The “National Convention” is simply a celebration event, where the *50+ state parties* agree to put a set of names in front of the “electors” on their individual state ballots.
The “National Committee” are the dorks chosen to book the venue, like prom committee or whatever.
@TStaxYPH
@Ancommiey
They already know that pointing a loaded gun and threatening to murder someone is a felony crime, but they also know they’ll never be charged for it.
This isn’t a training problem or a “knowing the law”
problem; it’s a terrorist problem.
The reason poverty exists is because capitalism requires it. Poverty is the coercion. Poverty is what makes poor people play along in this system, which does not benefit them. Without the coercion of poverty, there’d be no capitalism. It creates poverty where it need not exist.
@Jersey_Drew
@BotheredBoy
Turns out everything you thought was provided by free market capitalism was actually socialism the whole time. Maybe step back and reconsider your whole life.
Remember that study that proved that even if you had near 100% popular support, Congress still wouldn’t listen to you?
Keep that in mind when the liberals tell of to “grow our numbers” instead of holding them accountable for ignoring us.
So
@AOC
just hot pwned by her own party last night.
The entire progressive caucus should take this opportunity to leave the party and become independents.
If you heard about the GameStop thing--the Melvin Capital over-leveraged short-sell position--and the Subreddit "short squeeze" and tweeted in support or even worse, bought stock, know that Elizabeth Warren has officially accused you of a crime (fraud) in a letter to the SEC.
@ScottishCommie
The liberal cliche that “violence is always wrong” has made self defense unthinkable…
…but only on the Left.
The rightwing will resort to violence every time, because they don’t listen to liberal cliches, and they know the left won’t defend themselves.
Very “useful” cliche!
@HydrationChimp
@danglinghemmie
Well, gay republicans *KNEW* they really meant it, but they got tax breaks and business incentives, so they were ok with it at the time.
Just got a letter from the NY Board of Elections. The Greens are no more.
Congratulations to all the Leftists, in NY, who voted for Biden. Mission Accomplished.
I hate to break it to ya, but absolutely nothing—and I mean nothing—is ever going to get better in the US, ever. It’s only going to get worse, until it ends, either the US, or humanity. Nothing’s going to get better, ever.
The Left gained nothing by electing Joe Biden. No harm-reduction, nothing. Instead, you all moved the party, and the country to the right...during a pandemic and a depression; proving they can always move rightward, with your support.
The progressive caucus has 94 seats. They can leverage that power, and if you are telling me that leveraging power loses them that leverage power somehow, you haven’t thought about it.
@grain99806254
@jscros
Scapegoats aren’t usually by voluntary agreement (dude knows his whole job is to absorb blame), but point taken: it’s all a farce, and *none of them* actually want $15.
If the Market crashed right now, no one in the fucking real world would give a shit at first, and then the whole world would slowly see that no one should ever give a shit. The stock Market is fake; the “Depression” was fucking optional and imposed on us by the rich. Eat the rich
@NydeaG
The rest of the world wasn’t divided. Most of this country’s population wasn’t either. Slavery was unpopular, except with the conservative-right. The problem was—and always is—that we give the minority conservative-right too much power. But yes, abolitionists had to fight.
@CateSJewels
@barneytortola
Middle school should be abolished. No one learns anything anyway. Just take 3 years off to get your hormones in order, come back for high school. The world would be a better place with no middle school.
@mtaibbi
@LezBruss
@AlannaVagianos
Yeah, absolutely no one actually thought that “political censorship on twitter” was really your beat; you only work for the rightwing.
@TStaxYPH
@Ancommiey
Abolition is about particular institutions.
There could still be law, and law enforcement. It would look very different from how it is now.
It wouldn’t have its own separate class and culture.
The idea that Trump was a uniquely bad president is absurd; he wasn’t even the worst president of this century (GWB was).
This absurd idea let’s people think that electing a GWB democrat is somehow a victory, when it’s in fact an abject failure.
@breakify547
@JStein_WaPo
But they don’t know the details of how obviously a scam it is, nor how absolutely cruel it is.
People around the world have to come to terms with the fact that the US isn’t merely eccentric, but truly evil.
@matthewkassel
Yeah, alright, it’s “against” then. I stand with the progressive Jewish diaspora against theocratic state Zionism and apartheid. Easy choice.
@justinboldaji
4th grade; teacher started giving candy to “the most improved” each week, but not to those that couldn’t improve, like the straight A students. The next week I got a D, then a C+, then a C, etc. This bad habit ruined my life.
