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musou wrote

Reply to Please vote in November, even if Biden gets the election by twovests

i really can't stomach voting for him a third time. SC justices getting lifetime appointments is itself part of the systemic problem we face; between that and the complete takeover of our electoral process by corporate finance, and the rampant voter suppression and gerrymandering, and the absolutely anti-democratic way in which the DNC primaries are run, i am more pessimistic on the prospect of accomplishing even the mild electoral reforms sanders has been proposing than i have ever been. politically speaking, biden is to the right of richard nixon. he has multiple credible sexual abuse allegations against him and i am a survivor of multiple assaults myself. i can't help but feel that casting another vote for biden would signify my continued assent for this interminably corrupt political system, and i frankly don't have it in me. like flabberghaster i intend to vote for local candidates instead. when it's time to riot in the streets, i'll be there. i know this sounds hyperbolic, but if the choice is between getting shot dead in the streets by a riot cop and casting a third vote for joe biden, i'll take my chances with the cop. they haven't outlawed body armor yet, at least.

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Reply to i actually don't know why socialism is a good idea by twovests

libcom.org has a great series of introductory guides that do a decent job, in my opinion, of explaining their flavor of libertarian socialism / libertarian communism. (those two terms are used more or less interchangeably, and neither has anything to do with right libertarianism, e.g. of the kind espoused by the american libertarian party, which is an entirely different ideology that came onto the scene much later.)

they tend to be pretty approachable and avoid jargon. they make no bones about being self-interested as workers, in advancing the rights of workers, but their explanations do not substitute emotional content for reasoning.

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Reply to An interesting new blog: A Plea for Political Empathy by Moonside

i think one major flaw in the narrative constructed in that essay is that it assumes the democrat and republican party platforms haven't changed over time. both parties have moved quite a ways to the right over the decades in question, and the makeup of their constituent bases changed as well.

i definitely think irrationality and demonization of the other plays a massive and important role in the current state of american and global politics, but i also think identifying it as the problem rather than a symptom with many contributing factors is a dangerous oversimplification.

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Reply to ders by devtesla

can't wait til he announces angela davis as his running mate

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Reply to tell me what podcasts yall are enjoying! by skookin

i like David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles for talky bits, and the Random Movement podcast and the Hospital Records podcast for tunes. actually i used to do a tunes podcast myself but vocal dysphoria is a thing and also it turns out it's a lot of work to get 2 hours of fresh beats a week when you have a day job

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Reply to Save .KORG by emma

are they bankrupt / closing? i got cranky with korg for discontinuing their drm servers and making my bought-and-paid-for soft synths useless, but i would hate to see them close entirely.

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Reply to thoughts on COPPA by voxpoplar

i think the bad part about this whole situation is something dan olson described pretty well in his video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuScIN4emyo

which is that the way youtube has handled the situation is calculated to place maximal responsibility and effort on the part of individual channels rather than on the infrastructure

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