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      No, a willingness to do it is what gives them the confidence to keep doing it. Keep up the Bernie or bust mentality until they bust.

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        Bernie is a smart guy and has urged his dumbass supporters to vote Democrat even if they aren’t as left as him because the alternative is a fascist nightmare that will tear the country down and try to take the rest of the world with it.

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          Your daily reminder that BlueMAGA liberals don’t consider Palestinians human

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      Yeah, nothing more important than maintaining the empire right? A bit of genocide is just a necessary part of being a “centrist”

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        Sadly the entire western world depends on the US as a stable and rational actor. This is bigger than you. But I guess you are willing to sacrifice other nations for ideological purity.

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          Sadly the entire western world depends on the US as a stable and rational actor.

          The “western world” is imperialist, and the rest of the world would be better off without the “stability” allowing it to plunder them.

          This is bigger than you.

          This is bigger than the imperial core, which represents a minority of the world in terms of population, landmass, natural resources, and production.

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          But I guess you are willing to sacrifice other nations for ideological purity.

          I’m not the one saying that we have to keep supporting genocide to maintain the nation destroying empire.

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          And who is offering a controlled demolition? Certainly not the genocidal “centrists”

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          Maintaining the [empire/power structure] is important

          Average western “leftist”

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      Voting for a centrist is voting for someone who will happily assist republicans as long as they get to also assist netanyahu.

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        If that is what it takes for American citizens to ever be able to Vote ever again, that is what needs to be done.

        You don’t understand that unless the Republicans get absolutely destroyed in the next elections, your democracy is gone!

        Once the republicans are out of the game, you can start voting for the progressives.

        Please note that I am aware that the candidates that claim to be centrist are still actually quite fascist, but because your electoral system is so flawed, this is the only option you have.

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          Once the republicans are out of the game, you can start voting for the progressives.

          Please note that I am aware that the candidates that claim to be centrist are still actually quite fascist, but because your electoral system is so flawed, this is the only option you have.

          you’re doing a bit here, right?

          you’re satirizing the “blue no matter who” people by saying explicitly what they’re saying implicitly (“vote for fascists, only they can save us from the other fascists”), right?

          anakin-padme-2

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          I understand all of that.

          I also will never trust centrist democrats again. I vote strategically, but I hate people who gloat about the situation.

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          A “democracy” that requires supporting genocide should be destroyed. And lol at “Once the republicans are out of the game”. When exactly is that going to be?

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            Your country still does not have the electoral system to support more than two parties.

            So what is the solution?

            1. vote the least genocidal party into power, and then call them out into being genocidal? Also make them fix their broken democracy.

            2. vote the literal fascists back into power, have all your voting rights revoked and become monarchal dictatorship?

            3. Luigi Mangione all the CEOs, fascists and powerbrokers. That is still a form of genocide, even if it is targeting arseholes.

            I think that these are not 3 different options, but maybe an order of escalations.

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              The answer is none of the above. The answer is revolution. Revolution is made by the people, which requires mass class consciousness. This can be worked towards via the age-old adage: educate, agitate, and organize. A working-class party that focuses on educating the masses, struggles alongside them on critical and salient issues, while delivering strong, Marxist-Leninist analysis of said issues, is how we develop the working class as a whole. The final part, organization, is how we turn our greatest strength, numbers, into a spear that cannot be stopped by even the strongest armor. The party is the spearpoint, it cannot make revolution, but it can steer one.

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              Luigi Mangione all the CEOs, fascists and powerbrokers. That is still a form of genocide, even if it is targeting arseholes.

              My god, fundamentally unserious person.

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      Centrists are “destroying the republic” too, capitalism is inherently unsustainable and cannot be saved. Revolutionary socialism is the only path forward, and if we do not succeed then we will decay into barbarism, no matter which capitalist party is at the helm.

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      Some of our “centrists” are the ones voting lock step with Republicans to do so.

      Also calling them “centrists” is just falling for the corporate psyop. They are conservative democrats. Not centrists.

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      Is it? If you are starving under a NeoLib government or starving under a Fascist government, you’re still starving. What does it matter if the “centrist” is destroying their republic slightly less slowly than the republican?

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        This is the point, and what centrists don’t get.

        Doesn’t matter which SJW flag you get to fly or not to fly if you’re working 100 hours a week at three jobs and are still living out of your car.

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      there are no centrists in the US though, republicans are the rabid dogs meant to make you stomach voting for more status quo establishment dems (both owned by the same oligarchs).

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        You’re right but you should probably vote for the establishment Dems if not for the sake of yourselves then for the sake of the rest of the western world, as it depends on you, sadly.

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          The western world is on a downfall because imperialism is moribund. The democrats cannot save imperialism, and therefore cannot save the west.

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              Both of what we said is true. The US is the imperial hegemon, and secondary imperialist powers like European countries depend on the US Empire for the hard power to continue to carry out imperialism.

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            Western liberal democracies are the most free and fair societies that have existed since the invention of agriculture. Just because yours sucks the tit of capitalism to the point that it has poisoned you doesn’t mean the rest of it deserves to go.

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              Sorry, I forgot that western liberals don’t consider non-westerners human, and would happily accept permeant oppression and genocide of the rest of the world so long as they get to have their treats