the moralintern has spoken

Damn if that isn't the biggest indicator of her about-face since getting elected

Shit I just watched that vid right before I read this

hyper individualist liberal ideology in a nutshell. It's like Jack Nicholson's character says at the beginning of The Departed "I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me."

Nobody gets to choose that! It's wishful thinking.

This is why a lot of communists are very clear that the point of getting elected isn't to succeed in reforms (thought that is nice) it's to get inside the glass house so you can commence rock throwing.

Literally all you are doing by getting into "the system" is switching classes. It's no big mystery why these so-called "progressives" that hold seats in the halls of bourgeois power become more revisionist and reactionary over time.

Good luck finding a politician that has resisted this trend. There aren't many, if any at all. I would love to retract this statement by being proven wrong, though.

I just posted a song in c/music where the hook is "you can't change the system from within, the system changes you" lol

Weird coincidence coming here and reading this

People have a really poor understanding of ideological state apparatuses and their function

I've seen it brought up before that in the past when the US had a stronger socialist movement, it had people who ran and were elected to US Congress but then used their position subversively, and their terms were generally short-lived in the process. How I wish this was AOC – she seemed to abandon that once Trump was out of office.

Not even apologist; straight up capitalist. People forget, in addition to her USAID adventures in Niger, she had a book publishing startup funded by two Israeli venture capitalists, while also working as a strategist at GAGEis Inc. Just bartender stuff.

Under Biden, more asylum seekers are being held in private detention centers than under Trump.

and her response might as well have been written by Nancy Pelosi. god she fucking sucks

::: spoiler the full question and answer Speaking of our closest neighbors, I want to talk about immigration. Under Biden, more asylum seekers are being held in private detention centers than under Trump. Families are still being separated. The Biden administration kept Trump-era policies that sped up deportations and made it harder for legitimate claimants to come to the U.S. So, what grade do you give the administration on immigration?

Immigration is arguably this administration’s weakest issue. This is one area where our policy is dictated by politics, arguably more so than almost any other. There are very clear recommendations and suggestions that we have made to the administration to provide relief on this issue, and it’s my belief that some of the hesitation around this has to do with a fear around just being seen as approving or providing permission structures, or really just the Republican narratives that have surrounded immigration.

We also need to examine the root causes of this migration and address that this problem doesn’t start at our border, but it starts with our foreign policy.