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Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.

Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.

The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.

The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.

There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

lib copium is adding YEARS to my lifespan right now. mfs on reddit talking about "im grieving" bc they didnt let a woman be in charge of genociding palestinians, fucking hilarious

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I really, really wish I started music earlier.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

My AA group is looking into making a website, and I'm looking into how I can get it added to a certain webring. I'm really excited to be able to help other people :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why did the generalthreads just disappear from my feed. I need places to vent out random shit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Kamala would've won if Tim Walz went on Aimee Terese's podcast.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

flattened-bernie bernie won his senate seat. Crazy that there just isn't a retirement strategy lol.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

getting a public holiday (paid weekday off) because of a horse race lmao

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Trump joins FDR as one of only 2 presidents who won more than 2 elections

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Democratic turnout dropped so much that I have to wonder if Republicans simply got extremely good at voter suppression. I guess all they had to do was make vote by mail difficult to get the result?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

making a night owl clock in anytime before 10 is some MKUltra shit ong

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excited for liberals to make their own versions of Rumble and Locals. Lemmy.world might become more popular than Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

keeping a copy of wikipedia and a solar charger on me at all times, in case I get sent back in time and wanna fuck around and be a wizard or some shit

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Getting robbed and having to tell the robbers that all my money is invested in the market, getting pushed on it and having to reveal I mean funko pops and pokemon cards

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

it's kinda cool that i've grown a ton since i left my (not technically) marriage <1.5 years ago. i do still sometimes feel guilty but it was completely the right decision.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

burgerpain Maybe something nice will happen

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I can't believe the democrats did it again, that is fucking hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would like more safe and comfy venues to be unabashedly horny please.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Monkeys will never write Shakespeare. One representative of the monkey union is quoted as saying that the monkeys are currently working on original art, rather than derivative works. "If humans want to waste their meager lives recreating works that already exist they're free to do so"

The monkey union's contract is due to expire in march of 2025. Current priorities are stated as raises to match the cost of living, restricting AI use only to tasks deemed as "human work", and a second 15 minute banana break in the workday.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Day 147: Have scraped most of the moss off the walls, and eaten it to regain what little strength the strange growth will provide. This pit seems to go on forever, and despite the abundance of gamer crud on the upper levels I had taken to help supplement the few rations I had managed to secure, these deeper levels provide far less in terms of edible material. It also seems that whenever I do find time to rest between downward treks, some sort of creature has been eating what Ive not secured on my person. I hear whispers some nights, they tell me that a "Hexagonal bear" is at the bottom. I fear I may have delved too deep into the pit. I cannot turn back now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good morning nerds meow-coffee

I wonder how many votes Claudia got, last i read Stein got .5%

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

holy fucking shit my heart is POUNDING from this. i didn't win but still, the fact that i got that close is shocking

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

my normiest close friend is down in the dumps about the election, not sure whether to engage rn and if so, how. chances of them becoming one of us or at all active politically are minimal from where I’m sitting so might just let it be.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm honestly just surprised everyone seems to think this wasn't an expected outcome. Like all the predictions told you to flip a coin, Trump wasn't losing by any means. Like idk what to say to people when they seem unprepared for something that was very likely to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

So, Decoy Octopus in MGS was doing blackface and I don't think anyone ever brings it up.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

resurgence of the r-word seemed like a bad omen this year.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Been trying to keep food budget at 20 bucks a week what recipes you guys have

Atm I got chickpea shakshuka, creamy garlic chickpeas, curry of all kinds, canned sardines mustard style and rice, grits, peanuts, jamaican style mackerel and rice.

I dont count seasoning and sardines cost cuz they just magically show up in my pantry somehow. Im trying to find more recipes that are based around onions, canned tomatoes, and peppers too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

With the ingredients you listed, I'd strongly suggest looking into Cajun red beans and rice. Pretty much a perfect cheap way to use onions, canned tomatoes and pepper. If you can get celery for cheap enough (it's less than a dollar for 2 two weeks supply near me) it's also worth adding. Can also go in a Mexican direction, but with the mackerel and sardines I think that'd fit into a cuisine with Jamaican links a lot better

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

my family's kind of always been ahead of the curve on not hewing and crying over the dresden bombing bcs my grandad was an RAF pilot who supposedly took part in it and he took a very clear "the kraut's deserved it" line on the matter

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

piss and shit and piss and shit

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