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Of course.
Fuck this country.
Never voting for a democrat or republican again. They’re all scum.
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Two party state baby
Two party, lol please. The ruling class hasn’t been divided in this country since JFK
Not seriously since the COINTELPRO days
Not that have a snowballs chance in hell of winning
You’ll need an insurgency for that
There are some socialists elected to regional positions, like city councils, school boards, etc. The most prominent is probably Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant
Nope. Alternate power structures that can seize power during crises is how socialist revolution can come about. Much writing on this, here is a link I randomly googled:
https://dsa-lsc.org/2018/12/31/dual-power-a-strategy-to-build-socialism-in-our-time/
Bernie was the only one with balls to step forward. If there are any others out there then they’re hiding or being hidden somehow because we don’t see them.
AOC is as close as you’ll get and the right immediately “Hillaried” her so now she’s “damaged goods.” They’re very good at muddying waters and ruining candidates via propaganda and brainwashing society.
Neither Bernie nor AOC is socialist in a meaningful sense. Bernie campained on taxing the rich and single payer healthcare which is radical in the American contest but it is not enough to make him a socialist. After he got ratfucked by DNC he has started toeing their line uncritically.
If you want a prominent western anglosphere politician who is socialist, look at Jeremy Corbyn. Compare Labour’s manifesto during his election to Bernie’s programme. Bernie’s looks extremely lukewarm in comparison.
As an American the only thing I know about him is the media smearing him for standing in front of an illuminati mural that they tried to frame as him being antisemitic… Figures he’d actually have good policies if they’re going to go after him like that.
unless youre actually voting for a third party, not voting for the shinier turd is still a worthless position that does not improve anything
Yeah, I think voting for a third party is fair.
I mean, voting 3rd party in the US system is just letting the party you agree least with win… There’s no good option :(
i can appreciate that third parties can only become mainstream if folks vote for them while they arent, and that its perfectly possible that there will never be a ‘right’ time to vote for them
even if you dont think its worth it now, theyre at least using their vote to improve things long term
Aye that’ll solve it.
Trump actively increased sanctions while biden reduced them. They’re both shitty, but let’s not pretend they’re the same.
Not voting at all makes it easier for the vastly worse party to consolidate power.
Not voting at all makes it easier for the vastly worse party to consolidate power.
There is only one party: the party of the ruling class.
The bickering between democrats and republicans is just a show to distract people while making them think their side is making progress.
Both sides are just looking out for rich people. This will be true until we can get money out of politics.
You’re right that the US’s democracy is deeply flawed. Criticising and discussing how politicians are influenced, and the systems that allow it is great and valuable, especially when those systems are used to influence both major parties.
But to pretend that every single politician is part of some hive mind run by a shadowy cabal, rather than a set of individuals with their own beliefs and aspirations is not only falling prey to conspiracy theories, but also massively damages your ability to actually understand how the systems work, and how its flaws can be mitigated. At the end of the day, regardless of what else may be influencing them, politicians still have to be elected by the citizens.
Opting out of being involved in politics, not voting and just letting the universe run its course doesn’t solve the problems or stick it to the man, it only takes away your small piece of influence.
If you don’t vote, politicians don’t care about you
So vote, protest, have conversations with people about your views and listen to theirs. That’s the only way the system will work better for the people.
No, not all politicians are bad.
US democracy is so horrendously flawed, however, that only a few good eggs make it though. They almost serve as an excuse for ‘not all representatives are bad’ when the vast majority of them are.
I think the true issue is the constituency. Nothing will change until the culture changes. For the culture to change, people need to admit when they’re wrong.
I won’t hold my breath, personally.
it’s not a “shadowy cabal”, it’s the ruling class, aka the bourgeois class, the owners of the means of production. capitalism’s flaws cannot be mitigated because it’s because of these flaws that the system itself can exist (exploitation of workers in different degrees, exploitation of the 3rd world, revenue concentration in the hands of a few, wars and misery etc etc)
the system won’t work well for the people because that’s the whole point of the system’s existence since its inception. it works for a particular class and only that class. the problem isn’t Democrats vs Republicans, it’s capitalism vs the working class. you don’t have to vote, you have to join worker’s unions, a socialist/communist party, be an activist, and when duty calls, participate in the revolution that is to come. the only real material change comes when the working class takes power and actually makes way for changes in the socioeconomic status of the country/world. I suggest reading some of Marx’s work
With that said, I do agree that in some aspects the Democrats are “better”, such as LGBT rights and such, but that could be 10 times better if the people were actually in charge instead of a few rich lobbyists.
