No worries. You’ve got nothing to apologize for. It’s all good. Besides I know I have a habit at times of getting a bit pedantic and autistic. I try to control it. But sometimes I just can’t help myself.

Not everyone. You’d be surprised. There was a ton of Republican whitewashing over the last century. But it’s definitely heartening to see other people who know as well.

On this. You and I 100% agree. Which should be a shock for you coming from someone you mistakenly labeled conservative. I’m just anti authoritarian, but very pro solidarity.

Many of our prisons are privately owned. A profit motive is securely attached at this point at least. And I would argue it has been for a long time.

I 100% agree with you that it isn’t effective. I just don’t partake in the semantics on it. It is slavery. It’s called slavery in the amendment. That means it’s slavery. Just of a different kind.

If it exists it wasn’t ended or abolished. Definitionally. I agree that there were some Republicans that felt that way. Not enough and not all. The fact that they held on to it for punitive reasons only proves my point.

Republicans didn’t end slavery. Slavery was enshrined in the 13th amendment to the constitution by Republicans. They did free black slaves as a punitive fuck you to the Confederate States. But it’s not the same thing.

Also there was no realignment. Before civil rights both parties had deeply seeded bigots. Democrats with their Dixiecrats. And Republicans with their fascists. The fascists literaly plotted a Hitler style coup just a few years after his failed. In the early 1930s. Look up the walstreet putsch.

What there was, was a distillation. Democrats got to civil rights first. Winning outsized support from black Americans. And leaving Dixiecrats fleeing the party. Republicans having missed out on being the ones to pass civil rights, took the consolation prize. And for the last 50 years has been the party of bigotry, white grievance, and fascism.

I never said they didn’t. Marxist Leninism like capitalism helped everyone industrialize. It didn’t and will never help them achieve communism, much less stay socialist. It’s as flawed as capitalism.

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Russia would like to have a word, China too. Socialism is great. But not all socialism is created equal.

It’s both. Appeasement never works. And ideology over solidarity leads to no accomplishments.

Don’t forget the work safe high-visigoth

Alas I did not come up with it. I have to give credit where credit is due. Some guy called John Oliver came up with it lol. It’s hard to find anyone more self-deprecating and humble with so many different things named after them. Like that koala chlamydia Ward.

Here is a video with a stork looking British m*********** explaining how carbon offsets are a scam that you might like.

That whole album is gold. Not just for nostalgia’s sake. Liz Phair, Mathew Sweet, Butthole Surfurs, Reverend Horton Heat, The Violent Femmes, Toadies etc.

Well they did manage to nominally rehabilitate certain left wing ideologies. Like Libertarianism, turning it on it’s head and making it a tool of the very people actual Libertarians thought against.

There are multiple groups. Their only goal is to sew chaos.

More than that. Protest voting only works if you’re vote is important to them. If you aren’t a representative part of a large group of reliable voters or donors. THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR VOTE. If courting you would help their margin of victory. But might alienate other more reliable voters or donors. THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR VOTE. If they don’t really care about your vote. Then they don’t really care about your protest. Then your protest is pointless and counterproductive.

As cruel and heartless as it sounds. Resources and bandwidth are always limited. They have to put their attention and efforts where they think they will get the best payout. Trying to please a broad swath of fickle unreliable left-leaning voters generally falls outside of the good uses of those limited resources.

Literally our passive leftist protest voting is meaningless to them. Even if they lose. Meaningless to them. They will spend millions of dollars analyzing trying to figure out why otherwise reliable group didn’t vote for them. If they hear that they didn’t get leftist vote, they won’t bat an eye.

If we want their attention. If we want their concern. We need to ingratiate ourselves. And make ourselves indisposable to them. We need some primary them. We need to replace them with ourselves. Then they will pay attention. Then they will care. Before we do any of that though. Protest voting and putting the car before the horse and completely useless.

There’s nothing to comprehend. They don’t understand how things work. And can’t commit for any length of time. They want change. But Democrats having to fix Republican damage struggle to do much else. So they figure that they will vote for the opposition. But the opposition always makes things worse. So they vote for Democrats to fix and change things. Democrats start to fix things but they don’t do it fast enough so they vote for the opposition. In the opposition makes things worse so they vote for Democrats to fix it and change things. The Democrats fix things as much as they can but they can’t change anything so they vote for the opposition etc etc etc.

There are useful tools as well. Like you. Not everyone is paid opposition. But we all know this is your go to strawman when you have no actual response.

Strawmen all you got Linky? You so basic.