this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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And yet political violence surrounds us. How do you propose voting will stop it? I've personally seen that fail for decades now.
“Surrounds us” maybe if you’re chronically online
I can log out right now and go downtown to see tent cities full of starving, sick people. You only don't perceive that as political violence because you've been trained to think poverty isn't political.
You ever fuckin' seen a homeless person? How about the miles and miles of tents along stretches of highways just outside the cities? That's one of many other forms of political violence. Remember how we stopped counting the death toll from Covid and were all told to get back to work? You know how many "incarcerated" "prisoners" we have doing slave labor? GTFO with your "have to be chronically online to see any political violence" bullshit. You're fucking steeped in it but you're too blind to see even what's right in front of you, even if it's a boot your tongue is apparently stuck to.
All those online ICE raids?
Frequent airstrikes on civilians in Gaza even since the 'ceasefire', frequent attacks on likely fishermen/migrants in the Caribbean, strikes on Yemen and Iran within the last few months, Ukraine war, Cambodia-Thailand conflict, ISIS kidnapping in Nigeria less than two weeks ago, attempted arson on a train in Chicago last month, ongoing Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict, Bombing in Delhi last month, I can go on
Does 'chronically online' just mean not wilfully ignorant?
Also ICE raids, violent union busting, enforcement of private property keeping hundreds of thousands homeless and millions more on the brink. But sure we're just "chronically online" God I hate libs.
US foreign policy is a different topic than domestic. US foreign policy has always been vile.
"killing brown people isn't violence"
Both here and on my HB main account, I notice you have a way of cutting to the core of liberal bullshit that I really appreciate
Ok? the topic of this thread is US policy in general
Agreed and you think you'll change it via voting?
The gulf between the wealthy class and the rest of the country has reached the critical point where those with power see all of us as "foreign". The imperialism is turning inwards.
The wealthy don't even live in the same world we do, nevermind nation.
Um actually you're disconnected from the world by paying attention to outside