Pretty much yeah, the state no matter how much it falls over itself trying to convince westerners that they are the peak of democracy and freedom, is nothing more than the enforcing mechanism of the ruling class that decides everything.

The only thing that voting MIGHT affect for them is which part of the bourgeoisie is in favor and that’s why different capitalists are funding and pushing in many ways for different politicians instead of just having one party. A simple example would be the oil and gas industry which has a huge incentive to get the Republicans in power, while the “New Green Deal” capitalists who are investing in new energy markets want the Democrats in power. That still doesn’t mean that each capitalist’s power ends when the elections end, the power of their capital remain and continue to shape policy to their benefit while still antagonising one another.

sigh, unpacks heart attack gun

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Tupac was a Yugoslav all along

At some point you might run out of ideas and go “fuck it, Autumn of '68” and sing about nothing significant

The consequences of a cop doing what’s good in the world and going against powerful and rich people is exactly why in the big picture

As well as the fact that they hand pick the most reactionary people possible for the job for very good reasons

Endlessly shock therapy and exploit the only European country with a massive and theoretically correct communist party that has a strong connection with the people and the workers through unions, what could possibly go wrong

Rip gusanos

And gave us the best gender neutral toilet ever

Can’t run fascism without a quality meat grinder

People who drive like that need to be forced to walk everywhere for 5 years, no access to public transport either if your manly ego is more important to you than human lives

Or waving off your date as they’re leaving

Totally real western democracy

The Skyler White thing is just completely based on misogyny, the whole time Skyler was trying to save her husband from being an absolute piece of shit and killing himself and possibly even his whole family in the process. Men see past all that and go “aaah woman annoying, probably on her period the whole time ”

It would be so based if true

Nah this is a rare moment for libs getting something right in politics and acknowlegding the great man theory that is hypothetically going back in time to kill Hitler (or get him into fine arts lol) as if Germany wasn’t riddled with fascists anyway due to material conditions and the rising appeal of communism that needed to be dealt with by the system.

Edit: after reading your other comments, yeah this person suffers from incurable brain

I needed this, it’s beatiful in a way that hurts but gives me perspective and hope for the people of tomorrow who wouldn’t be able to live as they do if it weren’t for us suffering today but managing to fight for that future despite everyone around us not being even remotely ready to understand what we’re fighting for.

Yeah it sucks that the USSR supported something that has turned out so ridiculously bad but I can understand that this wasn’t obvious at the time and geopolitics can be very hard especially when you’re up against imperialist powers who hate your existence.

This is the footnote:

Westad, The Global Cold War, 125–28. According to Westad, Eisenhower opposed intervention in Egypt (in contrast to his very enthusiastic support elsewhere) for two reasons: One, he wanted to contrast US behavior with the Soviet crackdown in Hungary; and two, it seemed that Nasser wasn’t going anywhere, whether the Europeans got the canal back or not.

She seemed to understand what was going through my mind, and she said, ‘Yes, I know, but I also have living children who need me.’"

Fuck… These mothers and fathers forcing themselves to keep it together somehow for their kids is the peak of human effort and self sacrifice, every parent in Gaza is a superhero right now.

I hope Hezbollah makes Israelli settlers suffer and regret the moment their ancestors ever came to this place.

Oh now I got it, you’re right