Say no to authoritarianism, say yes to socialism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone deserves Human Rights

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  • You clearly have no idea how US elections work at that level. The single candidate with the most votes wins.

    Which is exactly why in order to win an election, a campaign needs to offer concessions to voters to earn as many votes as possible.

    Something the Democratic Party’s Campaign decisively chose not to do, and in fact do the opposite.

    Instead of trying to secure hundreds of thousands to millions of constituents by supporting a permanent ceasefire and weapons embargo, a policy vastly supported by the Democrats own voter base (in addition to the majority of also independent and Republican voters), they instead alienated those voters by more than just ignoring their valid concerns.

    They chose to arrest thousands of student protestors, gave billions of dollars to a genocide at the tax payers expense consistently for 15 months, actively suppressed the voices and representation of the main victims of the genocide, and campaigned with Liz Cheney (who was actively involved with the Bush-Cheney foreign policy in the middle east and enthusiastically pro ethnic cleansing of Palestinians). They chose to do all that instead of represent the view of the majority of their constituents and abide by domestic/international law.

    And that was just one of the major issues, along with immigration and the economy, that tanked the approval of the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party wanted to actually win against Trump they would have done everything to gain as many votes as possible. They chose not to. They threw the election and let an unpopular fascist win.


  • Obviously not, which is why it’s completely insane that the Democratic Party refused to represent the majority of their constituents who wanted a permanent ceasefire and weapons embargo for an entire 15 months.

    Instead opting to arrest thousands of student protestors, gift Israel billions of tax payer dollars for genocide, deny any voice or representation of the victims of the genocide, all in opposition to public sentiment and domestic/international law. One of the major reasons, along with immigration and the economy, that tanked the Democratic Party’s campaign.

    They threw the election and lost to an unpopular fascist. If they were trying to win they would have been offering popular concessions to earn as many votes as possible.








  • When you mentioned conservative values of not relying on outside sources, that’s what I thought of due to the historical context of individualism that the video goes over. Didn’t mean to imply you were personally against those things.

    I’m talking about like, not participating in the economy as much. Growing your own food, relying on yourself as much as possible

    I’m guessing you’re referencing reducing personal consumption? I’m supportive of that, the idea is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment. Growing your own food is just a fun hobby, I don’t think that has any real political leaning. Food Cooperatives with local communities, such as a neighborhood garden, are left-leaning tho.

    Conservatives have historically used the rhetoric of “relying on yourself, not others” to justify gutting social services and replacing them with private businesses as a way to accelerate profit seeking.

    No, community driven is great. I want to do more myself