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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

but doesn’t history teach us that violent revolution more often just begets more violence than actually solves problems?

Nope! Look at the life expectancy increases under socialist countries, they mathematically have less death!

Also compare red terrors casualty numbers to standard operating casualty numbers. Like 20 million people die of capitalism caused deprivation a year worldwide today.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If it is wrong when the union troops kill natives, then it has to be wrong when the natives kill settlers! /s

Please read about settler colonialism, this isn't a symmetrical situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

DPRK trivia- the dprk has universal suffrage and secret ballot. The highest authority in the country is the Supreme people's assembly with 687 representatives.

US trivia: the US prohibits itself from arming governments credibly accused of significant humanitarian crimes, but then turns the other eye when it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge significant humanitarian crimes.

Like during the genocide in Palestine, where Biden keeps shipping weapons and Blinken has been told to or chosen to keep his eyes closed and his ears stuffed with cotton while his subordinates keep bringing reports of Israeli crimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

The Nazis couldn't have done the holocaust without IBM, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're more likely to get a socialist revolution than democrats and Republicans getting rid of FPTP at a significant enough level to matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the end, a populist agenda like he’s running,

Trump just straight up isn't a populist? Fascists are pseudo-populists at best. They don't actually care about democracy or what the majority want, just like liberals (using marxist definition of liberal)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

But the soviet union didnt dissolve from a civil war, there was a US sponsored presidential coup?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good faith efforts made by the party or by state and local dems who aren't party insiders?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I mean we have two parties fundamentally representing similar donor interests, they swap controlled opposition roles which is more convincing than one party constantly being controlled opposition.

The US, and bourgeois democracies in general, have less political variation than one party socialist democracies. In China you have everyone from liberals (right wingers) to Maoists in government. In the US you basically only have liberals and scratched liberals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

My personal belief is that is he’s elected, our contry is on course for a soviet style breakup.

What do you mean by this? We already have austerity politics, and there isn't a foreign superpower in control of most of our media apparatus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It is literally more likely for a socialist revolution to happen in the US than for us to use STV enough to choose the president that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The fact that your trans refugee friends continue to suffer is deplorable, but does not mean lgbt don’t have more rights now.

Trans people are experiencing low key genocide but we also have more rights now?

Things are better for some people and still desperately need to improve for many others.

Things are desperately worse for some people and have improved slightly for others.

Genocide of trans people > gay marriage on the impact on the queer community

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