MTG accidentally stumbling into the Leninist position that the point of engaging in electoralism is to demonstrate the futility of reformism to the masses and to promote mass action.

Yeah, I just heard about that.

(Clinton kinda coming out of fucking nowhere)

I mean Clinton is known for a pretty big controversy where he received head, and boomers still cracking jokes about it like 20 years later doesn’t seem impossible.

But I mean, either way Vance fucks couches so we might as well roll with it.

You mean, if this is the thing that finally…

Dems:

There is a specter haunting r/Democrats…

Hell yeah, finally

Remember what they took from you

Yes, but there are limits, if you tried to use it to reconstitute the USSR it would just default to heart attack. But you could 100% use it to deliver beans, as long as you’re ok with the person dying afterwards. I think there’s a time limit to how long you can control a person’s actions before they die but I don’t remember how long.

Hypothetically, I’d be willing to negotiate and find a compromise between factions but the central point that the war needs to end, immediately, is non-negotiable. We gotta turn off the meat grinder. Otherwise, what was even the point? I get the feeling that that point would have me wind up aligning with the Bolshevists in practice (which is what I got), but that’s probably why I wound up a little to their right.

Uhh I’m gonna be real, idk wtf “the swift convocation of the constituent assembly” means so I just put neutral on a bunch of these.

The straight path is tyranny

On April 24, 1953, Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian general, chief of police, and right hand man of the prime minister, is invited to the home of a member of the social democratic party. As he approaches, he announces that the building is surrounded and that everyone inside is under arrest for treason. He had received a tip that the social democrats were collaborating with foreign intelligence and that they were luring him there with the intent to abduct him, probably to torture him to death and leave his body in the streets to get him out of the way and destabilize the government or something like that. A firefight ensues, and searching the building provides Afshartous with more intelligence, leading him to launch an immediate raid on the hotel room of one Kermit Roosevelt, which leads to his arrest and the uncovering of incontrovertible proof that the Americans are plotting to overthrow the government and install the shah as an absolute ruler, through the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.

This provokes a major international scandal. President Eisenhower denies all foreknowledge of the plot and blames the CIA, leading to the dismissal of Allen Dulles. He proceeds to declassify certain documents related to the plot - documents that also implicate MI6, damaging relations with the UK (along with screwing up and abandoning the plot in the first place). Attempting to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one.

Prime Minister Mossadegh is outraged, and is convinced to shut down the American embassy and to pursue an alliance with the USSR. Iran’s Marxist-Leninist party, Tudeh, rises in popularity, but only comes to power after Mossadegh steps down.

Tensions between Western powers and increased anti-colonial sentiment result in Korea being unified under the DPRK.

People all around the world become more cautious of US-backed regime change, but with the failure of the “proof of concept” coup in Iran, the US becomes much more hesitant to deploy such strategies. But the red scare is still a thing, with the events in Iran and Korea kicking it into high gear. But the US approach is much more overt and mask-off.

That’s all I got, so far.

Of course there will be elections. Everywhere has elections, even if they’re obviously undemocratic (which the US elections always were). There’s zero reason to change that, and elections are a very useful tool for influencing and controlling the public.

Also, who establishes a dictatorship in their 80’s? He’s gonna die soon anyway.

This is one of those things where it’s less about reality and more about what it signals. Libs are signalling how important they consider elections to be, and trying to either scare people into voting or get them to appreciate being able to vote.

Anarcho-primitivism

Someone get this man a Twitch channel.

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life back then mustv been crazy people just thought whatever

People still just think whatever tho.

And it’s down along the Falls Road is where I long to be

Lying in the dark with the provo company

A comrade on me left, and another one on me right

And a clip of ammunition for my little Armalight

You’ll get further with humanitarian aid and a multinational navy escort than you will with just humanitatian aid