#poliitcs

Voting to punish evil. I see lots of variations of this. Biden is supporting Israel, therefore we can’t vote for him. Is there any viable candidate who would stop the genocide? I don’t think the anti voting crowd actually cares. They are appealing to moral feelings rather than political strategy, because strategically, you have to realize that voting is not going to change foreign policy, and that change has to be pushed by other means. It’ll probably be something in the long haul.

Democrats should run someone else. First of all, this is a shit strategy. You don’t primary your president in the second term unless your party is falling apart. This may come from people from countries where replacing the head of government is easier, but the POTUS is the de facto party head. Also, going to the lack of thought to the goal — do you know someone willing to primary Biden and able to win who would do the things you want?

Biden hasn’t done anything anyway. This is just a way to bat away pro arguments. There’s plenty of lists of progress on lots of things. Student loans, insulin price caps, regulations, anti-trust.

Putting the entire Palestinian genocide on Biden. I’m not saying there’s not culpability there, but understand that the entire US government is in support of Israel, on both sides. It was a miracle we got a handful of Senators to call for investigations. We should cut off aid, absolutely. Who’s running to do that? And keep in mind that Israel chose to engage. US officials would have liked a more limited response, not out of care for Palestinians, but because they know from experience that it will come back to bite Israel in the form of newly radicalized Hamas recruits.

Liberals just have no hope for change. This is a new one. Just some idea that people are stuck in a rut and that’s the reason the two party system exists. The two party system is a mathematical consequence of the way we vote. There is reason to hope for change. The change, though, whatever means you choose, will take decades. Keep working at it. The hope is not that this election will fundamentally change things. The hope is that many small political actions over the years will push things forward.

Funnily enough, I haven’t seen a whole lot of third party promotion, just lots of this rhetoric aiming to punish. When voting, ask yourself:

Is this problem I have with this candidate something that the other candidate would be better on?

Are there other political actions I can take that will help?

What things can change with a different President or Congress, and what needs to be pursued by other means?

Withholding your vote as a punishment isn’t really going to help. Biden doesn’t know who you are or why you are not voting for him, and there is no one with a chance of winning that will do everything you want. But you have other means. Protest, organize, donate, build up alternatives, advocate for a different system.

Anyone who is making art but 'won't get into politics' is probably making bad art.

So Drunky Brewster is purging the military of it's generals by AT LEAST 20 %. Which is laid out in Project 2025 of them purging the military of anyone loyal to anyone but that orange draft dodging loser.

And THIS is why Pete Hegseth was kept on DESPITE him having AT LEAST TWELVE WAR PLANS on Signal. Yes that's right; TWELVE:

47 does all that moaning and groaning about "National Security" but there is NO BIGGER THREAT to America's National Security THAN HEGSETH. Muskrat and 47 not withstanding.

Anyone who's studied at least a modicum of history KNOWS THIS IS WHAT AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIPS DO. They purge the military of anyone with any sort of integrity and stack them with lotalists.

Because remember, 47 wanted to SHOOT BLM Protestors back in 2020 and was stopped by Mark Milley at the time. You think Mr. "I wanna have an American Crusade" will say NO??

Guys if you have dual citizenship and/or a valuable skill I HIGHLY recommend getting out of the US if you don't wanna fight because things are about to get REALLY BAD. We have WEEKS. NOT YEARS. NOT UNTIL MIDTERMS, WEEKS.

And for people staying and fighting like me? Get yourselves armed, form small groups of communities and STAY SAFE. Things are going to Shits Creek VERY VEYR VERY soon.

So, I told my some ppl in my class that I kinda have a punk rock band in the works and I showed them some samples I had and these WANKERS had the AUDACITY to ask me, "why is there so much political stuff here?"

WTF DO YOU MEAN?? WHAT DID YOU THINK "PUNK" WAS?? like it's not just liberty spikes and patches bro

PUNK IS POLITICAL!!!!

Love,