Eldritch
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- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
He did join the party to run as a Democrat. Otherwise he couldn’t have run in their primary and he’s stayed in the party since then I believe.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
I never said it did. That’s why Sanders got a lot of that changed working with the Democrats.
It just always comes off as manipulative and disingenuous whenever anyone makes it about Sanders. Especially when they then fail to mention how he worked with the very same Democratic party to make the primaries more democratic. Seemingly being performatively outranged for a man who wasn’t. Almost like you don’t understand the man you claim to support. Or who he is/what he’s about.
I’ve never regretted voting for Sanders in both primaries. Unfortunately a very vocal disingenuous minority do make me reluctant to mention it publicly often.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
Because it happens in, every, single, election. It wasn’t some special treatment Sanders got. Serious question, did you just come of voting age in the last 5 years? I’ve been at it for over 30 now, and have seen this several times.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say he got crushed. But you’re not wrong. Despite people being wrong down voting you for saying that he lost the popular vote. He 100% did. I can say that as someone who voted for sanders. Unfortunately a lot of Sanders voters can’t.
A lot of the Democrats primary rules weren’t very democratic. But Sanders knew what they were going in. And Democrats didn’t break the rules. And despite losing, Sanders got shit done and helped make the rules more democratic for the future.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 3 weeks ago:
Not for national Democrats. State and local Democrats. In a red state like mine. The state apparatus is practically non existent. Republicans run unopposed almost as often as they run against a non Republican. Which includes non Democrats.
Small towns and hamlets organizing as for instance in my case, Missouri Democrats. Run by locals, for locals. Who don’t prostrate themselves at the foot of the National Party as a simple reaction. That would go against the national party when it serves their interests.
Yes the fascists have spent decades putting out antidemocrat propaganda. But when it’s Dave from a few blocks over running. Not some faceless person largely supported by groups outside the state. That sort of propaganda tends to fall flat when they can’t "other” you.
Do this in enough towns and possibly get one of the smaller cities. All of a sudden, the state arm of the National Party might hold less influence than you do. It would be rather easy to force them into irrelevance with something like that. Which is what needs to be done.
It is 100% feasible. When you have a connection to a group to a party. One that’s local and accountable to you. They can try to spread whatever lies they want about it. The people who deal with them will know the truth. Propaganda really only works, and works best about groups you have no real contact with or understanding of. It’s how and why Communists and Jews were targeted in 1930s Germany. They were harmless minorities. But most people didn’t have any stake in defending them or knowing them. So they were easy targets. It’s why the fascist today are targeting trans people and immigrants. A lot of people don’t knowingly have contact of any note with these groups. So they don’t know that the fascists are lying and misrepresenting things. Granted with basic critical thinking skills they should know. But critical thinking skills are not something we value in America unfortunately. Not that we are alone.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t need a new party though. And no one should be arguing for one. As it would be ineffectual until we change the system as you said. What we need is local and Community leadership for the Democratic Party. What we need is to not leave the leadership decisions up to those in Washington.
Yes top down leadership can be very effective. But not in the long term. Otherwise the Soviet Union would still exist. Otherwise our parties would still represent us. If we want a party to start representing us again. We need to stop making it them and us. And just make it us. And the only way to do that is to stop relying on someone to lead nationally. Start leading locally. With the national parties only duties to coordinate between new York Democrats, Florida Democrats, Missouri Democrats, and California Democrats. And we get there by community action.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 3 weeks ago:
I believe this is the right video. It should go a long way to answering your question.
Top down organization of political parties like the Democrats in the US is relatively new. Last 50+ years or so, and antidemocratic. Look to when the Democratic party was much better for the average man. And one of the differences you’ll see was it was much more bottom up. Local organization and community building is vital. Not just for left anarchist/libertarians like myself. But to any common man looking for a political party to represent them. Leaving leadership to their own devices is how leadership became so out of touch.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 4 weeks ago:
Why not just post screenshots? Not give anyone reason to accidentally give them traffic. People can still see what you wanted, win win
- Comment on For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up 5 weeks ago:
The hilarious irony, they technically agree. He’s just not knowledgeable enough to know it.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Remember when unions thought they were so Irreplaceable and important. That they would withhold Support for a second term from a Democrat, they didn’t think did enough for them. One of the biggest miscalculations and blunders of the post World War II era. Because first they came for the unions and labor power.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 2 months ago:
Yes. That was the point of what they posted. None of those groups are what they claim to be beyond nominally.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Perhaps. Though it still hilariously transparent how many act like the Democrats are the problem and not the actual fascists. Democrats certainly aren’t the solution. They’re not even remotely the biggest threat either. One of these days after it’s far too late you all will get your priorities straight eventually. I mean even stalling eventually stood with the United States against his former Ally against Poland.
