As if they would be there in the frontlines when shit hits the fan. It shows very clearly they don't risk much (and lack the most basic level of empathy) if they really think Trump and Biden are the same. Ask our trans comrades. Or homeless people. Or journalists.
In abstention, they just found a way of feeling good about doing nothing at all. Voting is literally the least you could do and they won't do even that.
We all are vast collections of harmonic oscillators.
Liberals tend to say that the system just needs a few tweaks here and there while the reality is that the entire thing is rotten to the core and the stuff they enjoy now in their "developed" countries was built upon centuries of exploitation of other people, which is still ongoing stronger than ever.
When confronted with these facts, some liberals act defensively and instead of learning and growing in their understanding, they start aligning with right wing thinking. That's why the saying goes "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds".
Many people don't feel in control of their futures. In general, people in the "global South" have way fewer opportunities to start with. It doesn't matter how hard you work if you live in a dictatorship. Or if you never had a good breakfast before math in primary school. Of if half of your waking hours are spent commuting in dilapidated busses packed with people.
These are in reality the hardest working people; every waking hour can be challenge if you are poor.
Yeah, this trumps all the recent intense propaganda about the IDF being professional and meticulous.
Thing is, the game was rigged from the start.
Wealth redistribution is only resetting the board, not a change in the game.
Her talent is in marketing/making money through music. Artistically, she hasn't risked going half a millimeter from the mainstream. Were she as talented as her (loud! Jesus, we already know you like her) fans think, she would be creating new forms of art unknown to humanity. She just found a group of people over the internet and a way to influence them to milk them for money with 27 million versions of the same album and merch.
It doesn't hurt being ultra WASPy and the daughter of the super well connected, super wealthy vice president of Merrill Lynch who basically harassed other people and companies into giving TS a space.
They can exploit the impulses of some vulnerable people.
The US controls gigantic parts of the information/entertainment space: movies, music, social networks, YouTube, TV, even their politics is a keyfabey circus for the rest of the world. American propaganda is literally everywhere.
It's an image of consumption and individualism above even self preservation, so deeply internalized that Americans and perhaps half of the rest of the world don't notice. Sometimes it feels like the US lost its mind in 9/11 and started hurting itself in confusion but it was never a "smart player" in the world, just a narcissistic bully.
It's not necessary for the CIA to be involved because it's literally superliminal and grotesque at this point in time. The US throws its weight all around the world and is brutish and callous with its "use of force", which means murdering people (and destroying property, oh they love them some property) in case there's people in this thread that are lost in so many layers of euphemisms and irony.
Americans need to deal with this instead of becoming defensive and recurring to whataboutism. Yes, China and Russia are horrible and murderous in their own ways and at a different scale, but one must not use them to avoid self reflection.
Being careful is not a luxury most people can afford, because things have to become really really shitty before the incentives for direct political action outweigh the risks and once there, anything goes. For example, when you're living paycheck to paycheck you don't have the freedom to even participate in political protests because you're tired, overworked and sometimes even hungry. LGBTQ+ people in some countries (even some states in the USA) don't feel safe marching and expressing themselves because of threats and acts of violence. Literal nazis are back and peaceful transition of power is not a certainty anymore. Women can't decide over their own bodies because of unsubstantiated beliefs held by the minority in power. In my country in particular, most trans people can't even get jobs and are denied basic anti-discrimination legislation, so they're forced into sex work as a last resort. I did not learn about this from reading hot takes on the internet but from friends who tell me their first-person experiences. I have lived abroad for a couple of years so I am very fortunate to have made friends from diverse backgrounds.
If statistics and a large-scale perspective is what would satisfy your curiosity, I can simply offer this graph. It shows the productivity of workers and the compensation received by said workers. It looks simple but shows the scale of the oppression and exploitation of the entire working class (the graph includes data just for the USA, mind) in the last 50 years. If this is what happened in the most powerful country in the world, imagine what's happening in the global south and in former colonies, like my own country.
Yes! Their positions and actions are suspiciously very demobilising.
No unity even in the most basic stuff. No willingness to hold a constructive conversation. Things have to be done in their way or you're labeled an enemy. Doctrine above humanity. Incessant nitpicking.
How do they intend to build socialism if they can't even have an honest, good faith conversation?