• red_giant [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    il y a 5 heures

    Closed-door meetings Closed-door meetings Closed-door meetings Closed-door meetings

    Wow so progressive, she doesn’t even want to be seen in public beside a Palestinian even when the polling tells her that’s the issue she lost on.

    Absolute garbage.

  • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.net
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    il y a 10 heures

    “Don’t you believe people can learn and grow!” Yes; however, as soon as you touch a leadership position in a fascist, racist country, I am going to not give a shit how much “they grow”. Cause I just am not going to fucking believe it. Ironically, if any of these people actually grew and changed, they wouldn’t be running for political office. They’d be down in the dirt with the rest of us trying to actually help people to try and make amends for the shit they have done.

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I won some elections but quit when I realized that the police were going to kill me (if I kept voting to defund them) and no one was going to stop them. I am very much down in the dirt now lol give me a broom.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Puyi got a broom after he got a guided tour of the devastation in Manchuria and an explanation of how it was his fault. He would apparently sob and beg for forgiveness.

        I have a hunch that someone like Harris would never stop being a ghoul, even if shown around Palestine.

    • free_casc [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Elected leadership is not a position of growth, it is necessarily a position of compromise (not entirely a bad thing). “Our” [left of liberal] candidates need to be coming in from the strongest postiion possible, cause the machine is going to chip away at you. Winning elected office is a matter of achieving these non revolutionary objectives:

      • expand the ideology/demonstrate what is possible
      • demonstrating that the establishment is unable to achieve a socialist future
      • forcing [some, limited] compromises from those to the right of you through the legislative process

      Any and all of these require firm principles, in spite of the pressure that one will receive.

      • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        il y a 9 heures

        Also, it’s a hard sell to the masses that the vanguard party should manage the affairs of the state post-revolution without said party making a practical demonstration that they can do that.

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          Yep a common liberal talking point during the elections is “my opponent is too inexperienced to lead”. It is a fine talking point, and rings true no thanks to the fact that liberals obviously dont care to cultivate future socialist leaders on their staff (or otherwise).

          Of course it doesn’t matter, given that liberals are so experienced at doing a garbage job at leading! There is more to it than experience alone!

          I remember there was a Hakim video where he was discussing “what should one do if they want to ‘be a good socialist’ or something like that?”

          Well first, join a socialist party and get to work, if that isn’t a good fit for you, then organize some other way in your work place or community. You can also (instead of or in addition to the previous) develop professional skills that fundamentally support society. There will still be a need for civil engineers, medical professionals, equipment technicians, bus drivers etc… after the revolution. if your politics are on point your knowledge will be all the more useful.

          Same goes for leadership skills imo

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    For the better part of 10 years now people have been screaming for a leftist alternative and the DNC told us to go pound sand. NOW she sees the writing on the wall that people are finally fed up with DC insiders and lanyards and she corrects course. Thanks for wasting all that time coconut lady.

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      democrats are pining their hopes that seppos will forget + be annoyed with trump crudeness, and that’s not a bad bet to make. after all they already half forgot in 2 years.

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        Say what you will but left leaning seppos not capitulating to liberals on the harris ticket, which partially paved the way for trump, has been the best thing for the country and world. Trump has single-handedly destroyed any remaining credibility the states have, destroyed the western economies by revealing their complete reliance on imperialism and fraud, led to the rise of Iran and the cementing of China’s power, pulled the mask of sanity off of Israel in a way no one can reasonably deny, and given developing nations some much needed breathing room.

        Now leftward is the only direction the country can move unless it wants to completely implode (which it still might).