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Seven more sentenced to prison over protest outside Texas detention center
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Congrats non-voters. This is what you enabled.
It's a fucking popularity contest and you're deluding yourself if you think voters can be disciplined.
Every democracy in the world has non-voters. What makes the US non-voters so special?
Yeah, thank you, non-voters, for fully removing the mask and bringing the friction needed to become socialist.
The pain USA is going through, economical and the impotence of seeing a blatant corrupt government laughing at your face, is nowhere close to 1% of what we, Mexicans, Latin Americans, and people in the Middle East have gone through thanks to American influence and corruption.
It is what you needed to finally understand the pain you were causing. If Kamala won, you'd probably just ignore anything related to politics for 4 years just the same way you did with Biden. Only the Gaza issue received a lot of attention, because it was very noisy, and very hard to ignore. But if you ask people what Joe Biden did most of his time as president, I am sure most people won't be able to tell you much. One of the first comments I saw on Reddit when Joe Biden won in 2020 and gave a speech, and I still remember this comment idk why, said something like "I am glad politics are boring again. Elegance is back and all that." Like, at the time it was no big deal, I felt the same, that things would start getting repaired. I could "blindly trust Biden" and move on. I stopped paying attention to his actions. I do remember him forgiving student debt, and some other positive things like those, but, it was never enough. I could see there was still a lot he could do but wasn't doing it, but I stood quiet, because maybe things were more complex than they appeared to be.
But then you saw their true colors. You saw Kamala doing campaign ads like this one which only gave ammo to Republicans, they'd say "See?!?! Even Kamala agrees the border is not safe. Those darn Mexicans need to be deported!" Or this one, where she whitewashes Israel very effectively. This one is probably the worst. She promises to keep America as the "World Police," when we all know it's a terrorist. At that point, she's just Trump 2.0, but more deadly, because you'd not pay attention to her after she won. This was natural. It was meant to happen. Now it's the perfect time to push for socialist ideas, which is what you actually need; no more corrupt capitalism.
Kamala was not even your candidate, man. You did not select her. You are NOT a Mega Donor. You aren't part of the group of people that gave her millions of dollars to pay for her ads, campaign, her presence. Almost no politician in your life was chosen by you, really, until recently, with democrat socialists like Zohran Mandami, Claire Valdez, Melat Kiros, among others who relied 100% on your donations and not AIPAC or such. Before 2024, you were all so comfortable choosing politician A which appeals to empathy, or politician B which appeals to sympathy, both with a touch of apathy for the other, both ready to answer the interests of the elite, not yours.
It was about time it imploded so you could finally feel it and realize you need to pay attention and change. Stop blaming non-voters for this. Blame the democratic party, for being so corrupt, and for failing the people for too long. I can already tell you hate republicans, which is good, you're already better than half of the country. Instead of guilt-tripping non-voters in 2026, promote socialist alternatives.
Otherwise, if you still show blind support for the democrats, that's Blue MAGA. "Vote blue no matter who" is a terrible 1984-esque slogan. Change it to:
- “Vote for people, not parties.”
- “Loyalty to the people, not the party.”
- “People first, parties second.”
- “Represent us or lose us.”
- “Vote for the policies and actions, not because the candidate has a D next to their name.”
Anything but more Gavin Newsoms or Chuck Shummers, please. They fucking suck. I've seen so much blatant corruption here in Mexico. Mexican politicians are way more cynical with their lies and smiles. Gavin Newsom radiates that energy to me. Dude is filled with lies and corpo. Please, do not do it. Do not shill for that motherfucker. You will just prolong the pain.
