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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (9 children)

There is no viable party that is against the military industrial complex.

If you take a step back and look at the Democrats and Republicans, they agree and overlap on far more many issues than they differ. Indeed, in the context of a lot of foreign governments, both of our parties would be considered dangerously right-wing. Yet, there's no serious opposition in the US, as you say.

The issue has been falsely bifurcated in the USA where looking elsewhere is "throwing your vote away". Yet, without an alternative party, there are many problems in the USA which are just non-starters, like pacifism. Totally unthinkable under either party's operational guidelines.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

are there even any leftists left in shitter?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Bernie Sanders?

The guy the DNC fought against to give us Hillary.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

123 Murdered so far...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/us-attacks-on-yemen-killed-123-people-since-mid-march-health-authorities

We need to burn the slaver's constitution and replace it with a modern document if anything.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trust me, no other cultures saw those messages and thought about the incompetent opsec. They saw how Americans slay with accompanying emojis and not a single mention of the indiscriminate collateral human lives. Not as if they are concerned even about the optics. Just no mention. Not internal. Not external. Nothing. The human rights considerations are not evaded or even acknowledged. The conventions of war, even what the other nations might say, nothing. Operating anywhere in the world with emoticon decorated executions. It is notable for the rest of the world. This is the extent of the mercy of the few. Those that decide who lives. That the native opposition's persecution and domestic news coverage is exclusively over how it was leaked.. It is not something you can ignore when it can be you at any moment. And soon, Americans themselves will piece by piece learn that it could be them too. That fear means control. To be subject to this arrogance towards life will hopefully get a few of the sofa. God bless her and him that dare, the world is watching you hang in the balance. The well-being of your children and loved ones comes to question and at that point some of us will be forever immortalised, either for feeding or defying the wolves of this eerily completely broadcasted fascist cycle.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

There are literally several opposition parties who feel like this. They will never get power because of the first past the post voting system and this particular stance can be so easily argued as anti American that if this is all you have to run on, you’re screwed because we have Trump to deal with and destroying party unity for this would help him.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (26 children)

2016 called they want their propaganda back

I'm not voting for Neoliberals anymore. No matter how much they try to guilt me.

Sorry.

They have had 50 years of control and have only helped push our society further twoards the right and fascism.

If the Neoliberals want to vote with the leftists this time that's fine, but they have proven they are impotent leaders.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (9 children)

This is something the evangelicals understand that the left doesn't. Politicians are tools. You use the best available tool to do the job.

They're using Trump to get what they want.

You're proposing we build a tool factory on a ten year timeline to build a better tool, and until then we just do fuck all.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

this particular stance can be so easily argued as anti American

Yes, opposing the genocide of the world's poorest people is definitely anti-american.

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