I'm convinced they go right cause those are the people that vote

You do realise that it's a big part of a politician's job to mobilise the masses to vote?

What do you mean my plan?
The topic is:

"Is there such a thing as the ratchet effect?"

Yes, there is.

I'm not American, I just hate both the US power elite and the bootlickers making excuses for them. Fuck them all, because they make the world worse for the rest of us...
I could go on and on about EU neoliberals as well, but that's not the topic at hand, and they are basically behave like vassals to the US anyway

Soooo Dems won't make it better but least won't make it worse.

So seems like disenfranchisement

So the Dems did make it worse by being terrible at running the country during the 20 years they've been in power over the past 30 years?

They fucked up strategically: creating the material conditions for the rise of Fascism
and they fucked up tactically by running two terrible candidates who abetted genocide in Gaza, and couldn't even be bothered to promise a feeble social democratic programme (which would be less than the bare minimum), and because of this tactical mistake they've lost to fucking Trump who is very clearly an idiot.

Calling it a fuckup implies that Democrats actually care about winning elections and developing the country, which is debatable after all these fuckups and all their anti-left rhetoric...

But they did make it worse, their policies led directly to where the US is now.

It's so fucking ridiculous!

In the past 30 years Dems were in power 2/3 of the time, so they very obviously did contribute to the state of affairs that led to Trump being elected twice!

Or if the country moved rightward regardless of what team the President represents, then it means voting in this system is only ceremonial and completely useless activity.

Either Dems are enablers of Fascists or voting is useless, there's no third option.

A universal right to a job and basic necessities

But then you don't need UBI with a Job Guarantee program with a strong social safety net / high enough unemployment benefit.

And those are counter cyclical by nature, so they are like an automatic fiscal stimulus in recessions, unlike UBI.

That is not the situation today, where most Americans have NO retirement savings. Unless you're redefining what capitalism IS, then that's a problem caused by the people in charge (oligarchs).

Bananas were cheap too... because Western [capitalist!!!!] imperialism supported fascist death squads in Latin America who sold out their country to United Fruit [a capitalist corporation]. It's a whole system of oppression, not just the WASPs you see on Mad Men reruns.

You are the one who is deeply confused.

Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. Thinking there was no oligarchy when C. Wright Mills was writing The Power Elite shows that you are not only confused about economic theory, but misinformed about the history of the US as well.

It comes as German chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Mr Putin for the first time in nearly two years.

The German leader urged Mr Putin to pull his forces out of Ukraine and begin talks with Kyiv that would open the way for a “just and lasting peace”, the German government said.

The move was swiftly criticised by Mr Zelensky, who said the call had opened a “Pandora’s box” by undermining efforts to isolate the Russian leader.

“Now there may be other conversations, other calls. Just a lot of words,” said Mr Zelensky in his evening address on Friday. “And this is exactly what Putin has long wanted: it is extremely important for him to weaken his isolation and to conduct ordinary negotiations.”

Truly the hero of our time.

The Russian ruling class would need to disabuse themselves of neoliberal dogmas

and the EU vassals went with it blindly

Do... do you not know how international trade works?

Of course they don't, it's the Wall Street Journal
They are incapable of having a coherent view of economics

It's so bizarre how focused they are on body counts, yet they also don't give a shit about body counts?

Tankies are tankies because they support the evil godless Soviets who clamped down on the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. How many people were killed? 3000 according to Radio Free Europe. Highly Inflated VoC numbers say 20 thousand.

Around the same time one of the many colonial wars, the Algerian War of Independence— a million dead? 1.5 million? They don't even know exactly.

All this was committed by the "democratic" West. (Just look at the Atrocities and war crimes section on Wikipedia. Genuine Waffen-SS level war crimes.) # The difference is in magnitudes.

And this is just Algeria.

CIA can't spy in the sUrVeiLlAnCe stAte anymore

Netanyahu himself looks like somebody you might encounter on a street in Chicago*

*Netanyahu grew up in Philadelphia

It's pretty bizarre how big an a emphasis The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact gets among EU neocons on

I'm sorry, are you the same person I've been talking to? Because it seems like you haven't actually read anything I've written.

The Ukrainians are the ones who can decide if and when they want to surrender.

Western politicians actively sabotaged peace talks. Read previous comments for sources.

They are gaining ground every day

This has no basis in reality. Even overly optimistic western sources have admitted the failure of the spring counteroffensive.

have all the time they want

How can you be this wrong? They have limited manpower and more and more soldiers die every day. Every week spent warring is a huge burden on their economy.

I'm not gonna answer you again since you are completely out of touch with reality. Even prowar western journalists are more careful with their wording.

Yeah no-one is against a peace deal at this point

Great, call a ceasefire now.

Just against the one where you let they totalitarian agressor win. Anyone who knows anything about history knows you have to stop those kind of regimes at the earliest possible moment.

So you are against a peace deal? You do know that the fabled ukrainian counteroffensive has failed completely? How many more regular ukrainians should die in hopeless counteroffensives?

Btw it seems like you don't know what totalitarian means. Actual academic historians tend to avoid this term since the seventies.

You do realise that a peace deal / ceasefire which involves Ukraine giving up land, sovereignty or anything else is horseshit being pushed around by useful idiots?

The counteroffensive failed spectacularly, even western sources admit this.

How many more people you want to send in the meat grinder?

Here's an idea: call a ceasefire and let the diplomats negotiate, and let's see what happens. Let's see what actual ukrainians want after a few months of negotiation. Maybe Boris Johnson should fuck off. At least people are not dying until then. Outlandish, I know.

And who is feeding the far left with this crap?

Now this is qanon level conspiracy theory. I am against war between capitalist nations in general. On one side you have an extremely corrupt oligarchic capitalist country, and on the other side you have an extremely corrupt oligarchic capitalist country.

Since I live in a NATO country I criticise NATO more, since they are the ruling class above me and there's enough criticism of Putin around here anyway.

As far as deals go, US/Ukraine isn't trustworthy either. The Minsk agreement was bullshit. What happened to nord stream btw?

Surely you can't be this gullible

bollocks

I see the cognitive dissonance is kicking in for you. Hopefully you will recover, and you'll read western mainstream narratives more critically.

How funny is this bit though?

"The BBC had been among the first to warn of Azov, criticizing Kyiv in 2014 for ignoring a group that “sports three Nazi symbols on its insignia.” A 2018 report noted Azov’s “well-established links to the far right.”

Shortly after Putin’s invasion, though, the BBC began to assert that although “to Russia, they are neo-Nazis and their origins lie in a neo-Nazi group,” the Azov Regiment was being “falsely portrayed as Nazi” by Moscow."

They suddenly became not-nazis in February 2022? But they kept the wolfsangel? Was BBC spouting Russian misinfo in 2014? Or was it a Russian time travelling double agent who wrote all those articles for prominent western papers about the concerning rise of neonazis in Ukraine? If they are so fringe, why are they giving them so much airtime?