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That’s so true.
We have two parties
Progressive except Palestine.
The United States doesn’t have a left wing. Only a right wing that’s slightly less extreme right wing than the extreme right wing.
Your two party system has fucked you over for a whole century.
The core issue is not the two-party system, that’s just the cherry on top of the pile of shit that capitalist “democracy” is.
I know. But the two party system does prevent everyone from ever being able to vote on a better alternative unless an insurmountable number of people vote for some third party.
Which is difficult due to the many barriers put in by the two major parties to getting on the ballot. Many third parties spend a lot of their funds just trying to get on the ballot and defending against law suits put out by major party candidates. Leaves very little for campaigning or advertisement, relying almost solely on word of mouth and volunteers. And of course each state runs their own elections, so there is never a one size fits all solution. Plus, the rules are constantly changing and generally becoming more difficult.
There are a lot of us with zero political power, and then there’s liberals and Neo liberal parties. I imagine it’s pretty similar in EU or anywhere in the west really. Imperial core & all that
Not really. The EU has many representative democracies. Not every country here is cut from the same cloth, with better or worse representation for multitudes of political idealogies. But there is still significantly better representation than the US.
Yeah, you’ve got liberal imperialist and fascist imperialists; the whole political spectrum!
Lmao look at this eurolib, socdems are basically just libs and your “labor parties” are reactionary (there are a few trot parties as well with no power)
Oh look, an Ayatollah mouthpiece laughs at me. Whatever will I do?
…a conservative party and a reactionary party…
My girlfriend is amazing that way. She’s as far-left as I am and I’m absolutely enamoured by her.
I wish I could have a GF like that :3
My partner has started using terminology that I use. I think she genuinely still saw the USA as possibly a good country and now she drops words like “corrupt,” and “fraud,” in places that weren’t previously said when talking about our society.
My hope is that I’m merely providing scaffolding to articulate a thing that is felt but not discussed. I’m pretty sure a lot of USA citizens really need that.
this image made me physically ill. well done.
That picture of Hillary Clinton truly unsettles me
Thinking about the decapitated heads in her freezer makes her smile.
Crazy eyes rarely lie.
In the US every politician at the left of the right wings is for the US a communist, perspective thing.
nobody talks about class rights anymore.
Angela Davis is still alive, Professor of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, laying low, writing about feminism and avoiding taking part in any leftist movement that would get her killed.
Also a vegan 🌱
I wish that ghoul Clinton would lay low.
Just seeing her makes me want to throw up.
And I don’t care for hearing from the cool Drone King either.
Adored by the USSA ‘leftists’
I mean that’s where my MiL started (on the right) and after many years of work she’s now firmly to the left of Bernie and AOC, but not quite at the “armed minorities are harder to oppress” stage. Maybe by the end of summer …
I can’t be waiting for the whites to grace us with understanding, this is why I hope for the left and will not tolerate the right.
Who is the top right woman on the left side? I don’t recognize her
Angela Davis
Angela Davis
D’Angelo Mavis
who is the bottom right woman on the left side?
Emma Goldman, I think.
Emma Goldman
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution”
Yeah, I like her
Red Emma, maybe.
Here’s the thing though, if you are ultra conservative, or even just a Republican, leftist, left wing, liberals, and Democrats, all mean the same exact thing (not conservative Republican). Hell most people left of conservatives don’t even know the differences themselves. It’s really shitty that the Democrats have to appeal to leftist, liberals, independents, Democrats and everything in between with the platform and messaging, Republicans have to appeal to their base, that’s it. Makes it really hard to win elections when you have to be the perfect candidate for 10 different groups of people all with different ideologies.
The DNC isn’t even trying to appeal to leftists, they purely care about their donors, same as the GOP.
Republicans spend all their time and money appealing to the Republican base, Democrats in turn also spend all their time and money appealing to the Republican base.
I hope for the exact opposite
Why?
Because they’re a Polish anticommunist who, until I explained to them yesterday, wasn’t aware that the Nazis wanted to genocide his own people and believed they “only” wanted to exterminate the Jews.
Figures, lmao.
“If they wanted to genocide Slavs too, they would”. God fucking damnit what do Polish people get taught in school???!!
Incredible, but it makes sense that the current anticommunist government would downplay Nazi genocide if stopping it makes the communists look better.
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Being apart from the norm isn’t an indication of correctness or incorrectness, and the overwhelming majority of those who lived in socialist countries that dissolved socialism regret said dissolution, so not sure what your point is.
Being apart from the norm isn’t an indication of correctness or incorrectness
Being extremely apart of norm usually is.
majority of those who lived in socialist countries that dissolved socialism regret said dissolution
That’s just plainly wrong. Entire communism in Central-Eastern Europe was dissolved in 1988-90 through fair and democratic elections with overwhelming majority of people voting against communism. And I live in one of these states. Noone is missing that sick, perverted system.
And I live in one of these states. Noone is missing that sick, perverted system.
Ooh I love this game. They just can’t help themselves from using fascist signaling.
We’re back again for another round of:
Guess that reactionary
A. Latvian SS descendant
B. Ukrainian Banderite
C. Polish Fascist Flavour Of The Week
D. Monsterous Russian Landlord
E. Other
Turns out it was C, lol. See here
Lemmy really seems to be full of them this is my 3rd or 4th encounter with rabid polish nationalists in under 2 months.
Again, the majority of people who lived in socialist countries where socialism was dissolved regret its fall. This makes sense, considering an estimated 7-10 million people died from its dissolution, child prostitution skyrocketed, drug abuse skyrocketed, life expectancy plummeted, homelessness rose, joblesness rose, and economic growth stagnated or collapsed in most countries, only barely recovering decades later and with a privledged few making it out ahead with the rest left behind.
In reality, the USSR was dissolved from the top-down, by the Yeltsin faction, against the wishes of the people.
After this referendum, crisis hit and political instability skyrocketed, resulting in an agreement pushed by those who would loot the former Soviet States for profit.
Deep thoughts…
