• ccunning@lemmy.world
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      It sucks, but we need a functioning democracy if we want to make progress.

      Make sure your mask is secure before helping others.

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      For Lenin, elections had two major functions. One was the opportunity to make propaganda for socialism: to put across arguments and ideas that could win adherents. This was a vision of elections and election campaigns as a platform. The other function was elections as a means of ‘counting our forces’, i.e. gauging levels of support for socialist ideas and assessing political progress. This could in turn influence what tactics to adopt in a range of areas of political work. Furthermore, if Bolsheviks were actually elected (which did happen) their role was to champion radical socialist ideas and demands. It was to use parliament, which was very limited in actual powers, as a megaphone; not to believe falsely that parliament would in fact bring about significant change. source

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              Imperialism is when base on place people want you out.

              Stein wins when people stop supporting Genocide. Let’s have faith in humanity.

              I literally don’t consider people supporting Genocide as candidates.

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                  Harris flops so hard in the debate that everyone realizes she cannot beat Trump and then everyone unites behind Jil Stein to not support Genocode. The end.