I’m just happy to be a little useful to the Fediverse! 🙏

The fastest we know of, and during a campaign where there are widespread reports of suppression of the local ethnicity, including forced sterilizations

I remember one of his orders during his March to the Sea being something along the lines of “If any Southern plantation owner wishes to burn his cotton, his home, and himself rather than submit to the Union, let him. But not his grain - that belongs to the Army.”

What if I don’t believe that the media controls the people, and rather, that our culture is really just this genuinely sickened and backwards?

Problem: ‘each other’ includes people who support the worst aspects of that corrupt system and, in fact, find it their highest political value to see it perpetuated.

Unfortunately, that’s the only kind of voting there is, so long as there are factions and negotiations (ie always, realistically speaking).

People think of voting at the polls like an opinion poll, but it’s not, or shouldn’t be treated as such. We are the equivalent of electors in a college or legislators in a parliament. What we wield is not our opinion, it is our political power, what little sliver of it we have in the great mass of the electorate. If Senator John Q. RealtivelyLeft abstained on a bill for universal healthcare tomorrow because the wording displeased him, we wouldn’t say “Well, that’s just his opinion”, we’d lambast him for forsaking a chance to make this fucking country a little less miserable for his own petty partiality. Same with voting.

Look to your left and to your right. Your fellow voters are there, and it’s only by majority vote that anything gets passed.

Be strategic. And also, be loud and unafraid of your own position; it’s the only way the calculus on strategies changes.

Common DSA L.

Fucking idiots. Pulling your endorsement of one of the top fucking 5% of most Pro-Palestinian Congresscritters for being INSUFFICIENTLY pro-Palestine.

Damn, you really gonna make me vote for the prohibitionist YEC?