Is it just me or I see it calling out the DNC cult who think they’re leftists.
Aren’t you the ones always waiting for the next election that will magically “fix” everything and return to status quo of being unaffected by your foreign policies while it ravages people abroad?
There are actual good people going out protesting, recording, blockading, deterring ICE. There’s people destroying surveillance tech, stopping data centers being built, shaming big oil/military industry execs at their own meetups. There’s ethical people openly calling out rapists, zionists, homophopic, racists, corrupt politicians, pigs and judges.
^This is actual progress. They’re most likely going to vote while also making the ruling class afraid.
Then there are people whose only thought process goes:
“one more election, bro”
“just one more election, bro”
“it’ll fix everything, bro”
“just vote blue, bro”
“it’ll work this time, bro”
“come on, bro, this is all or nothing, bro”
“I don’t care about war crimes, just let me have my cheap gas, bro”
“Come on, bro. If you don’t vote blue, the other side is much worse bro”
“they have no serious platform except populist propaganda, but they’ll only kill children in middle east and that’s fine by me, bro”
It’s the responsibility of everyone in a democracy to participate so that parties are more representative of their constituents. Only a tiny piece of that participation involves voting.
Maybe you need your hand held so I’ll explain this to you: We have to work constantly to make the party conform to its constituents. This implies that voting one day every couple of years won’t cut it. Constant pressure. Participation. No whining allowed.
Hot take of the day: Democrats are actually just evangelicals with the serial numbers filed off. The world is a MAGA hellscape, but we just have to wait until the blue team is in power again when everything will magically be fixed. Any attempt to do anything other than voting makes you MAGA. Anything less than BLUE TEAM PRESIDENT is completely useless. Also voting for any third party or doing anything other than voting is accelerationism.
Addendum: It’s also full of fun contradictions - just like the bible! Voting for genociders is the best way to stop the genocide! Voting for democrats is somehow good for immigrants, even though Biden deported more than Trump 1 and Harris ran on having a harsher immigration policy, neat! You have to vote for democrats in order to protect Roe v. Wade - the thing that got overturned under Biden, which Biden did nothing about. Fun!
Other people have talked about socialist revolutions, which are indeed great examples. But we can’t forget the global bourgeois revolutions that lead to capitalism throughout the world. Without those we would still be stuck in feudalism. While capitalism has many flaws it’s much better than feudalism in many ways.
Laos doesn’t get much attention because they haven’t had much chance to develop after the US razed the whole country to the ground and left a bunch of mines and unexploded ordinance that are still being removed to this day. But they do have a communist party in charge, and China has been actively helping them recently.
“Uhh sure peoples lives got twice as long and they went from feudalism to space in one lifetime and are now the dominant world power but OH THE NONSPECIFIC COMMUNIST HORRORS, OHHH HOW TERRIBLY COMMUNISM HAS FAILED.”
TheFinn
Proud Axis power doomily vagueposting about socialism. Fork found in kitchen.
By almost every metric they were massively successful seeing some of the largest leaps in life expectancy in history side by side with the largest strides in poverty alleviation, infant mortality and more.
If you exclude just China alone from global poverty statistics global poverty by headcount is worse today than in 1981.
Not that you really care you just want to pontificate from your soapbox about “the silly Marxists” who dare to actually wish for and push for better.
Yes the freedom to be free to be terrible and racist to others, or be free to appear to get the chance to be extraordinarily wealthy not anything related to actual freedom
Is it just me or I see it calling out the DNC cult who think they’re leftists.
Aren’t you the ones always waiting for the next election that will magically “fix” everything and return to status quo of being unaffected by your foreign policies while it ravages people abroad?
There are actual good people going out protesting, recording, blockading, deterring ICE. There’s people destroying surveillance tech, stopping data centers being built, shaming big oil/military industry execs at their own meetups. There’s ethical people openly calling out rapists, zionists, homophopic, racists, corrupt politicians, pigs and judges.
^This is actual progress. They’re most likely going to vote while also making the ruling class afraid.
Then there are people whose only thought process goes:
Weak
My post history should be available. Check if that has ever been my advice.
So it’s not you here doing that? https://lemmy.ml/comment/27508205
Maybe you need your hand held so I’ll explain this to you: We have to work constantly to make the party conform to its constituents. This implies that voting one day every couple of years won’t cut it. Constant pressure. Participation. No whining allowed.
Ty for admitting the person above is correct
Hot take of the day: Democrats are actually just evangelicals with the serial numbers filed off. The world is a MAGA hellscape, but we just have to wait until the blue team is in power again when everything will magically be fixed. Any attempt to do anything other than voting makes you MAGA. Anything less than BLUE TEAM PRESIDENT is completely useless. Also voting for any third party or doing anything other than voting is accelerationism.
Addendum: It’s also full of fun contradictions - just like the bible! Voting for genociders is the best way to stop the genocide! Voting for democrats is somehow good for immigrants, even though Biden deported more than Trump 1 and Harris ran on having a harsher immigration policy, neat! You have to vote for democrats in order to protect Roe v. Wade - the thing that got overturned under Biden, which Biden did nothing about. Fun!
Liberals be like: if you think people outside of the USA and Europe are human, you are an evangelical Christian.
Doesn’t make sense
Yes, and just like the second coming a revolution has never happened. /s
What is a successful example?
Other people have talked about socialist revolutions, which are indeed great examples. But we can’t forget the global bourgeois revolutions that lead to capitalism throughout the world. Without those we would still be stuck in feudalism. While capitalism has many flaws it’s much better than feudalism in many ways.
China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba
don’t forget DPRK and Laos
Certainly the DPRK, I am not very well read on Laos however.
Laos doesn’t get much attention because they haven’t had much chance to develop after the US razed the whole country to the ground and left a bunch of mines and unexploded ordinance that are still being removed to this day. But they do have a communist party in charge, and China has been actively helping them recently.
But the US/west continuously try to destroy their economies, kill their leaders, foment social unrest, commit sabotage.
Clearly the concept is a failure. ;)
If they are your definitions of success, I think most people are going to pass.
Neat graph. It also leaves out quite a few horrors but those are less photogenic
Your argument is that the revolutions were unsuccessful. In what way is the PRC worse than the republic of china?
“Uhh sure peoples lives got twice as long and they went from feudalism to space in one lifetime and are now the dominant world power but OH THE NONSPECIFIC COMMUNIST HORRORS, OHHH HOW TERRIBLY COMMUNISM HAS FAILED.”
Proud Axis power doomily vagueposting about socialism. Fork found in kitchen.
By almost every metric they were massively successful seeing some of the largest leaps in life expectancy in history side by side with the largest strides in poverty alleviation, infant mortality and more.
If you exclude just China alone from global poverty statistics global poverty by headcount is worse today than in 1981.
Not that you really care you just want to pontificate from your soapbox about “the silly Marxists” who dare to actually wish for and push for better.
Americans care about freedom. You should probably learn this…
If you can’t guarantee the same level of freedom to someone, they won’t care if you’ll meet their needs or not.
Yes the freedom to be free to be terrible and racist to others, or be free to appear to get the chance to be extraordinarily wealthy not anything related to actual freedom
and by most people you mean most liberals whose brains haven’t yet developed capacity for critical thinking
Spell it out for me, brainiac.
I love your snark o7
^ this kind of idiocy is precisely why people need to read theory https://redsails.org/witbd-rs-abridged/