Tinidril

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Countries have no right to exist. They exist because they can. An apartheid ethnostate certainly has no right to exist or right to our support. If Israel has a right to exist, what about Palestine?

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's sure not what she's running on.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

There is no candidate who can win this race that won't keep writing blank checks for Israel. If anything, Netanyahu wants Trump to win. He is enraged by even the minimal pushback he gets from the Biden administration.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I'm amazed that anyone is still buying the "moderate voters" bullshit. Just try to picture an actual human being who's politics have left them scratching their heads between Harris and Trump. "If only Harris would do a little more for corporations. Oh well, I guess I'll stick with the racist orange insurrectionist."

It's not about moderate voters. If anything it's about the median voter, but that's a very different animal. The median voter in this country is wacky as fuck with political opinions that are all over the place. The one thing they almost all have in common is that they hate establishment politicians from both parties. Harris is trying to get their votes by being even more establishment, and it's going to be a disaster.

The one hope we have is the end of RvW. If that's woken up enough women voters, then we still can win. Republicans may have screwed themselves so badly that even establishment Democrats can beat them. Let's hope.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you think Harris is running a flawless campaign?

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If Kamala loses it will be her fault. The fact that we'll all suffer for it is beside the point. You might think it's irrelevant, but establishment Dems lose over and over again by ignoring what the left tells them, then they turn around and blame the left. Continuing to indulge their delusions just leads to more losses.

This really isn't about Trump anymore. The Republican party has been transformed, and every single Republican candidate for the foreseeable future is going to be just as much a threat to democracy as Trump, if not more so.

The Greens hurt Democrats far less than the libertarians hurt Republicans, and neither is going anywhere. Democrats need to focus on being better candidates, not finding someone else to blame.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's wealthy suburban NIMBY Dems, not "white".

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

But there is such a thing as a non-corporate Democrat. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. There are also some wealthy Democratic donors that are less than 100% shitbags, resulting in some legitimate progressive policy.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not being smart or funny, but apparently I'm getting under your skin.

Say what you will about socialist beliefs, they are absolutely more nuanced, historically rooted, and varied than what you call libertarian. You also don't see super wealthy corporate oligarchs as thought leaders on the left. Your Ayn Rand inspired cult was entirely assembled by oligarch sponsored anarcho-capitalist think tanks.

I haven't argued for socialism of any kind here, and I won't. You have probably heard most of the reasons why your opinions on socialism are nonsense, and you have probably not really heard any of them. I'm not wasting my time on that.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You guys all spout the same platitudes constantly and ignore every reality based argument. It's not exactly opaque (or interesting).

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Arrogance is the only language that ever penetrates with people who think in platitudes. It's not my general attitude, it's a tool that sometimes wakes up zombies. American libertarians are always surprised to find someone more arrogant then themselves.

What you believe to be a political philosophy is nothing but empty rhetoric assembled by powerful elitists for the express purpose of consolidating and extending their power. It's intended from the outset to neuter actual libertarian movements. Wake the fuck up zombie.

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