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We’ve been fascist since our founding.

Lol, something can be bad without being fascist. Words have meaning.

What do you think manifest destiny was?

Colonialism.

Where do you think hitler got his ideas from?

Italy, America, Prussia, Britain, Napoleonic France, the Russian colonization of the east..... it's almost like this is a nuanced subject or something.

Im involved in my community. I refuse to pay back my student loans, I refuse to pay federal taxes.

Lol, the refusing to pay federal taxes either means.....you are lying (most likely), you don't have a job, or you will eventually be going to federal prison. My money is you are lying.

Electoralism and democracy are failures.

And bitching online has been real successful for you?

If you've given up on nonviolent means, why aren't you organizing a violent revolution?

take way too much comfort in your illusion of choice.

What an edge lord. I've never seen someone be so proud of doing less than nothing.

I'm guessing that you, like everyone else who was comfortable voting third party...... Are young, white, and male. The specific group that has no skin in the game, so they really don't see how things can get worse. In fact, I'm sure you'll have even more rights to do nothing with once Trump is elected, good for you.

Must be nice to be privileged enough to not even engage in harm reduction.

feels very odd to watch an American president do correct things for the wrong reasons.

Lol, war with Iran... A correct thing?

Trump, while he did it for the wrong reasons, did pull the US military out of foreign wars during his first term.

Lol, my dude..... You do remember he also ended the nuclear agreement with Iran and then assassinated their most idolized military commander?

The pretext of Israel's ethnic cleansing is to rope America into a hot war with Iran. Trump is and has always been great for the mic.

Such a bad take.

What’s gonna change? We’re gonna magically stop supporting fascist imperialism?

Lol, the American system is hot shit, but it's not quite yet a fascist empire. That's like a German socialist in the 30's claiming that the Weimar Republic is fascist, so you might as well vote for Hitler.

The US has been at war for all but like seven years of it’s existence.

That's not how fascism is defined....... If it was, the fucking Soviets would be fascist.

We live in a false “democracy” where people are given the illusion of choice when in reality we are like a capitalist version of the USSR. The corporations run the state.

And your solution is to give away what little control we are allotted to a politician who wants to make it all worse?

How are you helping this scenario at all? What mutual aid are you giving, what support network are you organizing. Seems to me you're just whining about it all while actively making it worse.

Nope, I expect absolutely nothing to change.

Okay, so you were speaking dishonestly before when you were attempting to validate your opinion?

We live in a one party system with false choices. It’s theatre

That's simply untrue. First of all, domestically the parties vary immensely in policy ranging from healthcare, labour, race, and gender. And while I would agree that for the most part Dems and Republicans generally agree in foreign policy, that is not always the case.

The most relevant being how they interact with Iran. The whole reason Israel felt comfortable with doing an ethnic cleansing is because the Trump administration ended the Nuclear agreement. Israel's motivation isn't just to commit a genocide, but to rope America into an all out war with Iran.

History shows that the liberals gladly work with the fascists.

Some liberals will, some liberals won't. The idea is to sway the liberals into a popular front with leftist against fascist. You know the thing that kept fascism from spreading to France after Italy and Germany.

Because to social democrats and liberals, protecting class interests supersedes protecting lives

Except there are dozens of examples throughout history that negate that argument.....

Where do you think leftist come from.......? There is no other choice than to work with liberals, as that is how leftist are created. The vast majority of leftist were liberal at one point, even the fucking Soviets started with a popular front.

If we blanket reject working with liberals for common goals, there is no one to recruit from. It's almost like mutual aid is a central tenet of leftist organization....

Please actually read a book at some point and stop regurgitating bad leftist takes from fucking tick Tok.

The dems getting their asses handed to them and rightfully so across the board should force them to do some deep soul searching, and rile up their out to brunch blue no matter who supporters into giving a shit since they clearly haven’t for the past four years.

Lol, and you accuse others of fantastical thinking? When has that ever worked?

The last time this happened is when the democratic leadership pulled together to bump Bernie for Clinton. When Clinton lost to trump, did the Dems do some soul searching and go further left?

Liberal tears are tasty coming from a leftist sick of liberal bullshit.

Brb, gonna elect a fascist to get those liberal tears....

fucking exhausting listening to liberals.

You're not a leftist, you're just a contrarian fuckwit that doesn't understand basic organization and mutual aid.

If you were anything but an armchair leftist, you would have a basic understanding about the importance of popular fronts in leftist history. Some of the most important organizing that allowed leftist governments to come to power in the past have been when leftist anarchist, and yes even the working and middle class, all came together to present a unified front against fascist.

The democrats are entirely supportive of israel despite the occasional virtue signaling. I don't understand why people would put Kamala on a pedistal and say maybe she's different.

The difference is that there are democratic representatives that are supportive of the Palestinian people. Unless you are claiming the Rashida Talib is just virtue signaling her Palestinian ethnicity.

This is not how real life works.

Says the person who voted third party in a two party system......

She's not sympathetic to anyone. You don't become president out of love and good vibes.

