Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

Biden tells the sad paid for truth, Trump sells paid for lies.

Both won’t change that most American wages aren’t going up, prices are. Certainly won’t with tariff going to 60%.

Biden didn’t really do much for the average American. He could demanded higher wages, pushed for healthcare coverage, and investigated price hiking. And arrested Trump. He did some, but for a man who is currently a sitting duck who is above the law, he’s choosing the safest/“easiest for the rich” option as a presidential RBG.

Trump won’t do much, but will loudly shit out that he did, and his followers will eat it up and ask for more.

Every accusation is a confession.

It’s why they courted Republicans, they wanted that same “they’ll do anything we say” energy.

In a way, he did. Star Trek helped to break the racial barriers of 1960’s America, and inspired a generation of scientists and engineers to invent things that we use commonly today.

There was an entire generation of people who saw what Star Trek brought to the TV screen, and wanted to bring it into reality. Gene saw thousands of fans were inspired to become a better person because of an idea he had one day.

People saw an interracial kiss on screen for the first time. Some were outraged, most didn’t see a problem. Some saw a Japanese person working equally with white crewmen while Japanese-Americans still were treated like garbage and had their possessions still stripped from them.

Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show what humanity might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species known as the Vulcans, who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions. Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti-war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.[15] His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.g., they opposed Roddenberry’s insistence that Enterprise have a racially diverse crew.[16]

Gene didn’t live to see a post-scarcity, no violence, bigotry free society, but he inspired people to achieve it. Gene died happy with knowing he sparked an entire idea into action, some day in the future.

In the canon of Star Trek, humanity had a series of eugenics wars, wars for resources, and then capped it off with a World War 3 where the Geneva conventions were scrapped with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons used by every world power.

The mess was still being cleaned up and the effects of hundreds of millions dead is when people went “Why did we ever hate each other? What did some dude in the African Union do to piss off some dude in the European Alliance, that pissed off some dude in China?”

And then when Zefram Cochrane used the Phoenix to test warp flight, everyone truly went “…Holy shit, we’re not alone. We can fix this for everyone.”

“You had a primary and Biden won so he appointed Harris!”

• Only Phillips had any shot above 0.1%
• Forbidden from running on most ballots
• Primary called before all 50 states had a shot
• Phillips who ran was effectively blacklisted from working with them ever again
• Biden wins
• Phillips got so much flack for “I don’t want Trump to win” he is forced to leave office
• Biden still is a fight of “Who can be the oldest white dude in office?”
• Biden fucks up
• Biden gives up
• “Uhhh Harris is it now, the Silent Generation Dems said so”

It’s an AR-16 to the foot and every time we try to attempt triage, they load a new magazine saying we’re the idiots for trying to stop the bleeding.

And it should be, those harm no one but yourself, and it shouldn’t even be harmful then. What someone identifies, had an abortion, who they love, shouldn’t impact me or anyone else.

Republicans demand that since they find it immoral, we should have it impact to the general public. The right to privacy being implied but never codified in America is such a massive blow to the rights of citizens.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/elections/presidential-candidates-money-raised-dg

Harris had the most money for her run and still begged for money from the people who were being hurt by no minimum wage, affordable healthcare, living paycheck to paycheck.

The RNC had more funding than the DNC, not sure if that’s common or unique this one. While I didn’t get any texts for “send money to Trump” texts, that might be because I’ve used my phone for aiding Democrats in office so they probably saw it as a waste of money.

I vote for Democrats because I kinda half to, not because I want to.

I wanted to vote for Sanders. I voted for Biden and Harris.

Criticism is just a 9 letter word for “Russian asset” to Democrats in 2024.

They literally didn’t, I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

…I mean I know why, but its wild.

Oh I know, but I just want Trump and his fascists dead.

They learn every wrong lesson from history. Republicans see history and go “Let’s do it again, but even worse for the average person!” and Democrats see history and go “Let’s try it again, it didn’t work last time, but surely 3rd time is the charm.”

I genuinely thought she was Gen X like my parents. She was a spring chicken compared to the other side.

Black don’t crack, she genuinely looks youthful and it really helps that she can speak full sentences and thoughts without issues and/or changing topic like Biden or Trump

My eggs are more expensive too. So are everyone elses in the world. I just blame Putin for destabilising and the stores for blatant price gouging the second they felt they could.

Exactly this. Harris probably would have overseen the shift of the prices going back down and the “muh economy and inflation” Republicans wouldn’t have had as big of an argument for 2028.

Ukraine winning, Trump dies from health issues/arrested for his crimes (long shot on the last one), and doing her best to secure abortion and queer protections, she would have been great for her second term.

And now we get nothing but the worst of both worlds.

She only says this because she’s probably going to die in office from old age or some dipshit republican trying to harm her.

She had no intentions of saying/advocating any of this before 2024. 2016 would have been the time to restructure it fully to get more opinions on how to beat Trump, but the DNC argued in court “We have the right to ratfuck our primaries, we’re not under any legal obligation to let the public decide.”

It’s like she wanted to upset the voter base to get the Republicans on her side. “See? I can trigger the libs too!”

The second amendment was to defend Americans from tyranny. Trump is that. Use of force in self defense is justified.

“The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, the cartridge box. Use them in that order.”

At the least, we could have had a shot at getting congress to stop sending arms. We did to Saudi Arabia based on what they were doing to Yemen, thanks to Bernie Sanders.

Would they have? 90%, both parties are in the pocket of AIPAC. But to at least try to do something is better than sitting on our hands and going "welp, brown people are gonna die anyways, next dude will do it more.*