I get what you’re saying in theory, but even then the “owning class” is a large group of people that are not working together for anything. They all independently influence whomever they want and it’s the disproportionate amount of power they hold in that respect that is the issue (money.)It’s no wonder though that the majority of the “owning class” that we really see as problematic in their nature (think Koch’s, Musk, Adelson, Russian oligarchs via the NRA, etc) all support Republicans. Those that support Democrats tend to be better people as far as what they do with their money for society (Think: Gates, but not always: Bezos).Edit: 50/50 wasn’t really worth the comment so I’ll just strike through instead of delete lol
Can we get an embargo on the US?
By imposing sanctions on more and more Global South countries, the US is effectively embargoing itself.
BRICS: hold my beer
Every year they have this vote. Every year is the same thing.
Death to America, death to the west, death to America’s allies.
And to Russia and to China and to pretty much every country <3
China is a force for good and Russia is the harm reduction candidate vs the US.
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If Gaza hasn’t shown you that Uyghur Genocide was a crackpot evangelical conspiracy theory cooked up in a Langley basement then nothing will
Ok so every neutral journalists, humanitarian comitees, independent experts and basically most Uyghur are in the conspiracy and the very nice Chinese government is clean because they never lie.
Hahaha you are a drone or a flatearther.
If you look into it, most of the indpendent experts are one right wing crank, Adrian Zenz, who is 100% funded by the UK State-Owned BBC and an American intelligence cutout organization called the NED. He’s a far-right Christian Zionist who doesn’t speak a word of Mandarin. You should be happy that there’s no genocide in Xinjiang (even Zenz has never claimed this), mad that your tax dollars likely went to fund his bogus cause, and furious that those same tax dollars are also being used to conduct a real genocide in Gaza.
Wow wait ! I’m not American. And fuck the state of Israel. But as much as it may rather be a cultural genocide, it still sucks. And as I said, I can’t trust a state that did what it did to Hong Kong, Taiwan and try to hide things to it’s people (tiananmen for example) I have no faith in the words governments, wherever they stand and I don’t believe in “nations”.
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Isn’t it better to say fuck all religions rather than a specific one ?
The 51st state doing the work I see.
If the US and Israel are completely aligned in foreign policy, what keeps Israel from just becoming treated as another state of the US?
Israel has more power over the US than states.
Its ethnonationalist policies would violate Federal law pretty severely, and then the US is explicitly on the hook for Israel’s war crimes, terrorism, assassinations, etc.
The US isn’t on the hook for it’s own war crimes, terrorism, or assassinations, so that wouldn’t matter
Yes, “all’s fair in love and war” means you can do anything you want if you can get away with it.
Also, Ukraine was the only country that abstained.
I think that’s an understandable position, given their situation. They’re receiving a lot of military support from the US, so it’s not surprising that they’d at least be cautious about taking a position that might harm ties with the US.
The word you are looking for is “puppet”. Even the other US vassals oppose the embargo.
I mean, they didn’t vote to uphold the embargo either, so maybe half puppet? Also, not saying I agree with their position, just that it’s understandable.
how many of those are currently suffering an invasion
By Cuba?
Why are you pretending to not understand their point? Of course not by Cuba.
Stop being obtuse. Why would Ukraine be even hostile to Cuba to the point of not opposing the murderous embargo? The only reason is to bootlick USA.
Ukraine’s ability to defend itself from Putin’s “special military operation” directly depends on continued financial and military support from the US.
It’s not bootlicking, it’s a rational decision to avoid making waves with US foreign policy that doesn’t involve Ukraine at all.
can you explain in detail how you came to the conclusion that i meant ‘by cuba’, because im genuinely interested
You said:
how many of those are currently suffering an invasion
(by “those” i meant US vassals)
It’s pretty clear you somehow counted Ukraine being invaded by Russia as reason for Ukraine to not oppose the murderous embargo on Cuba, unrelated country on the other side of the world.
Yeah, why would Ukraine not upset the US when continued support for their country’s defense is currently being debated in congress?
It’s a real head scratcher.
It’s pretty clear you somehow counted Ukraine being invaded by Russia as reason for Ukraine to not oppose the murderous embargo on Cuba
thats funny, ‘it being pretty clear that i meant russia’ is a weird reason for thinking i meant cuba
It’s pretty clear you somehow counted Ukraine being invaded by Russia as reason for Ukraine to not oppose the murderous embargo on Cuba, unrelated country on the other side of the world.
currently relying on military aid from the US government to deal with an ongoing invasion might be a reason to abstain from voting against an embargo being upheld by the US government
‘the other US vassals’ are generally not currently relying on military aid from the US government to deal with an ongoing invasion
i figured that was pretty clearly what i was talking about, what with it being the literal topic of the conversation:
They’re receiving a lot of military support from the US, so it’s not surprising that they’d at least be cautious about taking a position that might harm ties with the US.
