You are in a room where everyone already agrees that high speed rail is good.

Someone makes a (very fucking obvious) joke about how high speed rail is so good we should build them next to highways to make carbrains jealous.

You: um actually we shouldn't try to make people feel bad. Making people jealous is bad policy decision. Doing that would make the train less efficient too.

Everyone else in the room: yes we know you joyless nerd.

That was a deja vu vision. See you at the plane crash part when capitalism falls comrade

Nazis fighting Nazis

Oop im feeling it, gotta worship Russia now. . Wanna hit?

Let me be more blunt. We do not live in a democracy. Voting is fundamentallly unable to change that.

Let's get to work

The crux of the issue is, where you see a democracy that is keeping fascism at bay, we see through the illusion of choice that keeps allowing the slow steady march towards fascism.

It's a ratchet. Gop moves everything rightward (including the Dems) and the Dems refuse to push left in the name of "bipartisanship". Then conditions get worse (because the policy is further right than before), Dems eventually lose because they allow gridlock and the ratchet suddenly frees up and cranks to the right again.

such a take.

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