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Just make sure you don’t get authoritarian bourgeois sneaking into positions of power during the chaos like they tend to do.

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Sneaking? The authoritarian bourgeoisie are already in power.

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I’m saying that during a revolution, authoritarian type people tend to grab power.

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What would a non-authoritarian shift in power look like? Secondly, Bourgeoisie is a class, not a synonym for bad. The Tsar was bad but wasn’t Bourgeoisie.

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They won’t

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Lol. Lmao.

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I hope you have a better reason than “trust me bro” because this literally always happens

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My reason is that it has never happened before.

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How do you figure sport

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Where’s the funny?

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In real, actionable, practical terms: What is the alternative you propose people choose, that will reduce the likelyhood of a fascist government right now at this election?

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Primary them in!

Edit: too late for this election.

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First past the post voting in a two party system gives you a 99.9999% likelihood of a facist government this election IMHO The only practical action to enact change seems to be a mass general strike.

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It’s a shit voting system. But the election is happening. How to effect a mass general strike large enough to change the voting system and introduce a new candidate with a chance of winning within two months?

Because that is needed in order to safely tell people not to vote.

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Do both? I’m not saying don’t vote I’m saying the impact of voting is not enough to enact substantial change in policy.

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Congrats for destroying your credibility with “both sides” bullshit.

Meanwhile, back in factual reality, the Democrats aren’t fascist and have more than a 0.00001% chance of winning.

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Would you like to place bets on the chance of there being a 2028 election? I won’t even ask for 1:100000 odds, I’ll happily accept 1:100

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Claudia de la Cruz from PSL

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Okay, and how do you plan to get them into the hearts and minds of around 50% of the population in the next 2 months, when the vast majority haven’t even heard of her? It’s not enough to have someone who could be a good president, you also need to get people to vote for them. If you want most of the population to vote for someone, they need to be aware of them as a viable option years beforehand.

I agree that the 2 choices are pawns of the rich, but even if every person who knew about Claudia voted for her, she wouldn’t even get enough votes for her to make the news, much less win. We’re talking about tens of millions of people voting in unison for an election win to happen in this country. At this stage in the game, there are only 2 candidates with that kind of draw power. If you want to focus on the 2028 election (assuming there is one, since there clearly won’t be if Trump wins) to get a 3rd viable candidate on that ballot, that’s a noble plan, but by now this election’s potential winners are already down to 2.

Voting isn’t about closing your eyes and saying “I want someone good to win!” It’s about assessing which people might actually win, and voting for the one that best aligns with your views, however loosely. It’s about strategy. If you want to change that, you need to build national presence in the name of your preferred candidate, and you need to start years ahead of the elections. Big changes don’t happen at the ballot, they happen during the campaigning stage and beforehand. If your candidate isn’t on the news every day leading up to the election, most voters won’t even know they’re an option.

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Voting is about choosing good candidates (or parties, or policies). If your system doesn’t let you vote, then you should consider changing your system.

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Vote Blue no matter who

THEN we can think about changing something. Cant run if you never learned to walk after all…

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…THEN we wait 4 more years to vote again for another dissapointing politician.

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this is the most pro union ticket in decades. if you want progress, the path is collective labor power. it’s how we won the weekend and the 40 hour work week. it’s how we won paid lunch breaks (which are now being lost in many places). it’s how we earned paid maternity and paternity leave. if you want things to get better and stay better, join a union, STRIKE and just keep building coalition and class consciousness.

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nothing pro union about union busting for the last 4 years.

and probably the next 4 if you aint naive to believe campaign promises from a career politician.

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Vote genocide no matter who

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Works like a charm to expose the fakers.

Every. Single. Time. :)

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i don’t think the genocide is fake

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How many times do you have to be fooled by the Democratic Party though? This is just a cult problem by this point

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The US was built on genocide and no party wants to do something about that.

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Claudia de la Cruz from PSL wants to do something about it

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Block the op i guess. People will upvote anything they agree with in ‘all’ filter

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Mod removed their comment which is telling and seems to confirm what their comment was asking.

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Amen lmao. Seems they hit the nail on the head.

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I got banned at leftymemes for saying that, which is where this unfunny ridiculous crap belongs. I mean really, they choose reformation and revolution as an alternative, and then slap a socialist sticker on it to make it idealogically palatable. Suckers for some form of oppressive government still and it’s sad.

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Not a single one is communist, so what’s your point?

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I think you get the point.

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