knightly

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

What does that have to do with anything?

It disproves your BS.

He's a member of the right-wing monoparty, isn't he?

He was an independent, switching his allegiance to the monoparty didn't help him win any federal elections.

You can't be an independent if there are no parties to be independent from.

You seem to have very suddenly switched from accepting the reality of the American monoparty to suggesting that no parties exist. Are you sure you're arguing in good faith?

Why is Bernie Sanders such an ultra-capitalist far-right Republican?

He isn't, that's why he's not president right now.

I would like an explanation for this because I didn't realize he was, but your own logic says he is.

You've never discussed my logic, you jumped straight from "American political parties only pretend to be separate entities" to "America's most famous center-left social democrat is actually a right-wing ultraconservative" as if making the latter claim would disprove the former.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 6 hours ago

Drones can't search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.

If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he's just going to manufacture more insurgents.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago

There's a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can't be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

There's a reason why the Democrat superdelegates refused to nominate the most popular American politician in 2015.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This didn't need to be a video, lol~

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago

The Orange Hitler is on track to take power and you wanna put up a flag to support America's Chancellor Paul von Hindenburg. XD

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

What goalposts?

America has a capitalist monoparty that only pretends to be two parties so as to maintain the illusion of choice.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm trans and I voted for Harris, asshole.

People like you are why the Democrats thought they could offer nothing and still win.

Stop trying to enforce a Republican-style party line and try building a winning coalition instead.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago

60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.

Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats' failure to build a coalition within its own party.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Literally all of the third party voters could have voted a straight Democrat ticket and it wouldn't have affected a single swing state. Third-party voting was down by about 60% versus 2020.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're not wrong, but there's no way to get there from here that doesn't involve the American political system becoming something else first.

 

Specifically, ones that aren't chock-full of mobile game enshittification and in-app purchases?

I don't mind paying for games but I'm sick and tired of predatory monetization schemes and will immediately uninstall a game if the tutorial insists on showing me a store page.

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