Joe Biden is now officially the 46th President of the United States of America

[Seliph]

And no one was surprised that Biden upholds the neoliberal imperial agenda that our country has run on for 30+ years

Looting is bad

Tell that to our government that has stolen from indigenous people/societies for centuries.

 

[tthousand]

"The power is in the people and politics we address."

Looking to government for an answer to "why" is not going to change anything. If you want change, address your local and state politicians directly. Start your own grass roots movement and be the change you want. Start by making changes in your own community without having to rely on big government. Protesting will only take you so far without quantity. Rioting will get you even less further. Just look at the insurrection at the capitol... just look at the killing and destruction this summer. Neither of these are good looks for any of the groups involved.

 

[Xzi]

Looking to government for an answer to "why" is not going to change anything. If you want change, address your local and state politicians directly. Start your own grass roots movement and be the change you want. Start by making changes in your own community without having to rely on big government.

Shit policing is a national problem, not just one or two states, and therefore requires the federal government to take action. Though I suppose we can abolish qualified immunity state-by-state, at least.

 

[Seliph]

Protesting will only take you so far without quantity. Rioting will get you even less further

Idk it got these guys pretty far.

Hell I probably wouldn't even be here if it weren't for the stonewall riots. To suggest that riots/uprisings/popular insurrections haven't worked in securing the rights of people is foolish and ahistorical. Our country was founded on riots and protests and it will die on riots and protests.

Here's a list of cool and important riots/uprisings in US history that have brought real social change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
https://blog.education.nationalgeog...w-a-riot-helped-to-ratify-the-19th-amendment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
Not to mention countless slave rebellions that blazed across the South and countless anti-colonial indigenous rebellions across our entire country that have gone undocumented.

I could give many more examples of riots and revolutions that have worked and done great things in other countries.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

I'd like to see biden make this crap country socialist/communist so we can finally leave crapitalism behind and make the world a better place
maybe then all of america's problems will be fixed
specifically, i want to see him
tax the hell out of all the rich folk (basically everyeone making over 5 mil a year) like jeff bezos and bill gates, and use that extra cash to make basic human necessities like food, water, housing and internet completely free and not products to be fucking sold, impose more restrictions on companies and patch up the tax loopholes, and no cap, kill andrew wilson and bobby kotick, or at least imprison them because the stuff that they do is actually criminal and they need the death sentence pronto
also try to make companies make products that dont involve making poor kids in china work hours on end for low pay and a shit life, or using up shitloads of resources from countries like africa.
either that or have the US collapse, id be down w that as well

imagine hating your own country
also yes the rich should be taxed way more, especially silicon valley, but their power and relation with the gov is too strong. No matter who is president, those guys will stay on top because of.... well, let's just say people they hire to keep their taxes low. Which is pretty bogus as well. What do they need all that money for? Ah, well.
And USA would never pull out of harvesting resources unless said countries retaliated. Either way, socialism and communism won't fix any of those things.

 

[KingVamp]

DC statehood has passed the House committee.

 

[Seliph]

DC statehood has passed the House committee.

nice I can't wait for conservatives to stonewall it

 

[Joe88]

its not going to get 60 votes, even moderate dem's probably wont support it
just like the rumored court packing bill being created

 

[KingVamp]

I seen some make the argument that you don't need 60 votes, just the regular majority. If true, that would make things easier.

 

[tthousand]

DC statehood has passed the House committee.

Hard to imagine such a thing... oh wait, no it's not. DC and all it's Satanism needs to be torn down.

 

[Seliph]

Hard to imagine such a thing... oh wait, no it's not. DC and all it's Satanism needs to be torn down.

 

[tthousand]

 

[Seliph]

 

[Big Man Tyrone2]

Something something "a riot the language of the unheard" something something MLK quote something something "our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay" blahblahblah

Time is a flat circle

 

[Seliph]

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The ole "Communism is anything I don't like" excuse

 

[Big Man Tyrone2]

The ole "Communism is anything I don't like" excuse

That's what 80 years of propaganda will do to you.

 

[Xzi]

Hard to imagine such a thing... oh wait, no it's not. DC and all it's Satanism needs to be torn down.

I feel like Congress would get more done if they were all Satanists.

 

[Seliph]

I feel like Congress would get more done if they were all Satanists.

From the Wikipedia page on Satanism:
Anton LaVey, who has been referred to as "The Father of Satanism",[145] synthesized his religion through the establishment of the Church of Satan in 1966 and the publication of The Satanic Bible in 1969. LaVey's teachings promoted "indulgence", "vital existence", "undefiled wisdom", "kindness to those who deserve it", "responsibility to the responsible" and an "eye for an eye" code of ethics, while shunning "abstinence" based on guilt, "spirituality", "unconditional love", "pacifism", "equality", "herd mentality" and "scapegoating". In LaVey's view, the Satanist is a carnal, physical and pragmatic being—and enjoyment of physical existence and an undiluted view of this-worldly truth are promoted as the core values of Satanism, propagating a naturalistic worldview that sees mankind as animals existing in an amoral universe.

You're probably right tbh. Not exactly the most defined ideology but it's a hell of a lot better than the dominant neoliberal ideology of our government right now.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

The ole "Communism is anything I don't like" excuse

Did you forget what karl marx said?

"Communism is when you take steps to stop a pandemic"-Karl Marx

 

[Seliph]

Did you forget what karl marx said?

Communism is when Bugsnax