I’m not talking about becoming centrists, i’m talking about building coalitions. There are core issues many people can agree upon, and treat each other under the motto “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Details can be discussed later, when the threat is less urgent. History has a few examples on what happens, when the left treats other democrats as the enemy. The most infamous one should be the German KPD. They declared the SPD and social democracy as the main enemy. I don’t think i need to point out how that ended. The thing about democracy is, that you will never get everyone to agree 100% with each other. But you can agree with enough topics to prevent a dictatorship.

Multiple factors led to the US declaration of war on Great Britain that began the War of 1812:[26]

• Trade restrictions introduced by the UK under the orders in council of 1807 to impede trade with France, with whom Britain was at war (the US contested the restrictions as illegal under contemporary international law).[27] The impressment (forced recruitment) of seamen on US vessels into the British Royal Navy (men who Britain claimed were British subjects).
• British military support for American Indian tribes who were offering armed resistance against the US expansion of the American frontier in the Northwest Territory.
• A possible desire by the US to annex some or all of Canada.[28]
• US desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be British insults, such as the Chesapeake affair.[29]

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Art of the deal, everyone

It’s kinda funny, how the right-wingers consistently manage to infiltrate parties and turn them into a vehicle for their own agenda, while the left-wingers are either busy fighting each other, or fighting whatever they perceive as “centrist”. Funny in a sad way.

Now compare it to the water used to grow animal feed and the animals themselves.

You’re so busy accusing everyone who disagrees with your stance to be a “genocide worshipper”, that you don’t even realize that people have wide range of issues they vote on. For example the issue of not becoming a fascist dictatorship. You cannot fix the world if your own house is burning.

Not voting leads to extremist parties gaining ground, because extremists will always vote for their option. Which in turn leads to people suffering under their policies at best, and at worst to situations like Nazi Germany. Which makes the whole genocide argument look kinda performative.

It absolutely is being done by the other side. Assuming you’re describing the sides of Mossad, the CIA, the FSB, and the Guoanbu.

No. Those guys are too busy influencing the Republicans and other right wing parties in the west. Although, i wouldn’t be surprised if they used similar tactics, like massive bot nets and online propaganda to discourage the rest of the political spectrum from voting for other options.

That said, I think you’re seriously underselling the impact of strikes, boycotts, and walk outs.

That’s part of the democratic process. You can do that, and still vote for the lesser evil. Not because it’s right to vote for them, but to minimize suffering and make sure democracy still functions. Even voting for a different party would be preferable over not voting at all, despite your broken election system. At least that would give a statistical indication what people want from the government.

Instead, you now got a government that is actively trying to undermine the election process, builds internment camps for immigrants, which might be extended to political opponents pretty soon, is actively supporting a bunch of nutjobs to take over half the middle east, strips the government from all its money, threatens its allies with military action, destroys what little social security and education you guys had left, and empowers a new generation of feudalists to take over whatever will be left of the US. If it doesn’t Balkanize before that…

Meanwhile, your leftists are accusing everyone not supportive of their non-voting strategy to be “genociders”, and act surprised as to why they’re losing even more ground in the battle.

Which is exactly why i make plans beforehand. And then don’t do them. And feel bad for it afterwards…

I know how they work, and why they work. But i don’t understand why the universe allows them to work.

Extremists get their way, because they infiltrate a party of their choice and slowly move it towards their goals. They don’t care if the party they root for is 100% exactly what they want, they just manipulate it and its members long enough until it does. The same could be done by the opposing side, yet somehow they decided to stay at home to “teach the dems a lesson”, while waiting for the shining hero to save them all…

People might hate me for this, but i think it’s not just the maga cult that is affected by the broken educational system and centuries of exceptionalist propaganda. Political parties don’t change by doing nothing.

If voting worked, they would do everything to discourage people from voting. Oh, wait…

I may have to get checked…

It’s not like the US didn’t earn that hate over the last 100 years…

Idk how it works in Burgerland, but where i come from most checkouts aren’t occupied. They’re usually on demand, and even then they rarely use all of them.

There are probably plenty of different products with different recipes out there. Might also depend on what’s readily available in the region.

Fun fact: Methyl cellulose is actually used as a form of glue, but is also used in food. It’s derived from cellulose. This also happens to be the stuff those anti-vegan fanatics are referring to, when they claim that vegan alternatives have “wallpaper paste” in them (while ignoring that it’s also used in some meat products and ice cream).