@ITALKSARCASM
@davenewworld_2
This isn’t about training. This is about Abuse of Power and Crimes. This is a criminal with a badge. No one argues that bank robbers should get “more training” instead of jail time.
@mjs_DC
I really want you to understand that the Left was totally correct about this, and you weren’t, for very important reasons, and it’s not accidental or coincidental.
Schrödinger’s Centrist, where you have a Centrist in a box, and it’s neither the left nor the right, until you take it out of the box, and it is always the right.
@iYxI__
@SpaceSandT
@cutiececii
@tylah_carpenter
@MarkHamill
Gay people cannot get married in Israel, so I don’t know how the fuck he imagines this is a point in his favor of supporting the fascists in Israel, in their continuing genocide against the Palestinian people.
@adfontesmedia
The reason this is an absolute waste of time and misleading in itself is because your “left-right” axis is PARTISAN (blurs ideological differences), and your up-down axis is based on a totally fake “objectivity.” Is less than useless, it’s actively harmful.
It’s a weird modern idea that anyone but the very rich should pay taxes. It’s just historically weird.
Rich people should pay taxes, and ONLY rich people should pay taxes.
Progressive taxation should start at the 90th percentile, and no one in the bottom 90% should pay taxes.
@justinboldaji
My sixth grade teacher was better, as I spent every class with my arms folded and head down on my desk as if I was sleeping, but he told me it’s fine, because it *works for me* and I ace every test. Unfortunately, every other teacher sucked.
@lyrm2002
@SaeedDiCaprio
Yeah man, my landlord died in an accident once, and the building crumbled to dust like a vampire getting staked. Weird how housing only exists as long as the head vampire lives.
People are misunderstanding what this death cult fascist means by “stand with Israel.” They mean, give token support, to fulfill a prophecy, which allows them into heaven. Meanwhile, everyone else goes to hell, including the Jews. And they want to cause the end times by the way.
@dancohen3000
@jordanbpeterson
@netanyahu
Respectfully, can you please explain to me the Palestinian view on this? As a Christian, I understand that I'm to stand with Israel for obvious reasons but I just want to understand each side.
@alan_thicc
@weaseljug
@tyelland
Most people (erroneously) define “working class” as whatever feels like it’s culturally “blue collar” in their own frame of reference, or worse, anything that can be described (however loosely) as “a job” (like managing their own properties and/or stock porfolios), lol.
These are the fascists. This is what they look like. They are rightwing lawyers. They have million dollar homes. They are “small-business conservatives” and Professional/Managerial. They are “well respected” suburban Republicans. These are the fascists.
Either around 150 million people in the US get their pitchforks, or humanity goes extinct.
Judging by what people are doing, I guess extinction is everyone's choice.
@smg1138
@ZBooksTX
Meh. They are correct tho. Partisanship and party loyalty is misguided. We need to remember that its always the conservative-right who are the problem, and ignore party.
Further “organizing” for support, “door knocking on issues,” isn’t what we need.
You can get M4A to 99% popular support, and it would literally have “statistically non-significant impact” on the agenda of our politicians.
Poverty kills almost a million people in the US every year. The most wealth country to ever exist. It needlessly kills an order of magnitude more people globally. All to coerce poor people to go along with capitalism against their interests.
Capitalism doesn’t creat wealth, it redistributes it, from the poor to the wealthy. What it creates is concentration of wealth, and poverty. That’s the only thing it does.
@IrateMaxwell
@axios
It’s Joe Biden: he really believes that, and he wants fiscal conservatism to win, despite reality. This is what the people voted for unfortunately.
My theory is that the ruling class (correctly) understands the world is doomed, and so are just raping and pillaging the planet, because it literally doesn’t matter.
What we should be doing is stoping them, and seizing everything they have to comfort the victims in the end times
@sunbro_4life
@_SJPeace_
This is the correct level of restraint. When dealing with black people, the cops simply murder them instead. This is here for contrasting that fact.
What I hear when people say, “We can agree to disagree on things like taxes” I think about the fact that 875,000 people in the US are killed by poverty, every year. Even in good years. 875,000 dead people. That’s 7 million dead, during Obama’s admin. That seem trivial to you?
@queersocialism
I’ve been saying that the idea that capitalists are only, or even primarily concerned with profits is a mistake. Their primary, and only concern is class domination; money is just how they do it. They are willing to give up the money to keep the power.
@mjs_DC
This isn’t merely an “I told you so” moment.
There are fundamental things that you believe that cause you to be wrong, and fundamental things that we know that cause us to be correct.
It’s important that you figure it out, for the future.