LOCAL & STATE FIRST @majorlinux @dalias that's my point for a serious third party nationally.
this swooping in for POTUS is bullshit if you aren't supporting candidates at all levels, ESPECIALLY LOCALLY where it literally can have life or death impacts on a very personal level
a real political party grows candidates from the local to state to federal.
anything else is a grift for locking in federal money & donations you then get to spend however you want after losing.
and that's the truth
@blogdiva @dalias Well I know that PSL has local orgs.
We have one here in NC and I've seen more mobilizing in other parts of the country, too.
I'm not sure about candidates right now, but I do hope that is in the works.
But I definitely understand what you are saying and didn't mean to minimize it.
I apologize.
no worries! @majorlinux @dalias look, anybody who calls Storm Thurman a father BY CHOICE needs to be shot into a volcano, ykwim?
what i hate about USA elections is that candidates for POTUS are set by oligarchs.
Biden & Trump are the oligarchy's candidates. that's the truth.
as i said, voting in 2024 is, at this point, harm reduction.
so let them know we know what the charade is all about. then spend the next 4 years and for ever fighting the real enemy: the oligarchy.
@majorlinux @dalias honestly, from a tech POV, the fediverse is part of that work.
like, there's so many different points of entry for this. anything that loosens the grip of the oligarchy on their will to financialize every aspect of our lives is part of that work, not just politics and government. solarpunk, cooperatives, credit unions, labor unions, school boards, library boards.
the work is far beyond the electoral cycle.
