The Democrats engage in this exact same behavior. In fact they often either back the Republican efforts to disenfranchise people or fail to provide any counter narrative to dispel the lies which to me is basically tantamount to support. And then when they offer push back it’s in the stupidest way that ends up lending some kind of credence to the Republican outlook because there is some need to engage in bipartisanship action with insane people in search of a mythical centrist position that will unite us all.

Let’s not pretend this is one side versus the other. Those bought and sold by institutional and corporate power are waging a war on the working class of this nation and much of the rest of the world. It is not left vs right it is owner vs worker.

The reality is our “democratic” institutions are designed to limit the extent to which average people can effectuate change in our society. At every level there are layers of misdirection that are rife with opportunities to dilute the will of the voters and warp it into something that broadly serves the ruling class instead.

People want free healthcare but instead of getting that we end up with some mildly better system that perpetuates the insurance industry being in control of what services a person is allowed to get both through price gouging and denials of service - just as one example. No solutions just Band-Aids to extend the longevity of the powers that be.

Maybe just one more big long sleep

Yep where we did away with kings and landed aristocracy we simply replaced it with seemingly benevolent oligarchs. Same boss new name.

I’ll have to look into the Haudenosaunee Confederacy I’m not familiar with it tbh.

They are afraid their corporate donors will get mad. Who benefits from this chaos? Corporations. Corporations who are handed the new contracts for resource extraction.

Just about our entire government is captured by these corporate interests. Foreign policy to enrich these powers has always been uniparty in this country try as we might to lie and obfuscate that. No one wants to speak out against Trump and lose out on the gravy train they have coming in with their kickbacks from donors.

Don’t get me wrong, they definitely put some good things in the Constitution. I think they are mostly concessions to keep the average person (who this is has changed over the years as we’ve amended things to ostensibly expand voting rights) FEELING like they have a say when the reality is our Constitution contains tons of purposefully anti democratic structures in it.

The Senate, the electoral college, the supreme court, and the independent presidency need to be done away with. We should instead have a unicameral parliamentary system where power comes from the people and is truly representative of their will.

I mean it’s by design right? Our government was made by oligarchs to protect oligarchs from the unwashed masses from the very beginning. We had some progress over the years and most notably after WW2 but this shit has overall been rotted to the core from day one and its only gone into hyperdrive since the 80s in the post Reagan era.

Donald Trump being president is frustratingly not an aberration to this system we live under but rather is the outcome you’d expect from a society that only cares about enriching like 5 pedophile billionaires at the expense of literally every citizen in the country AND at the expense of the freedom and sovereignty of a significant portion of the global south and middle east.

Open the fucking schools dude it’s so insane we don’t have basic civics education in this country

With this attitude I rest easy knowing the only vaginas you are seeing are online

I would love for you to actually make a claim rather than this meaningless bullshit.

Do nothing. Win.

If you’re not in the US its coming for you next rest assured.

If you are I challenge you to expect your candidates to actually earn your vote instead of being a servile piggie to people who clearly do not give a fuck what happens to you at all one way or the other.

You think the Dems are interested in doing New Deal type politics when they are actively defending ICE? Come on man.

Do you see the point I am making at least? I’m not even saying it’s bad I’m just saying it’s not a meaningful fix for the systemic issues. It’s a bandaid on top of a wound that we are hemorrhaging from profusely.

What did the inflation reduction act do? Like materially how did it makes peoples lives better? Did people get better healthcare? Did the unhomed get housing? Did the starving get food? Did the unemployed get jobs?

What did it DO?

Its funny you think they will do anything if they have power because history says otherwise.

This is a good thing but let’s not delude ourselves too much. They are only doing this because Noam is an easy target and functionally not much will change even if she is impeached.

It’s all optics. Good optics - it’s good policy and good politics imo - but not indicative of a fundamental shift in blatant opposition like we’d like it to be.

So you went to all these other places and got shit on and expected what exactly? Take a hint man people don’t like this idea.

And paper! 2000 years ago!

Ah that’s unfortunate. Hopefully they can fix their rectal cranial inversion and just allow people to play the game.

Seems like there’s work around for Roblox on Arch but it uses closed source tech. Still maybe an improvement over Windows if you haven’t given it a try.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2181790

No you’re not getting what I am saying at all because you are knee jerk defending identity politic bullshit.

What were the two biggest issues for people going into the election? The economy (stagnate wages, inflation, cost of school, medical, housing etc it’s all wrapped up an affordability crisis) and the genocide in Gaza.

Which do you think was the bigger issue?

Wrong it was Gaza. The biggest reason for people not voting was the refusal to stop backing the genocide. The economy was actually second.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll

There’s only more polls that support this out there since.

Now to clarify my point on change. This was the primary difference in the rhetoric of the two campaigns. Both campaigns were pro genocide, pro deportation, pro cracking down on immigration, and pro corporate deregulation (biggest example coming to mind here is the unnecessary flip flopping on fracking). Not to mention anti trans (lest we forget Kamala wanted to “follow the law” in a year where over 200 anti trans laws were passed around the country many in effect today).

Kamala Harris offered Biden 2.0 as her platform. She said there would be no sunlight between her and Biden and that we should expect more of the same. She offered no change that people were desperately crying out for. Housing credits for first time home buyers? Like cool but what problem does that structurally solve? None.

Trump on the other hand ran on a platform of changing the country and restoring economic prosperity and man he was a liar but at least he cared enough to tell people what they wanted to hear. I don’t agree with Trump at all but surely you can see how this dynamic played into how people voted.

You can scream identity politics til you’re blue in the face but the numbers simply do not support you. The people who did not vote for her due to her race or gender were a drop in the bucket compared to those she lost by refusing to move to the left on a single issue or condemn the live streamed murder of children (which remember she ran cover for with Biden for 2 years unapologetically).