Is anyone else sick of living in a reality which is nothing but all the #dystopian #fiction from 50 years ago?
We have #JamesBond villains ( #Musk)
We have #InvasionoftheBodySnatchers zombification ( #MAGA)
Etc, etc.
And now we have #Wargames:
" #AI s can’t stop recommending #nuclear strikes in #war game #simulations
Leading AIs from #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Google opted to use #nuclearWeapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases"
I do regularly say "I don't want to live in this world any more".
Between utter failure to make progress on stopping global warming, to the rich pushing fascism on the rest of us, so they can avoid the consequences of global warming, it feels like everything is going to keep getting worse for hundreds of years.
my attitude is to go down fighting
if you're surrounded by 20 goons, you can feel hopeless
or you can go out swinging with a stupid grin on your face
that's my approach
"rage rage against the dying of the light" and all that
anyone who just curls up in a ball and accepts defeat?
this is not the real left
all there is, and ever was, in this world, is the good fight
you fight, you may lose
you may also win
if you give up you will lose
there are no better terms in this world
😂
it's true though
i can't stand fucking whiners "on the left" talking defeatism. or so fucking stupid they don't understand that that is what not voting is
even if they are invested in some other attempt to defeat #fascism
that other track will have tactical thinkers going "oh, but also #vote, that's good vandalism/ sabotage"
all these fucking whiny entitled lazy assholes "on the left" are nothing but willingly and meekly submitting to fascism if THEY DON'T FUCKING VOTE
@benroyce @tek @alienghic @Barbramon1
Most of my life I have watched Democrats split their early vote around five plus candidates, while the GOP usually offers only one in opposition.
It speaks somewhat to party unification and effectiveness if one party is already at least going through the motions of being on the same page.
@Barbramon1 @benroyce @tek @alienghic
Yes I am going back to the sixties however, where it seemed democratic candidates usually outnumbered GOP candidates 2 to one at the very least.
With many democrats indeed often bowing out of voting if their particular more perfect candidate didn’t pass primary selection. Have been a voter 45 years
@Barbramon1 @Chancerubbage @benroyce @tek
I sometimes wonder if the left's pattern of arguing and being unwilling to compromise wasn't at least partially caused by COINTELPRO style disruption and psychological warfare.
@alienghic @Barbramon1 @benroyce @tek
There never should have been a Bernie Bro/ Centrist split. But I think it was encouraged welcome by opposition. Call them commies, etc.
Encouraged by a history of democrats successfully getting a majority by playing centrist.
@Barbramon1 @alienghic @benroyce @tek
Wow. I never even saw that as a conflict, a schism between Hillary and Bernie.
What I saw, in the land of Big Red, was a concerted smear campaign against Hillary starting in the mid 90s before Bill’s second term. Youngsters old enough to vote by the time Hillary was a candidate had never lived in a world where she was respected. They thought it natural to hate her, not knowing why.
@Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @tek
centrists fucking suck
but, as someone who voted for bernie in the primaries and gave him money, then voted for hillary in the general *because i'm not fucking stupid*, fragile narcissistic toxic idealists fucking suck too
centrists have no heart:
they smile meekly as we march to fascism
toxic idealists have no brain:
yes we want a real left agenda. but you still fucking vote to prevent fascism. perfection is a myth for small children
@benroyce @Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @tek
Just dropping this in this thread for your consideration and promotion...
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@Barbramon1 @alienghic @benroyce @tek
Third party might only do better than usual by voters growing dissatisfaction with 2 existing major parties. It has only been useful as a spoiler to take votes from the big two. I think that would be devisive and fruitless however.
@Chancerubbage @Barbramon1 @benroyce @tek
The two major parties are widely hated, but because of the winner takes all election rules we're suffering under third parties often split the vote and leads to the conservatives winning.
If we want more viable options to win we need election reforms like ranked choice voting.
As an example, this is what the California Greens want for something more inclusive.
@alienghic @Barbramon1 @benroyce @tek
Ranked choice is too confusing for a majority of voters to understand.
@Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @benroyce "Who's your favorite? If they don't win, who would you want second?"
That about sums it up.
@tek @Chancerubbage @Barbramon1 @benroyce
New York City managed ranked choice for their primaries.
@Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @tek
oh that's fucking bullshit
you list on order of preference
that's all it is
yes americans are dumb, but they're not fucking potatoes (yet)
@benroyce @Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @tek
some of us identify as sweet potatoes
@saltywizard @Chancerubbage @alienghic @Barbramon1 @tek
you're sweet to me Dmitry
@Barbramon1 @alienghic @Chancerubbage @tek
the thing is, if we get ranked choice voting, we can finally have stable viable 3rd parties and everyone can vote their conscience and not this dreary strategy
but also, if we vote 3rd party *before* we get ranked choice voting, then MAGA wins forever as the left vote is divided in FPTP, and we'll never get ranked choice voting
so vote for dem left candidates in the primaries that promise ranked choice, and show up in the general election
@Barbramon1 @alienghic @Chancerubbage @tek
they're paid by putin to spoil the left vote and help MAGA in our stupid FPTP system, in at least one example
@dnkboston @alienghic @Barbramon1 @Chancerubbage @tek
the left has gotten lazy
our ancestors on the left would look at us wringing our hands and be disgusted
you act, you fight, you vote
anyone who can't do that and is trapped in inaction is not really on the left, they're in some pathetic psychological cage
@benroyce My ancestors--my relatives--would tell us to shut up, go to the voting booth, AND get in the streets/document/expose/protest/get arrested. Because when *their* ancestors couldn't vote, they were getting threatened by "both sides", and in some cases tortured. We're not that far away from that.
This is for real, and we need to start acting like it.
@AccordingtoWouter Indeed! And who saw that coming, other than everyone who knew anything about the 1920s-40s? It's incredibly frustrating, because this was the ultimate unforced error.
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Tekniquelly correct
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