Things will continue to get worse till the voting populace finds solidarity. Fascists love it when we are divided. And many so-called leftists act like they are God’s gift if you politics despite having nothing to show for it. I hope you all have a chance to explain the people you failed. How it was important for you to maintain your ideological Purity than actually do anything to help anyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No they literally don’t. They owe the people who largely Finance the party. And they deliver for those people. While voters every 4 years break records for small donations in presidential elections. Every year in between we do a whole lot of nothing in general for them. Then we childishly wine and throw a tantrum when the president that we held our nose to elect does not have support in the House and Senate to actually get anything done for us. It’s not in every 4-year thing. It’s a multiple times a year thing. It’s a showing up enough to change the course of the primaries and seeing them through the general thing. And running the people we would like to see thing. If we all just sit around and take whatever they’ll give. That’s on us.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yours is the first mention of anyone owing anyone anything. But let’s phrase it this way. If we don’t owe them anything. Then they also don’t owe us anything. Therefore it’s ridiculous and hypocritical to complain that they didn’t deliver on XYZ for us. They didn’t owe it to us.
All I was implying was solidarity. If we the voting population are so ignorant as to not know the difference between abject fascism. And people who, while they don’t excite us. Don’t propose a massive slide into authoritarianism and brutal repression. Or cannot feel obliged to do whatever possible to keep fascists from the levers of power. That is absolutely on us. I didn’t vote for harris. I voted against trump. Unfortunately for more people than should be acceptable wanted fascism. Or at least didn’t find it motivating enough to hold their nose and vote. Which again is on us. If we want Democrats to do better. We also need to do better.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well I’m not here to defend liberals. They’re generally useless. Not an actual solution to any existing problems. But in this case there was simple well documented precedence.
When it comes to stopping fascism. We the voting population share a significant part of the blame ourselves. Democrats ran an abjectly horrible campaign, its true. But when they’re torn between two opposing pillars of power. Disaster was always on the menu. We “can” vote them in to power. Buy we aren’t reliable about it, and can’t provide funding for messaging and outreach the way wealthy oligarchs can. We used to be able to do it. But that was before Reagan broke the unions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Trump already pardoned his son-in-law’s father. There’s not even a precedence here to be set. Now I suppose there could be the worry of normalizing an already bad precedent. But Republicans have always sought to overturn or counter precedence And never cared about normalization beforehand period They have the media to normalize it for them after the fact Period
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 5 months ago:
Well we were taught about the trail of tears as a thing that happened a long time ago. But it’s all good now. But my family having strong tribal connections. Tribal leader on my father’s side a couple of generations back. We’re all on the official tribal rolls. And I was old enough to have gotten the reparations doled out in the 1980s for what happened to my great great great ancestors. A whole $10,000. Which is better than a kick in the teeth. But definitely not any sort of compensation for what was stolen.
So I knew about the Indian schools and some of the other heinous shit that Canada and the United States had pulled unlike so many others. But even I was surprised to learn that they were still current and operating well within my lifetime. People treated as if it’s a long ago solved problem. There are people still alive and well today that have families destroyed or lost family because of it. And there’s plenty of other shenanigans. Probably the most depressing part is that United States and Canada weren’t all that alone. Heck China is more or less doing it today. To cultural groups whose identity differs from the Vanguard parties chosen monoculture.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 5 months ago:
I would say that all Americans were. Republicans/conservatives overachieved however.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 5 months ago:
That’s not what anarchism calls for. Violence has to do more with those clinging to power. Because as they say when you make peaceful change impossible you make violent change inevitable. So you should be good.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 5 months ago:
Are they truly Democratic though. Anarchism is an extreme form of democracy BTW. Not anti democratic. Coming at it from an American perspective, even many of our founding father’s figured by now we’d have majorly overhauled our governing system nearly 10 or more times. They knew their system was flawed. Instead institutional inertia has caused it to become progressively less democratic by many measures. And people turned the founders into infallible deities.
