Fight?!?! Jeez what a violent extremist
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Yikes, people are clearly having difficulty detecting the obvious sarcasm in this comment
I mean, its my own fault for posting like this here on the autism social media
There are also a lot of non-native English speakers here. English is a tricky enough language when used sincerely, then add to that the fact that we English natives are huge fans of sarcasm, and I'm surprised misunderstandings don't happen more often. (I had major culture shock moving to Japan and finding out sarcasm was not a thing there, at all. I always assumed it was part of the human condition.)
Japanese people can be just as sarcastic as English speakers. It flies over your head unless you're actually good at the language. Same as English.
I should have said they have their own type of sarcasm but it's different; you wouldn't, for instance, respond to a simple question with the obvious opposite of the truth (e.g. "I just love the cold" when asked if you like winter).
... eh?
I've met and known a fair number of Japanese people from spending a fairly significant amount of time doing Karate, and living in areas of the US with significant numbers of Japanese immigrants, 2nd 3rd or 4th generation.
Most of those I met were actually quite funny, making puns and jokes... in my experience, they would make a good number of jokes based around the difficulty they have learning/speaking English, and the difficulty English speakers have learning/speaking Japanese... like, very self-aware humor, self-deprecating sarcasm, sarcastic jabs, etc.
I actually learned the "Don't touchee my moustache" 'joke' from a Japanese person ... explaining to me that that had started as a common English speaker corruption of dou itashimashite... I remember feeling a strange kind of ... 3rd hand embarassment, if that makes any sense.
... maybe we just met/knew different groups of Japanese people? I don't think I met too many uh... salaryman types... ???
I mean, honestly what I think is that... well in America, I'm an introverted autistic nerd with a sense of humor that is too complicated and particular for most Americans. Compared to most Japanese I've met? I am a polite yet clever, outgoing goofball.
I think most Americans are just basically just extroverted assholes with fragile egos and projection problems, whose 'humor' is mostly based around genuinely insulting other people, but with flashy/evocative vocabulary.
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You need more interrobangs and 1s. Then they'll know its not serious.
So accurate lol
Idk that Jimmy guy was having a whole convo with himself
That person is an eccentric red scare loon, they only thing they talk about is how anyone left of center is a commie. They appear to have no other thought in their mind.
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Oh that's just like the DNC. They never fight. Just look at the North Carolina dnc. Tim Moore is up for reelection and the woman they have put up against him they have done absolutely nothing to get her message out or their message out or any message out. I have only seen one little tiny sign at the Democratic headquarters and then a big ass Roy Cooper sign. They have no fight in them at all. And their whole mantra is vote blue no matter who what choice do I have not vote?
Voting for a third party is only valid if a movement, a real one, forms around it. It will never work if it only siphons votes out of the dem bucket and lets republicans to kind of win by default. It has to have real momentum, real commitments, have visibility and voice across the states, so everyone will know they will not be just giving the republicans the win, rather, committing together as a big one, to something better. Even better if the various ideologically motivated but distinct camps within republicans would join the effort. Libertarians are the classic example, but I bet if things get momentum and it looks like the two parties are simply getting fractured either way, a lot of people will jump on the chance to get actual real representation and voice, not just a small camp within a big ambiguous mess the two parties kind of force.
So instead of just voting for a third option and wasting your vote in the current system, organizing would be the real answer, the prerequisite for the third options to be valid. And it’s not that complicated, just needs to get viral and real commitments
I think we just need to put up everyday, regular workers who refuse PAC money and operate ethically, as well as presenting a socialist platform. That would overcome a lot of disillusionment with left voters and even poor MAGA, who were betrayed by the neoliberal establishment; who thought Trump would bring socialist elements and advocate for them. I think this would build enough broad support to win.
People are broadly tired of political corruption and capitalist exploitation; they’ve just been brainwashed by the Epstein class to blame socialism.
Also, we need to arm up for the plan B. The SRA is one organizational resource.
And practice with your weapons. Fancy guns will not make you better unless you're already decent to begin with. I recommend CZ, good guns, not too expensive.
Republicans don't blame libertarians. they know that the people who want to vote for libertarians aren't Republicans. the same can't be said for Democrats. they believe they are owed every vote people choose to give to greens. it's entitled.
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Waiting for a third party person to get support before you support them kills any chance of a movement right away. Until then, you just get the center-right using the far-right boogeyman.
We have a viable third party here in Canada but people’s main excuse “they’ll never win”. Like, no shit, you keep saying you like their platform so fucking DO something about it!
The dumbest thing for the US specifically is that there IS a movement forming. Progressives are winning primaries, Mamdani is fixing NYC in record time and pulling no punches, and people are getting excited about it even in other countries. It’s all there, and if you vote against that what the fuck do you think is going to happen? If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
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Nothing wrong with voting third party. If you want voted then court the non-voters.
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Ppl don't want to win, they want someone else to win for them, which is how we got in this mess in the first place. American Democracy, in practice, encourages the notion that someone else will work on your interests, on your behalf, without requiring sustained effort on your part. We let elected official operate largely in secret and with zero oversite from those they represent, for 4 years.
Until the electorate is able and willing to sustain oversite over the actions of their elected officials, with the tools necessary to step in and influence or remove their representatives, if needed, then there is no power outside voting every 4 years.
Democracy is as strong as its voter base. Right now we have a third of people ingesting complete nonsense propaganda on purpose, a third with no media literacy and many with no actual literacy and most of those people don't vote, and the remaining third is a split between more corporate centrists and various leftists who disagree with the centrists and may or may not agree with the rest of the left on anything at all.
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Agreed, freedom aint free. I truly believe this, even if I get down voted every single time I say it.
Yeah, it ain't, and the people are willing and able to pay for it, get to direct it.
As opposed to fighting and never winning, which is what I’ve been doing for decades.
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