give me a quick list of what Republicans have done for America when they are in power

      • Ended acid rain with cap and trade (G HW Bush)
      • The Americans With Disabilities Act (G HW Bush)
      • The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (G W Bush)
      • The EPA (Nixon)

      But you’re still missing the point even with these things. Even Trump had Operation Warp Speed. Why did Trump do that? Because the conditions in the country effectively forced him to. The government had to do something. That’s exactly how civil rights legislation got passed. Black people, not just MLK’s peaceful protestors, but the Black Panthers and other movements, created conditions that the government had to respond to. It’s not Democratic leadership that did those things. It was grassroots threats to legitimately disrupt the entire country. It’s always been this way. The 8-hour work day was won with general strikes that shut the country down. You don’t win by voting. You win by fighting. History has shown us this over and over and over again.

      But that’s STILL not the point. Republicans do things that make their voters think they support what the voters support. Democrats do things that make their voters think they support what the voters support. When the Rs raise taxes, they do it quietly and when they cut taxes they do it loudly. The Democrats are the opposite. Why? Because Republican voters want lower taxes and Democrat voters want more social services. The two parties cannot significantly cross over this boundary because they would lose their voters. I don’t know why this is so hard for people to see, but if Republicans increased taxes to pay for social services they would LOSE. And if the Democrats cut social services to increase corporate profits, they would LOSE.

      And yet, corporate profits are better under Democrats! Shocker, right? The Democrats working for the corporations?! People point at the ACA and say “Look at how the Democrats got more people access to health care” ignoring the fact that they easily could have extended Medicaid. It would have been cheaper. It would have helped more people. It would have been easier. But it wouldn’t have created profits for insurance companies.

      Both parties are driven by the maintenance and expansion of global capitalism and they only give to the people as a concession

      Think about it. Let’s say you have one group. Everyone in the group want the same things: world dominance, fascistic control over the people, unconscionable wealth for them and the elite. That one group has one brand. They go and get people to vote for them, but they make the voters lives worse. What happens? Eventually the people throw them out. Now they can’t achieve their goals.

      Take that same group, but they form two brands. One just openly does what they want, pandering to a subset of the population. The rest of the population gets angry. They want someone else. So the same group deploys B team. B teams says “we’re here to help” and then continues to maintain and expand global capitalism, continues to execute world domination plans, continues mass incarceration, continues increase super profits for the ultra wealth. Now the people are upset with B team. What happens? A team comes back in on a winning message and continues the slaughter, the slavery, and the extraction.

      That’s what is happening here.

      We don’t know what ICE would have been like under Kamala, but I sure hope it would have had less actual Nazis and less actual white supremists leading them

      Again. Tom Homan was an Obama appointee. And the US vetoed the UN resolution condemning the glorification of Nazis under Obama and under Biden.

      Operation Paperclip, under Harry Truman (D), collaborated with the Vatican to save 10k Nazis from justice and relocated them throughout South America, giving them money, property, jobs, government protection, etc.

      All we can have is fascist dominance.

      If that’s is to be true, then why not try to pick the fascist dominance that’s going to do the least harm?

      Wow. I mean, if this is your position, you’re well and truly gone. You support the fascists that give you and your friends the donuts. Sure they put toddlers in solitary. Sure they sodomize septuagenarians with bayonets. Sure they train death squads that kill entire villages. But you and your friends got a little more comfortable and honestly isn’t that progress?

      With how strong of an influence DJT and the psyops had on Americans, would arresting DJT and more been seen as a political power play and caused a civil war then

      Oh man, wouldn’t want to have open conflict! That would be terrible. Better to just let a fascist take over without any resistance. Listen to yourself. No one in their right mind thinks like that. They’re all on the same fucking team is why they did it.

      The fact that all of this was out in the open and many states were still Red shows just how effective the psyops was to begin with and how entrenched a real [bad] fascist opposition had become

      SMDH - no. America was not corrupted by psyops. This is who America is and has been from the beginning. The country was built on human trafficking. Thomas Jefferson was a pedophile serial rapist. The pilgrims prayed thanksgiving after every time they slaughtered an entire Indian village, including children and elderly. We have people living today who participated in lynchings and are upset that black people have their own universities. It’s not a psyop. It’s America.

      No, but we’re a long ways off from doing that now. America is one step forward and 2 steps back because of division politics.

      Again, completely wrong on the misattribution. The reason for prison slavery is not because of division politics. It’s because it’s a bipartisan consensus. Same with prison slavery. Same with torturing people at the border. Same with spying on Americans. Same with bombing anyone and everyone in the Global South. Bi-partisan consensus. Get it through your head. Look at the voting records. Look at the historical records. Look at the death records. Look at the budget numbers. 70-year bi-partisan consensus It has nothing to do with division and everything to do with unity.

      There’s no country the size of the U.S that is any better and arguably they’re all much worse and have been for a lot longer.

      Just go research prisons and parole around the world. Compare with America. It’s a hellscape here.

      What practical solutions do you have outside educating people of the flaws of the system?

      Use voting only to choose which enemy you’d rather fight

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        This is a hypothesis without any analysis. There is no logical reason to believe that satellites make revolutionary change impossible.

