Excrubulent

Excrubulent , 14 days ago to A Boring Dystopia in If Biden Isn’t the Democrats’ 2024 Candidate, Harris Will Be

You're assuming the DNC even wants to win.

They are a corporate machine with a lot of the same donors as Republicans. Their job is to provide a nominal resistance to the oligarchy, not actually win, govern, or fix things. That's why they don't want Bernie who is not on board with their mission. He was so popular his ideas dominated the primaries, so the DNC pulled out all the stops to keep him from winning, because it would've been very hard to maintain their soft obstructionism with him pushing on so many issues from the bully pulpit.

This is part of why I think you actually should vote for the Dem candidate as long as they're not the raging fascist that Trump is - they don't care about your protest vote or whatever. They will just lose, shrug their shoulders and start fund-raising for the next season where they will continue to be the only viable option because of deeply entrenched structural obstacles to any alternative.

Excrubulent , 14 days ago to Meta (slrpnk.net) in SLRPNK community discussion - January 2024

Thabks so much!

Excrubulent , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to A Boring Dystopia in If Biden Isn’t the Democrats’ 2024 Candidate, Harris Will Be

She'd be a very successful candidate no doubt, if the DNC allowed it. You've seen how they did Bernie and he's an old white guy. I can't imagine them going for AOC. They're a fundamentally conservative organisation that exists to vet candidates and prevent anyone with the will to make "actual change" from being in a position to.

Also, they've argued in court that they are not a democratic organisation. They can block nominations entirely unilaterally, to one of the only two parties that can realistically field a presidential candidate. The other party is much more openly corrupt, which is a genuine achievement.

The US electoral system is entirely captured by corporate interests.

Excrubulent , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to Meta (slrpnk.net) in SLRPNK community discussion - January 2024

Hey, just letting you know I've finally sent you an account request, I hope the offer is still good! I'm sorry it's taken me so long - life has been kind of crazy the last couple of months.

Excrubulent , 15 days ago to A Boring Dystopia in Saw a nazi today

It just occurred to me how absolutely accurate it is that the cops are holding the line defending the small number of Nazis from the counter-protestors. They also have that cop who hates the Nazis just like everyone else, but he's still doing his job keeping everyone back, which is also pretty accurate.

Excrubulent , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Motherfucker you came at me with a challenge to a position that I clearly didn't have, and your "apology" was obviously a snide attempt to make a second equally ridiculous accusation.

You also said I "voiced prejudice". (EDIT: In fact, you called it an "accusation", your words, so it wasn't some academic detached notion that you were attacking, it was my conduct directly) Now, if that's meant to mean something other than you accusing me of racism or whatever "geographical" prejudice is, go for it. Explain yourself.

I never said anything prejudicial towards any group. Once again, if I did, fucking show it. Explain your working.

So far I am working off of vague insinuations and technical "well ackshually"s from you. If you have something to say, fucking say it.

Excrubulent , 16 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

The opposite of Racist is not a Racist with an opposite list of “good” and bad “races”, it’s somebody who thinks it’s not race that makes people be “good” or “bad”.

It was indeed incorrect and unfair of my part to accuse you of voicing prejudice by race when the prejudice you voiced was by “geographical area of birth”.

Put those two together, in context, like you might do if you could read things, understand them and infer basic meaning, and that's actually very clearly what you were saying.

In case you can't follow it because for example you are trying to avoid taking responsibility for what you said: you said I divided people into good and bad by race, then you corrected yourself and said my prejudice was based on geography. That prejudice was clearly established as believing in good and bad people.

You're right, that really wasn't hard, because you absolutely did say that.

You clearly don't have anything honest to say or you'd have said it. You're 0 for 3 on actually saying something that makes sense yet. I don't hold out hope for future comments.

Excrubulent , 16 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Please tell me where in my comment I said anyone were bad people because of their "geographical area of birth".

It wasn't a very long comment I made so it shouldn't be hard to find it, unless I said no such thing.

Excrubulent , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Please show me where I said white people were the bad people.

It's not a long comment I made so it shouldn't be hard to find it, unless I said no such thing.

Excrubulent , 16 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Ownership means having power, having control, over the thing you own.

An authoritarian government that maintains control over the means of production, no matter how much they nominally "belong" to the workers, inherently alienates the workers from having power and therefore from ownership. In that sense it is state capitalist.

You cannot have it both ways unless you change the meaning of words like "own", or "authority". Your own description of leftism precludes authoritarian methods.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

No no, keep bitching out and showing what a fool you are. It's great.

You said you're not my servant but you really do seem to be obligated to reply, like you apparently can't stop.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Really, what did they say?

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

You came in so strong and now you're just bitching out.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

I think that's projection, and I think anyone reading can see it too.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Tell me what they said. Give me just one single quote.