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Live Palestinian? What kind of fucked up wording is that?

Either West or the PSL candidate depending on who’s on the ballot. I never thought the “voting at all only legitimizes the system” argument was valid because it makes the false assumption that TPTB are dependent on voter turnout to legitimize the system. The turnout could be twenty percent, they’d still push a “shining beacon of democracy” message and the consent will be manufactured.

Now I know there’s zero chance a third party candidate will win, but I’ve noticed that non-voters don’t even get discussed in the narrative. They may demonize third party voters, but at least they talk about them.

Well if the Russian weapons are so bad and Ukraine has the great Western weapons then Russia must’ve been kicked out of the separatist regions months ago.

Dutch sounds like someone doing a bad impersonation of German

“Yes, it’s Biden and Marxists behind high oil prices. No, it has nothing to do with oil executives and their shareholders, don’t be silly.”

Functionally that’s what it ends up with, but I think their fantasy is a meritocracy/technocracy. That the people who went to the right schools with the right degrees, who got the right internships and then jobs at the right firms, with the democratic process as a coronation of that meritocracy rather than an expression of public will. A state run by an army of Buttigiegs.

Of course, the reality is that system produces more Trumps than Buttigiegs. Which is why he freaks liberals out; metaphorically speaking, he’s the inbred freak the aristocracy keeps hidden in the attic in some Victorian novel to keep up the illusion of their good breeding, and the libs are the other aristocrats scandalized that he got out and made a mess of the gala.

Because that’s politics and libs are revolted by icky pedestrian politics. They don’t want a base that has to be satisfied, they want a coalition of the reasonable who vote for blue no matter who not because they’ll get anything out of it, but because the qualified people told them that’s what they have to do to have the respect of the qualified people.

This guy sounds like my brother

I get the impression most of the people who are anti-conscription have fled the country.

I just fall back on “ask the Bengalis what they think of Churchill.”

My first thought was, Asian American PMC type who lives in a bougie suburb who got pulled over to be given a friendly notice that his left taillight was out.

The Venn diagram of people who are likely to get hit by overdraft fees and people who follow George Takei on Mastodon has very little overlap.