• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Biden ameria is what Happened… the rise in food pri ces, the defunding of police, the unemployment, sending our taxes to fund Hunter’s war against Putin in Ukraine… it’s all apart of The communist agenda.

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            I remember believing that. Then I saw the Democratic party cheat and gaslight the public into thinking theres any real democracy in their primary.

            It’s Joever, dude. Democracy is dead

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            You: “I disagree with Ogodei Khan’s’s policies and the Mongol Empire is collapsing on multiple fronts, if only we declare Kublai Khan the Great Khan at the Kurultai then the true will of the people will prevail and the empire will be cured!”

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                at our current rate of economic and ecological breakdown we don’t really have the time or resources to form a better structure.

                Which is why we need to do a slow incrementalism by voting?

              • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                it’s easier to fix the system than replace it.

                If we can’t even decide on basic shit like “is the earth warming at a rate that is hostile to life” how are we supposed to form a new cohesive government? It’s going to be hard enough electing decent people to any structure you can think of.

                You yourself are making our point for why liberal democracy cannot fix itself. We can’t form a “cohesive government” as you say within this system. That’s why its necessary for this system to end.

                You will never be able to elect “decent people” because you, us, the people do not have a say in who they get to vote for. This government does not exist for us, and it is not a democracy for us. And it never will be, until the power of capital is broken

                  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                    how are you going to protect this revolution from the next one?

                    There’s an entire intellectual tradition about this called Marxism-Leninism. There are successful Marxist-Leninist governments that exist right now, including the largest nation on earth. We aren’t aren’t talking about a fantasy here, there is is over a hundred years of paractice and two hundred of theory, if you’re interested in our worldview

                    As you said, the government doesn’t work for us. I don’t know of any structure that truly does

                    Liberal democracy does not work for us - as in the people who are not in the ruling class. That isn’t because of some immutable characteristic of all governments, it is by the design of the US government and all liberal democracies.

                    They were designed by and to work to the benefit of the ruling class - capitalists. That’s why it doesn’t work for us. Thats the key element and that’s what we advocate for a change of. The only way to change things in through class struggle - and placing power in the hands of our class.

                    But the alternative is anarchy, and that’s not going to work either.

                    We have anarchists here and we keep the place non-sectarian. MLs would agree but not for the same reasons as you. Our disagreement is that we need the power of a state to safeguard the gains of a revolution against the global capitalist class and their state forces. Anarchists have a different view, but they understand the importance of revolutionary class struggle and disagreements aside, their theory of change is infinitely more grounded in reality than yours

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                    Corruption is a fundamental problem of any system of governance, and it reaches a point where the only route to defeat it is to kill the fucking cheats who set it up.

                    Voting is nit going to fix a system that has intentionally broken voting to invalidate you. Only revolution can do that.

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                    What’s sad is that you think you’re the one being realistic, when your theory of change is complete fantasy.

                    What we’re talking about has been done and accomplished before and exists in the real world, including the largest nation on earth. What you’re talking about has never happened

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        People are clowning on you because of the naive electoralism and because you come from a reddit-logo instance but you’re not completely wrong. You just need to go a step further and realize that what the system is doing now is what it was designed to do. Working within it is not going to get you anywhere. Also the guy you’re replying to is joking.

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        Get a load of this lib.

        Congress functions to serve the owner class and has for its entire existence. It started out serving, exclusively, white land-owning men as part of a slave nation.

        It will not do anything else, ever. It is baked in and will only stop doing so when the owner class itself is subjugated, something that will only happen via revolution. It would be nice if that wasn’t necessary and the ruling class could just let their power get voted out, but we don’t have the luxury of such fantasies.