My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly just had a machine or intern look at the subject matter vaguely and send robo-reply. On the web form all three required an honorific but the senatorial old ladies only had mr. and mrs., while the congressdude had other options.
For the senators I chose mrs. but also used masc legal name. First senator with a robo reply “corrected” it to mister. Kinda like, fuck all y’all.
I’ve said before I’m ok with dems taking some bad deals when they’re in the weak position, negotiating however they can to reduce the damage of nazi policies, but if they act at all like they consider a demographic an acceptable loss, or worse, show enthusiasm for nazi ideas like fuckface newsom, we must brutally primary their asses back to whoville.
And if the dem establishment rams a shit candidate through? I think they’re a few decades overdue for a riot at their convention.
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I feel it’s past time we acknowledge that the two-party system is exactly what some of the founding hucksters were afraid of: a captive pseudo-democracy run by a right wing war party, which offers a choice between two different extremist positions, but controls the dialogue so that alternatives are locked out.
It all needs to be burned to the ground.
It’s fun when the right wingers and southerners say they want a constitutional convention and I’m nodding and smiling and thinking that it might be an exciting surprise for them.
real. i sympathize with people who feel like talking shit about the democrats is a real bad idea, because i agree with them that given our situation we need them to win as much as humanly possible, should not be discouraging people from voting for them. on the other hand, being totally pollyanna about them does not ring true any more than santa claus or jesus, so you’re setting people up to say “yeah but” and turn down the entire proposition.
the math is easy as hell. people gotta vote for those bullshitters, and then do the burning it down after they win. the situation the us electorate decided on was radical burning at the cost of untold human misery, for accelerationism. it might actually work better – spur us to a true revolution faster – but i really fucking hate the cost.
I ran across some recent meme that was to the effect of saying Republicans are like the School Shooter in Uvalde, whilst the Democrats are like the Uvalde Police, and…
That struck me as pretty apt…
and the US as a whole would be like the population of uvalde who literally watched their children die to republican policies and became more republican.
spur us to a true revolution faster
I don’t think either the demicans or the republicrats will loosen their grip on the reins of power.
Fortunately, I am 62, have no kids, and not much future left. So, since I had to watch a majority of my Pennsylvania neighbors vote Turnip in a second time, I have decided “that’s how democracy works” and thrown in a few things about how right Socrates was (Socrates was notoriously against democracy and favored an aristocracy of aristoi, not hereditary aristocracy) America keeps telling itself ridiculous lies about itself and I don’t intend to participate one way or another. As you know, I’ve been watching the nuclear strategy topic most of my life, and I’m pretty sure, now, that the US is set up to become global nuclear hegemon any time they want. You can see that Turnip is trembling with eagerness to let loose on someone, anyone. And that’s what America chose.
who said they’d have a choice about loosening reins? easy to feel hopeless from where we’ve been, but unprecedented times make for unprecedented possibilities.
im too cranky today, gonna close these comments.