“I am sorry, papa. It is time for ze spotlighten to shift to mine self.”

That would be a diabolical way to shift the MAGAts to his side. Just spin the story as him saving them from the one who betrayed them.

I am just glad that the price increase means less money toward the company from people who just bought it because it was cheap.

Feel free to add more information if you want to educate others.

This is so sad!

https://masjidalaqsa.com/boycott/hershey-company-israel-bds

“Some jobs will be totally, totally gone (but not mine). You can totally trust AI to make the same or better medical decisions than professionals (but I wouldn’t)!”

Both reform and “revolution” have their risks.

With reform, you are betting on a slow fight with less suffering and slow progress.

-Risk: Constant pressure from the right/ruling class will overwhelm any progress made.

With “revolution” you are wagering that a major amount of suffering will result in faster progress.

-Risk: Uncertainty. You cannot guarantee that the “good guys” will come out on top. And that is assuming America is operating in a vacuum. There are major superpowers who would absolutely love to take the land and resources we have. As well as others who would love to get a blow in for the suffering we have inflicted on them.

I am going to hold out hope for reform until USA’s Zohran Mamdani Arc is over. If he is elected and able to reform NY, I will be staying on the reform side, since that will prove it is possible with enough time and effort.

Thank you for having this conversation and being willing to continue it.

I would caution you about your wording when discussing this in the future because phrasing mass suffering as, “a simple math equation” sounds horribly callous.

Is it truly that hard to find an image of a couple in ski masks online?

So true, the Democrats had a fucking easy ass win all lined up and threw it so hard. 1.6B in campaign funds and they ran on, “We are changing nothing, but at least we aren’t republicans.”

Everyone below the upper middle class knows the government is not working for the people. People voted for trump because he ran on change. We know he is a liar and using politically uneducated people to push the right wing agenda, but the primary message of his campaign was what people wanted. And he won.

3rd party/non-voters didn’t help, but the loss is primarily on the Democrats.

If he legitimately tries, that is enough for me.

I can almost guarantee you that both corporations and the right wing will try to stop or reverse anything he does. If he shows that the Republicans oppose these extremely popular initiatives, it might cause a massive swing of voters, who believed trump’s campaign promises, to shift over to the left.

https://gothamist.com/news/how-voters-in-trump-districts-helped-mamdani-win-the-democratic-primary

That would be accelerationism. The attached link might not completely match your views, but what you described aligns with it.

I was considering adopting this ideology during the presidential election and either voting for trump or not at all, but I decided against it. Adopting this view means you are discounting the sheer amount of human suffering that would be involved in the process because, “The ends justify the means.”

Yes there is suffering right now, I am not discounting that. If you care about people, I would recommend taking the slow route of reform that will get us to a better place with enough time and effort.

You cannot deny that progress has been made over the last 100 years. It may not be much, but life is much better than it used to be for a lot of people. Not to say life is good, just to say we have been SLOWLY stepping forward.

https://pols.sites.haverford.edu/studentvoices/what-is-accelerationism/

I am volunteering at my local DSA chapter to try to affect positve change in the direction of my views. So, what steps are you taking in the real world to make real change in the US?

It is great to have ideals, but if all you do is talk about how, “X is not possible and we actually need to do Y”, you discredit those who are actually putting in effort to make a change and discourage people from even trying.

They had it coming, being baby shaped and all.

And that would be your opinion. Do you belive there is another path of action that can be taken that would result in better living standards for the majority of people in America?

This post is talking about co-opting the D party. Which is exactly what Mamdani would be doing if he follows through.

If Zohran Mamdani gets elected and actually follows through with his campaign promises, this is factually incorrect. I am holding on to that last glimmer of hope.

A dollar, but it was just like 1/4 of a ripped USD???

I killed the Christian god and got a quarter.

Dog was a paid actor

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An extrovert?

Spoiler alert: Dumpy will get what he wants with little to no resistance.