100%, yeah, I think the best way to view the decisions of the parties (but especially the Democrats) is to imagine that you’re just completely disconnected from popular opinion and haven’t spoken to anybody who makes less than like 60k per year since like, 1990. Because otherwise the decisions and rhetoric sound bizarre even if you try to take into account that they’re capitalists and trying to maintain a decaying world empire. This makes their fear about “political violence” suddenly seem very understandable because they don’t wanna be the victims of copycat violence, and so they’re willing to pull back on political advertising so as to not seem as much of a threat. A completely idiotic thing to do from a “we are having an election and want to win it” standpoint, but very understandable from a “we are at the top of the political system and don’t want people, whether large groups or lone gunmen, to target us” standpoint. That’s a higher level of contradiction (“we do intense violence to people but we don’t want them to do violence back to us, how do we solve this?”) they must resolve.

it’s a very strange coincidence that the values we uphold just so happen to be values that are very compatible with the capitalist ideology that rules us, despite our political project being ostensibly opposed to capitalism. hm. should we inspect this and see if there’s anything to constructively criticize in order to create something more liberatory? nah, it’ll probably be fine, we can also use these values to create a better world for the working class. anyway, it was wrong to stop Hitler

another bad Biden speech. got him to say “battle bots” while trying to say “ballot box” though

YOU’RE TELLING US TO VOTE FOR A PERSON WHO HAS POLITICALLY MURDERED, STARVED, AND BURNED OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN PALESTINE ALONE!

Donald Trump - the person that these writers considered a colossal threat to democracy, justice, and freedom, as well as to all minorities, since 2016 - is officially worth more to these spineless motherfucking weasel socdems than every person in Gaza. And Trump wasn’t even killed.

it’s so fucking over. holy shit. biden isn’t even fighting anymore, he’s kowtowing to the next president and praying for his mercy.

“we recognize your legitimacy and won’t oppose your rule, we won’t criticize you. in fact we’re going to emphasize how little of a threat we are, and try and shift as many Muslims and Gen Zers over to you as a symbol of our goodwill.”

hunter biden is currently like “fuck. maybe if I give Trump the presidency for free, maybe he won’t hound me afterwards. lemme go program my father’s addled brain real quick”

cops just can’t motivate themselves to do anything unless the potential to harm minorities is there. this cop climbed the roof, saw the dude’s skin color, and was like “dang, I didn’t know you were cool. i’ll let you get on with it”

Not long before shots rang out, rallygoers noticed a man climbing to the roof of a nearby building and warned local police, according to two law enforcement officials. One local police officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump, and that’s when Secret Service snipers shot him, said the officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The sequel to Uvalde.

The officials also told AP that bomb-making materials were found inside Crooks’ vehicle, and bomb-making materials were found at his home. Officials described the devices as “rudimentary.”

Investigators believe the weapon Crooks used was purchased by his father at least six months ago, the law enforcement officials said. Federal agents were still working to understand when and how his son obtained the gun and to gather additional information about Crooks, according to the officials.

Crooks’ political leanings were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on Jan. 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office.

Oh, okay tankie. I guess you don’t remember this statement from Vladimir Lenin, because the CPUSA is following a proud communist tradition:

The successful assassination attempt on Tsar Nicholas II that resulted in the death of himself and his family is sure to deepen the country’s political crisis. We know only too well the consequence of the assassinations of political figures. As we said many times, the Bolsheviks reject violence and terror; they only serve the interests of the forces of hate and division. In these difficult times we call on our members and friends to remain vigilent and resist provocation from any source as Russia recovers from the aftermath of the shooting. We remain committed to non-violent forms of struggle as we continue to address the main issues before the Russian peasantry: the Russia-German war, land, food, state violence and equality for all.

Baldur’s Gate 3 but instead of deities, you have competing fast food chains

you must seek a Priest of Wendy to gain the blessing allowing you to travel across the lands cursed by Five Guys

I’m not American so the consequences won’t hit me too hard but yeah. Like, my stance on the election hasn’t shifted one iota, Biden is a senile genocidal clown and I wouldn’t vote for him unless at gunpoint, but seeing Trump virtually just win the election as the team around Biden seems to now be accepting they will not replace him has made the reality of another Trump presidency sink in substantially more than it had previously.

A Trump presidency feels very real now, not some abstract future event where unspecified bad things will happen. And again, given the Democrats’ complete lack of strategy and Biden’s unwillingness to stand down and let a better polling candidate take the reins, the solution isn’t to huddle into the arms of the Democrats now that it’s scarier. They’re either intentionally or unintentionally trying to lose here.

The pro-Biden people are still fascistic dipshits whether they’re neoliberals or socdems, but we’re gonna see the pitch of their pleas climb even further in the panic and that’s gonna be pretty frustrating. As if the American left has a large enough presence to shift an electoral result either way, and as if the “Communist Party” of the US isn’t going along with Biden anyway. They’re gonna yell at a group of people online that maybe consists of a hundred thousand people (across various websites, of which Hexbear is a proportion) who are committed to not voting for Biden from an explicitly left critique, and aren’t even all Americans, rather than try and actually gain voters from disaffected/angry people who number in the tens of millions who don’t really identify as being on the left but are angry at genocide (or, more likely, cost of living and inflation).