Ill concede that shitlibs illibs resistance libs all of us are defintely annoying in our own right but none are more annoying than the constant "oN a wEdNeSdAy aGaIN?" posters. I promise you no one gives a flying fuck about your displeasure of reading posts on a internet message board about the topic it pertains to. So if you want to fuck off feel free to do so but the grandstanding "I'm done reading the thread!"....again no one gives a fuck if you are checking in or out of a thread.
All I'll say was that I honestly thought Biden would have changed his stance even just slightly compared to the press release from a week or so ago, the fact that he doubled down was the most disappointed I've been with him since he was elected. The people he's trying to appease almost certainly would have hated MLK Jr. when only 35% of Americans supported him during the Sanitation Strike.
Its always apt and will always be apt but its funny seeing it quoted unironically by the very same people that cosplay as the white moderate
Republican voters don’t bother with protest. They just try to over throw the government Edit: it’s also worth noting that Jan 6 wasn’t their dry run. There was an armed takeover of the Michigan Capitol building in April 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514
Ah i was trying to remember if I had heard it framed as a protest by Trump or something, which does seem like something he'd do
I have a problem with this, as well. However, I’m not sure it’s as damaging politically as it’s being made out to be. I agree that it’s gross, but I’m not exactly sure that the general public agrees with you and I and many others ITT.
I hate that I decided to follow politics in general. Wish I was totally clueless and blindly voted for democrats
Biden was never going to fairly characterize protests that are a direct response to his policy of supporting Israel's genocide
Sometimes I think about how fucking stupid you have to be to be a swing voter, and then I remember that's who every presidential candidate is trying to appease.
No, I'm not voting for a presidential candidate. I'll have a look at local ballot issues, but I'm in a blue county in a very red state and it isn't close. I'd have considered it in a swing state until this shit, but don't think I could bring myself to endorse the genocide profiteering.
Thanks for the response. Again, no snark, but where does this issue rank for you amongst the more domestic policies? Where is that line?
I'm always going to go with the route of less harm to groups of people. If that starts becoming Republicans by some act of God, then I'll vote for them
I didn't open this link for obvious reasons but citing the NYPD is tough But you do like leather in general
I think it probably is a little damaging in the sense that chaotic mass demonstrations of any sort just generally don't help the person sitting in the chair, but I think the majority American sentiment about these demonstrations is that they are bad and need to be shut down forcibly. In line with my general theory that the reason America is the way it is is because of Americans.
Read a good piece that American mythology around individualism through it's history attracts Patrick Bateman psychos as many of the immigrants so it is constantly refreshing America's population as right wing.
Just pointing out that there are definitely left wing economic ideologies that do not mesh philosophically with liberalism.
people who post the mlk white moderate quote (which happens in this thread every two weeks, seemingly) should actually be required to read (or re-read) the actual letter.
Told a parent at soccer tonight that I work at a university and the rest of the parents at soccer sure had opinions about the college protests.
I have a hard time lending my vote to anyone who facilitates a genocide. A modest uptick in labor relations is cool, but not enough to move the needle on that front. Things like rescheduling cannabis seem like very small measures to appease the ongoing trend of decriminalization. I have to emphasize that I organized for Obama and even Clinton. I knocked doors for Sanders. But I'm past the point of viewing Democrats, especially of the Biden ilk, as anything but a very cynical baffle for populism. I have no hope in meaningful change in the US until there's a mass movement, and for it to accomplish anything, it'll have to be outside the mainstream bourgeois political structure. Like I said, I participate in referenda and local elections when there's anything resembling distinction between the candidates. I focus my teaching and research around these concepts and trying to raise some modicum of class consciousness in young, rural people whose circumstances put them at odds with the Pharma and finance backed national Dems. It's not much, but it seems to be all I can do. If you feel like voting for a Democrat is a good choice, that's literally your right.
just casually dropping right wing framing after 100% accurately getting called out for also casually pretending liberalism and leftism are cozy.