PLEASE do not nominate another candidate with a vagina
It's so frustrating when well-meaning people have this blatantly sexist take.
The problem with Hillary and Kamala was not their vaginas, it was their policies.
If you actually believe that the US is too sexist to elect a woman, then you need to explain the election of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico. By every statistic (rape, domestic violence, etc), Mexico is a more sexist nation than the US, yet they overwhelmingly elected a woman.
True, but your comment seems to ignore the fact that leftism is the only resistance to fascism. Liberalism and civility politics have historically paved the way for fascism, and the same pattern is proving true in the modern era.
We need leftist solidarity to defeat the evils of liberalism and fascism.
So your idea is that we will vote in Democrat politicians who will... Legislate themselves out of power by instituting ranked choice voting?
This part of your plan seems absurd on its face. I want ranked choice voting as much as you, but we need a realistic plan, and what you're proposing is a pipe dream.
Voting third party is more realistic than expecting Dems to institute ranked choice.
By 1970, it was fully criminalized nationally esp. because of the whole drug culture of the late 60's and the Vietnam anti-war protest movement.
“You want to know what this was really all about?
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
-John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief
This is an open problem for advocates of the Dark Enlightenment theory (Wikipedia) like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin.
One of the most commonly discussed solutions is to surgically implant explosive devices into the bodies of your lead security force.
We tried that. We had a whole national protest movement, it lasted a year, millions of people were in the streets with the explicit goal of lowering police budgets.
Despite all of that effort, no police budget was defunded. Most police budgets have continued to increase. ICE funding has drastically increased.
So what's your plan to do something different? From where I'm sitting, the "let's kill cops" camp is more realistic than the "let's try the George Floyd protests again, maybe politicians will listen to us this time" camp.
And history shows us what happens after the US Navy gets kicked in the nuts. The US kills hundreds of thousands of people. Sometimes millions.
support the DNC vocally
Why should we support the DNC when the leadership of the DNC is supporting Trump's war crimes?
Read the responses from Jeffries and Schumer- they aren't the opposition party, they are manufacturing consent for this 'military operation'.
If we actually want to change the situation we need to fix the DNC, not blindly support it.
Secessio is a great start to a proud history of workers fighting for their rights, but history tends to clean up the details.
I always wonder how many scabs stayed back in Rome.
If you're really into Catholic lore and mythology, then yes, the Pope's word holds a lot of weight. They believe in papal infallibility, which means that when the Pope meets certain very specific criteria, he is literally speaking for God and is thus perfect and unquestionable.
Regular normie Catholics? They believe in the Pope the same way they believe in the Bible: it is the true word of God, but it's too much of a bother to actually read it. They're never reading papal edicts, they're just reading news headlines about the pope like everyone else.
Suicidal thoughts in response to this news is really concerning. From what I understand, you aren't being personally affected by this news. Go take care of yourself. Touch grass or do whatever you need to do.
I think it will help to have a broader perspective. The US spends over $1 trillion each year on violence. When the bombs stop, then profits drop, and this is not acceptable to the capitalist class. When we stopped spending $60bln in Afghanistan, we instantly started spending $60bln in Ukraine. Now Ukraine is winding down, we will spend it on Venezuela. After that, Panama? Greenland? Cuba? Mexico? This cycle will continue until the military industrial complex is dismantled. That is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.
You are on the ethically correct side, and that matters. I find inspiration in the many generations of people who fought against slavery in the US. So many people, so many generations fought to end slavery, and most did not live to see the successful end. We must continue to fight, even if we do not see success in our lifetimes, we lay the groundwork for future generation's success. We owe it to them.
And if you do choose to end yourself, I respect your bodily autonomy, but please make sure you are of sound mind when you make that very serious decision. And consider following in the holy footsteps of Saint Luigi of Baltimore.
We did that already, we voted for the people who suck less.
They are letting the GOP run wild.