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Anyways, here’s a better response imho, rather than that electoralist-only nonsense.

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        I can excuse genocide, but I draw the line at slightly more visible domestic oppression

        Not to demean the deaths of Good and Pretti, but that’s what I felt about the libs’ reactions to the latest events.

        One such example was one of them claiming “this is not our country”, when that is the country everyone in the capitalist periphery knows.

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          It’s the country a lot of people in the U.S. have known, too. “They’re executing people in the streets” yeah that’s what the whole Black Lives Matter movement was about, dating all the way back to Ferguson.

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            Some of these comments are either just worded badly, lack tact, or worse. Let’s remember that the people launching the imperial boomerang are not the ones being hurt by it the most. Or that this boomering hit America’s underclasses before it ever hit anyone else.

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            I’ve had to point this out to multiple people. They’ve already forgotten about George Floyd. Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin should both be college graduates or starting families of their own or in the middle of their careers, but instead they’re both dead.

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        America has experienced multiple genocides within its core. What ICE is doing to immigrants is beyond domestic oppression, it is a genocide. Just like how Palestine has had an ongoing genocide for a decades longer than 2 years

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          I think we agree. Genocide is a part of domestic oppression + ICE has been doing it for decades but we have more headlines now that some non-poor white people were murdered -> It’s slightly more visible domestic oppression.

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      Ooh I like this. Great example of all these people who dehumanized others now being surprised they’re being dehumanized. Going to be posting this everywhere now lol.

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    Can you imagine how absolutely insane you’d have to be to feel that strongly about a choice between H. Clinton and Obama

    Like I can see liking or hating both, but being mega pro-Hillary to the point that you sat out the vote between Obama and McCain is an incomprehensible mindset to me.

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    karl marx failed to cons-

    The violation of an abstract paragraph of the constitution could not provide these interests. Had not the constitution been repeatedly violated, according to the assurance of the democrats themselves? Had not the most popular journals branded it as counterrevolutionary botchwork? But the democrat, because he represents the petty bourgeoisie – that is, a transition class, in which the interests of two classes are simultaneously mutually blunted – imagines himself elevated above class antagonism generally. The democrats concede that a privileged class confronts them, but they, along with all the rest of the nation, form the people. What they represent is the people’s rights; what interests them is the people’s interests. Accordingly, when a struggle is impending they do not need to examine the interests and positions of the different classes. They do not need to weigh their own resources too critically. They have merely to give the signal and the people, with all its inexhaustible resources, will fall upon the oppressors. Now if in the performance their interests prove to be uninteresting and their potency impotence, then either the fault lies with pernicious sophists, who split the indivisible people into different hostile camps, or the army was too brutalized and blinded to comprehend that the pure aims of democracy are the best thing for it, or the whole thing has been wrecked by a detail in its execution, or else an unforeseen accident has this time spoiled the game. In any case, the democrat comes out of the most disgraceful defeat just as immaculate as he was innocent when he went into it, with the newly won conviction that he is bound to win, not that he himself and his party have to give up the old standpoint, but, on the contrary, that conditions have to ripen to suit him.

    - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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    The number of people who say this to someone who didn’t vote or voted third party in deep blue or red states says a lot about how little the average American understands the voting process.

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    as we watch the democratic party get worse and worse and continue to support some of the most grostesque shit imaginable i am constantly surprised that these scolds are still shameless enough to rear their demonic heads and say shit like this in public

  • in my experience Hillary/Kamala freaks are the only people who say shit like this

    they are affected not one iota by the fash policies they pretend to give a shit about, in fact the abject suffering of poor people and immigrants are just there for them to gleefully point at like this

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    These are the same ones who were cheering on those assaulting those protesting the Palestinian genocide AND who love to be obvious to the impact of the electoral college in presidental elections.

    As obvious as those people still propping up the electoral college

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    Electoralism is dumb, but I do think pointing out a person’s belief contradicts something they did 20 years ago is a bit silly, unless it’s extremely clear they haven’t changed their mind since then.

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    the-democrat: “Oh, I’m finna VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!”

    Also the-democrat: “Fuck off everyone to the left of Joe Manchin. We DON’T need you! We can afford to alienate you!”

    For people all about vootin’, they refuse to even do the basics of electoralism.