"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people who refuse to commit to abolishing an orginization that is currently performing mass sterilizations in their concentration camps
"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people currently celebrating the removal of opposing candidates from election ballots
"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people who are proposing a greatly increased budget for heavily armed, unaccountable, state sanctioned death squads currently performing extrajudicial public executions of political dissidents
"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people who promise to vastly increase the budget for the standing military force whose primary function is subjugating people outside our borders and appropriating their natural resources
"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people who built an unprecedented warrantless panopticon to constantly surveil people against their will and without anything resembling due process
"We have to vote to stop fascism," said the people who literally used their power as legislators to vote for more fascism
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Oh you mean the graph with the line and the arrow that indicates how much money a few thousand rich assholes stole from the rest of us today. *that* economy
Capitalism has always been feudalism in disguise and now it's doing a strip tease
12 landlords that control every livable structure and 12 companies that control every possible avenue of employment all owned by 3 giant umbrella corporations, that's where we're going folks
Shout out to everyone saying I'm wrong and going on to describe the extra steps capitalism added as the disguise
The fact that the most prominent former strong advocates of medicare for all who are still in office or electorally viable are now speaking of healthcare in terms of "access" should tell you something I've been trying to get across for a little while now
You totally get that elected democrats provide performative opposition to republicans in order to perpetuate the illusion of democracy but wait till you find out elected progressives are doing the same thing with democrats
It's gonna make you really sad but it's best to get it over with tbh
Your friendly neighborhood weird nerd is experiencing a slightly altered state of consciousness enabled by a modest intake of common recreational consumables and will be writing limericks on the subject of your choice for an hour or so, because fuck it why not
Enchanting the crowd with a quarrel
They'll gather more folks than a bar'll
When it comes to pizzazz
No one has as much as
Comrades Groucho and Harpo and Karl
For a ska band that's hep, tight and fun
I inform you your search, now, is done
There is no band so great
Urban legends is - Wait,
Oh, no that was the Suburban ones