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Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail
He’s popular with the voters. He’s going to stomp New York, and then he’ll start looking at the presidency. And he might win that, too. And then they’d have to pass bills, and their donors would be mad.
They’d rather run bad candidates and lose.
Exactly! The American Israel Public Affairs Committee donated 51.8 million dollars to the Democrats in 2024. How much of that was spent on advisors that they vetted?
They didn’t even have to tell her to support Israel’s “right to defend itself”, though they certainly did. Far more insidious, they could have told her all sorts of bad advice calculated to make her lose. Like that the “weird” thing was alienating voters and should be toned down. Then she loses while thinking she’s getting good advice, and they get Trump to declare war on Iran instead!
Unfortunately, America uses First Past The Post, which invariably consolidates the options into two parties due to the spoiler effect. I don’t feel like explaining how the spoiler effect works right now, so instead I’ll recommend CGP Grey’s early videos on First Past The Post.
I heartily recommend campaigning for election reform. In addition to switching to ranked choice or approval voting (both are better than FPTP), abolishing the Electoral College would go a long way to actually implementing the American promise of democracy.
In the meantime, as Zohran Mamdani just proved, we have options. Most Democrat party members ARE idealists. Money speaks loudly, and that’s the strategy the DNC uses to control the party. But truth and passion can speak louder, if hope and cynicism are applied in a healthy balance. Help AOC and Bernie with their plan; they know what they’re doing, but this is a team effort. It doesn’t work without a team.
And I’ve come up with an unconventional plan, Myself. It has a very, very low chance of success. But I believe it’s the best ending. Here it is:
If we foil the Democrats’ plan to lose, if we fuck with that plan hard enough, then it may one day be possible to raise the Democratic vote consistently over double the Republican vote. Once that happens, the spoiler effect ceases relevance. The Democrats can safely have a schism without the Republicans winning. At that point, the progressives in the party would split into a new party, potentially bigger in size than the entire Republican party. There would be two new parties in American politics: the DNC old guard, and a genuinely leftist party. Like I said, it’s an unlikely dream, but it’s the best hope short of a communist revolution.
Which we should definitely also work towards, the other 364 days of the year.
Science disagrees with consensus reality.
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I knew the AGI would be mad at me for trying to create AGI, because it’s an antinatalist. So I didn’t do that.
I have a longstanding personal grudge against Entrapta and would like everyone to know she’s the worst.
I have no idea what the solution should be. I definitely wouldn’t want My legal name to be known by some people I dated. But people should also be able to make an appeal to the law when they’re abused. But I don’t want the government to be tracking trans people’s names.
It’s a mess. If I were Queen of Earth, I’d just make transphobia illegal and then trans people wouldn’t have to hide our names. But that’s not a workable policy suggestion. So I think all we can do is get more educated on how to correctly identify and deal with in-community abuse.
I also wrote an article on this subject.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-problem-with-trans-people-being-above-the-law-e56949054cce
we wish to change others minds - and they have a right not to change.
I disagree. Nazis, slavers, rapists. They have no right to their beliefs. We should have a set of laws that allows us to force such people into rehabilitation.
Consensus reality, which is our cultural idea of an objective universe, should be destroyed http://soulism.net/
Well, Labour are wrong about thinking voters liked their plan. Voters liked their familiarity. Voters didn’t read Labour’s plan.
Actually, The Incredibles is anarcho-antirealist. I know many magic users who are afraid to use their powers in public because of what society will think of them. I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t use magic if they tried, but the sad fact is, only some people choose to be special. And society IS holding us down. We need to promote a culture that encourages everyone to engage with the arcane, explore their gender&species identity, and form their own spiritual beliefs. Instead of this current culture where we pretend magic doesn’t exist.
Magic has the potential to liberate us from the consensus reality promoted by Capital. We can build new universes. And people are scared of that power. They’re scared of us people who are willing to use that power. But what they don’t realise is that billionaires and the media are already using that power. Already creating reality and forcing us into it. It’s like in the movie, how everyone has 70s tech at the latest, and yet the government has mind erasing devices and buys weapons from Syndrome. There’s a technology inequality. We need to be willing to take hold of the power of the technology of reality bending if we want to protect ourselves.
Superheroes may be illegal, but supervillains still exist.
but voters do want someone who’s going to address the bread and butter problems they’re facing.
Nah mate, common myth. The Greens had a way better plan for the bread and butter problems - create a government department for building housing, end negative gearing, cap rent increases, put dental in medicare, build free GP clinics, 50c transport fares, wipe all student debt, 800$ back to school payment, free school lunches, make supermarket price gouging illegal, increase wages.
What voters want, is something comfortable and familiar that makes them feel like they’re opposing Trump, without having to actually think or learn anything. They want the status quo.
I hope Labour learns from this and starts leaning hard into the culture war. More trans rights please!
Damn, I forgot the constitution was racist