If that kind of working class solidarity is "trashy" then you can call me the trash man. fuck feinstein fuck Mitch McConnell fuck any politician who holds on to power selfishly at the expense of the rest of us.

Being an American is fucking embarrassing. How is it? We got all this military power and we're going to let our own puppet state push us around. Like if we're going to be baddies, at least be THE baddies

Can we bring the Palestinians here in exchange for all our politicians? Shit I'll throw in casual trumpers and blue maga folk as well.

I think this is semantic(definitions) confusion. Please let me explain. For example communism by definition is a stateless society. Meaning a state cannot be communist. The countries you are thinking of have all called themselves socialist not communist. Socialism does not necessitate dictatorship or democracy. It's simply economical. Socialism is an economic system that abolishes private property which marx defined as different from personal property. Personal property includes your place of living your tv your clothes all your personal shit. Private property refers to owning the means of production. So under socialism you could own your house but not a factory or Google ect.

The countries that are exploited the worst have sometimes had socialist revolts in the past. These countries are typically not functioning democracies beforehand. The USSR had a tsar. China's last emperor ended up joining the socialists once he was overthrown. Cuba had a U.S. backed dictator before Castro's popular revolution. These countries were not made into dictator ships because of socialism. You have the idea in your head because of capitalist propaganda.

Democratic socialism is just capitalism with a nice welfare state built on it. Despite the name it doesn't necessitate having democracy or socialism. Infact it's incompatible with socialism. These states are nicer then usual capitalist states but often backslide. For example Britain moving closer and closer to privatizing their healthcare.

I hope that makes some sense.

Can I pet that dog?

Idk how I could east sleep and shower all at the same time but I'm open to suggestions lol.

You know who actually doesn't work hard at all? steve schwarzan. Fuck these lazy ass execs and share holders. I think we outta put em all in metal tubes and drop em in the ocean.

They should buy less avocado toast 😏. Lazy ass generation

"Sweet let me see your search history. I've always been curious what your taste in porn is"

So glad Obama gave us universal healthcare.... Oh wait.

We all know this is bullshit right? Neither the Republicans or the Democrats give a shit about anything else then making rich people more money. I'm sorry to break it to you but the Democrats aren't your friends. I know they pretended to be but they're not. They are just as much your enemy as the Republicans. 😞

Weird how that makes it seem like the people trying to make things better are the ones responsible for making things worse. It's almost like the whole system was set up to give us two horrible choices and make us think the lesser evil is actually good. That way we won't try to really fix anything ourselves and just get angry at the people who do for "wasting their votes". No hate to anyone who thinks this way just sharing another perspective.

I'd rather have Biden than Trump. But I'd rather have Dr. Cornell West or Claudia de la Cruz more than either of them by a lot. Hell I'm probably going to vote for one of them. I live in Maryland, a blue state that'll go to Biden anyway. If anybody has a problem with that, I don't care 🤷

I live in Maryland. I can get like 5 bananas in the middle of winter for $2.

I'm voting for a third party instead of the slightly less evil fascist. I recommend y'all do as well. Dr. West and Claudia La Cruz are good options.

If you're not in a swing state I recommend you do the same.

Same here. lemmy reminds me of how reddit was 10 years ago. Feels like home... God I'm old.

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May they be granted all the oppression they crave and more. Amen 🙏🛐✝️😏

The rich people who pay them both through lobbyists know what the people actually want. We don't need to vote more clearly. 🙃

I'm not using a slimy tactic. This is my opinion. Sorry you think that not agreeing with you is slimy.

I'm a socialist. The Republican and Democratic parties are Siamese twins. They cannot survive without each other. They are completely dependent on the idea of voting for the lesser of two evils. Pretending like the Democrats actually cared about you or will do the things they say they will is an understandable coping mechanism for our situation but it's not real. 🤷

His networth is 5.4 billion. 20% of that is a bit over a billion.... So not really.

I think you divided 5.4 billion by $275 million. Saw that it came out to almost 20. That means it's about 5%. Easy mistake to make. I do it all the time.

Great for them! Happy for you Vietnam 🙂

I'm voting for a third party instead of the slightly less evil fascist. I recommend y'all do as well. Dr. West and Claudia La Cruz are good options.

If you're not in a swing state I recommend you do the same.

Nope and if you don't understand there are more than two options that's a you problem. 😜