No shit, but she is sympathetic to her hold on power. If there is enough noise to challenge her hold, she very well could have had a "change of heart".

people post fanfiction on how the US will suddenly be a utopia and we just need to give the dems one last chance

It's called harm reduction, no is expecting any US political party to solve the countrys problem. Some of us just don't want to live through a fascist regime.

And will change drastically under Trump, just not in a good way.....

SWIFT already handles a diversity of currencies including Renminbi](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1189498/share-of-global-payments-by-currency/), so that’s not what CIPS is about.

Swift handles customer-initiated and institutional payments but excludes trade. Foreign currency reserves are mainly for trading between countries.

an alternative to the imperial core’s transaction system.

World systems theory is an abstract concept, that doesn't account for an anti imperialist movement. Just take it from Immanuel Wallerstein, the person who created it.

"There are today no socialist systems in the world-economy any more than there are feudal systems because there is only one world system. It is a world-economy and it is by definition capitalist in form"

By the theory you are utilizing, China is not an alternative to "the imperial core" it's trying to take the belt.

Implying that BANCOR is anything like a gold standard only shows that you don’t have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of BANCOR.

Lol, BANCOR was named after French for Bank Gold. It is a standardized monetary system for trade based on gold.

Unfortunately this is mainly a byproduct of a bunch of farmers all burning their fields at the same time. Happens every November in Delhi.

Sure, but that vote hasn’t actually done anything, and countries continue to trade with Russia. And the Global South countries haven’t curtailed their relations with Russia one whit.

It's almost like nations are motivated by self interest, and not some over-arching political polarization.....

They’re building an alternative system to SWIFT, they’re trading in each others’ currencies to avoid the dollar

The majority of countries utilizing CIPS isn't because they're trying to create a multipolar geopolitical future. It's because it's simply a good idea to diversify your reserve currency, especially if your currency is unstable. In all likelihood if the yuan is able to show long periods of stability, the global South will be operating within SWIFT and CIPS.

The BANCOR idea is just wishful thinking, no one is migrating back to some kind of gold standard anytime soon.

It's not inherently a problem to utilize human waste for fertilizer, so long as it's been processed correctly. They've been doing it for hundreds of years in East Asia by inoculating the waste with lactic acid bacteria.

From the article you posted it seems the American way to "process" the waste is to just dry it out.

Lol, I'm just happy you even believe in the idea of Kurds in general. I've known some Turks who just claim "those are just mountain Turks who have lost their language!".

That's the whole problem with trying to break down geopolitics into set polarized factions. It makes annotating history a bit easier, but it completely forgoes any nuance.

Yeap, I work in prosthetics and have to explain to "futurologist" on the internet that we're never going to see advanced prosthetics that are as functional as your original limbs partly for this reason.

Proprioception is important y'all!

Yeap, I'm a product of an interracial marriage who is currently in an interracial marriage with someone who is openly bisexual, in the reddest state in America. I'm probably going to be pulling the rifles out of the attic for a good cleaning this weekend.

Yeah, who would have guessed that modernity was invented by someone who stuck magnets to a fidget spinner and strapped it to a boiler.

I haven't read this book, but I'm pretty skeptical of how they define nonviolent resistance and what makes a revolution "successful"

The Iranian Revolution, 1977–1979 5. The First Palestinian Intifada, 1987–1992 6. The Philippine People Power Movement, 1983–1986 7. Why Civil Resistance Sometimes Fails: The Burmese Uprising, 1988–1990 Case Study Summary

Are the revolutions they are principally utilizing, and that makes me think this book isn't exactly the most academically honest study around.

The Iranian revolution had battles in the streets and plenty of deadly clashes with the Shahs regime. It also led the the largest political massacre in the country's history.

The Philippine People Power Movement

The yellow revolution funded militant groups, featured a helicopter attack on the president's compound, and only didn't devolve into a massacre of civilians because a marine commander refused to participate in the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of people.

The First Palestinian Intifada

Led to the deaths of over a thousand civilians and is a precursor the the genocide we are currently witnessing.

The Burmese Uprising

Started fairly similar to the Philippine uprising, except their military commanders were perfectly fine massacring civilians, with a death toll of 3k-10k people....

I am willing to give this a read, but I would also suggest other people read "Setting Sites" by Scott Crow as a counterpoint.

That's an incredibly reductionist and ahistorical explanation of how the Nazis overthrew the Weimar Republic.....

Not to mention incredibly dismissive to the thousands of people who were literally battling brown shirts in the streets of Berlin leading up to the burning of the reichstag .

The Nazi didn't rise to power because people had a defeatist attitude, it's because the Nazi murdered their opposition, were perfectly fine with intimidating voters, and were backed by corporations and a significant portion of the population who blamed socialism for the economic slump of postwar Germany.

If you truly believe this, I highly suggest reading "The Death of Democracy" by Benjamin Hett. Phone calls aren't going to sway the opinions of someone who fundamentally doesn't think you should be alive.

It may be a holdover from an aging stereotype. Not sure how the kids nowadays perceive east Asians, but in the 90's it was definitely the cause of a lot of the fights I got into as a kid.