If the only choice in politics is a between a fascist who's a coward and lacks charisma, and a fascist who's a natural entertainer and fully jokerfied, we're getting four more years of 
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We always knew he was a succdem and was very likely to get crushed by the machine. There was a small window where we were beating the odds and felt like our original, correct take was too pessimistic. God that was a good couple of weeks
What if Texas joins BRICS? 
Ukraine is like the only thing this site has been wrong about, and that's only because we forgot the number one rule -- the stupidest thing that can happen is the one most likely to happen
You mean 40 years of neoliberal public service gutting has resulted is shitty public service?
What this is really saying is that we should never "vote blue no matter who" to try to get universal healthcare, since they will create the worst possible version of universal healthcare. The only acceptable solution is a mass workers party, which is the solution to pretty much all political problems
The actual 404 is almost as bad, holy shit
How much did you lose?
Why are we assuming that the CIA was upset that a fascist sympathizer won? I'm sure a lot of them hate Trump's cultural signifies, but on a fundamental level they had nothing to fear with a Trump presidency other than working (indirectly) for an overbearing asshole
That's the thing I remember most about becoming a leftist, a severe lack of reading material
This is one of the reasons I think we need to repurpose Christian rituals, at least in Christian communities. A symbolic washing away of your old self, confession, the importance of good works informed by study and the faith in the coming rupture, communion and fellowship and sharing of bread across social divisions, etc. We need communist churches
The shared end goal is one of the only sources of leftist unity, other than anti-fascism. Anarchists imagine a revolution that immediately jumps to a stateless society, and Marxists have concluded that it is necessary to seize state power to defeat the forces of reaction, and that the state can be dismantled only once imperialism and capitalism have been defeated on a global scale.
Confusingly, both groups are technically "communists"
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Anesthetics take some serious skill to work effectively, and no reputable anesthesiologist would be willing to do it. That's the main problem here, capital punishment is incompatible with the ethics of medicine. Doctors don't want to kill people