As long as there's any semblance of prosperity I can't see the system changing.
so waiting for climate change to fuck everything up real good I guess
yay
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He barely removed anyone most "opposition" just fell in line when they realized he's not actually all that different from his predecessors. Most of Trumps actual differences lie in aesthetics.
Well that's just climate accelerationism, there's the option that one can do electoral accelerationism by not voting for shitty democrats that don't fight republican agenda which might show effects before we all drown and get fried.
It's obviously not pleasant but it seems to be the only shot that one can take at this point. I do think its dumb to just succumb to nihilism while doing so, it should be bundled with local political activity. But voting for someone who doesn't even commit to undoing damage is no way to show opposition.
The US right now is literally that episode of The Simpsons where aliens impersonate the two presidential candidates
See? Told you that you should have voted for kodel
It's not like the Kang/Kodos Argument is new. It's literally always been like this because of how the dynamics of power work here. It's just gotten steadily more entrenched with each cycle. We've had all of one president who wasn't from one of the two major political parties at the time. Unless you count Washington, but at that point, the system hadn't been established yet and the man in question was vocally opposed to the idea of political parties in the first place. The people in the nascent ruling class, however, very much
wanted such a thing.
It's not something we can exactly fix, either, because splitting the vote means eating losses unless both parties are divided similarly. With the Intelligence Community and military being what they are, we can't exactly overthrow the government without the support of both. And military coups generally don't work out well for anyone, anyway, even if the military is currently the most popular government institution here. The parties may be private organizations, but they represent the sum total power of the elites in this country. Sure, there are some who support the minor parties, but in the end, those are really just pet projects that ultimately support the two main ones.
It's simultaneously disgusting and infuriating, but the system has been rigged this way for so long that the general population has lost the power to fix it without causing a total collapse of the country. Which, generally speaking, isn't something that most of us here actually want.
See, I agree majorly with the points here, but I don't think they apply very well to this election in particular because having Biden as president might potentially save your life while having 4 more years of Trump might get you killed via coronavirus, one way or the other.
It is basically a life or death election for the US, because I don't really expect the establishment in general, much less the republicans in particular, to do much to stop Trump from lifting the lockdown too early.
difference is, I don't want the ecology to collapse, much less to hasten that collapse merely in order to get rid of a bad government
that's some ass backwards logic imo. selling the car to buy gas, as they say where i'm from.
i want a functional system to prevent catastrophe; but i don't want to cause catastrophe to change a dysfunctional system
i'll try to push for small incremental improvements instead
Your example was waiting for the collapse to make things better. I offered an alternative how to make things better before the collapse, I think you misread that.
As said before the idea that Biden can even do an incremental change when he refuses to revert actions by republicans that made things worse makes no sense.
if the last guy takes one step to the right and u then vote for the guy who wants to stand still it means you are moving right
No?
It means at the moment we're not moving right. Whether the next step is to the left or right is another thing.
Basically. Problem is, it's pretty clear that the motivation to do so doesn't exist here, just by Biden's polling. Unless the coronavirus culls a big portion of both the Republicans and the moderate Democrats that are keeping us on course, it's unlikely that the will to actually take the needed steps isn't there in enough quantity to accomplish that goal.
watching el presidente rage quit the press conference after being verbally bitch slapped by an asian american woman was worth the price of admission.
he really, really doesnt like it when women arent intimidated by him
El Presidente doesn't like anyone that aren't intimidated by him. He should really stop these press conference since it provides useful other than pure entertainment for the people.
He thinks they make him look smart.
no seriously, he does. He always thinks he knocked it out of the park right up until “executive time” when he starts watching cable news and seeing people make fun of him.
reports from the whitehouse note that it wasn’t till a day to a day and a half later that he really processed that his “let them eat bleach” conference wasn’t quite the example of brave outside the box solutions focused but of medical prognostication he thought it was
Acting on reflexes isn't something good for the leader of any country. He's lucky that Americans are conditioned to take any shit from their leaders.
It's less that we're conditioned and more that any and all brakes on the failed political leader train have been disabled outside of his re-election bid or murder. And the overwhelming majority of the country doesn't seem to think going to prison/dying for the chance at killing him is a good tradeoff. Especially since it'd just make him a martyr if it worked rather than solve the underlying problems. He'd become a hero who died for his country, not some idiot who was removed from power for the greater good. His followers would see it as an affirmation of their own beliefs and opinions, energizing them even more and likely inciting more political violence.
Much like with Coronavirus itself, there's not really a good solution. Biden is bad, Trump is worse, but Biden winning likely won't cause the positive change in the long-term that another Trump term might. We're currently working on a choice between mitigating the damage done by Trump and getting someone less toxic in power, and the decision to let Trump wreck as much of the country and the world as he possibly can in the hopes that this somehow convinces enough people that a "far" Left position is needed that it actually happens. And then wins.
Otherwise there's no point and it just makes us tilt more to the Right more, because the Left can't win elections.
Like, here's a hypothetical scenario; imagine that there's a mass write-in vote for Bernie. They young chime in for Bernie. This serves as a spoiler and Trump wins the popular vote and the Electoral College both. The Dems adopt more Left policies. The Reps, in turn, know that most of the Dem's reliable base is moderate, so they just promote someone further to the Left as another spoiler who forces the Dem platform Left in order to keep those irregular voters. They do this because they know it'll push the moderates into staying home, voting moderate Rep, or leaving the party. This leaves the Dems with a much reduced voting base, because they've lost their older voters, especially their older black voters, and can henceforth not win until the older voting blocks just die off and the Millennials become the main voters.
The thing is, people outside of American wants Trump to win since he effectively destroyed the country's reputation built since WWII with just 1 term. They are more afraid of him pressing the button, but other than that, having him win, even with how he deal with the virus is good material to show how capitalism at its logical end sees regular peeps and help see the dangers of democracy when you have mindless drones voting. Even if we know it is more complicated than that, it is easy to sell this view, just like how easy it is for the politicians in America is blaming others for almost everything.
Of course. There's always going to be propaganda. In this case, there's truth to it. Capitalism sees everything in a moral and ethical vacuum; neither of these forces exist, only the extremes of profit and loss. Humans are just one more resource to be expended. Likewise, there's some merit in the concept of mindless drones. One doesn't have to look far to see Green Day's point. Democracy only works when people are reasonably informed and can make appropriate decisions. However, with misinformation rampant and the actual decisionmaking power locked squarely into the hands of the ultra-wealthy, it's obvious Democracy isn't working as intended. The fact that these same problems are widespread, not just in the Western world, but across the whole of the 1st World nations. Globalism has done wonders for creating a world-wide ruling class.
People worry about a one-world government, but personally, I think it's already here and has been for a long time.
People didn't factor in how powers being locked in the hands of the ultra wealthy makes democracy void since they force you to pick between the same people wearing different masks. On the other hand, populism is deadly and might lead to worse scenarios, so it is tough to make changes that is good for the people.
I know I've said this before, but herd immunity without vaccine is murder and a case of curbing the weak and old, not very humane. However, no government officials are taking the blame or being make to pay for the shit they have done. It goes against what I've learnt during my education, and makes me feel old all of a sudden.