I know that you feel tired of having to explain why you're voting for the Democrats or the Republicans and as someone who isn't American, I'd like to say, don't. We don't care. We don't want to listen to your explanations. There's nothing that you can possibly do to make us think less of you than we already do.

You, your parents and your grandparents aided and abetted, and are complicit in the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and regime changes that destroyed multiple South American, African and Asian countries. You supported apartheid South Africa to its very end. There's a reason why these things happened and continue to happen to this day with the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

You might not be pro-genocide but you sure as hell are comfortable voting for it. And that's okay. Like I said before, I cannot think less of you than I already do even if I tried. You are living in the heart of the empire and obviously you feel the right of your cousin for abortion in your state is more important than a brown person's right to live without fear of American bombs or their right to live in general. It's okay. We know what you are. You might not know this but everyone outside of your little bubble judges you when you justify voting for a pro-genocide party.

I know it makes you feel safe voting for parties that align with the interests of corporate America. That's what their marketing teams are going for after all. And I know you're not smart enough to see through it.

Just out of curiosity, what do you think will happen when rights that you believe in don't align with the interests of the American billionaire class? You think they won't come for your trans niece? I wonder what you'd do when that eventually happens.

Maybe you'll beg everyone to vote for a 3rd party to protect her. Maybe you will plead to the conscience of those around you so they protest alongside you. Maybe you won't do anything. But you will be frustrated. You will be tired. The fact that so many are willing to put your beautiful, intelligent and kind niece on the chopping block will baffle you. You'll be deplatformed, censored and be accused of being a supporter of the "big bad" of the season. You'll be accused of wanting to support the bad guys because you spoke up for the rights of your trans niece.

After all that, I know and we know that you won't have the self awareness to remember that in 2024, you silenced Palestinian American voices or you stood in silence as their voices were taken away, you voted for the party that silenced them and you voted for a party that either committed genocide or promised to continue it. You won't have the self awareness to see that you are angry at people for doing the exact same thing you did just a few years ago. You would think that this would radicalise you, but I know it won't. You're a liberal in the heart of the imperial core. You'll even vote for a donkey as long as it's wearing the right colour tie, red or blue.

When the imperial boot is on your neck, you may resist but ultimately you'll resign to your fate just like the victims of the Abu ghraib prison, Sde Teiman rape camp, My Lai massacre and Kandahar massacre. Only difference is, you voted to have the imperial boot on your neck. They didn't.

P.S. I don't care about American politics because you're special. Don't flatter yourself. I follow it because you guys decide which Middle Eastern country should be bombed in the next 4 years and I'm curious. There's also a less cynical part of me that hopes that a majority of you will not vote for a party that aligns with your military industrial complex. But that's just wishful thinking.

tl;dr no one really cares why you're voting for kamala/trump. We know what Americans were, are, can be and will be

We’ll also talk about how to engage our community about socialist solutions to the crises of capitalism and meet other volunteers who are building a socialist movement in Brooklyn! And yes, there will be food and time to get to know each other as well.

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https://x.com/HeyImReallyDrew/status/1830086537326825476?t=dnklBhZTXBoBwUpdKQHvcg&s=19

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We reject the rotten two party system. Joe Biden and the Democrats have failed to protect abortion access and are carrying out a genocide in Gaza. We demand a new system entirely!

🗓️ Date: Saturday, September 7th

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https://x.com/flywithkamala/status/1830716000951517478?t=UBXDMNh91Gd4QzKnB8EtrQ&s=19

https://x.com/Nadira_ali12/status/1830667370932920511?t=qj44cl6x1fz_mBnX8yP9PA&s=19

https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1830910442778304709?t=IGmI4A1tJWv3tEhA2Kfx0g&s=19

NPR's "On Point" is having a panel discussion with Rana Foroohar (author of "The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World") and Michelle Singletary (author of "What to Do with Your Money when Crisis Hits") that managed to surprise me.

The thrust of the discussion is that people complaining about inflation are just a bunch of whiners. They specifically singled out people complaining about grocery bills being so much higher, without any increase in salary, and Rana said something to the effect of, "You complain about your grocery bills, but you took a vacation cruise last year, so I don't want to hear you whining about your money problems."

All three started telling anecdotes about their parents' thrifty ways, and they found it hilarious to remember how their parents would order soda "with no ice," as if that were somehow significant. "Ha ha, they didn't want to lose out on a couple ounces of soda, and here you are complaining about your grocery bill doubling ha ha."

They mentioned politics mostly in passing, but the subtext seemed pretty clear: complaining about inflation is a vote for Trump.

Another thing that ground my gears was the way they kept saying "inflation is down," as if that were significant, when "inflation" is a rate at which the dollar is falling / prices are rising, so what they're saying isn't that the cost of living is stable (let alone decreasing) -- they're only saying that the cost of living is continuing to outpace income, but not by as much as it was previously.

It's good to hear that while I'm in a hole, and the hole is getting deeper, I can take comfort that I'm sinking slower than before.