Tankies will continue to say both sides same
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Tankies really follow the will of the despots.
I'm not a tankie, and I agree with "bOtH sIdEs SaMe" in regards to being pro-military, and pro-corporate, and anti-labor, for example.
Sure, they have some differences, too. But really not that many.
The major parties have another "sAmE"... they are both less than 30% of the voters now. Independents are now 40% of the voters (pick your poll, there are many). So... of course your party machine surrounds you with "both sides" disparagement and talking points.
Good, it's to be expected.
Which side is against genocide? Which side is against war?
Remember when the Dems controlled all three bodies and for all that non stop hysterial talk about gun control what happened?.....crickets ..... no change. Why would anyone expect change from either side is always my question.
I’d rather take no change than chaos. What do you expect will happen?
Sorry when was this that dems had filibuster proof control of house, senate and presidency for a while?
Probably when they put through romneycare.
Roaring 30s
Allowing presidents to pick your justices and then giving them jobs for life is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
A country built on the back of genocide and slavery is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
What so bizarre is SCOTUS has always been conservative. We get a couple of judges who are not hardcore conservatives and they help make a couple of rulings that aren't just one sided conservative nonsense and suddenly "they are taking over the judiciary with activist judges".
So the conservatives do exactly this, they start stacking their already suck ass conservative courts that always rule for big business with even more extreme ideological fucktards. Every accusation is a confession I suppose.
They have to get approved by our Congress too it's just that they're also not doing their jobs well.
There is higher than 0% chance that DJT won't reach a deal with Iran "Soon", the possibility of oil crisis and economic recession are still very real.
I want the price of gas to be $25 dollars per gallon
I want the collapse and dissolution of the United States.
I want the balkanization of the United States and $65 dollars a gallon!
I volunteer as tribute in the Hunger Games? Ugh.
Tomato / tomatah!
The chance is 100% lol, have you been paying attention?
Right now, prices and availability are being kept semi stable by draw downs on strategic reserves, but that won’t last forever.
Hell, it probably won’t last another month.
a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal..... republicans wouldn't win the white house back until 1952.
Ranked choice voting can help mitigate this issue
And only 6 years after they finally got the Whitehouse again, they started plotting for the next massive fuck up era by founding the John Birch Society (which is a major cause for the GOP's current psychosis.
Don't forget about the McCarthyism of the late 40s and the 50s. Ronald Reagan was involved with that particular movement since the beginning when he testified in front of Congress (specifically the House Un-American Activities Committee) saying that communists were taking over Hollywood.
Yeah but the Democrats were competent back then. I don't have confidence in most of the modern Democrats. There are only like 3 of them who seem to get what's going on
A lot of that comes from the development of corporate lobbyists and special interest groups in the 1970s. Even then they were highly regulated, and oversized campaign contributions still counted as bribes. That all changed after Reagan got into office, and Gucci Gulch got unfettered access to elected officials. After that, a lot of politicians were too tempted by the prospect of getting fantastically wealthy and forgot about the dream of changing the world for the better.
A lot of this isn't really new. To quote Rutherford B. Hayes, The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.
So the influence of wealth and corporate interest on political power is, in fact, an old problem. What frustrates me is how reforms could have been made during their rare collective moments of conscience, and they didn't. To be fair, civil liberties of non-whites and women were a higher priority.
fingers crossed history repeats itself lol
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Definitely not the flex they think it is.
In their view the Great Depression was probably started by a bunch of lazy woke activists who didn't want to work, thus spurring the dust bowl with their uh, inaction. Dust everywhere. No one dusting.
They should sweep the forests, like they do in sweden
It's what Republican's do best; fuck up the economy.
Conservatives are – and have always been – the enemy of the people.
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There will be inflation and you will love it.
The Great Depression featured deflation, for whatever the hell that's worth.
I mean, that seems like that would be nice to have, at least for a bit...
The same shit as right now.
They don't know a lot of things
- Massive amounts of what effectively amounts to gambling on the stock market.
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