SonicDeathTaco

Fuckin' A

I'm more interested in mobilizing people outside of the electoral process at this point.

I will continue to vote but, on a national level, I no longer believe that lasting meaningful change will happen at the ballot box.

I have even less faith in the DNC ability to drive that change regardless of who is the chair. I think the best hope in that regard is an insurgent campaign a'la Bernie 2016/2020, and even then...idk.

There is power where there is people, the DNC seem to see this as an inconvenience. People are where I'm interested in spending my energy now.

Spending meaningful political capital on the DNC seems about as effective as that billion dollars in donations was for the Harris campaign this cycle.

Not discouraging anyone from doing it, as much as encouraging y'all to put the work in outside of the electoral process.

You do you.

I love how they think the best way forward is to become the embodiment of the election strategy that just failed so spectacularly for Harris. Brilliant.

Probably George, maybe Ringo.

Sorry bud, but you just can't fly in hot with a dickish reply to someone else's comment and expect them to extend you any grace. Especially when you're not even actually replying to the actual comment but your gross misreading of it.

Since apparently I'm blocked. For any body else who might stumble upon this one. Lovable's assertion that any comparison between chattle slavery and prison slavery somehow diminishes the suffering and plight of the former is a real head scratcher. Especially since the prison industrial complex in the United States was built to be an institutional replacement for the systems of oppression that were banned by the 13th amendment.

Edit: chattel for cattle, auto correct strikes again.

Yeah... Maybe think a bit on who it is that's actually doing the devaluing here.

Now, now, just calm down there Charlie.

I said nothing about prison slavery. You're reading things into my post that are not there. The point I was trying to make is that the last the last living person who existed as property under what people think of as Slavery in the United States died in 1975. That's either not even or just barely two generations ago.

But the rest of your statement, yeah....idk. I'll just say that people are still being kidnapped, shipped and sold in this country. The mechanisms are different, the justifications are different. The underlying reasons? Not so much.

You're completely right. I did the American thing that Americans are wont to do. Apologies.

~~Slavery~~ American chattel slavery.

More of them should have paid attention in civics class. This is no win. Not long-term at least.

her landlord probably wants charge her pet rent for it.