• Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)
    Lmao the US military are mall cops of oil corporations.
  • Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)
    It's hard to imagine any more uninformed and ignorant takes than "neoliberalism = more free trade". The idea that there has not been a neoliberal program is the stupidest of them all.
  • Currently Reading
    ↪Maw
    Yay! I get two books from them everytime this happens lol. But yes I have this vague memory of it being 50% last year.

    ↪Manuel
    All my 'booky' friends are really into this. Rave reviews all around. I might read it in a decade or two.
  • What is metaphysics? Yet again.
    A quick one: metaphysics is chronophobia.
  • Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)
    ↪Count Timothy von Icarus
    I mostly agree except I don't think Biden has much of an agenda except for having stopped Bernie, after which he - or whichever new corporate shill they put in his place - can in good conscience hand the presidency back to the Republicans on a silver platter. I think he's quite content with passing whatever middling, barely-there bills he can waddle though, provided they include tax cuts for the rich and new taxes on the poor. Also am alot less optimistic than you about the resistance to Trump among the Repubs - I think he's still their man.
  • Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)
    ↪ssu
    To be fair everything you said ought to be a given. The only thing that would be a surprise is if all of what you just said was not the case.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    Comrade :strong:
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Oh it didn't take long :rofl:

    "Instead of taxing billionaires, we'll put a tax on things that ordinary people use all the time".


    "A NEW VERSION of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning. The updated legislation made up the revenue lost by going light on those billionaires by expanding tobacco taxes to additional nicotine products, replacing a tax that was highly progressive with one that is highly regressive."
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Manuel
    Eh. There's not much more to say at this point. I look forward to posting again when the democrats "concede" something else yet again, only to have fresh new old reasons why, nonetheless, they must be supported (otherwise you're bad!).
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Manuel
    We can talk about it, but not in this thread.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Two tracks. One goes off a cliff. The other goes off a cliff but it flies little BLM flags. — Xtrix
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Me and Noam Chomsky. — Xtrix

    Chomsky can't even get linguistics right, to think he can get politics right.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    It's cute how you think describing literally the same action differently is supposed to mean anything.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    contrary to everything I've written for the last two years on this very forum — Xtrix

    Lmao "Vote for Biden vote for Biden" is about the entire content of your posting history. If you can't even get that right, no wonder you can't get literally anything else either.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    It's true that in capitalism you ought to shamelessly do what you can to survive. It's also true that the idea that 'voting for Biden' is a survival tactic - rather than moving us further in the direction of planetary death - is a crock. Biden has been a lodestar of capitalism for literal decades. The idea that one can be 'anticapitalist' while guilting others into throwing themselves behind him is North Korean style madness.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    Look, you're a Biden supporter. It's OK to say so. You support capitalism. It's OK to say so too. You also support destroyers of the environment. It's OK. You can come out of the closet. No one will judge you. In fact in this modern environment you will get ahead.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Likewise, the political reality of the United States -- a two-party system -- is equally a reality. — Xtrix

    You know the function of politics right? To change reality? And no, not voting for Biden - or whatever phony corporate shill they put in his place - will not leave people homeless and starving. So you can leave this non-sequitur in the bin where you found it.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Voting against Trump is not supporting Biden. — Xtrix

    "Voting for Biden is not supporting Biden".

    And supposing my paraphrasing is not exactly right, which it is, this lowest-common-denominator hostage-taking crap is exactly the problem.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Me too, which is why I voted against Trump. — Xtrix

    ... to support people who ruin lives and ensure they get to do so.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Seems like it's a crappy position to be in either way. — John McMannis

    It is absolutely a crappy position. But it is one engineered by the parties themselves. I'm not offering easy solutions. I don't think there are. People are going to get hurt. People are getting hurt. But I do think that what needs to not be done is to continue letting these parties put people in crappy positions.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    You're against the two-party system — Xtrix

    Nope. I'm against supporting people who ruin lives, and more than that, ensuring they get to do so.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    There is no better or worse in this case — Xtrix

    There is definitely worse - which is perpetuating a by-now 60 or so year cycle.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    So now it's back to both parties being an equal impediment. — Xtrix

    The democratic party functions as one-half of a two-part cycle whose overall effect is to ruin lives for everyone. — StreetlightX

    I'll keep quoting this so long as you need dude. Take your time. I'll even type slow for you. I'm a big supporter of helping people with learning disabilities.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    It seems to me that the real difference is just whether we should vote at all, right? — John McMannis

    Not just voting. I think both parties ought to be actively opposed and called out at every point. I'm not against voting. Vote how you like. But be aware of what it is you're voting for, and the effects it will have. I'm about dispelling illusions that people like to tell themselves.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    If we're too ignorant to understand which party is a greater impediment to the values we claim to hold — Xtrix

    Both parties, in cahoots with one another. I realize this is really hard to get your head around because you're basically an abuse victim with Stockholm syndrome, but sometimes you have to go hard with trauma victims.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    guess that'll change the two-party system! — Xtrix

    As distinct from literally supporting the two-party system.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    , means working against efforts to stop it from happening. — Xtrix

    Right, so, working against the democratic party. Got it.

    Ensure the worst happens — Xtrix

    Nah, I would rather not support the democratic party.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    And ensure the Republican party gets into office — Xtrix

    Same same. I just choose not to suppport the party that staves off all efforts to stop this from happening. And I think others should be free to do the same without the political blackmail.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    That's why it's important to support Bernie and other progressive candidates. — Xtrix

    "We need to support ineffective candidates that do nothing and are undermined by their own party apparatus and whose end result is to entrench the cycle of Republican victories while pulling the country to the right".

    Maybe not. Maybe not vote for Joe "we need a strong Republican party" Biden. Joe "I wrote the Patriot Act" Biden. Joe "more oil platforms than the Republicans" Biden.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    As distinct from the logic of Democrats rolling out the red carpet for Republicans on their own?
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    You pushed against voting against Trump in '16 and '20. One result — Xtrix

    Yes this is my fault and not a fuck-up democratic party lmao.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪James Riley
    You are a nobody to me whose existence I will forget in about half a minute, I could not care less.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    You never say shit about the Republicans — James Riley

    Yeah such a mystery why I'm only discussing the party in power right now. Sherlock was a stretch, I guess.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    3 Supreme Court picks and 54 appellate judgeships later -- the decisions of which all citizens have to live with for the next 30 years -- and still the choice to push a button against Trump is too difficult. Imagine. — Xtrix

    Lmao now you've changed the subject entirely.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪James Riley
    That would be the other part of the two-part cycle, yes. I see your powers of inference are doing wonders for you, Sherlock.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    Have the courage to say so clearly, — Xtrix

    The democratic party functions as one-half of a two-part cycle whose overall effect is to ruin lives for everyone. — StreetlightX

    ???
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    O нет, меня поймали!
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪James Riley
    The democrats do not need me to undermine their psuedo-agenda. They are perfectly capable and willing, by all available evidence, of doing it on their own. But sure, I am the issue.
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    "Plenty can be done... but if you don't vote for my preferred flavour of planet destroyers then you're a nihilist because nothing can be done waaaaa".
  • The Inflation Reduction Act
    ↪Xtrix
    "I don't know what politics means outside of party politics, therefore, nothing can be done. This is definitely not a reflection on me. Nihilism waaa".
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