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pre post election day affirmations

conservatives and corporate lobbyists won’t be quitting after election day

if you want the politician you voted for to be successful in politics, force them to keep their promises

if you want more fascists, let corporate lobbyists write their policies

AIPAC will smear your guy as antisemitic unless they commit genocide. the national security state and military industrial complex will always advise war. publicists will caution your guy to keep investing in AI, lest the economy crash on their watch. your job is to be louder than all of them combined.

of all the politicians not to push, why choose the ones who just got elected on the promise that they’ll listen to you

the best line in selma was lbj telling mlk, "ok now go out there and make me do it"

if you really love a politician then intervene when they screw up

your favorite politician can’t possibly stay on track without voters demanding better, especially if they’re a leftist, especially if they’re popular

if you want to guarantee someone worse than trump in 2029, go easy on democrats in 2026. let aipac and corporate lobbyists bribe them while you go quiet.

liberalism is when capitalism’s inherent flaws are successfully hidden away. liberalism is capitalism when it feels unthreatened. liberalism doesn’t exist anymore.

trump is capitalism when it wins for 80 years straight. trump is capitalism when its inherent flaws get too hard to cover up. trump is capitalism when it starts to get nervous.

what's more offensive, a powerless israeli racist going viral on the internet, or a polite well spoken democrat funding a genocide

there’s no such thing as a leftist zionist. there’s no such thing as a leftist capitalist. there’s no such thing as a leftist friend to big tech or the pentagon or ICE.

french mobilization resulted in concessions because it wasn’t a protest. it wasn’t a complaint. it was a shutdown.

the capitalist class can afford the property damage. they can withstand your rage. they own your rage. they monetize your rage. they want your rage. what they can’t afford is mass boycotts. what they can’t afford is a general strike. what they can’t afford is losing control of the narrative.

zuckerberg, trump, musk, altman, ek and fox news want your hate. the controversy is good for business. they thrive on your attention. they own the platforms where you complain about them.

jeff bezos doesn’t care about your marches, your angry posts, or how you voted. he wants your amazon prime subscription. if you really care about oligarchy then cancel that.

capitalists don’t profit from your happiness. that goes for all capitalists whether they are business executives or career politicians.

the demand is not to go back to how things were under biden, the very conditions that elected trump.

the demand is abolish ICE and close concentration camps. the demand is an arms embargo on israel. the demand is medicare for all. the demand is invest is a complete transition away from fossil fuels. the demand is raise minimum wage and forgive student loan debt. the demand is end the iran war and reduce the pentagon budget. the demand is regulate AI and stop building data centers.

get ready to force democrats to deliver, or get ready to stage a revolution. until you strike and boycott and take control of the narrative, your rage is just more money for oligarchs.

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