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  1. I just severely doubt his sincerity based on his record and the actions of previous adherents of his ideology. His own party is going to fight against the public option just like they did when we instead got the Heritage Foundation's healthcare plan. For one thing, if your goal is the public option you can't start with that as your negotiating position. Merely keeping the ACA with some meager Medicaid expansion and lowering the age for Medicare here we come.
  2. The material policies are minor. What is Biden really going to do different about the pandemic? He's already backed off even having a national mask mandate and instead said he would just strongly encourage governors to do it. He's not going to do a national lock down or force one on states that are doing poorly. To be fair, I'm not giving him the benefit of doubt on some of his claims such as that he'll give more federal aid at a level that actually matters. However he's also spent nearly his entire career being a hatchet man for the usury industry so why would I or anyone else take that seriously compared to his actual record as a senator and vice president? Even if I were to believe what he's saying, capitalism is accelerating to its inevitable death. The neoliberal era is knocking on death's door. What does he really offer that's substantially different? He rejects Medicare For All. He's proud to not support the Green New Deal. He's proud to not be a social democrat and to stand in the way of social democracy. He's an obstruction to the last "left" answer that protects capital. How does he stop the progression towards neo-feudalism or fascism? Edit: I also forgot to mention that he's also slammed Trump for being too soft on Cuba and Venezuela and has signaled he wants to return to the same foreign policy approach that helped Bolsanaro in Brazil. He's going to actively fight against over sovereign countries' leftist governments. Yet here we are talking about how these dumb hicks can go fuck themselves.
  3. Their ranks are about to grow. The economic recovery is going to take 5+ years and there will be a lot of people without a job to go back to because it closed permanently during the pandemic. Local and state governments are facing layoffs from reduced revenues which will have a ripple effect. Millions are going to lose their homes. If Biden runs the same recovery plan of the Obama administration, which the people he's surrounding himself with strongly suggests he will, we will find ourselves soon in the same conditions that enabled Trump to win. Running more candidates that tell them the system is fine, we just need moderate tweaks here and there will not work. Biden is largely just still ignoring them. It's who they see latched onto him that they seek to "own" by voting for Trump. Neither candidate differs much on material policy so trying to dunk on the other team in the culture war is what they have.
  4. You have to either use the electoral system or mass organization and mobilization to achieve that. It would be a lot easier to achieve running candidates and doing organizing that doesn't antagonize or ignore them. These people pay for the sins of the system too. They lost sons and daughters to war. They're losing loved ones to the opioid epidemic. What if we offered them material improvements without trying to guilt them and continuing to run campaigns based almost entirely around culture war that they view as an attack on them? Is punishing them really more important than laying the groundwork for solidarity?
  5. Alright, so you get all the calling them stupid hicks out of your systems. How are you going to beat them in election years where you haven't been gifted a monumentally disliked president that handled a once in a century pandemic poorly while making sure you don't get any of them to change their votes?
  6. The only texts from volunteers I've been getting are to my work number with shit like Smokey the Bear saying, "ONLY YOU CAN STOP SOCIALISM". I keep telling them I voted for Xi Jinping and I am not switching to thanking them for their service.
  7. Real wages have been stagnant since the 70s while housing, education, and healthcare costs have all sky rocketed far beyond inflation but pull yourself up by your bootstraps, cracker. Why don't these hicks with no credit and an awful public education system that don't live within 100 miles of a college and live in a town where the only employers are 7/11 and the liquor store just head on down to the university and learn to code?
  8. The Democrats also hate the poor and have no problems with killing them both directly and indirectly. They just play another side of the culture war and have better sold more people with post-secondary education on which poor people deserve to be hated. Mid-Western and Appalachian whites with little to no wealth are a bunch of uneducated, lazy, drug addicted, and violent people that deserve our ire, right? Same exact shit Republicans say about poor people that are unlikely to vote for them.
  9. I hate capitalism. OMG Oreos made LGBTQ flag cookies. We have to buy these to show our support!
  10. Identity group privilege is just a technology employed by capitalists to prevent class unity.
  11. Of course you're never going to replace lumpenproles' identity politics with other identity politics. They have been increasingly left to die by lack of healthcare, malnutrition, and deaths of despair. The culture war and lashing back at the "coastal elites" is all they have. The Democrat establishment and Joe Biden have nothing material to offer them. Joe Biden says it himself, just vote to reflect your values and nothing would fundamentally change. The focus should be on addressing people's material needs rather than playing capital's games that prevent class consciousness.
  12. The Discord has only one monarch and they are a king.
  13. Am I allowed to say the n word if I pretend I'm black?
  14. She can just pretend to be a different ethnicity.
  15. Everyone is allowed to pretend they're black and drop the hard r n bomb.
  16. So are we allowed to pretend to be any race or just Native American?
  17. Yes, it would be far from the easiest solution. However it would be a long term solution that addresses the issue of the Supreme Court not being this objective non-political entity and being a tool to force reactionary decisions against the wishes of the majority of Americans.
  18. Abolish the existing Supreme Court and switch to a dialogic system with justices elected by the general public. Abolish the notion it's not a political instrument entirely and remove their ability to suppress law.
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