In all seriousness, who does the embargo really benefit. Maybe it made sense during the Cold War when missiles were getting moved around, but now? Someone somewhere must be profiting from it, but it’s not the American people.
His conclusion is that a consistent part of the United States’ foreign policy is based on stemming the “threat of a good example.” This ‘threat’ refers to the possibility that a country could successfully develop outside the US-managed global system, thus presenting a model for other countries, including countries in which the United States has strong economic interests.
Nobody. It exists solely because of American’s indoctrinated hate towards Communism.
I guess long term you could make the argument it threatens the ruling class, because if (more) communist ideals were proven successful then more nations would implement them.
It benefits the US empire. Duh?
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Tankies like Cuba no idea what you’re on about
Also “tankies” like cuba. So do leftists, and pretty much every one who doesn’t simp for capitalism. I’m pretty sure that Mossy Feathers strawman actually likes Cuba too.
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Because Cuba is not often a major player in world events, like Russia and the PRC are currently. Cuba is involved in quite a few discussions in communist theory. I also don’t really see what you mean regarding idolizing, they just have quite a different viewpoint.
It feels very cool to buy hand soap or whatever at the grocery store and see the box is stamped ‘made in Iran / DPRK / Vietnam’ though
Those countries can’t swing Florida election results
Podcast recommendation for people like me who like to listen because they don’t find time to read as much as they’d like and don’t have first hand experience/memory of the Cuban revolution and the following intertwined history with the US, because, well, they weren’t born yet:
https://blowback.show/Season-2
After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America’s Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. Co-hosted by Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, season two is a 10-part account of how the United States tried and failed to thwart the creation of a socialist government less than a hundred miles to its south.
The style of the podcast, with two moderators, took some getting used to for me. But I learned to love it. It is very comprehensive and in-depth. You can find it pretty much everywhere; I listened to it on spotify.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
HAVANA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades, with shortages of food, fuel and medicine.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a speech before the assembly that the “blockade prevents Cuba from accessing food, medicines, and technological and medical equipment.”
Havana is also prohibited from exporting to the neighboring United States, Rodriguez said, curtailing access to a massive market for its goods and costing Cuba nearly $5 billion in losses in 2022 alone.
“The blockade (embargo) qualifies as a crime of genocide,” said Rodriguez, who said the U.S. policies were deliberately aimed at promoting suffering among the Cuban people in order to force change in the government.
U.S. diplomat Paul Folmsbee, in a brief speech opposing the resolution, said the embargo was aimed at promoting “human rights and fundamental liberties in Cuba” and that the U.S. made exceptions for humanitarian purposes.
The long-running dispute between Cuba and the United States shows little sign of detente, despite some modest gestures of goodwill under the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Yes, the US is a Rogue State
Russia has a leader wanted at the Hague.
The US should have leaders wanted at the Hague, and perhaps would if not for the Hague Invasion Act.
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Ah, so you’re a troll.
Edit: looking at your profile, I’m not so sure anymore. If you’re not, please do explain how that makes the US any less of a rogue state.
Butwhatabout-
Dude said rogue nation. How rogue do you want to get
While it hasn’t happened yet congress has authorized the president to do just that if any (important) American armed service member catches war crime charges.
Yes, you are right, de facto the UN has very little authority over countries. But however powerless, they can still try to nudge countries away from doing what they definitely shouldn’t be doing through coordinating international opinion.
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I’m sure they’ve never thought of that before. They should give you a job as head of their diplomatic corps with ideas like this.
Do you seriously think they haven’t tried?
Trump resumed trade prohibitions. After that I don’t know. But that is the way to change relationships. Last I heard, Cuba actually arrested some Russians for recruiting Cubans for the Ukraine War. Which was, I should think, a good sign. But, Cubans know the way to Blinken’s office.
You keep saying that, implying that going to Blinken’s office would do fuck-all to change America’s 60+ year embargo when it obviously wouldn’t.
Actually, Obama started them on their way to normalization. Then Trump reapplied sanctions. So it wasn’t a straight 60 years. They want to get on the path that they agreed to again, I’m sure SecState would be receptive. And that is the way it’s done.
Stop implying that Cuba is the one dragging its feet. It’s the US’s unilateral embargo, which it can stop any time it wants with the stroke of a pen, as the US General Assembly has called for it to do every single year for the past 31 years.
