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Do... Do you think I'm pro-US?

I hate this demon shit hole country.

Clearly I'm a Russian agent sent to sow dissent on this underwater basket weaving forum. 🙄

Go back to Reddit.

He personally ensured Israel had the bombs and international legal protection necessary to murder all those children. He did everything he could to guarantee those children died in twisted shieking agony. In fact, many of them did burn to death and he his personally responsible for cooking them alive.

Let me put it this way: I don't feel like I deserve to live anymore for my role in the genocide.

Do you feel innocent?

No, voter suppression and the two party system are what got us in this situation.

We don't have such low voter participation because of vibes. It's structural.

Biden butchered children by the tens of thousands. I want to fucking die because I voted for that monster.

On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.

"Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.

International law is a myth that imperialsists use to murder indigenous resistance fighters, it's not a real legal regime that actually applies universally.

There is no legal definition because there is no law, I think that's pretty clear at this point.

Which only benefits Israel. If Jewish people are less safe in their home countries they are incentivized to become Israeli settlers.

What ever happened to representative democracy?

Political leaders don't just represent the electorate, they lead it. Political reality has always been shaped by parties and leaders, even if sometimes those leaders aren't electoral and so we pretend they aren't political leaders.

For example, MLK Jr was a political leader even if he wasn't elected. He created political realities through organizing and activism and propaganda and sloganeering and speeches. He didn't just wait around for the Overton Window to move, he moved it.

Is that manufacturing consent?

Either we use politics to shape political reality or we allow the right wing to do it for us. Fascists will manufacture consent for our extermination if we let them.

The hypocrisy of the Republican position?

That's just a misunderstanding of their position. Their position is the government should spend money on them without taxing them, and shouldn't spend money on anyone else and collect all taxes from everyone else.

Republicans just want to bring slavery back.

Not beating the Reddit.world accusations. 😏

It gets the causal relationship between political leaders and the masses backwards.

The Overton Window presupposes that politicians are limited by the electorate in what they can discuss and pursue; there's a range of acceptable politics which is created by public opinion.

The reality is that public opinion is created by political leaders and politics is the tool they can use to change the range of acceptable opinion.

By getting the causal relationship backwards there is a tendency to tail the masses rather than lead them. Instead of using politics to create new political realities, politicians behave as if they are trapped within the existing political reality by politics. They seem to think politics is something that happens to you, rather than a tool you use to do things.

There's a range of acceptable opinion, sure, but it doesn't limit politics. Instead, politics creates the range of acceptable opinion.

The Overton Window isn't real. Political parties can create their own political realities by leading the electorate, rather than cowardly tailing the electorate like they're advertisers trying to sell a product.

No, actually, it's like saying “The cost of football tickets went up.” “Have you considered reading?”

Don't talk shit about duodecimal 😠