        Absolutely, I’m just some person, but the point is that the world is so interconnected and defined that any shake up of any first world countries makes revolutionary change from things such as civil war extremely unlikely. Not to mention the other 1st world countries will insert their troops to wrestle power as well. Communication is faster than ever which means that responses and action can be faster than ever. It is a no win scenario without strong international relations, political understanding, and again - leadership.

        With how strong of an influence DJT and the psyops had on Americans, would arresting DJT and more been seen as a political power play and caused a civil war then

        Oh man, wouldn’t want to have open conflict! That would be terrible. Better to just let a fascist take over without any resistance.

        That would be my position if I were un their shoes. An open conflict where the Democrats in charge have no choice but to use the U.S. military to fight off American citizens (trying to get DJT in power), or try to persuade Americans to see who DJT and their party really are, who are going to try to use the U.S. military to fight off American citizens, by choice. The former would have left many dead, and the latter, if won, would have saved many, along with possibility of being able to prosecute the troublemakers (DJT n Co). They completely failed - you say by choice because they’re on the same team, I say by psyops because there are external forces also trying to succeed (in their own way). Again, I do not believe that they are on the same conceptual team, but certainly the same sport with some of the same sponsors.

        give me a quick list of what Republicans have done for America when they are in power

        Ok, I like these, but damn how far the party has fallen from doing things for actual Americans like this; whereas the other cop has always been like this?

        It’s not Democratic leadership that did those things. It was grassroots threats to legitimately disrupt the entire country. It’s always been this way. The 8-hour work day was won with general strikes that shut the country down. You don’t win by voting. You win by fighting. History has shown us this over and over and over again.

        It also wasn’t the majority of Democrats fighting against these things, it was the majority of Republicans. Republicans (as you say, the bad cop) are obviously almost always against these laws. Ultimately it was and continues to be Democratic majority that signs these into law in most cases, especially in recent years. Though, I understand it doesn’t matter if it’s all a charade, the point of a Democratic system is that it should be We The People and the politicians respond to the people, in which Democrats have and usually do.

        And yet, corporate profits are better under Democrats! Shocker, right?

        This is both true but… tough. Corporate profits really sored during the Bush era in the early 2000s. Then we get Obama and Biden terms which seemed like healthy steady growth. The absolute biggest corporate profit jump comes from post-covid / AI bubble times under Biden. DJT is “tough” for corporations, but not because he / their administration, and these charts don’t include the absurd amount of under the table shit that’s going on.

        Both parties are driven by the maintenance and expansion of global capitalism and they only give to the people as a concession

        Yes - both parties support Capitalism. I support regulated Capitalism. We have been in a time of unregulated Capitalism for too long and it’s now capsizing the political structure meant to hold it together. I believe Capitalism itself is a byproduct of human evolution, will always exist in some form due to sociopathy and psychopathy (which I believe are evolutionary traits), and has to be regulated in some form. Since I believe it will always exist, and should consumerism win out over humanity, we’re likely doomed anyway. I embrace it but with the caveat that it has to be fought, but it’s too big to be fought by you, me, or grassroots, but from within the political system it runs on.

        And the US vetoed the UN resolution condemning the glorification of Nazis under Obama and under Biden.

        What does that mean exactly? The vote was like “Nazis are bad: Yes or No” and the U.S. was like “Nah”? Was it supposed to be like German laws that would fine individuals for their Nazism expressions or something? I don’t understand the point of the vote or what’s it’s impact was supposed to be, even after looking into it. It seems for all purposes, performative, and sponsored by Russia on some of the occasions?

        It’s not a psyop. It’s America.

        It’s a portion of undereducated America stricken from a system that’s been starving their education specifically for this purpose. These come from mostly Red states. I can’t imagine what hoops one would have to jump through to not realize that America is, and has been, a target from external hostile countries. The psyops used our unregulated social media and to pose as actual Americans and drive discussions specifically targeting those uneducated Americans. The endgoal (ofc in my opinion) is Oligarchy and finalized corporate power, though it’s my understanding you believe that this has been the case for a long time, but I believe that it’s been a growing issue and not the defacto.

        The Americans states where there are diverse groups of people and educated people aren’t rooting for torturing immigrants or shooting protestors. These are the folx who weren’t targets of the psyops, because they’re more difficult to rally (for this particular side, not for a cause in similar fashion).

        Just go research prisons and parole around the world. Compare with America. It’s a hellscape here.

        Yeah? Is this all we’re comparing to places like Russia or China? It just boils down to prison systems and not their much longer stances against personal freedoms of expression, violence, genocide, bombings, and collusion? 250 years compared to centuries? Cynical sure, but I guess the U.S. had some catching up to do, but at least it’s making better progress than those equally large countries.

        If that’s is to be true, then why not try to pick the fascist dominance that’s going to do the least harm?

        Wow. I mean, if this is your position, you’re well and truly gone.

        I think this is where we are, yes. I’m not sure how much further we can take our arguments as I understand your position but disagree on it’s compete integration of “good cop, bad cop” and how to fight it (the system we’re in). I do appreciate the discussion though; take care m8