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  • I would edit it to say:

    The precise reason why the solution has always been total replacement of the system with direct democracy. From within or without.

    I have some faith that we’d see the economic outcomes we want with direct votes for measures vs. votes for politicians, due to the amount of involvement required.


  • dx1@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlSo he's calling himself a king now, eh?
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    3 days ago

    Congress has the power to impeach him and remove him from office. Of course, like the last 10 or so war criminal presidents of the U.S., they don’t. Likewise, the courts have the power to neuter his presidency - and had the power to put him in prison - but don’t, and didn’t.

    The precise reason why the solution has always been total system replacement. From within or without.










  • dx1@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlIt's called capitalism
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    12 days ago

    Not quite what I mean. The way that control is orchestrated between the whole apparatus for the moves of the machine to function synchronously (media support of wars, wars happening in a way that benefits the largest companies, etc.).

    For example, the way that even CNN seems to just be reading from a script re: manufacturing consent for the Palestinian genocide. It’s beyond something like “they’ll lose their White House press credentials if they don’t play nice”.




  • dx1@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlInterjection
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    15 days ago

    I’ve been using the term “fascist” to describe Democrats for quite some time, because really looking closely at the definitions/characteristics of fascism and how this society works - you have this economically and structurally enforced racial supremacy, you have the nationalism, the militarism, the merger of business and state - the fact that Democrats pay lip service to leftism doesn’t really change it. Democrats haven’t really changed in the last two years, rather, the genocide of Palestine just laid bare who they were for us.