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Was ist denn mit der furchtbaren Wirtschaftspolitik der AfD? Der schrecklichen Außenpolitik? Der Spionage und der Propagandamühle für Russland? Der Europa-Feindlichkeit? Was ist mit der total verfehlten Verkehrspolitik? Mit der Einstellung der AfD zur Ungleichverteilung? Zu einer ausbeuterischen Arbeitspolitik die den Raubtierkapitalismus als Traumziel ausweist? Zu einer Kriminal-, Rechts- und Drogenpolitik die uns in die dunkle Zeit der 50er Jahre zurück führen will?

Ist ja nicht so dass die nur in wenigen Feldern Arschlöcher wären, die sind obendrein in allen Feldern gefährlich unfähig, verschwörungsbesessen, nationalistisch und hyperkapitalistisch.

Dafür können sie bald live miterleben wie die SPD europaweit die Chatkontrolle einführt! Yay...

Dude, just read their link. The Russian Soviet Republic from 1917 - 1933 (which also sported the hammer and sickle) was (for its time) extremely friendly to homosexual people.

They simply erroneously spoke of the precursor to the USSR as the USSR.

Given the topic it's not a big issue, especially since soviet republics as well as the hammer and sickle iconography predate the USSR by quite some time.

Steelmaning peoples arguments is cool, strawmaning them not.

I was very very lucky.

I turned 26 when I heard myself coughing like a 66 year old chainsmoker with cancerous lungs, found I was unable to run up stairs and out of breath after carrying groceries inside. I had to have a cig every morning so I would be able to have a shit at all, but if I did... that first drag sent me rushing to the bathroom, it got so bad, I had to light the first one while sitting on the loo, or i'd shit my pants.

That's when I found myself disgusted with myself. I stopped, I simply stopped. From 38 cigarettes per day to 0. I am so happy it worked, because I am a very easily tempted personality and tend towards addiction in anything that gives my brain pleasure.

It took a year before I completely stopped coughing and two years before I could run up those stairs again, but one day I simply realized "Oh my! I'm not out of breath. What... what happened? Oh, yeah I quit smoking! Damn this feels nice!"

He's gonna sit between his two Oscars and his Golden Globe and cry about it.

I absolutely support the right of Israel to exist and defend itself against Hamas. I just don't think that this sanctions the bombing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza or to pursue an aggressive settlement policy.

I am in favor of Israel.

I am strongly opposed to Netanyahu. Fuck that guy and his entire government.

Okay, yes, I see what you mean and can agree. Still I believe that this can only bring about meaningful change if it's part of an activist push for election reform.

The local level is important and easier to manage, because the power brokers, the keys to power are not that much more powerful than you are. But at a certain point the keys to power become way too influential. To reach the top in any party, you have to play by the parties rules and neither one will let you lessen their individual members influence. You would need wide ranging political agreement and cooperation (and good luck with that) or you have to change the game by redistributing power away from big players and back to the people. And that can imho. not be achieved in a highly partisan two-party system.

Or, maybe it can be, but the odds are incredibly stacked against you.

What's hard to understand? Maintain the current level of badness to not reach worse levels before meaningful change can be achieved.

"I want to change the way voting works" only brings positive change in a future where voting is still a thing.

Any fledgling political organization that participates in the system in a traditional way is either

a) stupid or b) delusional or c) sacrificing vulnerable peoples actual needs in favor of ideology or d) a false-flag operation designed to weaken the side they are ostensibly closer to

Any meaningful change can only occur outside the standardized channels. Inside the existing structure the math simply demands a two-party-system that will always favor the side that can both form the biggest coalition and dissuade the opposed voters from voting. Both parties have had problems with the coalition forming for a long time, so they try everything to dissuade opposed voters.

If you want meaningful change in the US, find a way to invest your activism not into who people vote for, but into changing how voting works.

First: The "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" is a band-aid that might help with warding against the worst excesses of far-right ideology, with it in place, it should be easier to ward against the white nationalist power grab and protect vulnerable people.

Second: Electoral reform in favor of ranked choice voting. With this in place, your goal to create viable alternative candidates will be basically met. Suddenly you don't HAVE to vote for the lesser evil. The math suddenly doesn't favor a two-party-system anymore.

Third: Implementing the Fair Representation Act to bring about ranked choice voting in then multi member districts. This counteracts gerrymandering and will make the representation much closer match the voters. No more taxation without representation for the plurality of citizens.

Fourth: Some form of true proportional representation. Open or closed list proportional representation would both help with SO many problems the US faces right now, it's absolutely bonkers.

P.S.: But in the meantime... all these goals are may be more or less opposed by most democrats, but they will never be implemented when the republicans further erode american democracy. So vote democrat if you want to have any chance of bettering circumstances, at all.

Carlin isn't wrong on the crucial parts.

The system is broken and cannot be fixed by voting. It must be dismantled and replaced.

But while we get started on the dismantling and replacing, maybe vote so that the current system doesn't deteriorate, break down and gets replaced by something worse before you have the chance to bring about meaningful and positive change.

Da ich ja keinerlei Tracking habe, weiß ich leider auch nicht genau, was beliebt ist und was nicht

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Tealk, du bist der Hammer, ich weiß schon warum ich auch diesen Monat wieder gespendet habe.