Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) re-upped his vow to boycott “war criminal” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and again slammed the leader’s handling of the Israel-Ha…
But there’s no reason we have to lower our standards because trump is worse.
Like, if you had a nice steak dinner, and I just take it and offered you a shit sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly, yeah it’s an obvious choice between the less worse options.
So if it happens once you just take the pb&j rather than skip dinner.
But when it’s three times in a row, you’re gonna start to wonder if the only real solution is to do something about me takingn your steak every night. And maybe the reason is because the people who own the peanut butter and jelly companies paying me isn’t just a coincidence.
And you’re tired of putting in all the work and cost of buying steak and grilling it, and never getting to eat it.
While I just slap together a PB&J then get to eat your steak.
If we gave everyone the option of a shit sandwich or a steak, even the vegans who don’t eat meat for ethical reasons would probably vote against the shit sandwich.
This is a similar argument for accelerationism in Marxism. That we should make the world as capitalist as possible because the system will fail quicker and get replaced by something more just.
It’s hard for me to believe that this would actually work in either case. The destruction in the meantime would be too great and it may reach a point where we can’t climb back. In the case of Trump, he wants to be a dictator, and he may push voting rights so far in one direction that the people won’t have a say at all.
I want to stop both parties from moving further to the right
If I keep voting for one no matter how far right they go, then there’s no pressure to ever stop, slow down, and especially not start moving left.
I’ve tried a lot over 20 years, nothing works, if anything the party has become more antagonistic to progressives.
Will they listen and move left?
Probably not.
But what else can I do that has a better chance?
Have you seen Biden’s response to protests? Primaries are a joke, my only option on ballot this year was Biden, and he had crowned himself months earlier anyways. And it’s already been multiple cycles since the DNC told a judge it’s totally cool for them to rig it, because the results are nonbinding.
They canceled a fucking states primary this year…
That was a big fucking deal
So seriously, if you have any better solution I’d love to here it
Biden has put zero pressure on Israel…
But there’s no reason we have to lower our standards because trump is worse.
Like, if you had a nice steak dinner, and I just take it and offered you a shit sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly, yeah it’s an obvious choice between the less worse options.
So if it happens once you just take the pb&j rather than skip dinner.
But when it’s three times in a row, you’re gonna start to wonder if the only real solution is to do something about me takingn your steak every night. And maybe the reason is because the people who own the peanut butter and jelly companies paying me isn’t just a coincidence.
And you’re tired of putting in all the work and cost of buying steak and grilling it, and never getting to eat it.
While I just slap together a PB&J then get to eat your steak.
If we gave everyone the option of a shit sandwich or a steak, even the vegans who don’t eat meat for ethical reasons would probably vote against the shit sandwich.
This is a similar argument for accelerationism in Marxism. That we should make the world as capitalist as possible because the system will fail quicker and get replaced by something more just.
It’s hard for me to believe that this would actually work in either case. The destruction in the meantime would be too great and it may reach a point where we can’t climb back. In the case of Trump, he wants to be a dictator, and he may push voting rights so far in one direction that the people won’t have a say at all.
It’s not accelerationism…
It’s the opposite
I want to stop both parties from moving further to the right
If I keep voting for one no matter how far right they go, then there’s no pressure to ever stop, slow down, and especially not start moving left.
I’ve tried a lot over 20 years, nothing works, if anything the party has become more antagonistic to progressives.
Will they listen and move left?
Probably not.
But what else can I do that has a better chance?
Have you seen Biden’s response to protests? Primaries are a joke, my only option on ballot this year was Biden, and he had crowned himself months earlier anyways. And it’s already been multiple cycles since the DNC told a judge it’s totally cool for them to rig it, because the results are nonbinding.
They canceled a fucking states primary this year…
That was a big fucking deal
So seriously, if you have any better solution I’d love to here it
Just to be clear: you’re saying your solution is to vote for Trump though?