Can I get a smug lecture on how you're choosing the third, disconnected track?
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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There's too few groups tied to the Democrat's track, this meme is inaccurate
How do you make this and not realize how dehumanizing it is to Palestinians?
Or trans people, or everyone else tied to both tracks
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No, you're totally right. Biden didn't author the Crime Bill and Clinton didn't pass it resulting in a huge increase in black incarceration. Obama and Biden didn't set records for deportations or destroy the most prosperous country in Africa. Obama didn't expand extrajudicial killings and drone strikes of civilians.
Y'all are gonna keep getting duped by the Good Cop / Bad Cop routine and keep getting mad when we point out that the Good Cop and the Bad Cop work for the same precinct and get the same pay checks and have the same goals but different methods for achieving it and that they work together to drive us toward the same outcomes.
You are saying they are the same "same precinct"/"same pay checks"
They are not the same.
- Vote in the lesser evil
- Do whatever you were gong to do when the more evil was in charge...but be able to do it faster.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think it'll be faster under either party. They are collaborating to stop you from correcting the system. You're literally doing the thing I said you shouldn't do. Don't trust the Good Cop. They aren't actually making your life easier, they aren't actually interest in your liberation. They are your enemy every bit as much as the Bad Cop is your enemy. They behave differently, and I don't disagree on that, but the behavioral difference is designed to make your tired and stressed brain latch on to them as a viable option. And you are falling for it.
The only option is dismantling the system. Both parties will be dissolved, and not in succession, because they literally depend on each other to exist. Why do you think they took over elections from the League of Women Voters with a bi-partisan non-profit? It's not because they were going to be an open and democratic operation. It's because they agreed to maintain the system together. And it's not like they hide it. Democrats cross the aisle and vote with Republicans CONSTANTLY. They dance with each other in various state houses. They done together. Their kids go to the same schools, they share accountants and baby sitters and chauffeurs and sex slave vendors and doctors. They are literally collaborative colleagues with a shared purpose and shared constituency.
Yes, do the bare minimum and vote. But stop wasting your time on it electoralism. Stop canvassing for candidates. Stop fund raising for them. Stop fighting with people who are not fooled by the Good Cop / Bad Cop routine. And for fucks sake stop falling for it.
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They aren't the same. One play offence, the other plays defense. They're both on the same team
What's the solution?
How has any major structural injustice in any society ever get solved?
Complaining on the Internet?
Incorrect
I disagree
Passage of legislation by milquetoast liberals, as in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that yielded resounding progress?
How about Liberal-appointed justices paving the way for Same Sex Marriage?
If Liberal governments crafting diplomatic agreements like JCPOA to avoid war, or joining international pacts to try to address climate change like the Paris Climate Agreement?
If both sides same why historically has only one side paved the way of progress, even if slowly?
To others reading this: just remember anyone asserting both sides are the same are Trump supporters, whether they realize it or not. It's no different than the 1 nazi at a table thing.
Civil rights legislation was passed because of riots in the streets, not voting. Black people had a maximum of 25% voter turnout and in most states it was 10% or less. And civil rights were advanced under both a Democrat and Republican administration. And when the Nixon administration came up with the idea of disenfranchising black people by criminalizing drug use and making it a felony, the Democrats are the ones who wrote and passed the laws. And they never stopped over criminalizing black folks. They were doing it right up to the Clinton administration. Overtly racist policing and incarceration. Because voting in Ds isn't actually what changed anything - forcing the issue in the streets is what changed it.
The Obama administration crafting the JCPOA was the equivalent of a stalling tactic. Obama had to focus on the drone wars, on Libya, and on the pivot to Asia. While the bipartisan consensus was to destroy Iran after Libya (as set in the strategy under Bush2), there wasn't an opportunity because China's rise created a pacing challenge that the US needed to meet and Obama had to send almost 70% of our naval assets into the Pacific.
No, liberal justices didn't pave the way for same-sex marriage. Rioters did. Nothing happened until Stonewall. Democrats were happy to throw queer folk under the bus, same as they do today, and watch them get murdered in the street. But when they actually fought back in NYC, that's when the pressure built and the establishment needed to react.
It's always been this way. Improvements happen when the oppressed fight back, outside the ballot box. The labor movement had to do it, women's Suffrage had to do it, civil rights had to do it, gay rights had to do it, Haiti had to do it, Russia had to do it, China had to do it, Cuba had to do it. It's the only thing the power structure responds to.
And that's been proven by research from Princeton by the way. Popular opinion has literally no statistical influence on legislation across 30 years of study, which spans both parties in multiple configurations.
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If there isn't a party I can tolerate in the next UK election I will draw a giant knob on the ballot paper in disrespect of the shit options.
Instead of not voting, spoil your ballot. Reject this shit. Show that you want to vote and that none of the options presented are worth voting for.
The democrats are also running over most of those others as well promising to outflank the republicans on cruelty to immigrants and imperialism and currently throwing trans people off the bus never mind you can of course derail the trolley.
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two tracks.
They're the same track.
thank you for proving you don't mind the extermination of Palestinians
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it actually rules not voting for zionists. im writing in someone else for my rep as well as all the unopposed races