We should fight back

Yes, and the hard part is getting the establishment to allow them to build that trust and support instead of stifling like the classic American leftist example of Bernie

Relevant xkcd

Specific to elections: provide a principled left wing candidate with a platform that people can hear

For real substantial change: by taking away power from the powerful and giving it to the people

Most people agree with most leftist ideas (at least in theory), they’ve just been misinformed about what those ideas are and their true practicality

This seems to reinforce the idea of centrism being a losing strategy

When I say politics I include things like struggles with inflation and laws that harm you and global warming and working conditions and much more. I think that it’s good to engage thoughtfully with the people we surround ourselves with

I think many workplaces function better when workers are able to develop camaraderie by talking and joking about things that aren’t strictly related to work

I think some politics is healthy to talk about in certain work situations. Definitely not the red vs blue tribal nonsense, but discussing and understanding material conditions

Acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity.

A change in direction is a change in velocity

In this comic, the woman has hair whereas the man just has floppy skin

Unarmed social workers, unarmed investigators, better social safety nets, community. Most of what you think we need police for wouldn’t be necessary in a socialist and especially communist future when people have their needs met. Modern policing started in the 19th century, we didn’t need it before and we definitely don’t need the militarized version we have now.

What good does a cop do now that wouldn’t be done better by someone with narrower focus and training?

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None at all, no sick, no holiday, no federal holiday, absolutely no PTO. If I don’t go in I simply don’t get paid.

Nope, Covid is the only reason Trump lost 2020

America should move to oust the DNC

You can’t build much with 2 bricks, so maybe I’ll throw both

Voting for democrats isn’t going to end the two party system

Yup

I would like to point out for all the libs in the audience, that this includes many/most of you. The article specifically points out Biden. Which would include his supporters. It would also include Hillary and Kamala and their supporters. “Moderates” are centrists who want a strong right wing. “Centrists” are closeted right wingers. Progressives aren’t apart of this but you’re close enough that I bet there’s some overlap.

Can someone link citation(s) to verify this for Roman history?

OP is talking about tankies and ML and how he doesn’t like them, but the meme he posted doesn’t describe those.