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Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

nothing can be done

we are witnessing the fermi paradox

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Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

what if global warming is a deliberate inoculation on the part of the owners of this planet to attempt to blunt the effects of the clearly inevitable nuclear winter?

Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Now also bear in mind that Britain actually has some loving laws that mandate press neutrality during an election. They were ignored with impunity. America has no such laws to even ignore so how do you think that will go? (I do think, that the American press somehow manages to be less poo poo than the British press, but we'll see.) Now you go ahead and tell me not only how, but why the rest of us ought to fight on such uneven ground? Be specific. Why should the left feel obligated to fight these battles, battles which are not just necessary from a social and economic justice standpoint, but indeed from the standpoint of saving human civilization, on ground wholly owned and controlled by the people they're fighting? The people who want to see the entire human race save for themselves in chains and who will irreversibly degrade this planet's ability to sustain life in order to achieve that goal?

Pretty much. The American media is only playing coy right now. If Bernie Sanders ever starts to look like he's in a real position to win, we will see all factions of the capital class united against a candidate in a way that basically hasn't happened ever in our lives. The goal would be to engineer a McGovern type of loss to neuter electoral leftism for the next 3 decades, and the Electoral College plus FPTP makes that exceedingly easy.

The UK election is pretty much a demonstration of that process.

I had hoped naively that the internet circumventing mainstream news and increasing radicalization of younger generations would be enough to overcome that, but it clearly isn't. The only way to win electoralism is for the economy to poo poo the bed at the right time... and again the owners of this planet are also strategic about controlling oil prices and interest rates to pad their numbers and hurt their opponents during election season. We need to be working right now to coordinate a general strike to shut down the economy.

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