If you want anything to change, you need to take effective actions. The consequence politicians face by taking ineffective actions is maybe not winning their race. The consequence our neighbors face by taking ineffective actions is the erosion of their civil rights.

If you actually want to pressure politicians, you do it by contacting them directly to inform them of their failings, they're not just going to magically know why you didn't vote or vote third party.

Protest voting doesn't apply the pressure you think it does.

It doesn't matter what they said or pushed for. There were two known commodities, Kamala and Trump, one of them was going to win. Everyone knew what Trump would do. Whether Kamala would have done anything to improve the situation overseas is an unknown, but I guarantee there was a better chance of positive change had she won.

Anyone that based their voting off of the DNC instead of their own eyes, again, is an idiot.

STOP POSTING TWEETS WITHOUT DATE STAMPS!

When you vote in racist people, racist things will happen.

"You must accept this boot to the neck or we let the crazy guy shoot you," isn't the slam dunk argument you think it is.

If you actually want to pressure politicians, you do it by contacting them directly to inform them of their failings

Sure, that's a thing you should do

they're not just going to magically know why you didn't vote or vote third party

They actually expend substantial effort and sums of money to find this out, there's nothing magical about it.

Protest voting doesn't apply the pressure you think it does.

On the other hand, voting for them anyway if they do something absolutely abhorrent and beyond any kind of humanity tells them they can get away with anything and is just a race to the bottom.

I guess US citizens are then in a financial situation similar to what US foreign policy has encouraged in several regions of the world.

Anyone can downvote all they want, but US interventionism has had terrible consequences that most US citizens are not even aware of, yet people push back, they resist, despite much greater poverty than most people in the US have to suffer.

I’m confident that US citizens can eventually do something concrete against their most recent criminal regime, of which there have been many. We haven’t even yet seen the level of pushback that was mounted during the war on Vietnam, and armed thugs are out there killing your citizens and kidnapping people off the streets.

I just hope that pushback comes sooner than later because history shows us that people outside the US tend to suffer much more due to US policy than people inside the US.

I was told living under Democrats and both parties are basically the same.

But I've been told Democrats are SO HORRIBLE that we have to allow felon pedophile fascists to run our country instead.

I mean Dems fumbled a single foreign affair topic, so it makes sense that we should just let masked unaccountable federal agents violate our Constitutional rights and murder American citizens.

write it on a paper? who doesn't remember single address without writing it down?

it is not really the point of the message, but it kinda is...

If memory weren't so tattered, people wouldn't be repeating history, though.

Use this as a training ground for avoiding government surveillance?

This has never stopped humanity from at least rhyming before

Why don’t you post something? POST SOME TWEETS AND INCLUDE DATE STAMPS!

They actually expend substantial effort and sums of money to find this out

And yet here we are, so clearly they're either drawing the wrong conclusions or they just don't care. Either way, it's not an effective strategy.

voting for them anyway if they do something absolutely abhorrent and beyond any kind of humanity tells them they can get away with anything and is just a race to the bottom.

Elections don't care about nominal votes, they only care about margins. Candidates don't get any extra powers if they win by 1 vote or 1 million. The race is taking place with or without you. You can help the ones moving slower, or resign yourself and your neighbors to the ones moving faster. But protest voting doesn't stop the race.

Write your representatives, protest, build dual power, organize your community, engage in direct action, run for local office; these are all productive strategies. Vote for ideal candidates in primaries. But in the actual election, vote strategically against the most abhorrent and least humane candidate, or you're liable to get them.

Sooner they get this national shutdown done, the easier it is.

Don't you think people deserve to vote for someone they actually support, rather than the least terrible option though?

Sure. That's not mutually incompatible with preferring the least terrible option to the most terrible though.

People view it as "Democrats don't deserve to win because they didn't have a good enough candidate", when they should be viewing it as "Democrats didn't field the candidate I deserve, but I still deserve better than the Republican".

How about the world cup

Lmfao I thought they meant eat the food jfc I am dumb. The worst part is, i've seen this tweet before, and I understood what it meant the first time. Pregnancy brain.

This time. I figured neighborhood must be an app like uber eats, and they're saying just act like the food is for yourself.

too bad there isnt a third option, like founding a new party or several.

Fox ratings silly.

Even the American left has had their national exceptionalism so deeply ingrained that they cant stop screaming "We're number 1!" while they are drowning.

Thats why they were the perfect mark. The idea that it could happen to them was so preposterous.

That literally is what we did and it didnt work. Kill them. So they can never do it again. The Soviets were right.

As someone who avoids X/Twitter like the plague, no.

Also not watching that.

And they're after our boundary waters too. I'm so fucking sick of them.

Start delivering to us citizens. Accidentally go to leo or republican houses

Who said they were?

There were many fumbles.

In addition to running a cop and prosecutor right after 2020 and the litany of broken promises there. It can not be understated how terrible the strategy was of promising to be even tougher on immigration than the current administration.

Iraq did not collapse due to the Baath party members taking over. It collapsed due too few competent people in positions of power. That opened up the prisons and allowed the Baath party members to take over. Killing them would not have stopped Iraq from collapsing, when the US left.

They don't care, they'll just say whomever they deported were MS13 members engaging in "violent pedophilia".

My wife. She's hopeless at remembering an address. She can remember every time I forgot to refill the toilet paper though.

They're not, they're delivering groceries to their neighbors??? Are we reading the same thing???

Lmfao what ?
First of all it's not Russia, it's the Soviet Union, whichh is an important discussion, and secondly they didn't want to kill all germans, but make sure denazification was fully done, with no risk of having a single nazi left in power.

You're saying it as if they made an outlandish proposal and it was rejected by the others; in reality they had control of East Germany and had no need for anyone's approval in their denazification efforts, which was successful.

Meanwhile nazis that werent notorious enough or part of the holocaust were basically put back in power in West Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

Soviet zone: From the beginning, denazification in the Soviet zone was considered a critical element of the transformation into a socialist society and was quickly and effectively implemented. Members of the Nazi Party and its organizations were often brutally beaten before being arrested and interned. The NKVD was directly in charge of this process and oversaw the camps. In 1948, the camps were placed under the same administration as the gulag in the Soviet government. According to official records, 122,600 people were interned; 34,700 of those interned in this process were considered to be Soviet citizens, with the rest being German

Let's math: 122600-34700= 87900 Germans.

Former Nazi officials quickly realized that they would face fewer obstacles and investigations in the zones controlled by the Western Allies. Many of them saw a chance to defect to the West on the pretext of anti-communism.
Conditions in the internment camps were terrible, and between 42,000 and 80,000 prisoners died.

Sure they never directly stated that they deliberately wanted to kill all the Nazi, but the result is still that they did kill a good chunk of them (between 50-90%) in the camps.

Well yeah. Who else could you possibly be talking about? Nobody is ruining their own country, that screenshot is about people in a warzone being invaded, not people who are intentionally harming themselves.

what

You blame victims of genocide for their own oppression, and now you're accusing me of being a bot. This is projection, as you have no humanity yourself.

Land of the free, not the land of free entry.

i have yet to attend a graduation ceremony where someone wasn't crying because they were getting deported the next day

The new underground railroad. Keep safe all.

Time to organize

If that's NOT another reason to study and read socialist theory, I DON'T know what is. Seriously! https://redsails.org/

At this point, people are making shit up