Moralities aside, some find it liberating to stop caring what is & isn’t considered “weird.” Conformity definitely has its advantages, but at least consider the possibility that, for you, it may not be worth the costs. Take it from Al, or DEVO for that matter.

The US has never been and will never be a democracy, because it was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote.[Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

China, in contrast, practices democratic centralism. And its no wonder that the Chinese people are very satisfied with their government, because their quality of life has been improving over the last few generations[2], while ours has been dropping over the last ~40 years of grinding neoliberalism.

Your understanding of China comes exclusively from the imperial core propaganda you & I have been exposed to our entire lives. You’ll never understand it in any other way unless you investigate outside of the bubble we live in.

Yours is also full of “propaganda”, for the imperial core.

I’m happy when any state chooses China as a partner over the imperial hegemon.

• Are We the Baddies?
• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• The blueprint of regime change operations
• Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
• World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

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(map is ~8 years old)

“Forward-defense ring,” a perfectly normal turn of phrase and not at all Orwellian Newspeak.

(map is ~11 years old)

Can you believe her dad is a Marxist economist? I can’t imagine what Thanksgiving dinner would be like.

I expect it has to do with money and power.

• It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.
• Princeton & Northwestern Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
• “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

Harris vs An Empty Chair

Are you sad that Indonesia doesn’t want to become the United States’ pet?

the campaign themselves will address it.

I think the more appropriate word here is not “address” but “spin.”

TNR is giving The Vertlartnic a run for their money.

Maybe you were born yesterday, but I’ve been politically aware since the beginning of the neoliberal era. I remember Reagan & Thatcher, and I remember Bill Clinton’s triangulation and every rightward lurch the Democratic party has made since.

You’re so consistently wrong that I’m starting to think you might be Will Stancil’s alt account.

It only makes sense if you assume the Harris campaign was trying to lose, like in The Producers.

Ahahaha, good luck with that. Your goose is cooked.

These arguments are so straw man that they give me hay fever.

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Greenwald has always been a civil liberties-focused investigative journalist. He never “changed.” What changed was who was occupying the White House. To the surprise of Democratic party partisan hacks, Greenwald is deferential to neither party.

If you had read the comment I was replying to, you wouldn’t be confused.

Sanders is 83 years old. He’s already had two opportunities to start a new party, and both times he choose to sheepdog his base to the Democratic party instead. Bernie isn’t going to be our savior.