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A video which features Ron DeSantis that includes a symbol often associated with neo-Nazi groups has been met with outrage after it was allegedly retweeted by his campaign team.

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[-] norbert@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I'm not a fan of either party but one of them are outright fascists courting the most hateful ignorant people to win votes.

The other are corporate sellouts, maybe one day if we all go vote we can drag the discussion back to the left a little and get an actual lefty candidate instead of corpo whores

[-] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The DNC is literally just a corporation and there is absolutely no future for left politics within it's hostile structure. As the rate of profit continues to fall, they will continue to follow the republicans in implementing fascist policies because those are the short-term profitable policies their corporate owners demand.

The success of mild democratic socialism in some western countries was a historical anomaly that owed it's existence to two conditions that no longer exist: the presence of a colonial economic bounty, and the need to complete with the Soviet Union.

I'm realizing this comes off terse and hostile, sorry, im just typing in a hurry because my battery is dying lol

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Listen, you're not wrong in the long term. But right at this moment in history a true dem majority in both chambers brings the feasible voting reform (new voting rights bill and maaaaaaaaybe ranked choice voting (I know that's a pipe dream)) that can lead towards true reform without a revolution that will only injure poor people more than rich people like they always do.

If the repubs right now win, we're going to see a war. Or worse, just a straight up dictatorship

[-] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

We already live in a dictatorship and we already have a war

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We definitely don't, and that kind of hyperbole doesn't help

[-] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When was the last time you voted on whether to invade another country, or double the price of food, or to turn something as simple and basic as health care into a luxury commodity until people can't afford to have teeth? I don't remember voting to let covid rip, or give tanks and murder robots to the cops, or to ignore climate change for decades. I was never consulted on if we should have the world's largest system of prison slavery.

All of these decisions were made for us, at our expense, because they made the donor class more money, and we live in a dictatorship of the rich.

"The United States is also a one-party state, but in typical American Extravagance, they have two of them."

-Julius Nyere, first president of Tanzania

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