• Amerikan Pharaoh
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    9 months ago

    "So this peckerwood can’t secure the safety of women, can’t secure the safety of Black folk, can’t stop the murderous forcing-through of Cop Cities across the country, can’t end the deleterious, life-owning student debt crippling the country, and can’t force housing out of the hands of malevolent investor vulture-capitalists because ‘wuhhhhh muh Congressional gridlock’; but he can force through a billions-and-billions of dollars war receipt for a goddamn genocide?"

    Death to the DNC, and death to Amerika.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      9 months ago

      Their lies are so blatant, it’s pretty clear that whenever they actually want to do something they always find a mechanism for doing it. When they tell people there’s nothing they can do, what they’re really saying is that they have no actual interest in doing it.

      • MarxMadness
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        It’s more that both parties support an imperialist foreign policy (even if they’ll quibble on the details), while there are real partisan differences on domestic issues.

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        Remember Parenti’s “Democracy for a few”? He said that straight up there even in first edition.