I definitely chose to spend my day organizing for better conditions instead of settling for scraps and being joyful that other people have it worse.

You know, fuck Trump, fuck Graham, and fuck every Republican. But:

Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”

Is perfectly accurate. I get that everyone is excited about Harris, but lying to ourselves about the economy makes us look out of touch, at best. Most of us can’t afford a down payment on a house. Most of us are a few missed paychecks away from homelessness. Most of us are one bad doctor’s appointment away from bankruptcy. Most of us are drowning in student loans. Republicans absolutely want to make all of those worse, but pretending everything is fine is bullshit.

Nothing is stopping him from Officially Acting on six Supreme Court Justice literally right now.

Wanting a President that can string two coherent sentences together doesn’t make you a Russian bot.

Sooooooo… if this is what has finally shaken your faith in American bourgeoisie democracy, good news (sorta)! Alternatives exist, although the struggle to achieve them will be long and arduous. Our current system of propping up billionaire-approved octogenarians to give our stolen wealth tax breaks and investment incentives to defense contractors, cops, and landlords exists very explicitly to preserve a system of private property that keeps you poor and desperate.

The alternative to this is to build class consciousness and working class power in order to contest this awful system and put political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class before our impending environmental collapse. Join an organization that exists locally that’s building that working class power. Seriously, don’t even get caught up on which -ism best fits you, just join whatever exists locally that you can contribute to. Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Alternative, the Industrial Workers of the World, Food Not Bombs, even a small community mutual aide network that supports a few of your unhoused neighbors.

This debate should be your wake-up call. The state is a fuck and you’re just a sacrificial pawn in a system designed to funnel wealth upwards. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

Replacing Biden with a cop would be the most DNC thing imaginable. We’re so fucked.

This is elder abuse. How did we end up with these two candidates?

I can’t wait to find out tomorrow how it’s pro-Palestinian protestors fault that Biden can’t speak above a whisper.

I haven’t noticed it, personally. Most of the unchecked disinformation mostly seems to be confined to the World News subreddit. There isn’t much hasbara in the fediverse from what I can tell.

For fucks sake, the 1968 DNC protests are what popularized the term ‘police riot.’

Ignoring the decades of illegal occupation, Israel continues to hold ten times the number of hostages that Hamas has ever held. No one is buying your hasbara anymore.

It’s crazy that give commerce more rights to travel freely than we give living, breathing humans. Fuck borders.

Don’t worry, it’ll all trickle down any day now.

Biden is going to further jeopardize his reelection chances just so arms manufacturers can profit more off genocide.

Say what you want about the capitalist class, but they certainly have class solidarity.

If you think they’re literally calling to kill over 300 million people, I have great news about potential crypto and NFT investments for you.

It’s almost like the mainstream media deliberately doesn’t give a voice to people outside of a very narrow (and shrinking) Overton window.

Edit: honestly having trouble imagining how absolutely stupid someone has to be to downvote this lol. Guess I need to make a cryptocurrency lol.

It’s not like Fox News is ever going to have a segment calling for empathy with minority urban voters, or 538 running an article on Republicans failing to address issues that minority urban voters have.

Imagine living on a planet that’s being cooked alive, a random executive in a board room can fire you for no reason, you’re one missed paycheck away from being homeless, which itself is increasingly being criminalized, you’ll never be able to own a house or pay off the loans society told you you had to take out when you were 18, you’re one bad doctor’s appointment from bankruptcy, your tax dollars are going to fund a genocide in Gaza, and the only socially acceptable option to contest any of it is voting once every few years.

How can you not actively support destroying the fundamentally illegitimate system that defines America?

So, so I get a prorated refund on my Google One subscription, or…?

Broke: People being opposed to the ongoing genocide in Gaza are going to get Trump elected.

Woke: Biden’s uncritical support of an unpopular genocide in Gaza is going to get Trump elected.

Biden could just, you know, stop giving arms to Israel.

America has to be the only “democracy” that shames voters for disagreeing with politicians instead of the reverse.

Conservatives are itching to commit violence against women, minorities, and political opposition.

Leftists recognize that medical debt, unaffordable food and rent, climate change, etc. are already forms of violence we’re being subjected to as part of permanent class warfare.

They are not the same.