Redditors questioning basic political theory

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Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.

“UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!”

Funny, they seem to be able to do things just fine when it comes to genociding brown people or kneeling for the GOP

Are you fucking stupid lmao

Oh, you’re one of those might makes right types, hmm?

Neoliberal capitalist victory is a pyrrhic victory at best. You better hope communism wins if you enjoy having an ecosystem that can produce food in the near future.

Are you fucking stupid lmao

They think we like Trump

Material conditions visibly worsening, your government supporting genocide, LBGT and abortion rights getting rolled back, this is all happening under liberalism.

”Umm, well, gommulism bad! Heh, got em.”

Communism is when capitalism does things tankie!

Real sex with your mum has never been tried

The difference between theory and praxis is that I didn’t do theory with your mom last night

If evil communist Cuba is so bad they’ll collapse themselves why is it necessary for the US to continue a 60 year embargo?

China exists. Take that, liberal.

Hey buddy I think you’re lost the dumbfuck convention is at reddit.com

You are not a clown. You are the entire circus.

Meanwhile China is accelerating past the United States. Cope and seethe, liberal fuck.

super communism going full tilt working as intended and never collapsing governments amirite?

Wdym never collapsing governments? We are big fans of collapsing governments. That is like, half the definition of being a communist.

“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” - Zhau En-lai

The freedom to live a long and materially secure life doesn’t count.

ignorant and smug, what a fun combination

Found the genocide lover. How’s your liberal democracy working out for you? How many Palestinian children has it murdered today, and why are you celebrating it?

I’m going to fuck your dad and make sure you can hear it through the walls

The Democrats had a generational supermajority after Obama was elected and they didn’t do anything. Saying they always have an excuse is objectively correct.

Oh they did something. Obama dismantled his grass roots organization and starved state level democrats resulting in the loss of 1,000 seats across the country then gift wrapped two scouts seats and gave them to Satan.

I should’ve specified “anything good”.

Totally agree. My fav is going to the absolute mat in order to pass a literal GOP healthcare plan which libs will defend to their last gasp.

Didn’t the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?

“Yeah but but Biden couldn’t do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!”

It’s not like there’s a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn’t have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.

Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.

But using the power of the executive to do good things would be wrong!

But but but! You’re forgetting the Senate pastafarian!

Oh I never forget the Senate pescatarian

“Get over yourself and elect a moderate Dem!”

5 minutes later

“We regret to inform you that moderate Dems are obstructing progressive reform”

“You can just Primary consevative dems!”

Attempts to primary

“No! don’t you see you’re damaging our election chances with an untested candidate and anti-democratic rhetoric!”

dems change rules to prevent an effective primary ever again

dems now can’t do anything about someone running while under federal investigations and being against abortion

Ah, but you need 60 seats in the senate to bypass the filibuster. And even though there are procedural workarounds, you need the blessing of the parlimentarian, a sacred and infallible office where it would be braking the sacred norms to use our powers to ignore them or replace them. /s

why yes the GOP uses that method each time but if the dems do it gop will still use it when in power.

Amazing how it never used for good only bad in order to totally prevent it being used by GOP/bad

Yes but you must understand Manchin/Lieberman/whoever throew a little tantrum and there wasn’t anything we could do!

Republicans meanwhile are never powerless, they always get what they want. Weird system huh.

If Trump wins, he will dismantle all of America’s institutions, declare himself God Emperor for life and genocide all minorities.

If Kamala wins, she won’t be able to do anything unless the republicans let her.

Except genocide homeless people, undocumented people, and Palestinians, which she’ll use her political acumen to achieve bipartisan consensus on.

no sweaty, this is not hard to understand!!

So, to get anything done, you’d need the Dems to always win every single election so they have complete control of the state? Sounds authoritarian

They also need to have a super-dooper majority and reach a bipartisan consensus with their good friends in the Republican Party, which America needs to be strong to have a healthy democracy.

And that’s how you get situations like California and New York. Dem supermajority for long periods of time and always finding some convenient excuse not to do anything good

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