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What do you tell your “left-leaning” neoliberal friends when they guilt-trip you into voting for their candidates (lemmygrad.ml)

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In every election “left-leaning” neoliberals always try to guilt-trip Marxists into voting for their candidates with the usual schpiel: “Your party doesn't have enough votes to win. You are just letting conservatives win”. What do you tell these people?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tell them if they want my vote they can have it by just seriously embracing two (only two) of the following:

Drug legalization
Vacancy control
Massive increase in funding non-profit housing
Massive increase in train infrastructure
Free public transit
Significant reduction in military budget
Withdraw from NATO
End fossil fuel subsidies
China-style expansion of solar and wind farming
House the homeless in permanent housing
Criminalize corporate lobbying
Complete provision of free health care for all including mental health and dentistry
Debt jubilee
Climate reparations to global south counties

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You missed “Abolishing Private Property”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sure. I mean my point in selecting these is they're all bare minimum responsible policy choices that are obviously needed, that an informed lib should agree to (maybe not the NATO one but still). Like this is not a list of things I actually believe should happen that list is much more expansive, but these are policies chosen to hopefully provoke cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You'll get the fist one soon just so the frontier expands just a wee bit. Same with sex work.