• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      People are OK with auth right. But auth left? Oh no, that’s not gonna happen. The military would coup the shit out of that real quick.

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        Auth Left is still inherently abusive.

        No matter how much you pretend that it’s for the greater good, authoritarianism will always be detrimental to the relatively powerless masses.

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        The problem with democrats is that they feign respect for the constitution and institutions when it means enabling fascists.

        They didn’t give a shit about the constitution or institutions when they ignored the Leahy law to play arms dealer for genocide.

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        Then why don’t they take office when elected?

        They dont have respect. They just would rather see the other guys win than the the window move one nanometer left

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        I don’t agree. They waited until they lost a supermajority in congress to push healthcare reform (what became Obamacare). And dang, wouldn’t you know it, mean old republicans wouldn’t let us have single payer.

        So we got a healthcare bill that mandated we buy (generally) private market insurance. A bill written by Penny Pritzker, an insurance industry lobbyist.

        It’s kabuki. There’s only one party — the billionaire party.

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          “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them,”

          ~ Julius Nyerere.

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        No, the problem with the leading Dems is that they ONLY respect the institutions. And their owner donors, of course.

        They’d rather let a million people die from lack of political action than subvert the Holy System or inconvenience the rich people legally (and sometimes illegally) bribing them.