Archangel1313

And sales will most likely go down.

Ummm, yeah. I’m not disputing the accuracy of what you’re saying…just that you’re only including one side’s policies in your criticism. You are conveniently omitting the fact that the Soviet Union had nearly identical programs running in parallel to the US. This is also a matter of historical record. So, I find the fact that your criticism isn’t equally measured to be somewhat problematic. It is clear evidence that your views are biased. It would be a rather simple thing to acknowledge these parallels and call out both sides for their actions…wouldn’t it? This is where the propaganda aspect comes into play. You look at these parallel situations and find a way to make one side look good for doing it, while criticizing the other. That’s how propaganda works. You aren’t telling a lie, exactly…you’re just finding a clever way to misrepresent the truth, in order to support a preconceived narrative. In this case it’s cartoonishly obvious by the fact that your argument is so completely one-sided.

Ummm, yeah. You know that if enough people still showed up to vote, none of that would have mattered, right? This is how they convince you to give up. They play their games and brag that they’ve already won, and that nothing you do is going to make any difference…and if enough people believe them and give up…it becomes true. They have the media on their side to create a narrative. But that narrative only holds, if people buy into it. If you say “fuck that” and go vote anyway, and everyone else does the same…that narrative falls apart.

So, your only solution is violence? Not solidarity? I mean, if you think you can achieve anything using the first, without having the second already locked in…you will have cracked the code for universal regime change. I’m pretty sure you could just wave that magic wand and overthrow any government in the world.

If they did that, Trump would have won the general...just like he did against Hillary. But, they didn't have to. They managed to successfully convince enough progressives that they *could*, that people just sat down and stopped fighting.

I absolutely agree with you. She was a terrible candidate. But anyone still claiming she was anywhere near as bad as Trump, needs to take a look around.

Ummm, yeah. I think you're getting "social democracy" confused with "democratic socialism". A lot.

Ok. And how did that stop young people from voting? Unless you're suggesting that those are the reasons they gave themselves for not voting, then none of that should have actually stopped them.

The amount of guilt by association in this comment would make Israeli propagandists proud. You nailed the total lack of nuance perfectly.

That shows a remarkable lack of understanding about how democracy works. Voters decide who makes up those parties. And Democrats especially are not all the same. Many of them are not imperialists. Unfortunately, many of them are…but it isn’t universal. And the only way to tip the balance against imperialism, is to run leftists for every possible position there is. Up and down the ballot. But, then you have to actually show up and vote for them when they are in the race. If you don’t…then nothing will ever change.

Well, vivid didn't help. But, I'm assuming also because people just gave up. They threw in the towel, as soon as it looked like Biden was going to consolidate the centrist vote. Polling leading up to super Tuesday, all showed Bernie having strong support among younger voters, and especially students. But none of it actually materialized at the polls themselves.

Bernie isn’t a liberal, dude. And I can’t imagine what you would consider “good enough”, if you don’t think that even trying to drag the window back to the left is worth it. In 2016, we got a taste. It was a surprise for everyone, just how close we actually came to overturning the status quo. But, you’re right…they had the game rigged. Except by 2020, there were no more super-delegates. And we had four years to get our shit together. All we had to do, was convince even more people to show up. And we failed. Not only did we not get more to show up…we had way less people show up. The left quit. They sat down and pouted about 2016, instead of standing the fuck up and fighting back. You can blame it all on “the system” if you want to. You can sit there and cry about how they control everything, and we’re all powerless to do anything about it. If you want to give up, then give up. But you’re forgetting that no matter how much money they can spend on this…votes are still the only thing that matters. If enough people vote the same way, it doesn’t matter how much money they have…we will still win. But if you let them convince you that your vote doesn’t matter, and that you should just give up and stay home…then they will win. Every. Fucking. Time. And that’s how we got here. They keep winning because we keep giving up.

No. I’m mad that the American left is so politically uneducated that they can’t tell the difference between a Liberal and a literal Fascist. You guys all think they’re the same…ev me though from a historical standpoint, Fascists hate Liberals almost as much as they hate Socialists. And it makes me sad that people don’t even realize that it’s the Fascists that want you to think the Liberals are worse than they are…all while convincing the Liberals that Socialists are the ones that want to take away their freedoms.

Well, there was Bernie Sanders in 2020. But like I said...no one bothered to show up and vote...so we got Biden. And then we got Trump again. Every time there's a chance to pull things left, we drop the rope.

No…what’s actually sad, is that even when there are better alternatives, leftists don’t bother showing up to vote. That’s how we got here. Whenever there’s a chance for us to pull things back to the left…half of us just sit down and whine about how pointless it is to pull.

You guys only have one joke, and it was barely funny back when it was relevant. Given everything that's going on right now, it's just sad.

I challenge you to simply sit there and watch your toes curl. It actually stops hurting if you can just relax and let it happen.

Oh, no. The lids were real, man. The lids were real. They burped and everything.

Only one thing matters…does it come with the lid?

And, Kim Jong Un is higher on the list than Putin.

Keep in mind that if a candidate loses I’m their primary race, those same voters will be deciding the outcome of the general election, as well…but now the 'other side" will also now be voting against them. So, it’s not likely that they will win after being defeated before.

Oh, man. Anyone else remember how Republicans used to threaten to exercise their 2A rights in response to filling out a basic census report? Yeah. I miss the days when those folks were considered the standard for “Conservative values”. They were practically antifa back then.

There’s nothing wrong with regulating the economy.

If you want to end Capitalism, you would need to get rid of the stock market and ban financial shareholding entirely. Make investing illegal, and you would remove the primary mechanism for worker exploitation.

Ummm…except that this IS capitalism. It’s just completely unregulated capitalism…which is capitalism in its truest form. If “the free market” was given complete autonomy to regulate itself…monopolies are always the inevitable outcome.

I bet he’s got a chronic case of pink eye.

LISA…Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.