I have less issue with those advocating to rework or abolish institutions. Than those that as a blanket say we can’t question or modify them. Criticism etc should be couched in actually making those institutions more democratic and equitable of course. Not like the economic liberals that like to pretend that they are Libertarians advocating for tax cut and end to regulations that reign in the avarice of Corporations And the wealthy.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 5 months ago:
You might be reading too much into this. Now if you can link to that same user praising Marxist leninism or any of the countries still based on that ideology. Then you have a hypocrisy to critique. But in the absence of that. Those are valid critiques of both Western democracy and Marxist leninist governments. And it’s probably based on their lived experience in a western democracy that they are criticizing it. I’m sure you can find many in China who would have similar criticisms about their own system.
And just to make sure it gets said. Anarchists have no more love for the Chinese Communist Party than you do. So if you think they’re honestly using Anarchist as an attack Vector of the west. They’re going to need all the luck they can get with it.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 5 months ago:
What makes you think you are? Identifying with the sort of people the person who coined the term and defined it. Would have rightfully seen as their enemy.
We have the regulations for a reason. We’ve already tried the less/no regulation thing. That’s the reason we have the regulations. Granted the regulations are ineffective. However the people in charge and Society at Large will not do what it takes to solve the problem outside of regulations. Things like ending generational wealth that almost every Tech bro to an individual benefited heavily from. Or ending they’re very exploitative business practices.
I’d be fine with these regulations ending. So long as Society was ready to replace their more neutered threat with something more meaningful. Like the guillotine. Hell who knows. A quick test run on Bezos, Thiel, and Musk might get a decent portion of them to straighten up and fly right. But as long as Society at large worships the new bourgeoisie. Removing regulations from them will only speed up the run-up to another bloody violent revolution. Which I think most people don’t want.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 5 months ago:
Maybe you should look into why we have those regulations. - an actual libertarian
- Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition 5 months ago:
Yes not sure how I made it all this time without seeing spaced. I was there for the whole Cornetto trilogy. And generally love everything I’ve ever seen Simon Pegg in. Including the Star Trek reboots and that weird American Film he and Nick did with Seth Rogen. And of course I can’t say I’ve ever heard anything bad about Edgar Wright. Perhaps someday he might have a Graham linehan moment. But hopefully not.
- Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition 5 months ago:
Actually I heard it was more along the lines of not very forward looking with their licensing. In the UK all the content is easily available to stream generally. BBC iPlayer Etc. But outside of the Kingdom. It’s licensing hell. Britbox will have some here. Acorn some others. Dr who(post Sylvester) i think is on Disney + of all places. Classic who is streaming on Pluto 24/7. And huge swaths not being on any legitimate streaming service available here. Sometimes PBS will have Doc Martin, hold the sunset, or as time goes by. Nearly a decade ago Cartoon Network of all places had dark place for a short run and some of Noel fielding’s insanity. I think Boosh maybe on Hulu?
It’s a mess in no uncertain terms. Thankfully though. With all the confusion about licensing who what and where I haven’t heard much in the way of cease and desist letters or prosecution for those sailing the seven seas. I may or may not have a jelly fin server loaded with a few terabytes simply because it’s unstreamable anywhere else. Which going back to Simon Pegg reminds me I need to start and get through every season of spaced at some point
- Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition 5 months ago:
That is certainly an accurate description of it I’ll give you that. Simon Pegg being hoisted by a nipple ring to the ceiling while asleep pretty well encapsulates it LOL
- Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition 5 months ago:
I don’t know binge watching the original series May help. A lot of the skits in it were great. But it really felt more like it was a bunch of episodes sized skits tied together to me. Again that may just be my personal perception.
Honestly being in the US we largely missed Bottom. We got the young ones back in the early 80s thanks to MTV. Which I still have fond memories of. I subject people yearly to the Halloween episode with captain sensible and rat scabies. But honestly didn’t hear about Bottom till almost 2008? And paradisio much much later. LOL but thinking about all this now and it has me wanting to go see if I can find some better quality sources to re-experience it with. Bootleg DivX files in the early aughts we’re pretty low quality.
- Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition 5 months ago:
RIP Rik. The cast of the movie is chock full of actors who went on to have pretty successful careers afterwards. Unfortunately I don’t think this movie helped. There are definitely some funny scenes Etc throughout. And more Ade and Rik is always good. But as a cohesive movie it doesn’t hold up. The race to the end is somewhat inexplicable. But it’s always a good Nostalgia watch
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath 6 months ago:
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath 6 months ago:
I liked Anton’s content. The forced smile at the end always kind of weirds me out a bit. I’m sure there’s a story behind it or something. But that’s not a comment on the content he produces. It’s definitely watchable
