"Vote blue no matter who" means that liberals and more progressive people are supposed to support the Dems even if the party is entirely incompetent and outright harmful to the causes people support. Because the Republicans will fuck everything up even more. Harm reduction, right? So I am explaining that the recent decisions of the democrats were finally the opposite of that.

Tim Walz and his Democratic-Farmer-Labor party's record in one session:

• Statewide paid family and medical leave for all workers
• Child tax credits
• Child care assistance
• Free school breakfast and lunch for all students
• Free public college for lower-income families
• Codified Roe v. Wade
• Extensive legislation on protecting trans people
• Banned conversion therapy
• Labor protections for nurses, teachers and school workers, Uber and Lyft drivers, Amazon workers
• Banned non-compete agreements
• Put over a billion into the housing budget. Ten times more than the previous one
• Background checks and red-flag laws for gun purchases
• Banned no-knock warrants and white supremacists from pig forces
• Additional billions in public transit and infrastructure investments, environmental programs
• Right to repair law

Each of those issues is widely popular among voters, and are objectively progressive policies. So the Democrats are doing a smart thing by campaigning on them.

Now on the Palestine issues Kamala is currently doing the exact opposite. Morals aside, since we're talking about the materialist side of politics, this is an incredibly popular issue with Americans, 70% of whom are in support of a permanent ceasefire. The uncommitted movement is going to play a significant role in this election. And if she doesn't present a strong stance on this very soon, she might undo all the good decisions that the Dems made in the past month, like dropping Biden, supporting Kamala, and picking a progressive VP.

On one hand you have this fake progressive guy:

https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1820824112165429293

https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1820833101200699409

And the other option was this:

During the wave of campus protests against the war this spring, Shapiro compared protesters to white supremacists and the KKK, contributing to rhetoric that led to state and vigilante violence against protesters across the country. He applauded the decision to send police to disband a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, even though the school’s own faculty members condemned the “arrests and suppression of non-violent, anti-war protests” after riot gear-clad forces cleared and arrested students.

I stg whenever positive American politics or policies come up, this community throws out the dialectics and defaults to "america bad". Tim Walz is better for the country than every other option that was on the table, all the Newsoms and Buttigieges of the dem party. This is not a point of contention, this is the material conditions that we're under.

What alternative would you prefer?

As far as the real options go, you literally couldn't have had better? Yeah he's not a MLM, what a surprise. But I'll take a governor who has a record of directly improving people's lives - school breakfast and lunch, Pre-K, time off for parents, abortion/trans/IVF rights, gun regulations, ecological legislation, etc. To say that it's a "fake progressive" by the standards of the democratic party is insane, who the fuck isn't then? Even on Palestine he's the "stop the fighting, two-state solution", which is as radical as a politician can possibly get regarding US foreign policy.

Your response and the amount of likes you got shows me that people here still believe that America is not as racist as it actually is

I don't think it's about people not believing in the all-encompassing systemic institutional racism. That's kinda impossible if you look at literally any statistic with racial distribution.

This type of stuff is deranged by any standards. With how extremely individualistic the people, especially the conservatives are, you normally expect the hatred to be projected outwards, not inwards. That's the whole point of in-circles. So I'd expect to hear something like "I will take my second amendment and actually murder this person for standing near my white child". And the "You're no longer my kid" - "K" is definitely not a typical interaction.

From a social investigation by kites in 2021, Chronicles of the struggling and dispossessed

Our caravan managed to interview a home-owner named Marie from Lillooet, a small town an hour up the road from Lytton. Marie was a healthcare worker, and the Federal government had just offered to rent or buy out her house so that emergency crew workers could be stationed in the region to battle the proliferating fires. Cheekily, comrades asked why she decided to buy a house in a region on fire:

Well it wasn't always on fire! But yeah, when we put an offer on the house, we did have friends say, "Are you worried about the fire zone?" I said "No, I mean, I know there's been forest fires, but nothing was that bad." My understanding was that the wildfire forest service comes in and they build a guard for protection and to protect the town, right? There've been histories of evacuations, but it didn't really cross my mind that a town could burn to the ground. That seemed like some spectacular event.

Comrades asked Marie if she thought this was creating a shift in people's perspective around the urgency of climate change:

I think people are still dealing with things in the day to day. I know in Lillooet there's still fires on each side: one in Lytton, one in McKay Creek. There's like 200 fire fighters within 80km of our town. Wait... no, more than that because Ashcroft is on evacuation notice as well, and so is 100 Mile House. Like, there's 125 fire fighters just in Mckay Creek, so there's encampments of forest firefighters because there's nowhere to house them. We actually had the federal government call and ask to rent out our house because there's nowhere for them...

And it never even crossed my mind: Where do all the people go? You evacuate 1,500 people from a town, where the fuck are they supposed to go?.. I think a lot of people still don't know if or what they're going back too.

What 80 years of peace at home does to a mf.

Predictive policing. At this point we will soon consider Minority Report a documentary.

So you're saying America bad? Even though they didn't nuke anybody for 80 years? Curious.

That's what peak revolutionary performance looks like.

My brother in christ, what is this reactionary leftism. NATO bad, so every single thing they report is a lie and propaganda actually, even when it comes from "your side"? Without so much as to bother to look at the pictures, because they are actually photoshop and ai?

You're looking at a piece of an engine 50cm wide and confidently go "actually this is clearly from a rocket that's 15cm in diameter". Like fuck, man, why is it the same shit on both sides.

Kh-101

Dimensions

Sidewinder AIM-9

Dimensions

Ngl I've been getting the same weird vibe from them for a while. Particularly when the questions are framed as "is this thing that we generally support actually bad, or maybe not?"

Crazy suggestion, but how about we don't do the Israeli "this blown up hospital is definitely not what it looks like" thing? The rocket used was the Russian-made Kh-101.

Talk to them about good political news as well. When all you hear is "everything everywhere is terrible" it's easy to just tune it out. Successful unionization efforts, protests, progressive legislature.

I prefer mocking them and making them invoke death threats towards me

This sounds extremely unhealthy.

While we're here, what is your opinion on the movie Resident Evil: Extinction (part 3)? When it came out, the mainstream opinion basically was that it had ruined the whole franchise, poopoo dogwater. I personally quite liked it as a standalone movie, fun action film.

Edit: just rewatched it, still a banger. It's surprisingly woke. And big queen energy all around, women get it done.

If it makes you happy. I was just thinking that it's not a good way to change anything, so I don't see the point in bothering beyond "nazi detected, opinion rejected".

Don't take it the wrong way, but the op in the screenshots could definitely chill a bit. That type of venting would never make anybody go "you know what, you're right actually".

Actually, hard agree. Can we make filth a thing instead?