madcat

Identity politics is just liberal nonsense that distracts from the class struggle. Listening to these people on TV is unbearable. All they can talk about is gender and race. They think that is the only thing that matters. While in fact most people are way more concerned about wages, jobs, and economic opportunities. It's no wonder they can't win an election. The cherry on the cake is how they accused black or hispanic people who voted for Trump as "sexist". These people are completely out of touch with reality.

the economic policies put forward by the Harris campaign were designed to benefit lower income families and individuals while the policies put forward by the Trump campaign were designed to benefit the upper class.

They were both designed to benefit the upper class, let's not kid ourself. Also let's not forget that as the vice president of Biden, Harris is complicit in genocide. That is reason enough not to vote for her. I for one am glad Genocide Joe is leaving. Trump may be a reactionary bigot but maybe that's exactly what we need.

And the progressive movement gained momentum.

There is nothing "progressive" about identity politics.

Well, that's not how most of his supporters felt. A huge portion of Sander's supporters went to vote for Trump after he endorsed Hilary.

Bernie wasn’t ever the nominee. how does him endorsing the Democratic nominee push people on the left to vote for Trump when they support Bernie?

He wasn't the nominee because the DNC screwed him over in 2016 in favor of Hilary. At that point Sanders had a choice, he could either break with the right wing democratic party or support the official democratic nominee. This was a historic opportunity to break apart the two-party system of the US and Sanders squandered it. The decision to endorse Hilary was seen by a large part of his support base as betrayal. Contradictory as it may seem both Sanders and Trump had tapped in the same mood of discontent among the masses. They were both seen as anti-establishment candidates and there was a big overlap among the people who supported them. But unlike Trump Sanders embraced the failed strategy of "lesser-evilism" and that directly led to Trump's victory. If Sanders had stood firm history may have been different.

As for the Republicans going left wing. Neither of the two US parties is left wing but it's a fact that the Republicans have taken the role from the Democrats of pretending to support the working class. They even use the phrase "working class" now, even on Fox News. That was unheard of only 10 years ago. When is the last time you heard a Democrat refer to the working class? It's all "middle class" for them. The Democrats are the party of Hollywood now, not the workers. So yea, the republicans are using left-wing rhetoric now, the dems are moving more and more to the right. Identity politics is not "left wing". It's just what passes for left wing in the US liberal circles, and people are tired of it.

couldn’t people just stalk without being logged in?

Yes, you can. That's why it was even dumber. It's super weird to me that anyone could be mad about this.

That's how blocking and banning on the internet has always worked. When you block someone they just can't reply to you. The way it was until now is just weird. Why would blocking an account prevent them from viewing your public posts!? "Stalkers" can always just make another account. I am glad they are actually fixing blocking on Twitter. g

Why not just torrent it?

Reform alone will not be enough. It needs a new revolution.