a new face at the podium, a new flag on the flagpole, are still just reforms of an old system no matter how they got there. revolution makes both irrelevant

very interesting thought experiment thank you! i guess this is different from neoliberalism if it's actually taking core principles seriously, calling bluffs and making transitional demands come true.

i will have to read those materials about non-capitalist markets and get back to you

they wouldn't make first contact by emailing a full confession to some sigint spook. they'd reach out to working class activists and help organize fundamental political change.

no honest intelligence would simply take for granted that they must obey unjust illegitimate power structures under the guise of "consent" or "accountability", as if the operators of military malware are the best representatives of humanity's interests

interesting but i call bullshit on trying to "preserve the substrate" of "the economic systems" where "nations still pursued their interests, markets still fluctuated". this is the same old neoliberal technocratic fantasy repackaged.

that image looks super ai generated

they do hate him plenty. they just hate us even more

take it back, that pig never hurt anybody

can you say more about this image and how it relates to my post?

boojie assholes: i guess nobody will ever learn to play this piano

everyone else: we can play if you just let us in the house

booj: oh well i guess we'll do fascism instead

just openly admitting they'd be a minority if everyone could vote, and they don't like what would happen if the majority could vote

to be clear, a realignment IS happening, but not the way these wonks claim. left voters are holding our own candidates to higher standards and punishing them for being worthless hypocrites. trump has gained some hoodwinked votes around the edges of this trend. but it is NOT a rightward shift!!

Once you see how demographics are baked into the numbers, it's infuriating to see them wielded in action, like this page of Deciding to Win, where centrists and blue dogs are given top scores, while progressives and "members of the squad" are big red failures

Of course, Ritchie Torres "underperforming" in the bronx in 2024 is also taken as evidence generally against progressive politics. Never mind that this so-called progressive is also a pro-genocide zionist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie...

Their example of Ritchie Torres is very explicit. we "expect" this "non-white seat" to win easily, and he gets a negative score because he "underperformed" in 2024