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  • You kinda worked yourself into a dead end there. It’s impossible for 60 democrats to win in the Senate with the way the DNC currently acts. The idea that people need to just believe in the DNC is never going to sway the average voter who’s getting poorer by the day.

    We can all gather around and discuss how to sort out our Democrats after we remove the Republican Menace.

    Remove it from… What, exactly? Even if they do win 60 seats, do you think Republicans will disappear from existence? They’ll fuck around with their lame duck policies and get their ass handed to them by the GOP the next election. And setting all that aside: They could’ve just fucking gotten rid of the filibuster. The fact they haven’t after what the GOP did during Obama’s term should tell you all you need to know.









  • What I don’t understand about this viewpoint is: What systematic change are you talking about? The DNC has completely betrayed the working class, the GOP is the GOP and nobody seems interested in pushing third parties. I haven’t heard of a single protest, let alone a strike or other effective political action (which peotests aren’t, to be clear) against this issue specifically or the capitalist capture of America in general.











  • The works of Verschave and Beti reported a forty-year, post-independence relationship with France’s former colonial peoples, which featured colonial garrisons in situ and monopolies by French multinational corporations, usually for the exploitation of mineral resources. It was argued that the African leaders with close ties to France—especially during the Soviet–American Cold War (1945–1992)—acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests than as the national leaders of sovereign states. Cited examples are Omar Bongo (Gabon), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Ivory Coast), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo), Idriss Déby (Chad), and Hamani Diori (Niger).

    -Wikipedia.