• 0 Posts
  • 19 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 7th, 2023

help-circle


  • I know it does. But the act of stopping the flow of federal dollars to the federal coffers would in itself be seen as an act of rebellion. So if CA decides that it wants to do that, it better be ready to have the ability to back it up.

    I view a peacful secession movement beginning with changes in our election system and legislative system to allow for a proportional representative state government, maybe eliminate the idea of a separate executive and place that within the legislature like in a parliamentary system. Then once we have organized ourselves politically we can work towards a separation from the Union. Or we can tell the Federal Gov to get fucked, take their money and shoot our way out. But I think we can agree that might be a bad idea.


  • Doing that would by definition make us independent. We would be seizing the Federal governments legally implemented Tax dollars.

    But in all seriousness I am a leftist and I support CA independence because it is time. We are just too different then the East and the Mid-West, we have a different climate and a different relationship with our water and our land. That causes us to have a different body politic then them. I mean the only reason CA is part of the US is because the US invaded a sovereign country and took it, then to hold it engaged in a genocide of the native population. We never asked to join, we were forced. But that was the 19’th century and today is the 21’st century. We shouldn’t rejoin Mexico and become Mexican again, but we are definitely not “Americans”. What are we IDK, but I think we deserve an opportunity to ask that question.



  • I agree that the Biden administration’s policies where not good enough to address the real issues facing working people in the country. They were pulling from the same neoliberal economic playbook that both parties have used and has been shown over and over again to increase inequality instead of decreasing inequality. Biden and Democratic leadership think we are still in the world economic situation of the 1990’s and refuse to believe otherwise.

    However Trump on the other hand doesn’t even have a plan. He was correct in saying “The Economy sucks”, but had no other plan to fix the system besides “Drill Baby Drill” and “Let the Oligarchs decide how the economic system works”. Harris might have been an out of touch elite, oblivious to economic reality. But Trump is pain and destruction incarnate and will only cause more pain and destruction during his tenure.

    The reality is the US Empire is dying and it can either go gracefully or with pain and anger while it takes the rest of the world with it.










  • Then what is necessary violence? When does the rhetoric of an candidate of a major party come to the point when you can call it fascist?

    Calling a politician who

    • Fetishes an imagined great past.
    • Claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
    • Get policy advice from individuals who call themselves christian nationalists and Neo-reactionaires.
    • And has admitted to becoming a dictator on day 1 of his presidency.

    a fucking fascist isn’t being too extreme. Its calling a spade a spade and a duck a duck.