a quick poll about Russia and Donald Trump

i could see us winning the league if she was on the team. but alas

I'm guessing I have the most consistent far-left voting record of anyone on this thread

there were 340 boxes on the upper house ballot last weekend. aiui you only get to number one (1) box?

tbh americans seldom really have an opportunity to vote for "far left" candidates.

i mean my mom voted for dick gregory once upon a time...

I am the most “out there” probably—a true firebrand

yeah but how many of you have a rosa luxemburg tattoo on the small of your back?

It's true that the far left in the US does not enjoy the widespread popularity, and electoral success, it does in The People's Republic of Denmark.

political parties and electoralism are reactionary

come into my eco-libertarian-communist yurt and find the true meaning of the left

i dont cair what any body says, i still thing that trupm did rusha

But I do hate American leftists.

all of them? like, every community activist and union organizer and...?

Nah, that's an exaggeration, I hung out with leftists when I lived in San Diego, and liked a lot of them. But American leftism in general is pretty annoying.

tbh americans seldom really have an opportunity to vote for "far left" candidates.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), 27. marts 2019 20:09 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, yeah, this is most of the explanation. I vote for the Unity List, as did 7,8% of Denmark last parliamental election (and 12,8% of my city last municipal election, which is a bit low for a city).

Also, I was elected to the school council on the communist/satanist ticket back in ninth grade. True story.

satanist is the opeth of the masses

arrgh
*satanism

as a constituent of, donor to, and voter for America's only (I think) Socialist Alternative city councilor, I claim the right to be called the most leftist person on ilx

Never voted for a far left candidate in my life, I must be American.

i once voted for a trotskyist party

which makes me the biggest dumbass on ilx

ok now whose dick curves the most to the left. fred?

i once voted for a trotskyist party

which makes me the biggest dumbass on ilx

I currently donate to a trot organization which makes me an even bigger dumbass than you jim

which one?

my fave north american trotsky org is solidarity, and their journal against the current is really good

none of you poseurs have a regular donation to any maoist organizations though.

wait there are non-annoying political factions in the US? please explain

mister, we could use a man
like leon trotsky once again
those...were...the...days!

in my experience calling a girl annoying is guy for "im gonna try and fuck that chick". its an instant break up in my book.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 8:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol

@jim - IMT

credit where it's due to them for having the domain marxist.com

somehow doing Putin's bidding again, right Satan/Maddowists?

Reuters reports:

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen.

The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cybersecurity personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela.

“Russia has to get out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Asked how he would make Russian forces leave, Trump said: “We’ll see. All options are open.”

are you talking to anyone here?

wait did Satan get a new show?

Fuller House iirc

wait did Satan get a new show?

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:41 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he has a whole network.

more like a medium tbh

just based on stuff we already know mueller could have indicted don jr, fact he didn’t prob means he wussed out from going too close to the pres. i figure he had something that technically implicated trump but was kinda small beans and was like ‘eh fuck it’ .. trump was acting hilariously suspicious the entire time and it clearly kept him up at night, his tweets last weekend were fn nuts lol. the way libs reacted to russia stuff was obvs some kinda mild post traumatic denial and produced some of the cringiest content in history but tbh i think the investigation was a success

Just remembered this SNL sketch from a year ago where Robert Mueller says there's no case on collusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CKGA9w-B6A

Even SNL knew this might be the case. Taibbi and Greenwald are just embarrassing themselves, although I don't think at least Greenwald is able to feel shame.

^Satan

(for Gummy Gummy's benefit)

He’s now shifted into the “we already always knew that all along anyway” phase of grief.

I thought Chapo was very good on this this week. In a nutshell: everything we need to impeach Trump is and already was in plain sight from the beginning. But the Democratic Party lacks the political guts to do it (even now tha they have a house majority) so instead people hoped for a legalistic/extra-political solution.

Nixon was never in danger of being impeached for his biggest crimes (Cambodia, genocide in Indochina etc).

man alive otm

what people? Rachel and the Maddows?

But the Democratic Party lacks the political guts to do it (even now tha they have a house majority) so instead people hoped for a legalistic/extra-political solution.

didn't we have a discussion like... two weeks ago about whether impeachment would be politically useful at all? guts have nothing to do with it

xp c'mon everybody was *hoping* for a legalistic-political solution...it might have been a pipe dream but even skeptics would have liked to see it happen

^extra-political

This backlash on the Russia stuff (when it is so obviously there!) is as bad if not worse than R's howling TOTAL EXONERATION

"would have liked to see it happen" /= pinning one's hopes on a long shot.

I would like to marry Jake Gyllenhaal, but this doesn't mean I stop using OKCupid or dating.

yeah, post-election most dems could not envision surviving through a full term Trump Presidency so the idea that he should be arrested/impeached kind of got ahead of things like evidence-gathering and political practicality.

It's like on 9/11 when all the smug people said "are you surprised?"

the sudden credulity around these parts for Mueller and the Feds by ppl shouting "Pigs!" the past two years is amusing