Actually, not voting is one of the most ideologicaly consistent things someone who is extremely libertarian could do. Because if you voted for something and got it passed. Technically your will could be used to infringe against perceived rights of others. So by rights any true ideological libertarian should never vote. But you’ll almost never see that on the right.
Yes though it always helps to point this out. So anyone else reading might not fall for the bs. Biden could veto or stop the aid if he wanted to. And Congress could and likely would just override him regardless. He’s not really helping and he is part of the problem. But he isn’t the main problem by a long stretch.
100% Libertarianism originated as a left wing movement in the 19th century. Right wing libertarianism didn’t ooze out of the swamp till nearly a century later. In the mid 20th century. Post red scare when actual leftist were keeping their heads down due to fascist witch hunts. And unable to really call out the posers.
Real libertarians don’t have a problem with government. They just believe that it should be focused on maximizing freedom, and access to it. Where the larpers are all about maximizing their personal freedom (privilege) and don’t care if others have access.
That’s a very true thing. The problem with search engines anymore. There’s so much money in propaganda and misinformation. Getting on and finding real information as opposed to false information can be a daunting task.
You mean congress? Congress is the one who orders and pays for everything. Biden May sign off on it. But he’s not sending it.
Moonbeam city. Had a really good cast of voice artists. Including Patrick Warburton for one episode. And Adam West for I think two episodes? It was one of the last series he did before he died. Rob lowe, Will Forte, Elizabeth Banks, and Kate Mara round out much of the regular voice acting cast.
It was also the show where I discovered one of my current favorite bands. Nightclub. They did the entire soundtrack for The show. The opening theme is an instrumental version of the song another one.
It’s never worked in the past. So surely it will work this time!
The system doesn’t care if you think it’s legitimate or not. Especially if you don’t vote. They’ve worked hard to take the votes of many, nullify the votes of others. They’ll just laugh at the ones that waste theirs.
Ironically so is libertarianism. Which would probability make his head explode. Right wing libertarians are just fascists that are so self centered that even rallying around their nation or ethnicity seems too much work. Or just masking temporarily. Gladly supporting and voting for fascists when it all comes down to it.
Hah, dude doesn’t even know what a leftist is lol
And had the poster used a picture of an actual communist outside the US. That would be worth considering. But we should ask, why did they choose a non communist US congress person? Op’s message might be stupid but as scary as it sounds. They put actual thought into it and chose the picture on purpose.
Take a look at the guy’s post history. He posts repeatedly from fascist adjacent news sources how Milie in Argentina is a chad anarco-capitalist and not a fascist. Which is pretty much the same thing. It’s laughable.
Well then, either capitalism is a thing that’s never existed. And never will. Or it has and it does. After all. Dictators have private ownership too. There’s nothing incompatible about the two.
What about the '70s? The 70s itself isn’t very descriptive. On the whole being inexorably tied to Nixon really pushes home the point that things were becoming less democratic then. It’s also the time period in which the modern techniques of gerrymandering were being developed and explored. As a direct response to civil rights. Again less democratic.
And technically is an accurate term. What is democracy? Is democracy just being able to cast a ballot, that then gets creatively discarded. Or is something beyond casting a ballot required. Remember, Russia is technically a democracy too. As was the Soviet Union. I would argue that the US has had a better record on that front domestically. But it’s a low bar. Not necessarily something we should be bragging about. Are we really a democracy? We should be. But are we actually.
That would absolutely be a great start. But only that. A starting point.
Taxing the rich can be on the ballot. The problem is we often spend too much time fighting amongst ourselves letting the ownership class walk away with everything while we tussle over scraps. They’ve succeeded in putting a large portion of the population into a nihilistic Fugue state. Only trying to destroy things and hurt the group they’ve been told is the Boogeyman. Not improving things for themselves or others. As easy and as fun as it can be to ridicule conservatives importantly thought out plans and ideology. We need them. And they need us. If we want to make anything better that is. We need to break through the cynicism and nihilism and convince them that there is a way for things to be better.
It’s not a small task by any means.
See, I can’t agree with this. Fifty years ago, our democracy was still in a MUCH worse position than today.
How so? Union membership was at all time highs, we’d just had FDR’s new deal. Labor and non ownership classes have never benefited from government in a similar fashion since that time.
That isn’t to discount the civil rights act etc. More people being represented is good. The problem being, that while more people were “technically” represented. Everyone collectively has less to show for it. With inequality approaching or exceeding even the guilded age. Because the government increasingly represents only a single class of person.
They also did a Animated Series in the style in 2015. It was made very much in reference to the '80s. So the style fit well.
They haven’t been duped. At least not in the same way. Russia has no real influence over them. It’s an enemy of my enemy thing. The United States has been trending heavily undemocratic for the last 50+ years minimum. And they don’t want that to change. Their complaint is that they aren’t the ones in charge. They DON’T want to make things better. They just want to be the ones hurting those that disagree. And the only way they can do that is to make things worse. To the point of collapse.
It’s just goals aligning. Not some big conspiracy. Or brainwashing. Republicans, Russians, Chinese, and ML all see themselves benefiting from collapse.
The problem is, yes government could and I would argue should be more democratic. But that isn’t how Leninism/stalinism/Maoism works. We have problems with adequate representation with two parties. Those groups want only one. And traditionally that party doesn’t take kindly to dissent. Rather than listening and adjusting policy to better address people. They simply exclude you from society if you’re lucky. Lock you up, brutalize you. And if they don’t think they’ve adequately broken you, kill you.
We need to remove authoritarian and private control of government. Capitalism would follow eventually. The problem is. That’s impossible with capitalists and ML alike.
More important than who’s president.
A shit ton. Enough that most people have no idea there are any other kind.