We will. It will not matter. Congress will likely be powerless by that point. Or a large portion of the Democratic party will align with the fascist policies by then as their donors place more pressure on them. We know how much democrats love to “reach across the isle”.

Keeping up the illusion of democracy is the one of the most important things for the bourgeoisie to maintain. They will go through the charades for sure.

It’s more important that people see through the charades of our system. I’m hoping that starts happening more.

I feel like everyone is waiting for a “moment” to get them off their couch. By the time that moment happens it’s already too late.

It’s crazy that there are people still using this line. I’m sorry but when was the last time the Republicans had a “filibuster proof majority”. They seem to be doing really well in getting their policies passed.

The Democratic party is an absolute failure in providing the policies that they pretend to want. I’m so tired of hearing this “there is nothing we can do”.

It’s like the Democrats are sitting here constantly complaining that “a dog can’t play basketball” while they get dunked on by a dog over and over.

We are at this stage BECAUSE the Democrats are trying to “play by the rules” that the Republicans threw out the fucking window decades ago. We have DOGE and people are still using this “filibuster” excuse for a pathetic excuse for a resistance party. Stop defending their incompetence!

I guess I’m an ignorant fuck because I thought that these town halls were required by law in some way. It’s insane they can just be like “nah, not gonna show up”. It should be an instant impeachment by law.

What browser are you using? Chrome pushed it’s new extension requirements and killed ublock. Firefox just dropped a bomb about selling personal info I think.

There are just things that should be physical things.

IDs and fucking buttons in cars please. Holy fuck please can we not do the IPAD thing in cars. Please God.

PSA. It’s disabled on Chrome now. Switch to Firefox (still looking for a better alternative myself with recent FF news though.)

It’s something I’ve been putting off. But chrome is unusable now. So many ads. I’m sure there is a workaround but just like leaving reddit it’s a good time for me to find a chrome alternative.

I think the definition of progress is misdirected specifically because of capitalism. It is a truly sick and broken society that spends more effort going to space than it does to provide lunches in school or daycare for children.

I would argue that things like space exploration actually fuel the working class to better notice the contridictions.

“Progress” use to be a tool of distraction. But we are overwhelmed with distractions every day. Our life is filled with distractions as we scroll through our phones. I would agree with you historically that progress in technologies or discoveries have given us “toys” to keep us distracted. But Mars? Mars is nothing but a massive “fuck you” to working class people that can’t afford eggs.

Reminded me of this

https://youtu.be/bV2102o-M8A

If I’m ever wrong. I delete that comment and pretend it didn’t happen. Or if someone actually makes a good counter argument I just go “meh, don’t feel like replying” and leave them unread. I do the worst crime. I’ll be 10 replies in and I won’t even downvote their last comment to let them know I read it. I’m sure it’s infuriating.

This being a 404 error but as a popup dialog for an OS infuriates me more than it should.

You’re stumbling upon a fundamental contradiction of capitalism that Marx wrote about. The rate of profits tends to decline over time and what you’re describing is the end result of that. Capitalist always attempt to fight against this contradiction to delay the inevitable crash but they can only delay. Them paying less while working people more is the fundamental way the markets attempt to delay the crash. But, again, it is only ever a delay. We are heading into a crash not seen since the great depression. It’s why they are pushing automation and AI so heavily. They are preparing to capitalize on the economic catastrophe that they are creating. Crashes are not “bad” for capital owners. They are a feature that allows for further wealth concentration.

No one can predict the crash though. Not even the billionaires that control the markets. And it can bubble for decades before it pops.

Easy now. You only have to kill one of them.

Your plan fails and the proletariat rise up and seize the weapos. You return back to a world of gay space communism.

I don’t need to know where you grew up. Youre alive right now. So you grew up in a world that was heavily influenced by black artists that you’ve never even heard the name of. I was trying to give you an “out” for your absolute stupidity and ignorance. But you just decided to doubled down. You clearly have a child’s understanding of history. I can’t help you with that. You have to seek it out on your own. Otherwise you can keep sounding like the really ignorant but confident uncle at the Thanksgiving table.

My dude. Please learn a little bit about the history of music. It’s ok to be ignorant of it. You grew up in a country that has appropriated and stolen the art forms of black artist since before jazz music even existed.

But some of us use this massive source of information called “The Internet” to actually learn. Seriously, there is so much interesting shit out there. You don’t even need to be “woke”. You can literally just be interested in where music genres came from and their influence. If you do even a little bit of listening you’ll learn about how heavily every form of “pop” culture is heavily heavily influenced by black culture and in turn monetized by capitalist for profit.

Today the “face” of which is exploited black artist. But in the past was often a “white face” that was used to monetize black culture or artist that could never become “mainstream”.

This is exactly what a dude from the 80s knew. And he didn’t even have the Internet. He just knew the music industry and called it out for its failures. You have no excuse in 2025 to judge a white dude in the 80s pointing to well documented exploitations of black culture.

Black Americans did not only influence rap. They influenced every part of pop music for a century. They were only able to be successfully monetized around the time that rap music became popular. Seriously, you can open yourself up to a whole new world of music and history. You just have to be curious. You have the Internet. Good luck mate.

Did you have a stroke while typing this post title?

No. DEI was always performative. Companies realized that they no longer had to pretend to care so they stopped doing performative “DEI training” because it was no longer beneficial to their bottom line.

It had nothing to do with people shooting cans of Bud Light. It had everything to do with the entire country shifting further with right wing reactionary beliefs.

Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.

This one is useless. As most “reddit” boycotts are.

Absolutely. Thanks for the receipts.

I mean Canada literally honored a WW2 vet for a Ukrainian that “fought Russia” in WW2. Like, no thought “who was fighting the USSR in Ukraine in WW2?”

Yep. A lot of Nazi leaders began making their connections with the west as it became obvious that the USSR was winning in the Eastern front as well as Operation Paperclip, etc.