One last important thing I just remembered: AI companies are buying libraries to use the physical books, written by human beings, to train their LLMs and then burn the books. No more dealing with copyright issues. They want to gatekeep not only your hardware like they seem to be heading to, consoles and PC hardware becoming a subcription/cloud-based service, but also education. You only buy a monitor and Internet at home. They will gatekeep knowledge; only those who can pay for it will get to see the real human-written texts, the rest get to deal with a buggy assistant that hallucinates, and an Internet filled with AI-generated nonsense. Covid dumbed down young generations' average IQ by decades; I remember that headline, we lost like 70 years of progress or something like that. Children are less prepared than ever. They'd play videogames while in the Zoom Call with the camera turned off, it was easy to lie, cheat more easily, get distracted more easily. Add the tiktok trends to that, the videos of teachers crying and quitting because they can't bear those petulant spoiled brats anymore...
Call me an accelerationist if you want. I prefer that than staying idle and rotten of old age like my grandparents and parents did, leaving the next generations like us completely vulnerable to these monsters. This is why I heavily distrusted Kamala, because she'd keep us "comfortable enough to be compliant to everything they're doing behind scenes." That's what the democratic party has proven to be doing for literally over 50 years now, and you still come here and blame non-voters? No. I refuse to blame non-voters. They are on the right side. It's not their fault all this is happening, and it is incredibly cynical and insane to insinuate it is. And yeah yeah, I am a Mexican, I can't even vote, but I can opine, and I care more about your politics because they heavily influence my country's fate. I was always told to fix my country first, and that's what I'm trying to do. You're like our big brother, and everything you do, Mexico mimicks it for some reason.
Yeah not going to read all that.
Seems like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else.
I hope it haunts you.
I am not the one with millions of innocent lives' blood in their hands like you. Nothing haunts me, because I am not a terrorist piece of shit who exploits, kills and abuses minorities like Americans do.
This is why you will never have even a quarter of what the average baby boomer had at your age, like 7+ children, a home at 19 years old, economic stability, or at least a happy family of four without a college degree. What happened? Are they smarter, work harder, or what?
If you're this lazy to read a few paragraphs, you are worthless overall. Nothing of what you said is probably backed up with well-read sources, just vibes and headlines. You're just reactionary like MAGA. You're Blue-MAGA.
B b but Genocide Joe…
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Edit: I don’t think people understand I was agreeing with the parent comment.
You mean the senator arguably most responsible for packing the supreme court. Who was previously known as Jim Crow Joe due to his drafting of the '94 crime bill, close friendship with literal KKK grand wizards, and fighting tooth and nail to keep Deleware segregated.
Who's been saying, publicly and out loud, since 1976 that some of his goals in politics is to end social security and is "conservative on the topic of abortions". One of which was accomplished during his presidency.
It's hard to understate the level of historical amnesia on what an evil bastard that man has always been.
don't forget he was the self-described tough-on-crime senator, that also voted against the last real attempt to end the electoral college, and later when he ran for president he promised "fundamentally nothing will change." in addition to that he helped write the legislation to prevent student loans from being discharged via bankruptcy. -His failed student loan forgiveness effort was meant to temporarily solve a major problem of his own making.
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"The answer isn't less police, It's more police"
Oh fuck off. None of you would keep this kind of energy in front of a Palestinian who abstained from voting.
Instead of blaming millions of people, isn't it easier and more productive to blame the democrat who lost to trump?
No? I'm not sure what your argument is. Kamala losing was a group effort.
The answer is yes. You seem confused.
Oh, you were serious. And kind of rude.
You're allowed to be rude on the internet, dunno if you knew that.
Kamala losing was Kamalas choice. She ran a campaign aimed at republicans and centrists, instead of, you know, her actual base of support.
it was also biden's fault. If he knew he wasn't going to run again, he should have stepped down and let Kamala show how capable she is or isn't.
He said in 2020 when he won that he would just do the single term and then retire.
For sure.
It's literally the first rule of this community to not be a dick. Dunno if you knew that.
Kamala took her base for granted, which is true. But those voters still chose to not show up just as they did with Hillary. It took a lot of people's apathy to get where we are now. It wasn't all just one person.
Right, if my 2 choices were for genocide, I'm voting 3rd party. Many many people feel the same way, and Kamala knew that, and decided to continue support for genocide, and try and appeal to republicans.
