knightly

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

What does that have to do with anything?

It disproves your BS.

He's a member of the right-wing monoparty, isn't he?

He was an independent, switching his allegiance to the monoparty didn't help him win any federal elections.

You can't be an independent if there are no parties to be independent from.

You seem to have very suddenly switched from accepting the reality of the American monoparty to suggesting that no parties exist. Are you sure you're arguing in good faith?

Why is Bernie Sanders such an ultra-capitalist far-right Republican?

He isn't, that's why he's not president right now.

I would like an explanation for this because I didn't realize he was, but your own logic says he is.

You've never discussed my logic, you jumped straight from "American political parties only pretend to be separate entities" to "America's most famous center-left social democrat is actually a right-wing ultraconservative" as if making the latter claim would disprove the former.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 25 minutes ago

And that is a deeply deeply undemocratic thing to say.

Of course it is, America's "democracy" is deliberately undemocratic.

You're taking away all agency from the voters.

The parties did that from the moment they got to start picking their voters rather than the other way around.

In what you're saying, voters are completely unable to understand anything and are led by elites against their own will. This is how Putin, Hitler, Xi think about their subjects.

You forgot to mention Trump in that list as well, and it doesn't matter whether the voters understand anything or not. The people who get to make the choices did so long before the voters were brought in to legitimize the government.

There is manipulation, without any doubt, but every single voter in a free country, like the US, has the ability to see through that.

I wish I could still have that much faith in the intelligence of Americans, lol~.

I'm German, and the "We didn't know of anything!!!" quote of the willfully ignorant Germans 80 years ago is infamous here.

I'm American, and the epitaph of the country I was born in will be "Thoughts and Prayers".

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 6 hours ago

Drones can't search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.

If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he's just going to manufacture more insurgents.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago

There's a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can't be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm not discounting that, but if you were disabled or on a fixed income then that one month's living expenses might be the biggest windfall you've had in decades.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

There's a reason why the Democrat superdelegates refused to nominate the most popular American politician in 2015.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This didn't need to be a video, lol~

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago

The Orange Hitler is on track to take power and you wanna put up a flag to support America's Chancellor Paul von Hindenburg. XD

[–] knightly@pawb.social 6 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

A lot of folks actually were better off back then due to the stimulus checks...

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

What goalposts?

America has a capitalist monoparty that only pretends to be two parties so as to maintain the illusion of choice.

 
 

And I'm fucking pissed off about it.

Furries are going to have to get organized and fix the healthcare system before it can murder any more of us..

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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