TalkingDuck [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Hypothetically if there were two identical candidates with their only difference being that candidate #1 will enact abortion rights, I think voting for them is a valid form of harm reduction.

    However just look at the track record of Kamala and the Dems. Just this campaign they have been willing to fund genocide, imprison immigrants, increase police funding and completely ignore climate change. They have no moral compass, the only guiding principle for them is whatever will earn them more money or votes. And abortion rights happens to earn them both a lot of donation money AND a lot of voters. They have no incentive to ever fight for it in the same way they will never fight for M4A or free college education. It is simply another tool to force large part of the working class to forever vote for them.

    I personally won’t label anyone who votes for her thinking they are fighting for abortion rights as an evil person, but for me it’s just a completely useless act. Even if dems do act to protect them, they will 100% do it in a way that Republicans can easily re-ban next election.



  • france-cool elections are happening today. Does anyone have some knowledge how things are looking?

    • As far as I see the far-right are winning the election, but not with enough votes to gain a majority so they will need to form a coalition with someone else.
    • The leftist big tent party are polling as solid second. Mélenchon is cool and based, but I’m wondering how many positions did he have to concede to form the party?
    • Macron’s party is eating shit lol Why would you call snap elections at your party’s weakest point in history??? Probably the biggest unforced error in politics since Biden agreeing to a live debate (so since yesterday I guess? God liberals are dumb)





  • I wouldn’t put the cold war with China on Trump. I think the period of his presidency coincided with the Chinese government finally getting more independent on the geopolitical scene and also transitioning to high-tech manufacturing competing with the West (Huawei, BYD, Tiktok, etc…). Once the US government realized they are no longer dealing with just an obedient manufacturing hub, they launched the trader war. I think the policy would have been the same no matter if Trump/Clinton/Biden is in charge. Literally yesterday Biden announced even more tariffs on green energy products.

    The war in Ukraine is kind of the same. The only reasons Republicans became pro-Russian is because the Democrats were anti-Russian and the parties are obliged to always disagree. If Russia invaded Ukraine under Trump they would just make up a different excuse to support them. “Evil Putin is restoring the Soivent Union. We must stop the commies!!”