The blame lies squarely on her and the Dem establishments shoulders.
Not only did she continue to support genocide but then also spent half her campaign trail parading around with the Cheneys.
I hope you are satisfied with the consequences of your vote.
I didn't get one, despite the fact that there are global consequences to her failure as a candidate. I hope you're satisfied having voted to further fund, support and continue a genocide.
Ah, your naive view of national politics in the US makes a lot more sense. As a presidential race goes on, candidates drop out and the pool shrinks until there are two viable choices.
Your comforting scenario of rejecting this premise and voting for a third party has the potential to work on local and regional elections, as seen with recent DSA victories, but not for the POTUS. It's sudden death, winner takes all. Americans had a choice between Kamala and Trump. The third option was not to vote and here we are now.
Can you list the pool of Democrats that we had to choose from in the 2024 presidential election since we're so naive and you're so enlightened? Who did you choose in the primary? Oh wait, there was no primary and we didn't get to choose.
The thing that I find worth remembering is that if she had won, we still wouldn't get primaries in 2028 because you know she's arrogant enough to run twice had she won the first time she ran. Just like Biden.
I for one am glad that there is now a real shot at having primaries in 2028
You could make the case that Kamala was indirectly endorsed as if Biden had a stroke and died she would have became president, but you are right in that there wasn't a primary. Though, that is besides my point.
Primaries and by-elections are precisely when voters should push for and elect third-party candidates. General elections are when people have to suck it up and vote for the least worst option. When people went to vote in the 2024 presidential election they had a choice between Kamala or Trump. Some people were just too prideful or spiteful and couldn't do it.
Was the outcome of that election better for the long-term health of the country? Was foiling a DNC plot to avoid a primary worth losing the election? I don't have those answers. I can only say that I am displeased with the current state of affairs.
Was the outcome of the 2020 election better for the long term health of the country considering how things are currently? It seems pretty clear that regardless of which of these two worthless parties wins, things always get worse in the end as they only work for themselves and their donors.
By continuing to offer support to either party, you're just continuing the status quo. Democrats don't need to do jack shit to earn anyone's vote when they're confident you have no other choice except "the boogeyman," and Republicans play the exact same game. People who think we need to "vote blue no matter who" would gladly elect a Democratic version of Trump because they're playing a team sport and it doesnt matter how bad of a leader or how big of a piece of shit they elect just so long as their team 'wins' the contest. The result of this is visible in every aspect of our crumbling nation. None of them are willing to do the job of actually repairing the damage done when they can just virtue signal over hot button issues and win your vote off that alone.
Continually "sucking it up" and electing a piece of shit because the other guy is a bigger piece of shit is precisely why we're in the mess that we're in because you're ensuring that a piece of shit is always the one winning.
I think the four years without Trump was great. Had Trump not won a second term, justice would have continued to be served to Trump and his conspirators. That's mostly all gone now.
I get that Biden was not a lot of voters' favorite choice, but I take issue with the way you infer that things would be just as bad had either won. I don't think I need to cite any sources to say Trump's administrations have done great harm to the people living in the US as well as those around the world.
I also take issue with saying "vote blue" voters would elect a "Democrat Trump." What even would that be? I think that's leaning into the "both sides bad" type of argument that attempts to paint spineless DNC ghouls just as bad as terrible RNC monsters.
You make a note of pandering to hot-button issues, but you don't pay heed to the multi-decade effort of conservative think tanks creating and weaponizing wedge issues. That's literally a political strategy that the RNC has used to great success.
People cite the ratchet effect as a reason for why things keep shifting to the right. I counter by saying with no anchor on left, the whole window drifts to the right. By abandoning DNC candidates during a presidential election you are purposefully pulling up your anchor to let it all drift away.
It's a waste of time to argue with the ml gpt bots. Just block em and move on, and learn to spot the sock puppets they make in other instances to bypass the instance block.
That's how it works until it isn't. Good luck with it.