A satchel of Richards. *chef’s kiss*

It’s obvious to everyone here.

But completely unknown by the global MAGAts

Traitors.

And yet. Most of the country doesn’t know.

Most of the country still watches ads like it’s 1996.

Oh c’mon now, does that sound like something they’d do?

Some British twat blew a hole in the walls, and some other British twat scribbled “koofoo” on the ceiling along with “Reginald licks donkey bottoms” and a poor drawing of boobs.

Egyptologists: well it’s clearly Khufu’s pyramid used as a tomb. Case closed.

Traitors gonna trait.

To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.

Well put, and yes I’d agree. Where I seem to draw the ire of leftists is when I point to the clock and say we have one year before we have to vote, and all things being equal we’re going to vote for the Democrats because attacking the central tenet of this country’s dominant ideology is not going to happen in this election cycle.

The 2024 Presidential election threads were a depressing reminder that some leftists can’t get out of their heads, or ivory towers, or whatever to make incremental progress because the glorious revolution is at hand. Or something. So I get to be the evil liberal who wants healthcare for all, student loan forgiveness, and a Green New Deal. And all of those things go down the shitter because republiQans vote as a single juggernaut bloc and we don’t.

Lemmy has been enlightening in teaching me these things but yes - different!

I have a little knowledge there, but I’m good, thanks. I’m really more interested in defeating the republiQan hate machine so we can get people healthcare and save the environment.

Not that it’s not interesting - I just have a slightly different take than Marx because Marx didn’t live in 2025.

Hm. Well, that’s interesting.

That’s pretty much every liberal I know, yeah.

Well. I know some house painters I guess. They don’t work for someone else, per se.

Mmm hmmm. Yeah. Yes.

So an American proletariat is . . . Anyone who is limited by health insurance, student loans, and mortgage rates? Or is it something else?

We don’t really use the word proletariat, uh, at all. Ever.

I’m kind of surprised to not see this answer, so I’ll throw it in: it seems to me that there are a lot of people from various countries who have built-in language for politics that they believe is shared across the world - but it isn’t.

As a dumb American, I’ve always been a liberal because that was the inclusive, progressive, luxury-gay-space-communism option as opposed to the conservative, regressive, racist, ignorant violent option. People from other countries don’t seem to appreciate that at all, because their “liberal” is what we’d call neoliberal or corporate Democrat, and they apparently don’t have a FPTP / Slaver’s College fix on their elections and they just don’t grok the two party thing.

As you can imagine on here there’s a lot of hate from both conservatives and leftists for “liberals”. I think that’s ridiculous but it’s usually easier to try and adopt their definitions than to explain why the other 379,999,999 of us don’t use it that way. (Well - 350M, say. Parts of the PNW use it that way too.). It’s just kind of exhausting in threads about American politics.

If someone calls me a “liberal” (or libtard, libcuck, etc) I naturally assume they’re racist, fascist, AM radio fuckwits. But then they want to jump into some world where H4A, UBI, No Oil is what they’re all about and once again I’m like - well, yeah we agree, again. So.

(Usually the retort is, “well then why are you a liberal?!” Which. Goes back to the exhausting thing.)

Dunno, i blocked everything and they never appeared again

Eh, a little russian disinfo here, a little vote manipulation there, hey presto five more years.

That’s not AI slop.

Those are quotes and their source links. A standard search would result in the same.

Maybe you could appreciate the difference?

Yes AI is terrible, but this isn’t the terrible thing.

“I wish both countries well” yeah ok that sounds like him

“We’re giving weapons to NATO and they can decide what to do with them. Good luck!”

Such an incompetent unqualified administration. Like we got bought by a holding company.

Definitely not him, so I don’t know what to expect from the dementia addled rapist sociopath, but hey - he’s on the right side somehow (presuming this is real) so yay?