• andybytes
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    2 days ago

    I love how short-sighted this is. Like, I think there are more people that are on a higher level of understanding nowadays, but still the old game still remains. America is an imperialist empire and fascist are the useful idiots of empire. Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology. Do you think a million dollars is a lot of money? Well I can tell you a billionaire uses that to wipe his ass. So when he donates it to charity, he’s just trying to manage perception. So what I’m trying to say is that the Democrats are neoliberal and they are fascist and both the Democrats and the Republicans work together to keep the working class down. That’s why we live the way we do today because things only continue to get worse. The rest of the world sees us as a right-wing country. The Democrats are controlled opposition. The bourgeois elections mean nothing to me or anybody with a fucking clue. The Democrats supported genocide in Gaza. Bernie Sanders and AOC are sheep dogs. They are not socialist, but they are there to defame socialist ideas. You can look this up online. It’s called the ratchet effect. So no, this is a little too simple for me. This is like baby boo boo diaper information. It’s a very immature analysis of the current state of things or what has happened in the past. End Wokeism no War but the Class War.

    • gradual@lemmings.world
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      14 hours ago

      Globally speaking, $1 million is still a lot of money.

      You can live comfortably for the rest of your life while raising a family off of $1 million.

      It’s more money than the vast majority of people will accumulate throughout their entire lives.

      Anyone who has a million dollars in wealth does not need more.

      We still should be taking from the billionaires and redistributing their wealth to those who need it.

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      2 days ago

      as others have said, try synthesizing your ideas. You have a good core argument, but its a little rambly, with some things that feel more buzz word then argument.

      Try leading with your thesis, in this case “The democrats are controlled opposition that work with the Republicans to keep the working class down” and then follow up with your supporting comments and evidence. Alot of people wont read everything and just by the first half will judge what you say.

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        You take some flour, and some room temp eggs
        Room temperature butter is the best
        And some warm milk, you stage it with the rest
        Vanilla, sugar, and baking soda
        If you forget your berries, you are fucked
        Iambic pentameter is shit. Salt.

        Get all of these items into a big bowl
        Mix it or whatever, I am not your boss
        Batter should be consistency of sludge

        Heat your oven to the maximum temp
        Pour your batter directly in oven
        Leave your house, tell neighbors you broke your toe
        Return to home, act surprised it is ash
        Get insurance check, use to buy muffins

        Prep time: 30-45 minutes
        Cook time: 2 months if insurance is fast

        Sure, I did a bad job. But in my defense, I put more effort into this than I should have and wasted everyone’s time. Especially mine.

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            2 days ago

            Forsaken by my parents, I must bake
            A pie, a biscuit, or even a cake
            My parents, so proud, say that they love it
            I, too, am fulfilled cuz in them, I shit

            If nutty, to them, I serve up a pie
            Or a dish more savory, if corn supplied
            Since I was a child, I have done this
            I am better at it than at rhyming

            If you want a nice treat, leave out the poo
            Or keep it in, really, it’s up to you
            As you make what I bake, something might stink
            Solutions are found in my sponsored links

            Now I will let you get to the big bake
            More words are needed for profits at stake
            Please take care and enjoy my recipe
            Return next week when I make drinks from pee

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      9 hours ago

      Here’s some unsolicited advice: you’d probably get your point across better if you found a way of expressing yourself with less perceived hate, less name-calling, and less labeling — don’t dilute your passion, but speak to the reality and to the solutions that aren’t being put on the table. Speak to people’s silent struggle and find a way to not be polarizing.

      Instead of calling out the US as being imperialistic, shed light to the real effects of US imperialism (e.g. US reliance on supply chains that revolve around slavery or child slavery, third-world exploitation, effects of US regime change etc.) and complicity on both sides.

      Instead of calling Democrats fascists, explain that they don’t have any power or energy to fight fascism, authoritarianism, oligarchy, imperialism (effectively making them complicit). They have no plan and no solutions.

      Instead of calling elections bourgeois, explain that political teams and this tug of war game is a pointless exercise and gets literally nothing done — e.g. speak to election/voting reform, the dissolution of team politics and political parties that take money from non-small donors, term limits, and speak to concepts like direct democracy. Bernie Sanders and AOC aren’t socialist or anything close to it in practice, but they also aren’t necessarily operating in complete bad faith.

      I don’t disagree with your general sentiment, but your points can be more eloquently expressed. Reduce the terminology, Democrats are powerless even if they shift their tune, they are always going to answer to capital, they aren’t interested in addressing critical problems (e.g. modern slavery, the fresh water crisis, the housing crisis, the health care crisis, the economy, deregulation of corporations etc.), and they aren’t interested in solutions. They have no power, even when they have had power (e.g. under Obama).

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          Everybody is free to express themselves however they wish. I’m merely pointing out why people are calling the poster I was responding to AI or reducing their arguments down to “not containing any rational thought”. Their comment speaks to people who are already radicalized, people who already know the Democrats are playing everybody - it doesn’t speak to the people deeply entrenched in the propaganda and tribalism that the Democrats invoke.