zegermans posted:

btw if you can give me evidence of DSA being at that impromptu Beauregard destruction I'll take back everything I said about them being slacktivist.

zegermans posted:

W E L P

I love the DSA now

zegermans posted:

There are worse things

the bitcoin of weed posted:

AGAINST each other, you say? I'm afraid they haven't made it that far yet

https://twitter.com/Salon/status/898235602180734976

Sneakster posted:

I don't want to focus on shaking my first at the democrats in the Trump thread, but there's no need to mince words in the bitching about democrats thread.

They're not going to stop it.

This is the absolutely most important time to do so.

There is no alt-left, everything associated is a completely mainstream and popular view. Centrists via the role they play in the unfolding power struggle between fascists and socialists are in fact an existential danger. The democrats will pander to racism to protect the interests of capital to prevent economic reforms, which in turn will feed the sectarian violence that's going to consume the country. It's completely reasonable to take the Clintons to task over this, for fucks sake they escalated the drug war and executed the enfeebled to let racists know they're own their side. I don't think the people who sold out desperate women and children are going to care about the damage done to the country fermenting ethnic sectarian movement due to suppressing economic populism.

I mean the following in the most dramatic way possible, because I'm reasonably sure its basically just true and not even hyperbole.

Seizing the levers of power in the Democratic party as fast as possible is the absolute most critical factor for the future of our country.

This is no longer about just idealistically wanting policy that helps people and improves lives. We're effectively in a great depression for people under 30. The alt right is the nihilistic violent reaction to losing prestige and expectations. Prester Jane brought up states like Ohio with no public transit infrastructure and white super majorities: energy costs are going to magnify the effect of automation knocking the legs out from under labor especially in places like that. At this rate I'm willing to bet social security will be scrapped as the Boomers die off and their health problem epidemics have catastrophic costs to medicare.

If we don't radically alter our economic power structure predicated on brutalizing people seen as disposable in an age of technology that renders more and more people superfluous to its function, there is going to be directed ethnic sectarian violence to seize remaining capital just as brutal as the conditions that precipitated it. The fascist threat is real, they can't be reformed, and they'll only grow in number as economic prospects dwindle for the many.

Capitalism has failed, and the fascists are here NOW.

Perhaps the DSA can institute policy we'd like, and maybe we're headed to the collapse of the Republican party and split of the Democratic party. Even if it would work out that tidily....

Democratic reforms are not going to outpace a fascist power grab

The GOP is completely owned by an insane blood cult of 400 people, the healthcare debacle is proof they do not have a line. The Octogenarians in control of the Democratic party do not understand what their compromises are causing and do not care what they leave behind even if its in flaming wreckage because it is not their problem.

The longer it takes to achieve reforms the more numerous and entrenched fascists will become.

Seizing control of the Democratic party is the only feasible means to achieve reforms to prevent a growing fascist insurrection and the centrists will let the fascists turn the country into a war zone long before they willingly compromise the interests of capital.

We are really, really hosed.

SKULL.GIF posted:

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

what is the obsession with charter schools anyway?

both parties have a weird attachment to them, I assume it's just another way of stealing tax money for those that are well connected?

tower time posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3266659&userid=190569

zegermans posted:

In Germany it's illegal to be a nazi and it's not some sort of horrifying hellscape of government excess. Some people don't deserve human rights afforded others because they forfeited their humanity by adhering to destructive ideas.

Lastgirl posted:

anime was right posted:

25% of the voting populace who can vote, does not

25% of the voting populace is ineligible to vote for one reason or another

like, 25% of them voted democrat, 25% voted republican

one thing that still bothers me is why are dems not trying to get felons the right to vote? they are overwhelmingly minorities and the disenfranchised. 1 in 12 of legal citizens cannot loving vote. thats over 8% of the population who cannot participate. these people are counted for districting purposes too lol

Heaps of Sheeps posted:

Ideal primary system imo is local worker collectives/unions electing delegates to attend a national congress that votes on the whole nation's nominee because there's only 1 correct party.

Serf posted:

also love the conflation of "rural" with "white"

most poor country folks i know around here are black

zegermans posted:

I'm the IT guy. That is to say I'm the guy that people talk to to keep the network running and fix computers, but I don't get paid for it, I'm actually a chemist. Capitalism.


this company made 5 million dollars last year profit off of 60 employees and refused to pay for our insurance premium hike this year, choosing instead to gimp our plan.


sidenote anyone know any good unionization resources

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

even the doggos feel the bern

loquacius posted:

Ironically enough, the ones that hold up are mostly the ones that aren't 3D (Ogre Battle 64, Mischief Makers, etc)

today's 3D games have spoiled us and we can't deal with everything being made out of like 10 triangles each, with maybe a 64x64 texture mapped onto them if you're lucky

there are exceptions though (mario, OoT come to mind)

Early FPSes like Goldeneye especially don't hold up though because it's basically impossible for a modern gamer to play a first-person game without either a mouse or two analog sticks

docbeard posted:

I'm starting to think that Russia actually did something really clever. (I consider this marginally more likely than the supposed American Deep State doing something really clever.)

A few rumors here, a few transparent failed 'hacking' attempts there, a few twitterbots and facebook ads over here, and suddenly everyone is accusing everyone else of having been subverted by the Russian Cybermenace and they didn't actually have to do anything much at all.

They done Monsters On Maple Streeted us.

steinrokkan posted:

are... are the liberals turning on minority activists because being critical of the system means treason?

Scent of Worf posted:

4D printing

ThndrShk2k posted:

Gotchya right here fam

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Leaving institutions before they crumble is how most executives move up.

Shear Modulus posted:

obama should have realized thag the costs of a republican president would have been so terrible that he needed to play it safe and back bernie, who would have won

Shear Modulus posted:

that's one fat dog

Nevvy Z posted:

-ards isn't a suffix I see commonly. Is this meant to be like -ites or -ians?

Captain_Maclaine posted:

communard.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

In retrospect, I should've used the guillotine emoticon in tribute to the commune.

Willa Rogers posted:

speaking of The Honorable Tom Perez:

The Nastier Nate posted:

A bunch of hotel and restaurant lobbyists? Probably all of them

Nevvy Z posted:

TIL that people are not responsible for their own choices, especially if those people voted for Donald Trump. That's what the "leftists" are saying.

Nevvy Z posted:

"Hillary should have gotten more white women to vote for her instead of Trump"- People who constantly denounce centrist triangulation.

Nevvy Z posted:

Those stupid women, wanting a woman to speak at a women's convention instead of Bernie-sama.

Frijolero posted:

This isn't an anime thread you loving nerd.

anime was right posted:

when they have too much power, then that system's rife with rot

Barry Convex posted:

https://twitter.com/jonathancohn/status/918944630388948992

Frijolero posted:

So to solve race inequality you have to tackle class

It's almost like a group of people have been saying this all along for decades.

Over Easy posted: